Show our washington letter front from our co correspondent verily the bummer madness is on those who are jumping all oner oer secretaries Secreta rieB olney carlisle aurl and herbert and attorney general harmon II armon who attended a special cabinet meeting last friday afternoon because they declined to tell whit was considered at that meeting since nhen hen pray has it been the custom for members of the cabinet to take newspapers into their confidence to that extent thele are leamons good ones for keeping secret for the present the business of that meeting and abuse ii nil ill not change them A bit of the same of business is the abuse heaped upon comptroller cowler bowler because he has noti notified fiel a beet sugar co company m ganv of nebraska that lie he lias has dou doubts abts of the constitutionality of the act making in an appropriation nation to pay sugar bo bounties andies and requesting them through their lawyers to present arguments on the subject mr is pull pal performing his daty batyr in a decision in a suit buit brought to compel payment of sugar bounty the court of appeals of the district of columbia has declared the bounty law to have bare been in its opinion unconstitutional what thenis then is wrong about comptroller bowler dp demanding manding to have hit hib doubts removed before before approving the payment of public money moneys that iff i exactly what the office of comptroller exists for ex speaker crisp is in ill washington but will sail this weak for europe where lie he will iemann until fall for the bandit of his health which while much better than it was dill dining ing the last session of congress is still far from robust judge crisp simply laughs at the story that he be is I 1 lunning away aiom georgia to escape the silver discussion now going on in the state ile he says the people of geor georia georgia ia know better belter than that also teat that they know hn big position in fa favor vor of silver is the same now that it has been for deais A business man from new yolk thus sues siles up the political outlook the prospects of the democrats are brightening all theotime the time anybody alio doubts that stat statement einen t knows but little of what ingoing is going on wa wages s are being advanced mills arge are running lyght and day and american manufacturers thanks to free raw ma materials serials te rials are beating their european competitors in tho the mot distant marks markets of the earth this is proof positive that ith equal chances as to material the manufacturer of the united states could not only hold bold his own against the foreigner hut but could di kiive ive him off the fild afif ld ex secretary whitney is I 1 think the strongest man the democrats could nominate for president secretary olney was asked when haj h came to washing washington ton the other day if the president had given any consideration to another issue of bonds in the near future ilia his reply was short abort and decisive hn HA said such a thin tiling has hai not leen been considered by any any member of the administration in fact there is no DO necessity for such consideration as aa the finances are in good shape chape there is plenty of money money inthe in the treasury and the ilia gold reserve is all krisht ri ht 11 surely that ought to be plain enough to stop atop the silly bond story started lor for the pur purpose poe of doing harm but of course it won t some people would rather lie any any day than tell the truth washington D 0 july 22 2 91 9 |