The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-10-07
wAsHlNGToN LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent.l

ception OF short trip to Ohio the lat. |
ter part Of this month he will probably
not leave Washington again until the |
long session of Congress, which meets |
in December, adjourns. The President |
is enthusiastic, not only oyer the person
al reception given him in Massachusetts,
but over the evidence of prosperity he
saw everywhere he went. He found the
same state Of affairs in New England
that he found in the Middle West every
body rejoicing over present prosperity
and the prospect of great prosperity to
come. If ever any President had cause
to rejoice over the condition of the
country, surely President Mckinley is
the man, and what adds to his pleasure
is the knowledge, II told you so."
This weeks Cabinet meeting was
sort Of happy family affair. All had
something to say from personal knowl.
edge of the great wave of prosperity that
is sweeping over the country, helping
the farmers to pay off mortgages and to
purchase luxuries for themselves and
families, which they were compelled to
do without during the dark years Of
Democratic control, and giving work,
where there has been no work, to both
skilled and unskilled labor. The people
who have suffered know where to place
the credit for their improved condition,
and they will be certain not to make any
more disastrous experiments by voting
the Republican party out of power. Re.
publican times will be synonymous with
good times for long time to come in
this country.
After Elk Senator Edmunds, chairman
of the Monetary Commission, announced
the three standing committees on metallic
currency, on demand obligations of the
OF the government, and on banking, the
commission took recess until October
IL, in order to allow the committees to
consider suggestions already made
and to arrange systematic programme.
Members of the commission are emphat
ic in denying any intention to do more
than suggest to Congress changes that
they believe would be beneficial.
| Official news received by the Depart.
ment of State from Hawaii this week
was very different from what was expec,
ted by the sensation mongers, who had
been circulating stories of the danger of
the immediate overthrow Of the Dole
government by the Japanese in Hawaii
Minister Sewall informed Secretary Sher-
man that the immigration dispute be
tween Japan and Hawaii was in a fair
I way to be amicably settled without even
the trouble of arbitration.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth added
new brilliance to the enviable record he
is making as Commissioner of Patents
when he decided to disbar from practice
before the U. s. Patent Office John
Wedderburn 4 Co., found guilty by in
disputable evidence of having deceived
and defrauded numerous inventors who
had been deluded by glittering promises,
together with lottery and other disrep
utable methods, into becoming theil
their clients. Wedderburn & Co., by
reason of a lavish expenditure of money
obtained by questionable methods were
able to bring much influence to bea,
upon Maj. Butterworth, but he ignored
the influence and decided the case or
the evidence taken at the exhaus
tive hearings before the Patent Office
which was conclusive. Postmastme
General Gary has been requested to pu
'The National Recorder" Wedderburr
, & Cos paper, on the fraud list and t
deny il, to the privilege of second clas
: mail. John Wedderburn is the same
man who persuaded many news pape
publishers to exchange advertising
for stock in the Examiner Claims Bu
reau, and the Press Claims Co., both ou
of existence, and much stock of Johl
Wedderburn & Co, is also now held b.
, them.
First Assistant Postmaster Genera
Heath, who has just returned from hi
home in Indiana tells the following to il
lustrate the conditions he found there
!, "When was in Indiana in February
! met farmer who was in great distress
a He was an old friend, with 200 acres o
l. as good land as can be found anywhere
1t was mortgaged for several thousan'
. dollars, and he offered to sell hi
equity at an almost nominal figure
t Last week I saw the farmer again, an
l asked him if he still wanted to sell. Il
; told me the farm was not for sale; tina
. he had made enough out of it to settl
u his interest account, pay off part of hi
debt, and to build a new house, and ha
renewed his mortgage at 2 per cen
= lower interest than he had been paying.