San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.

There is manifest disposition on
the part of those wild-eyed gentle
men who have been for 10 these many
months making monkeys of them
selves by yelling at all times and in
all sorts of places that the first Of
July, 1891, would see the United
States treasury bankrupt, to change
their monOtonous tune. The
Washington correspondent for the
New York Herald, who has led the
grand chorus of calamity walters,
now says: 1.-THE treasury is not bank
rupt, and the skill and courage Of,
Secretary Foster will probably save
it from bankruptcy. This naive ad-
mission from the man who has been,
loudest in this prediction of bankrupt
cy has caused no little amusement
here, where any one who had the,
brains and who cared to make the nee
essary investigation might at any time.
have fully satisfied himself from the
official figures that there was n OF the
slightest danger of anything even
approaching national bankruptcy.
Readers of this correspondence need
not be told this, as it has been stated
and restated therein that the u. s..
treasury is all right, and will remain
so as long as it is under republican
control.
Representative Mills, who is now,
here, alleged to be engaged in liter
airy work, but in reality trying tc
patch up the big hole in the speaker
ship boom, has at last discovered that
there are times when q man may talk
too much, and Is out in a statement
over his own signature saying all the
so-called interviews which have been
credited to him are bogus, and saying
that he has not and will not express
his opinion on the speakership, further
than to say that he is q candidate,
and that he has not and will not ex-
press any opinion upon the merits or
dement's of any candidate for the
democratic nomination for the Presi-
depcy, all of which shows that Mr..
Mills is, what the boys call badly
"rattled.
When Senator Quay was here few
days ago, he told friend that he"
would under no circumstances remain
at the head of the national COM
rnittee during the next campaign,
although he was ready and willing to-
render the party all the assistal O. he.
Coulu, uobh uoioio anu uuiipS eh0
campaign.
Secretary Foster has decided, as it
was thought from the beginning he
would, to sustain Chief Meredith, of
the Bureau of engraving and Print
ing, in his controversy with the
Knights of Labor, in spite OF the
dictatorial tactics of the leaders of
that organization. A full investiga-
ton of the charges made against Capt.
Meredith, resulted in showing them.
to be entirely without foundation,
and the seven Knights of La
Dor, who were discharged,
have been informed that they will not
be reinstated, but if so disposed they.
can make application for now appoint
ments, taking the usual examination
and their chances along with the
other applicants. Secretary Foster is
a difficult man to bulldOze, as the two
members of the X. of L. national ex-
ecutive committee have now disoov-
cred. Threats are never good argu-
ments.
The inventors of the country, who
happen not to be provided with fat
bank accounts, are to be congratulate
ed on q new rule in the Patent office,
which prohibits men who have, W lille
examine rs in that office, rejected sp-
plications for patents, afterwards APP
pearing as attorneys or agents Tor
these same applications. The Alb
sence of this rule has been the cause
of more applications for patents
being rejected which by right
should have been granted than any
other one thing, as it is an
unfortunate truth, we'll known to
those familiar with the business of
the office, that some of the examiners,
of which there are about 100, have lor'
years systematically rejected applica-
tions entitled to be granted, for the
sole purpose of afterwards getting an
attorneys fee from the same inventor
for getting the same application al
lowed. This practice is now happily
ended, and the credit for the reform is
due TO Hon. Charles +. Mitchell, COM
missioner of patents, who has proved
himself to be the right man in the
right place, and whose expected early
retirement from Office is very general
ly regretted.
The Presidents appointing to the
new private land claims court are
commended on all sides. Every one
of the five judges, three republicans
and two democrats, has had expert
ence upon the bench. The new Judges
are J. NJ. Reed, of Iowa; w. F. Stone,
of Colorado; III. G. Sluss, of Kansas.
#. C.. Fuller, of North Carolina and
w. w. Murray, of Tennessee.
Secretary Mobiles returned to duty
today much improved in health. SEQ
rotary Foster has gone to Ohio, to
tn ke part in the State convention that.
will nominate the next governor OF
that commonwealth r.