Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1892-09-02
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WASHINGTON. Auo. % 1900

OF the &. A. r. encampment, One of
the latest is reunion of the .war gov
ernors" of the loyal states. So far the
committee has only succeeded in leca.
ting five of the ex-governors-Curtin.
OF pennsylvania; Blair, of Michigan;
kirkwecd, of Iowa; Fletcher, of Mis-.
souri,, and Sprague, of Rhode Island
but it expects with the assistance of
Others interested to find more of them
if any reader of this paragraph knows
KNOWS the address of an ex governor
VINO held office during the period of the
war, in addition to those mentioned
above he will confer favor on the
committee by sending it at once to the
chairman of the G. A. r. encampmcnt
committee, Washington, DC.
Subscription books have been opened
here for tine fund for the erection of a
monument to the memory of the late
Senator Plumb, No man ever occupied
scat i'll either the senate or house
whose work was more deserving of
being remembered, and no man ever i'm
congress was reader than Preston b.
Plumb to take up the fight of the under
dog. He already has an enduring mon
ument in the hearts of his countrymcn
whom he served so we'll, but that is no
reason why another monument, visible
to all the wcrld shall not be erected to
his memory.
Democrats have been fond of assail.
ing Commissioner Raum's management
OF the pension bureau, but none of them
have dared to go into details, although
the records OF the department are as
open to the inspection of democrats as
they are to republicans. The figures
show that while the business of the
bureau has about doubled in all its div.
tsians since the present administration
came into power the total cost for clerk
hire and other expenses have been but
little more than they were under the
Cleveland administration, while the
average cost to the government foreach
pension certificate issued is less than
one-half of what it was under Cleyc.
land, to be exact, the average cost of
each certificate issued under Cleveland
was $24.24 against sl1.1O under the
present administration. The average
cost of disbursing money is also less
under Commissioner Raum than under
Black. Facts like these outweigh all
the lies ever uttered, and it was because
he knew of them that Secretary Noble
said he regarded Gen. Raum's admin.
istration of the Pension Bureau as most
efficient an opinion which the president
is also known to hold.
Representative Holman's attempt to
explain and apologize for the course of
the democratic majority in the house in
making appropriations during the last
session came near being the death of
the old gentleman, who has been con.
fined to his bed ever since his most re.
markable statement was printed. No
wonder, the task he undertook was as
far rs explanation is concerned an inn.
possible one, sven for young man,
and Mr.. Holman has passed tho term of
years allotted to man. The old gentle
man is improving and he hopes to be
able to 60 home this week.
The president became tired of Can
ada's game eff playing fast and loose
with the canal tolls question and wired
Secretary Foster to issue the retaliation
proclamation which was prepared be.
fore the president left Washington.
This will probably bring the Canadian
government to its senses in short order.
Representative Bynum, of Indiana,
does not regard the democratic outlook
rs enthusiastically rs some other prom.
inent democrats pretend to do. He has
just returned from two weeks visit to
New York, and this is the way he talks
about it: ''It would bd impossible for
anyone not familiar with New York
politics to judge of the situation there,
whether he remained there two weeks
or two months. dont pretend to pre-.
dict. New York democrats say things
are all right. l do not know" Mr..
Bynum is in the same doubtful state of
mind about his own state, of which he
says: ST think Cleveland will carry the
state. 1t must be remembered, how
ever, (mark the however) that the VIC
tory in Indiana is usually won during
the last two years of the campaign. ("
The difference between Mr.. Bynum and
tho average democrat who talks for
publication is in this case that he has
spoken according to his honest judg.
ment while they talk as they wish.
Acting Attorney General Aldrich has
directed that investigations be made of
the charges which have been made
against United States officials in
Idaho and In Tennessee, In the first
named state, the United States marshal