Show A GENEROUS OFFER with more 0 or r lesa lees dramatic diction and with the evident purpose af if keep ing their light outside the bushel the banks of columbus georgia tendered their entire reserve to secretary carlisle offering to receive legal to tenders in return this outburst of generos generosity ityl amounting it W juul tul i 1 seem to prodigality was wae hedged hedge hedgelin din in with the statement that the bankers felt assured that 14 president cleveland and his cabinet and the government would continue to pay gold for all bills presented PS waiving the little irregularity of the president his bia cabinet and the gov er 1 paying anything officially this being a performance conducted exclusively by agents of the government according to law as construed by the president and his hie financial adviser there Is still something bordering on the ludicrous in the tender when the bottom facts are brought out at the time it was made there was a good deal of casting about for solid ground in the midst of the gold leas flood and offers of even a midion or so 0 o in placed which were quite numer cup seemed but so many drops in the bucket to a nation which spends more than a thousand millions nill lions every year and needed a goodly traction of it at olce but the total amount held by the columbus bankers and which was ton tendered dered with so much of ceremony and assurances that it would be on hand banu when wanted was the startling figure of it is peSSi pleasing Dg to note that the bu buyance yancy in fiscal affairs which this generous offer must have created at headquarters ra was not sufficient to topple mr carlisle from his office stool nor dor make his mind so unsettled that he be add up the day dayis daya Is transactions |