The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-07
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 1897.

The Treasury deficit is still the fly
in the administrations milk. The
deficit for the third month of the first
quarter of the fiscal year, which closed
Yesterday, was not so great rs for the
first two months of the quarter, but
that was because of a heavy decrease
in expenditures and not because of .
any large increase in receipts. The
deficit for the quarter is in the neigh.
borhood of $50, 1000, and there is
no good reason for expecting that it
will be much less in the second quar-.
ter. although members of the admin
istration are now predicting that the
receipts of the government will equal
the expenditures by the first of Janu-
arv 1t is known that this continued
deficit has been a source of consider
able worry to Mr.. Mckinley and his
cabinet, and believed that it was one
of the reasons why the administration
was SO willing to have the sale of the
Union Pacific Railroad rushed before
Congress meets. They count upon
the governments share of the pur-
chase money to increase the available
cash in the Treasury.
Mr.. Mckinley has returned to
Washington, but his travelling isn't
quite over for the season, as Boss
Hanna needs him in his business, and
has arranged another trip to Ohio for
him. 1t is understood that this trip
will be made the latter part of this
month and that wilhelm Ohio Mr.. Nc
Kinley will make at least one speech
for Hanna. If 4 little thing like con-
sistency cut any figure with the Hanna
Mckinley combine, it would be per
tinent to ask if there was impropriety
in the Secretary of State taking part
in the Ohio campaign, why the Presl
dent can do SO with proprietyP
The little gathering of goldbug'
calling themselves a "monetary com
mission" and claiming to represent th(
entire country has, after dividing
themselves up into committees on
Metallic currency, demand obligations
and banking, taken a recess unit
October II. So far as the public
concerned they might just as we
have adjourned sine die.
The machinery of the PenSio
Bureau is being unblushingly used t
help along the campaign of Bos
Hanna in Ohio. A number of clerk
have been transferred to the mddI
division, in which OHIO is, froi
another division, in order to expedit
all applications for pensions for cit
zens of Ohio now pending, and
order that all pension inquiries mac
by Ohio Congressman may be answe
ed the same day they are receive
OF course, this is not fair towards
plicants for pensions in other State
but it allows the Ohio voter to S
what :'pull" Hanna has, and att
election Ohio applications will cea
to be specially favored.
When a man adopts questionat
methods in an avowed attempt to
rich by catching suckers" as N
John Wedderburn, head of the bu
ness of John Wedderburn & Co., d
he knowingly accepts all the chan'
of having himself officially branded
a fraud. Therefore no sympathy
wasted on him when it was announC
that the Commissioner of Patents
decided to disbar John Wedderb
& Co. from practice before the U.
Patent Office, for fraud, and that
postal authorities were being pres
to act upon the request to put
National Recorder" John Wed(
burn & Cos. paper, on the fraud
+ Mr.. John Wedderburn although st
young man has so far made use
four aliases in his efforts to CO
"suckers"-The Examiner Ola
Bureau, The Press Claims Co,
National Recorder, and John Wed
burn & Co.
There was very warm time III
office of the Postmaster General
week, which resulted in an ape
from the Postmaster Generalt to ~
Kerens, the Missouri republican
The row started when Kerens
duced a perem:ory order from
Mckinley directing that man Sc
ed for postmaster at Kirkvllle,
by the Postmaster General, 81
not be appointed. Mr.. Gary g
mad that he accused Kerens OF
ing to have embezzlers appo
postmasters in Mo. Then the
ouri boss got son his ear" and
things SO hot for Mr.. Gary tha
was glad to close the lnclder
making an apology. What
made Mr.. Gary mad was that MI
| Kinleu uonld not allow b m