The silver star., 1897-10-07
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LETTER.
From our Washington Correspondept.

~S"SuIy ucuClt Is St1ll the
ny 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 as for the first two months of
the quarter, but that was because
OF a heavy decrease in expenditures
and not because ofany large increase
in receipts. The deficit for the
is in the. neighborhood Of
$50 900, 900, and there is no good
reason FOR expecting that it will be
much less in the second quarter, n.
though members of the administra.
tion are now predicting that the re-
ceipts of the government will equal
the expenditures by the first of Jan.
uary. 1t is known that this contin-
ued deficit has been a source of con-
siderable worry to Mr., Mckinley
and his cabinet, and believed that it
was Que of the reasons why the adj
ministration was SO willing to have
the sale of the Union Pacific Rail.
road rushed before Congress meets.
They count upon the government 8
share of the purchase money to in.
crease 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 for another trip to
Ohio for him. Itis understood that
this trip will be made the latter part
Of this month and that while in Ohio
Mr.. Mckinley will make at least
one speech for Mr.. Hanna. If q
little thing like consistency cut any
figure with the Hanna Mckinley
combine. it Mould be pertinent to
ask if there was impropriety in the
Secretary of State taking part in the
Ohio campuIgn, why the President
can do so with propriety!
The little gathering of gold.bug.
calling themselves monetary com
mission" and claiming to represent
the entire country has. after dividing
themselves up into committees on
Metallic currency. demand obliga
tions, and banking, taken q recess
until Oct. II. So far as the public
is concerned they might just As vel
have adjourned sine die.
The machinery Of the Pension
Bureau is being unblushinsly uset
to help along the campaign Of Bos,
Hanna in Ohio. A number Of clerk,
have been transferred to the middle
division, In which Ohio u, from an.
other division, in order to expedite
all applications for pensions for citi-
zens Of Ohio now peAding. and in
order that all pension inquiries made
by Ohio Consressmen may be an-
swered the same day they are re-
ceived. OF course. this 10 not fair
towards applicants for pensions In
other states. but it allows the Ohio
voter to see what pull" Hanna has.
and after election Ohio applications
Will cease to be specially favored.
When a man adopts questionable
methods in an avowed attsmpt to
get rich by catching ''suckers." as
Mr.. John Wedderburn, head Of the
business Of John Wedderburn & Co.,
did; be knowingly accepts all
chances Of having himself officially
branded as ftaud. rherefors no
syhtphthy was wasted on him when
Ii was announced chat the Commits
sioncr Of Patents had decided to dis
bar John Wcdderburn & Co. from
ptactice bef5te the U. S. Patent OF.
fcc, for fraud, and that tile postal
authorities were being pressed to act
apon the request to put the INA.
tional Recofder!" John Weddcr.
burn 4 Cog. pdper. Sn the fraud
list. Mr.. Johh Wedderbdfn al.
though still Young man has made
tssc Of four aliases In his eH0ftb to-
catch ''sucxefs"-The RxAininer
claims Bufeau, The Pres1 Claims
Co., The National Recorder and
John we,ldefBHM & Co: