The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1893-06-16
WASHINGTON.


cial sky has not been cleared by Mr..
Cleveland's announcement, which,
when read between the lines, informs
the country that it doesn't know
what Congress will do with the finan.
cial question after he gets it together.
and prays the people to help him i'll
fluence Congress to repeal the Sher-
man Silver law. Always the Sher-
man Silver law. The Sherman Sill
yer law never was considered very
desirable thing by anybody and it
only became law as compromise
to prevent something getting through
that was even less desirable. But
with all its faults the Sheman Silver
law is not responsible for one tenth
of what it has been charged with by
Mr. Cleveland and some of his advis-
ers. Republican Senators and Repre-
sentatives with few exceptions will
vote for the repeal of the Sherman
law, but it remains to be seen what
the Democrats will do. 1t will in
any event take much more than the
repeal of the Sherman law to inspire
public confidence in this Administra-
ton, and public confidence is the thing
that is needed above everything else.
The appointment of a Tammany
Postmaster of New York City was a
double slap in the face for the mug
wump element. In addition to Civ
ing one of the best Federal offices in
New York to hated follower of Crok-
err it was a violation of the rule, that
Post-masters should be allowed to
serve out their full terms, a rule that
has received the adulation of the
whole mugwump tribe. The term Of
the Republican Postmaster would
not have expired until the 10Th, of
next December. Rules don't count
under this Administration, anyway.
One of the most notable things
about this Administrator is the dis
disposition Of every one connected
with it, from the President to the head
of the petty Bureau to regard the Unit
ed States Government as their person.
al property, to be used as they may
see fit. To read the daily converse
tons, all duly chronicled i'll the news
papers, of the new Comptroller of
Currency, foreigner would suppose
that he was the sole owner of the en-
tire national banking system. This
young man is doubtless honest and
well-meaning, but he has case of
big head that is bound sooner or lat
er to get him into trouble. There is
difference between efficiency and off,
ciousness.
1t is an open secret here that four
members of the Cabinet have at every
meeting of the Cabinet at which iinan-
cial matters have been discussed adj
vocate an immediate issue of bonds
to the extent of 500, 600, 900, to
strengthen the gold reserve of the
Treasury, but Mr.. Cleveland will
not agree to it; is so anxious to con-
tinue to impress the "object lesson"
which he is pleased to call the present
financial stringency, upon the coun-
try.
Secretary Gresham has a temper
that often becomes stormy, and just
now it is in one Gifts stormiest periods.
The new Russian extradition treaty
was officially made public this week,
but one newspaper printed the treaty
and all of the correspondence be-
tween the two governments one day
before it was given out by the de-
dartment, and Mr.. Gresham says it
was stolen, and that it could not have
been stolen without connivance of
some employee Of the department.
He is trying to find the guilty man.
Secretary Tillman, of the National
Farmers Alliance, thinks the assis-
lance his organization gave to the
Democratic party in the last CAM
paign deserves recognition and that
his appointment to be Register of the
Treasury will just about cancel the
obligation. Mr.. Cleveland's well
known hatred for the Alliance and
its foster brother, the Peoples Party,
does not augur well tor Mr.. Tillman's
of getting an office.
In view of Mr.. Cleveland's express
ed confidence in the early repeal of the
Sherman Silver law, the opinion OF
Senator Henderson, who has never
been a radical in his financial ideas,
is significant. He says that the Sher-
man law cannot be repealed by the
next Congress, unless it be coupled
with free coinage in some form. He
links it probable that the silver men
would agree to increase the amount
Of silver in the dollar in order to get |
rec coinage, but that free coinage they |
must have or they will not allow the
Sherman law to be repealed.
1t is denied at the State Depart
nent that Minister Blount has made a
-eport favoring the annexation of
diwaii, as stated in letter from Hon.
,lulu.