Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-09-11
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SPECIAL ooRRasPUS DENoR OF TEF MONITOR. Il
WASHINGTON Sept. f. 1899.

SATURDAY Ool
left today for Philadelphia, to attend
the annual encampment OF the G. A.
e. He kept SO thoroughly in touch
with all the important public matters
during his absence that he found
only routine business on his desk when
he returned. He had informal talks
with ell the members of the cabinet,
except Secretary Long, who is not in
city, and there was q regular cabinet
meeting today. He also heard a YER
bal report by President Schurman Of
the Philippine commission. He an
ticipates a pleasant time at the en-
campment owing to the large number
of old friends he will meet there.
Commissioner Evans of the pension
bureau completed his annual report
before leaving for the G. A. R. en-
campment, and copies OF the docu-
ment viii probably be distributed
among the veterans. There is more
or less talk of the probability of an
attack being made upon Commits
sioner Evans method Of administering
the pension bureau, in the report of
the G.. A. r. committee, which made
an investigation several months ago,
and which will be submitted to the
encampment; but Mr.. Evans is con-
fident that the committees report
will show that he administered the
laws properly, and that if there is any
censure, it will be of the laws and not
of him. The report of the commits
sioner recommends the repeal of the
law granting arrears of pensions to
the widows of pensioners; he also
recommends thai the law shall be
strictly enforced which requires every
pension agent to prepare and mail to
each pensioner whose pension is pay
able at his agency, a voucher fifteen
days preceding each quarterly pen
sion day. The report says that dur
ing the present fiscal year, the ar
rears of work will be greatly dimin-
ished and that all claims will be made
practically current. The report also
expresses satisfaction with the work
accomplished during the year, and
says: 1.-THE work is in far better con-
dition than at any time since I as
sumed charge of the bureau, and it is
believed that further progress will be !
attained by the system that has been
instituted in the different divisions. |
No new rules of evidence have been !
introduced, but the work has been |
accomplished under prescribed rules |
of many years standing"
Uncle Sam did pretty we'll for sum-
mer month, in August, which is usually
dull in official as we'll as in private
business. The treasury receipts we're
IS, 150, 900 more than they were in
August Of last year, and the sur
plus for the month was 81 ,455, 862
The amount of gold in the treasury is
larger than ever before, the exact
figures being S248, 757 ,971. These fig
ures tell their own story Of the pros
porous condition of the government
and of the country, and in the face OF
such a story, how ridiculous is the
claim now being made by some dem
ocrats, that the democrats have a
chance to carry the country next
year To accept such a claim is to
impeach the intelligence of the voters
of this country, who have too vivid a
remembrance of Cleveland times not
TO fully appreciate good thing when
they have it, and to vote for its con
tinuance.
The most talked of event in poiit-
zeal circles, just now, is the buying Of
the democratic nomination for gov
ernor of Ohio, by Mr.. John R. Mclean,
whose actual residence is in Washing
ton, but who has large property in
terests in Ohio corporations, and who
is also the owner and nominal editor
of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Repubi-
cans, including President Mckinley,
do not regard the nomination of Nc
Lean as an important factor in the
gubernatoriaI campaign, because they
believe that it has been from the day
of the nomination of Judge Nash by
the Republican convention of Ohio,
only question of how large a major
Uy he would be given-there has never
been and is not now the slightest doubt
of his election. But the Bryan dem
Ocrats are in almost a state of papic
They do not trust Mclean. They be-
lieve that he has secured this nom
ination as a part of the plot to defeat
Bryan for the democratic presiden
tial nomination, next year. They are
too badly frightened to talk publicly,
but among themselves; they are talk