Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-05-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May IL, 1898.
IL Hon. Charles Foster, ex-secretary
OF the treasury, isn't the proudest man
in Ohio he ought to be. Every news
paper reader remembers how the Dem
ocratic press took up thecharge made
by Congressman Springer and other
Democratic members of the house,
when Mr. Fosters report of the condi-
ton of the treasury and his estimate
of it's condition at the close of the
present fiscal year was submitted to
congress last December. He was
charged with having purposely iuggled
the figures in that report so as to
make it appear that a surplus ofavail-
able cash would remain in the treas
ury at the close of the fiscal year,
whereas Mr.. Springer and other Dem
ocratic know-it-alls were absolutely
certain, at least they said they WERE,
that there would be a deficit, and
that Mr.. Foster knew it and was try
ing to hide it. And now Mr.. Springer
and his associates, as well as the
Democratic editors who rang the
changes on the silly charges for weeks
ought to crawl into holes and pull the
holes in after them, for it is officially
stated by Democratic treasury officials
that the available surplus on June
Both next, the end OF the present fis-
cal year, will be about 80, 700 200,
whereas Secretary Foster had esti-
mated last December that it would be
80, 900, 900. Mr.. Foster ought to
send Congressman Springer a telegram
reading: 81 told you so; Charles Eos
ter"
When Mr.. Cleveland and those MEM
bers OF his cabinet who accompanied
him to the Worlds Fair returned to
Washington they found the Office
seekers smilingly awaiting them, al
though some OF the walters openly
acknowledged that they had reached
the shot and hungry" stage. But as
one member of the cabinet remarked,
''let them have patience, for that is
all that most of them will get"
"Uncle Jerry" Rusk has gone home,
and Washington will know him no
more, until another Republican presi-
dent is inaugurated. He will stop a
few days at the Worlds Fair before
again resuming his place as a Wiscon,
sin farmer. "Uncle Jerry" carries
away with him the good wishes Of
everybody with whom he has come in
contact during his residence in Wash
ington, and that is something that
can be truthfully said of few members
of any cabinet; but he deserves al
and more than can be said in his
praise. He never knew what the "bif
head" that attacks so many public
officials, was; he left Washington, as
he entered it, a plain, honest straight
forward man, and no honor that evei
comes to him in the future can add &c
ington.
There is "A condemned sermon on the
tariff question contained IN the fol
lowing remarks made in this city by
George Beard, a large iron manufac'
turer of Glasgow. Said he: "'The iron
and steel trade of England and Scot
land is suffering considerable depres
sion just now, because OF overproduc
ton. The output hasincreased faster
than the demand. hope you people
will soon repeal the Mckinley bill, fol
since it went into effect my house has
not sold a dollars worth ofsheet iror
or steel i'm the United States"
Civil Service Commissioners Roose
welt, who rendered his resignation to
Mr.. Cleveland twodays after his inaug
uration, has, at Mr.. Cleveland's re
quest, withdrawn the resignation ant
consented to keep his present posi-
ton.
There is a general disposition here
to criticise the failure to extend invi
tatious to ex-President Harrison and
ex-Vice-P President Morton to attend
the naval review and the opening o
Worlds Fair. 1t was certainly a very
unusual lack of courtesy on the part
of those who sent out the invitations
Secretary Herbert is the guilty man,
so far as the naval review isconcerned
but there seems to be "a doubt as tic
who is to blame for the failure to in
vite them to the Worlds Fair. 1t vii
be remembered that Mr. Cleveland
was invited to attend the dedicatory
ceremonies, held in Chicago last Sep
TENDER.
Having received all the GLORY" that
could be extracted from his alleged
snubbing of the Wall street bankers,
it is now stated that Secretary Car.
Isle has not only promised to go to
New York, if another furry occurs, to
confer with the aforesaid Wall street
bankers, but also to pay them for the
use OF any gold he may find it neces
sary to borrow from them. Verify
this administration is a queer one
but so is the party that put it in office