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Show IK 1'ULSIIII.NT CttMJV.S IIOMI. IBL During the paat two weeki luera I IB haro been tmiuent allusions In pooll IH' All I .tlvsta tlli.itohes from tho na- ll tlnnalcspllilto the ellect tint till! Ifff , had been Introduced lu Congress or ft I IS rltuio Inicrlcd In odd of the dpi rooiln- IH . lion Milt to refund to President (Jeoriio I Q. Cannon the amount of liln forfeited la bond upon the InJIctmeut to which ho III uhiuntly plead guilty on! for IU which lie fervod term of Imprleon- II mont In the rcnllentlary and paid the IK flnolmposod. Wo are now Informed lJ that the Mil assed during the doling I hours of the lato Congma. I It will ho renumbered that President IB L'aunon wai held up)n the one Indict-IB Indict-IB mont and two additional warrants II "'segrmatlon" being then the faihlou B and the total bondi Imnosod reached I B the inormout sum ol $41,0011. The IB bond of $K,oOO, ou the Indlot- I g nieut referred to, was forfeited, and tho II aurctlot, Hon. John Hliarp and Hon. I B Feramon Iiltlle promptly paid It, they ID Mn turn being ald by Proal lent Can II nou. The other bond, of $10,1)13 on BE each variant, were contested, and BB only recently wai tho matter com-IS com-IS promised, the lulls dismissed and the II tionda vacated. II Ihspnuagonowby Congreu of the Bj B appropriation Mil lontalnlng tho clause Mm fortbe refunding of tha$:i,W),li but Bill an act of )ullce which no fair-minded II iern will autagonlie. Iiest It HRI should bo conceived, however, (hat BQj there la a great windfall In tho rccov- Bj" cry of thli money, a word of ixptaua- tlon ahould Lo ollered. llio mm of IJ25.000 la a largo one, rtnl It would look loo much llko double punish-rncnt punish-rncnt to be conielled to loo It In addition to enduring the peuilty for tho offense lUclf. Hut It la seven years aluco thla bond waa (aid and the money covered Into the national trcoiury. I'.ven at n moderate rite, tho Interest that President (Jannou his paid on the original amount more than exceeds half the amount restored. It will thus be soon that the recovery might havo leen moro ample than It Is, without exceeding "e bounds ul fairness and legislative generosity. HUH, ths act Itself will have a tendency, ten-dency, we believe, to amoolh nway, as ao many other events during the past few j tars have done, the acerbities and animosities of tho past. Aa nlreidy slated, the action of (Jougresa In this Instance will meet with utmost uni versal endorsement In every falr-rulud-I cd tlemont of this community. |