Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-08-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.


committee, is now quartered in the
same building with the congressional
campaign committee, and he has more
than half hundred assistants hard at
work mailing documents.
g. Secretary Mcpherson, of the con-
gressional committee, who is a vete-
D ran of many campaigns, is at present
acting in an advisory capacity to
Capt. Mckee, and the two "Mc's''
make a strong team; but little on
he will give his undivided attention
to the congressional districts which
are marked doubtful on the little list
he keeps. Mr.. Mcpherson knows how
to be silent in nineteen languages
about the work upon which he is en-
gagged, but he told your correspon-
dent that he thought the prospect for
wrestling the House from the demo-
Gratis was good and improving all the
time.
''One thing was apparently over
looked by those who started and those
who accepted as true the story that
Judge Walter w. Gresham would soon
take the stump for Weaver" said an
old member of the supreme court bar,
fsand that is, that Gresham is at this
time Judge of United States court.
Until he resigns that position, and [
haven't heard that he had any inten-
ton of resigning, there is not the
slightest probability that he will take
the stump for anybody. do not re-
member to have heard of a United
States judge making political stump
speech, and, l think, / know Walter
Gresham's idea of the dignity which
should always be maintained by the
national judiciary we'll enough to pre-
dict that he will never make a speech
favoring Weaver or anyone else for
the presidency as long as he remains
a United States Judge, and | do not
believe he would support Weaver for
president if he were private citizen.
The greed of the great Wells Far
go Express Company compelled the
government to make at its own risk
the recent shipment of $20,000,000 in
gold, from San Francisco, and it may
result in transferring very profita-
BILE line of business from the express
comp anies to the government
transportation of large sums of Gov
eminent money. The United States
made that shipment of gold from San
Francisco to New York for about .
$3.50 less than the Wells Fargo COM
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that the express companies will not /
be asked to do such work in the future.
Not long ago the government paid
the United States express company
50, 500-more than the cost of bring
ing $4,000, 900 across the continent
for carrying 100000, in gold from
Philadelphia to New York, job that
was completed in a little more than
two hours.
The change in the British admins
tration has caused delay in setting
a date for the meeting of the inter
national monetary conference, but
the state department is advised ,unof-
ficially that it will be one of the first
matters to be taken up and disposed
of by the new Gladstone government,
SO that the delay in fixing a date is
not likely to be long one. Only two
of those selected by the president to
be United States commissioners to the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Allison and
Jones-have formally accepted their
but there are no rea-
sons for expecting any of the others
to decline to serve, although the point
has been raised by an outsider that
neither senators or representatives
are eligible to act as commissioners
at this conference, but nothing is
thought of this in official circles.
The G. A. r. encampment commit
tee will spend about 1000 in the
erection of barracks for the accom-
mediation of the veterans who do not
engage their own sleeping quarters,
and while the committee does not I'M
der take to supply food it proposes to
make arrangements that will result in
good food at reasonable prices for
those who will occupy the barracks,
and it will also provide a place of safe
keeping for the baggage of the old
soldiers, which the committee hopes
viii be confined to articles absolutely
necessary.