The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-04-30

his constituents when he desires it," It
is the opinion of all the prominent Re.
publicans with whom l have talked,
among them several Ohio men, that Mr..
Sherman will be a candidate for the re-
election to the Senate. and that also is,
my own impression.
The success OF our special envoy, ex-
Minister Foster, in negotiating with
Spain reciprocity treaty between Cuba
aud the United States. along the lines of
the Mckinley tariff act, gives great sat
isfaction in official circles, and most
effectually disposes of all the Democratic
fairy tales about there being hitch on
account Of the demand Of Spain that we
should place Cuban tobacco of the free
list. The Spanish government was very
anxious that we should admit Cuba's to-
bacco free Of duty. but it was far too
sensible to demand it, and when in
formed that it was impossible there was
no more said about it.
The subject OF counterfeiting United
States currency is assuming grave pre-
portions and the officials Of the treasury
department are just at present giving
considerable time to studying it, in the
hope Of discovering remedy or proven.
tative. The chief engraver of the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing, who
is away up as an expert, spent an hour
in examining two So silver certificates,
one genuine and the other counterfeit,
with powerful magnifying glass, and
his verdict was that there was not the
slightest difference between the two
notes. New inventions in photo-me-
chanical processes have made it easy and
cheap for the counterfeiters to reproduce
on metal plate every line of note,
and after little etching it is an exact
duplicate of the steel plate from which
the note was originally printed, and
which it had taken months to engrave.
The color in the red seals and the
greenbacks was once protection, but
late discoveries in photochromy makes it
easy to reproduces the precise shades.
The chief of the Secret Service in his
last annual report says on this subject:
'The genuine government notes nova
days, especially the. series Of 1890, are
marvels of the engraving art, aided by
the wonderful geometric lathe. One
would think it impossible to success.
fully counterfeit such work upon look.
ing over the complex area of lines and
| patterns; and yet at this moment counter.
feiters are reproducing it so perfectly that
the elaborate beauty Of this paper may
be said to offer no protection to the pub.
lie or defense against fraud"
The only way the expert has of de.
tecting thes skilfully executed counter.
feits is by the paper, and that has been
so we'll initiated that no one but an ex
pert can tell it from the genuine. 81
that really about the only protection thu
public has against counterfeiting is thu
vigilance of the treasury Secret Service
Representative Springer of Illinois il
now jocularly referred to as the stalk
ing candidate" for Speaker of the House
because of the number of his recen
! newspaper interviews. In his last, afte
I painting his own prospects deel
roseate hue, which, by the way, is no
visible to any one else, he sails into New
York politics, dominates for governo
and elects Representative Roswell P
Flower, whose "barrei" has so oftel
been on tap to the "boys" of the Demo
cratic machine, and makes him tn
Democratic Presidential nominee, jus
as If those other two gentlemen-Cleve
land and Hill-were not in existence.
Really this speakership business is get
ting decidedly interesting, and each Q
the would.be Democratic Presidentia
candidates will soon have candidat
for Speaker. Mr.. Mills is the Clevelan
candidate, Mr.. Crisp the Hill candidate
and it looks as If Mr.. Springer was tn
Flower candidate, with number 3
others yet to be heard, from. ).
The italian business has again ain
mered down, and everybody here think
that Rudini will find it extremely diff
cult to answer Mr.. Baine's last dispatch
which meets with commentator on 81
sides and from everybody. ~
REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.