Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
. coppRsPospENcE OF THE MONITOR
Washington, Apr. 3, 1892.

Washington, Apr. 3, 1892.
Democratic senators are hgura1lVe-
" moving Heaven and earth to pre-
vent the investigation of the charge
of criminal embezzlement mace
against Senator Roach, of North Da-
kota, directed by Senator Hoar's res
olution. They first tried a bluff by
stating that other senators were In
the same boat with Roach, and lntl-
mating that Power, of Montana, was
one of them. That didn't work, not
even little bit, for Senator Power
promptly denounced it as false and
demanded the most searching lnVes-
tigation, two things which Roach has
not done. The democratic senators
have good reason to fear any thing
that promises to expose the true IN
wardness of the election of Roach to
the senate, which was brought about
by special and explicit directions from
Senator German, who was chairman
of the democratic senatorial "steer-
ing,, committee. There is good reason
for the belief that the actual facts IN
the deal by which Roach became Sen
ator would, if made public, cause
national scandal with more or less dis
graceful ramifications in number OF
states The democratic senators are
now making personal appeals to the
most easy going republican senators,
to let the whole matter drop, because
whatever the result of the investiga-
tjon so far as Roach is concerned it
will bring a scandal upon the good
name of the senate that will cling to
1T at home and abroad for many years.
have no authority to speak for re-
publican senators, but violate no con-
f1dence in stating that a number of
them of them have made up their
minds that something has got to be
done. and if Roach doesn't resign be-
fore the senate gets through with the
cases of the appointed senators. now
under consideration, they propose to
have some action taken upon Sena-
tor Hoar's resolution, or to let the
country know why.
The reason why Mr.. Cleveland has
not appointed a commissioner of pen
sions has leaked out. He has so far
failed to find man who comes up to
all his requirements and is at the
same time willing to pledge himself
to do certain things which are to be
REQUIRED of the new commissioner. 1t
has been, so those IN his confidence
say, definitely decided by Mr.. Cleve-
land that the commissioner must be
an Eastern man who does not belong
to the G.. A. R., and that he shall be
willing to inaugurate a system of
handling applications that will place
AS MANY restrictions and as much hui
initiation upon the applicants for
pensions as can possibly be done by
stretching existing laws to the limit,
in the wrong direction, to say moth
ing to treating pensioners already on
the rolls as frauds who have no right
to be there.
Democrats are making a mares nest
out of the pretended new discovery
that ex- Secretary of State Foster, who
is in charge of the interest of the Unit
ed States before Behring Sea Arbitra-
ton tribunal, made liberal allow
ance for expenses to the employees
of the government who were ordered
to Paris in connection with the arbi-
tration proceedings. This is poppy
cock, pure and simple. Woald any
business establishment send it's en-
ployes to a foreign country without
making them an allowance in addi-
ton to their salaries, to pay their ex-
penses? And is the wealthy govern
ment of the United States to treat its
employees with less liberality that
private firms? Common sense car
have but one answer to these ques-
tons.
IVTLrI1 lITNT ALTON OF THE GVPSEY