Show I I 1 r l I I MAJOR TOM OCEIITREE of Texas is in trouble It seems that 1 besides being the champion liar oft j of-t y t America the major is reckless in managing his financial affairs It I will remembered that Ochiltree was t II j J elected to Congress last fall and he > t immediately thereupon cut a swell iJ getting himself into all the newspapers I I l news-papers and making much profession 1 of what he would do in the legislative I t legis-lative way His election to Congress I Con-gress however has proven an unhappy fl i un-happy circumstance from the fact t g j that it has brought to light some i 4 i matters that might otherwise have remained buried Ochiltree wash was-h 1 I 1 United States marshal of Texas K x 1 and when relieved of that office he ff 1 left a modest little deficiency of I 1200 in his accounts for which Iii f sum the government sued him and 4 obtained a judgment The fl major is I i one of those men who are perpetually perpet-ually insolventalways living beyond l h l their income That being his condition condi-tion he paid no attention to the 1 t l judgment and had he not been 1 elected to an office that allows him i I to draw a salary he would probably t have snapped his fingers at government c govern-ment There Is an importune law which prohibits any money being paid out of the treasury to a person t indebted to the government until J the Indebtedness is paid So poor t Tern is in trouble He sees that his entire for two is t salary years likely j t to be covered in the treasury His j supreme indifference has changed 1 s I i into distressing anxiety But as t 1 usual in such cases he now claims t d that his deficiency or debt is not real but only I technical and graciously a gra-ciously offers the government 500 t j and call it square And it is sak1 that the government officials are I l seriously considering his proposition proposi-tion As Tom would have nothing I h to live on during his term as congressman doubt the 1 gressman no republican accounting officers will be compelled t j J to decide that the debt is technical l and let him go with the compromise e I compro-mise offered For our part we should be distressed to see Major I 1 Ochiltieo forced to resign his seat in e Congress because he could not get any money with which to pay his board and tailor bills But his party i i should scorn the proposal to wipe 1 r i out his debt to the public treasury F on a I technicality Since the republican t re-publican blackmailing committee I 1 spent so much money in getting the c I I festive major elected it ought to take up a collection to keep him in 1 It clothes and food while he represents i the principles of the grand old t f party II in Congress 1 lil I E r r + iff 4 |