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Show I A FITTING TRI3UTE. y Ever ready to ugive honor to whom honor is due," irrespective of political difference, the San Francisco Examiner pays this well-earned tribute to the late Secretary of the Treasury: Mr. Windom's greatest triumph was won in bis brief term as Secretary of the Treasury under Garlield, wuen he refunded the outstanding 5 and 6 per cent, bends, without special authority ef law, into 3i and 3 per cent, bonds, payable at the option of the government. govern-ment. Tbis great transaction, saving over $10,000,000 a year in interest, was performed by the simple operation of stamping the new terms across the old ecurities. If his predecessor, Mr. Sherman, bad not tied his hands by refunding fcbout tl, 000,000,000 of the debt in fifteen fif-teen and thirty year bonds, Mr. Win-z Win-z '' jj dom would have put all our outstand- lng obligations in such a position that they could have been paid off at yar at ay time. In that case we should have been .steadily extinguishing extinguish-ing the debt without premium, there would have been no complaint of surplus sur-plus revenues, Mr. Cleveland's famous nessage would have lacked its imme-x imme-x dlate occasion, there would probably have boon no Mills bill, and certainly " na MiKinley bill, and all our subse- ' quent history would have been altered, j The late Secretary has left a gap j that will be hard to fill. His policy '' :i was not in all respects satisfactory to ' the west, but it was one which the President -required. His successor will find that the task of reconciling - each a policy with the popular de- ' stands is one that requires a skill in ' which most men are lacking. |