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Show WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Kegulur Correspondent. Washington May 4, 1S91. Secretary Foster's recent alleged free aud frank, discussion ol the condition ol the Treasury of the United Stales is lite forerunner of some republican juggling with the figures purporting to represent the condition of the Treasury that will probably take place as soon as Mr. Harrison Har-rison returns to Washington, that is, in the ne-.t statement oi the public uebt, Wiii:h will be made public June I. Mr. Foster proposes to change the form ol that statement, lor the evident purpose ol showing a fictituous amount of c?sh available. It will not be the first time ol many that the condition of the Treasury Treas-ury department has been falsified by oftcial figures. Old timers will recall the Congressional investigation which brought out the lact that during one year 1870, 1 think nine ol the Treasmy ledgers all caused by the efiorts to make the books accord with the falsified statements state-ments prepared to mystify the public I shouldn't wonder if the 1 louse of the titty-second Congress didn't do a lin e investigating of Mr Foster's figures. The Treasury department ofiers to tend an tne small silver that the batiks in any section oi (he country will take, free of carriage which, if the banks take any consideiable quantity, will be a mighty tat thing for the United States express company, of which ex-Senatoi ("me ioo"(fonil'lntt, of New Yolk re t-Ujfican boss when he hatched up t lis scheme, and then again peihaps he uiJ. This mixing of business and politics is a striking trait of the republican pa it v. This same thine, niu nsr business and I politics, has brougnt about a disagr-fment disagr-fment between Secretaries Blaine and (Fosier. Air. Blaine doesn't want ihe catching ol seals sii pped lor a year, because be-cause a number of lis personal fiL-nds, including ''Steve" Elkins, have inve 'ed their money in theNorth AmerLan Fur company, which is the present owner o. the sealing privileges in iielning Sea and Air. Foster, who believe the seals are about to be exterminated, would like to have it stopped. In the meantime the Britisn Minister is insisting that Mr Blaine do something definate- Taken altogether this matter is in a very inter., esiiug stage aud it will surprise 110 on here if it develops some highly sensaticf al leatures before long. |