Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-10-22

Washington, Oct. IS, 1894.
From North, from West, from East,
aye, and from the South, too, nothing
but good news comes to the republi-
can Congressional campaign commit
tee. The people are thoroughly alive
TO the necessity of putting an effectual
stop to democratic legislation before
it has brought the country to even
a worse condition than it now finds
itself in, and they know that the first
step needed is to put the republican
party in control of the house, and, IN
less all indications are at fault they
are going to do i5 next month.
The figures contained in the annual
report of the commissioner of pen
sions, for the year ending June 80, '94,
tell story of the manner in which
the old soldiers have been treated by
the democratic officials that ought to
make every democrat blush with
shame The commissioner covered
into the Treasury the enormous
amount of S25, 2O5, 712, 65, which re-
manned uneXpended of the money
appropriated for pensions by Con-
gress, while there remained Enacted
upon in the files of the Office applica-
lions for pensions and for increase OF
pensions to the number of 619,O27.
During the entire twelve months COW
cred by the report only 39,O83 new
pensioners were added to the rolls,
while for death and other causes 81
951 were dropped. It adds to the bit
terness of the story to say that only
40, 14S of the large number of appH-
cations remaining Enacted upon were
filed during the year. And at this
very minute a large portion of the
clerical force of the Pension Bureau,
which should be at work on the un-
acted upon applications, are putting
in their time on work that has no prop
er connection with pensions-trying
to elect democratic Congressman.
Every old soldier who votes the dem
ocratic ticket endorses the pension
and other policies of the admins
. tratio1.
Dyes, this administration dispenses
reform in great big chuncks all the
time 1t was democratic reform that
carried five members of the Cabinet
to Batavia, New York, incidentally to
hear another member of the Cabinet
Secretary Carlisle-deliver an ad-
dress on Robert Morris, but princi-
pally to try to help along the totter-
ing democratic campaign in that
State, and it was also democratic re-
form that caused the Cabinet party,
which included number of ladies', TO
allow themselves to be hauled from
Washington to Batavia and back again
in the private cars of two railroad
magnates, furnished gratis by the
railroads and even provided with re-
freshments, liquid and otherwise, at
the expense of the ever big hearted
railroads big hearted in their deal
ing with officials who can be used by
them. ~
A great many people are asking
whether an official opinion rendered
by Solicitor Reeve, of the Treasury
department, will result in a food Of
paper money, similar to the ''red dog"
and wild cat" currency OF state bank
days. The opinion is that any county
the constitution of the state in which
it is located permitting, has the legal
right to issue interest bearing bonds
ii any demo Mutations it may sea fit,
and that such bonds are not liable to
federal taxation. It is believed that
\ under this opinion, unless it is upset
w the courts, County could issue
beods as low as 81 each and make the
interest so low that they could be used
as cnrrency, thus practically issuing
its own money, which would be a
little more than even the widest pop
ulist in Congress has ever advocated.
to say nothing of its knockingout the
law which imposes a tax of 20 per
cent on all currency other than that
issued by the Government, law
which Congress at its last session very
positively declined to repeal.