Show 40 AN speculation SPECIAL dispatches to the morning papers bring word that the funds lor for which certain parties have been figuring figurin in g at the seat of government will not be appropriate dand other amounts that were fondly hoped for are to be cut cat down so asto asto diminish consider ably the claims for fat pickings mr baskin has not accomplished much after all the legislation for which he be lied and labored has not passed assed either house the money 9 he e has tried to get ap appropriated is not forthcoming he has rived lived high had a good time at the expense ox of those loose liberals who have been bled for his bis pleasure and will come back in dubious condition but ready to be returned if enough cash can be raised for him by next december the plum of which mrs newman thought she had bad secured for the visionary speculation promoted in this toils city has dwindled down to the shrivelled shrivel led dimensions of but this will not be sneezed at by those who expect to have the hn handling of it and that portion which gaall be expended on buildings here will be circulated in the territory aud and be of some benefit how much that will be remains to be seen the appropriation expected for extra expenses elwe in the case of president george Q ca cannon 0 to reimburse W H lickson dickson and 2500 for additional expenses connected with that shameful business half of which it Is supposed f was to reimburse the marshal and the other half nobody seems to know for what have been stricken from the bill and so has the amount required to pay the extra help of assistant attorneys employed by mr dickson in the prosecution of cohabitation cases an attempt to raise the appropriated for court expenses to has as been bea defeated deleatha dele atea ana add the ine specially appropriated to be expended for prosecutions in utah to be used at the discretion oi of the attorney general has been cut dowst lown tp this news to use a country news paper expression has tast cast a gloom over the officials who looked for brighter thin things s ireland is out and injured he makes no money out of bis miserable trickery in the military esca escapade aade atter alter president cannon it lee leeks a like injustice to mr dickson to allow him to employ ass assistant istatt attorneys in the raid against again ST t the mormons cormons Mor mons and not provide ovide him the money to pay them aft but he makes far more than attorneys in the territories are supposed to rake in and will have to divide the official ring should not be so very down io in the mouth prosecuting the mormons cormons Mor mons to is a pretty soft thing after all its promoters are making more money than ever they did in their lives before and there is enough in it yet vet to cause an hunter to smile with satisfaction but altogether the speculation of employing an unscrupulous agent at washington it panned out very richly haslit |