The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-06-19
Wash,ugtes letter.

y ASEi;~>tit~- l. - June - - a
Why did Secretaay Foster stop max
ing public the Treasury? Vas he afraid
that the statement would show deh-
cit instead of a balance? These are
pertinent qaestions at this time. The
last statement made, several days ago,
showed that the balance had dropped
down to . little over three million dol
lars. Then Secretary Fostor directed
that the making public of these state
ments should be abolished. If he dldn
do that because he feared the effect OF
these statements on the public, wGat dld
| he do it for? The inference is very pialn.
Mr.. Foster knows that it is only queS-
ton of time, and very short time at
that, before he will have to pay out
money which is not strictly sDeaklng
available. and that these daily balances
would make it plain the day 1t was done.
| So he arbitrarily decides to have no
more statements, not withstanding the
right of the people to know at all times
| the status of their finances; but what do
the rights of the people count for IN the
| eyes of Mr.. Foster?
| Senator Carlisle passed through Wash
! ington this week, but he said he WASH
bothering his head about politics just
| now.
| Representative Mills, of Texas, is here.
| He declines to be interviewed on his
prospects of being elected Speaker OF the
| House.
1t is Al positive pleasure to chronicle
| the fact that one of the great Govern
| ment bureaus-the Patent Ofhce-ls
| being run on sound, common-sense
| business principles; but as Commission
| er Mitchell is understood To have ten
| dered Mr. Harrison his resignation II Is
| inferable that ne has found ii lonesome
and prefers 10 retire. Mr.. Mitchell has
! made one change that will make his adj
| ministration of the Patent Office stand
out like a mountain on a plain for years
to come.
| He has ruled that ex-employeS OF the
Patent Office, acting as agents or sttor-
news, shall not be permitted TO appear
in cases upon which they had acted
| while employees of the Office. This Is q
| most righteous decision, and 1t ends the
| career of the over-smart fellows, who
! while Examiners of the Patent Once
have deliberately rejected thousands oi
applications entitled to be granted, sc
that they, little later on, as attorney:
might get these inventors as clients anc
secure fee for obtaining the patent
thus adding to the inventors expense
and to their own profit.
| j. NJ. Langston, the negro ex-Con
gresham, SAYS the force bill is to bt
made the principal issue of the Presi
Dental campaign The Democrats vii
not ask any easier issue to win on.
Senator Peffer SAYS the peoples party
1 4. IL. OF tIr1a
cial record.
| There are good reasons for believing
that Mr.. Harrison and Senator Quay
have settled upon the details of an ALI
ance. offensive and defensive, and 1t /:
said that Quay is getting ready 10 ever
up with those members of his party thai
snubbed him when it was thought n,
was to be an eX-boSs.
Not for weeks has there been such s
stream of prominent callers at the White
House as during the present week
that something of interest has been go
ing on in upper Republican circles il
certain and many people believe that /
relates to a general reorganization o
the cabinet, but a most persistent hun
has failed to discover any one who wa
willing to father such a story.
The State department sent the diplo
matte corps to Chicago on special trair
yesterday, in order that its member
might have an opportunity to observ
the preparations for the Worlds Fair
Director General Davis, who has beer
here fixing up things of various kinds
left early enough to be on hand to re
ceive the foreigners when they arrive a
Chicago.
Surely the millennium is coming, sine
Mr.. Harrison has actually put two Dem
ocrats on the bench of the court OF pr
vate land claims. The following are tn
justices of the New court: J. X. Reed
of Iowa; w. +. Stone, of Colorado; II
c. Sluss, of Kansas; T. c. Fuller, @
North Carolina; and W. W. Murray, Q
Tennessee, the first named being Chic
Justice NJ G. Reynolds, of Missouri
: and l.. W. Colby of Nebraska, are tn
I. S. attorneys.