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Show I vl yyTnzz story or tiie rrasx vuEsmjtsiZ- J"1 PV PRESIDENT .hZZTV the southern-men would content U vote (or the assumption of the state debts If (ha northern members would ota for a cp!(al on tho Potomac? Tba suggestion cm me a If upon tne thought of tha moment, at a chance meeting on the street, an tha two men w&Ued and talked of matters of tha duy; but It was very eloquently urged. Mr. Jefferson declared lie wos "really a stranger to tha whole subject." sub-ject." but would ba glad to lend what aid h could Would not Mr. Hamilton dine with him tha next day, to meet and confer with a few of tha southern member In the Renin! air of the dlntiHr table the whole difficulty was talked away. Two of tba dlneri agreed to vote for the assumption of the atate debts If Mr. Hamilton could cure a majority for a capital on the Potomac; and congress presently ratified-the bargain. There waa not a little astonishment at the sudden clearing of tba skies. The waters did not go down at once; hints of a scandal and of tha shipwreck ship-wreck of a fair name or two went about the town and spread to tha country. Itut congress had come out of Its angry tangle of factions, calm had returned to tha government, and Hamilton's plan stood finished and complete. He had nationalized the government as ha wished. Jefferson Is Chagrlntd. It was this fact that most struck tha eye of Jefferson when he had settled set-tled to bis work and had coma to see affairs steadily and as a whole at the seat of government. He saw Hamilton Hamil-ton supreme in the cabinet and In legislationnot leg-islationnot because either the president presi-dent or congress was weak, but because be-cause Hamilton was a master In his new field, and both congress and tie president had accepted bis leadership It chagrined Jefferson deeply to sea that he had himself assisted at Ham lltou's triumph, bad himself made It complete, indeed. He could not easily brook successful rivalry In leadership; must have expected to find himself, not Hamilton, preferred in the counsels coun-sels of a Virginia president; waa beyond be-yond measure dismayed to sea tha administration already in the hands, as It seemed, of a man Just two mpotb turnud of thirty-three. Ha began er long to declare that be had been "most Ignorantly and Innocently made to bold the candle" to tba sharp work of the secretary of the treasury, har Ing beon "a stranger to the circumstances." circum-stances." Itut It was not the clrcum stances of which he bad been Ignorant; It waa the effect of what he bad dona upon hla own wish to play the cblel role In the new government. When he came to a calm scrutiny of the matter, he did not like the as sumption of the state debts, and, what was more serious for a man of political politi-cal ambition, It was bitterly distasteful distaste-ful to the very tnon from whom b must look to draw a following when parties should form. Ha felt that b had been trlrked; he know that h bad been outrun In the race for lead ershlp. What be did not understand or know bow to reckon with was tba placa and purpoe of Washington in the government. Hamilton bad been Washington's aide and confidant when a lad of twenty, and knew In what way those must rule who served udoVi such a chief. He knew that Washington Wash-ington must first be convlnoed and won; did not for a moment doubt that the president held the reins and was master; was aware that his own plans bad prospered both In the making and In the adoption because the pur pom they spoke was the purpose Washing ton most cherished. Washington had adopted the fiscal measures as bis own; Hamilton's strength consisted la having bis confidence and support. Washington and Jefferson. Jefferson bad slowly to discovet that leadership lu the cabinet was to be had. not by winning a majority of the counsellors who sat In It, but by winning Washington. That masterful man aiked coutihel upon every question ques-tion of consequence, but took none bis own Judgment did not approve. He had chosen Hamilton because ba knew bis views. Jefferson only bo-cause bo-cause be knew his influence, ability, and experience lu affairs When b did test Jefferson's views he found them less to bis liking than he had ex pectcd TO UK CONTINUE!!.) Cocking Miln In a Church. A most spectacular raid was pulled off here by Constables Mndey, F.ck-man. F.ck-man. Anderson and TIMey when they aurprlsed 200 sports holding a cocking: main In an old mill near here, wblc was remodeled several years ago. anl has since been used for a rhurc'i by the United brethren of cSlllespie. Religious services were held on Run day in the big room where the cock Ing main was held. In the crowd were bankers, bar bers. policemen, former fcelicemen, politicians, doctors, detectives, miners, clerks, and others. About tha only profession not represented was tha clergy. All but to succeeded In ee-?aplng ee-?aplng Fayette CltyPa. Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. Co Back to tho Humble. When Mulal llafld. sultsn of Morocco, Mor-occo, succeeded to the sultanate he found the sacred city of Fei Infested by rata. Without any loss of time be at once nationalised all the cats of Morocco and Issued a command that many thousands of them should be marched Into Fat for service. For some time a law has existed la Hongkong Hong-kong making It compulsory to keep cats In every house, the number varying according to the alio of the house. Only a short time bark the governor of the German colony of Togo Issued aa order fur cats to be kept la ail hospitals, school. u4 4lav oaa. s Instaltmsnt 23 A chain had been stretched across i the street In front of the house srwre be lay. 'to check the noisy traffic that might have disturbed him more deep ly In his fever. But the government bad not stood still the while. He had ster.dlly attended to Important matters mat-ters as he could. Twus scarcely tiec-ersary tiec-ersary h should be out of bed and abroad ngnin to make all who bundled affairs feel his mateery; and by the time the summer was endod that mastery mas-tery was founded upon knowledge. The First Cabinet Hy the end of September (17891 onprena had completed Its work of i organization sad . Washington bad i drawn bis' pertnupenl advisers about ! him. The federal courts, too, had been erected and given definitive Ju risdiction. Tbn new covemtneol had taken distinct rhnpe, and was ready to digest Its business In detail. Washington Wash-ington c1him Alexander Hamilton to be secretary of the treasury, Henry Knox to be secretary of war, Thomaa Jefferson ecrtory of state, and F.d muiid Randolph attorney general young mm all, except Jefferson, and fie was but forty-six. The fate of the government was certain to turn, first of all, upon question ques-tion of finance. It was hopeless poverty pov-erty thnt had brought the Confederation Confedera-tion Into deep disgrace; tha new government gov-ernment had Inherited from It nothing but a great debt; and tho first test of character to which the new plan i affairs would be put, whethi.-r at home or abroad, was the test of Its ability to sustain Its financial credit with businerlike thoroughness sod statesmanlike wlndom. '( Hamilton's Critical Post. Alexander Hamilton was only tMrty-1 tMrty-1 two years old. He had been a spirited and capable soldier and an astute and eloquent ndvncnte; but he bnd not had a day's experience In the admlnlstra- j Iton of a great governmental depart- I'pnt, and had never handled so far . ss men khw.a had never studied questions of public finance. Washing ton chose htm. nevertheless, without , her Itation, for what must certainly i turn out the inoxt critical post in his sduiinistrctlon. No mnn saw more-i more-i clearly than Washington did how f large a ei-paclty for statesmanship 1 Hamilton had .shown In his masterly raprrs In advocacy of the Constltu- I lion. He hsd known Hstnllton, more over, throiiKh all the quick years that k-d brought him from precocloua youth to wise maturity; had rend his letters nnd felt the singular power : that moved In them; and was readv to Irsst blm with whatever task he would consent to assume. Henry Knox, that gallant officer of ' the Revolution, hod been already four years remtary of war for the Confed ration. In appointing him to tbn same cPlce under the new Constitution. Constitu-tion. WaHplngton was but retaining J a mnn whom he loved aud to whom he had for long been accustomed to ' k-ok for friendship and counsel. Jefferson's Wide Experience. He chose Thomas Jefferson to bandle f t) ! di-lloate questions of foreign af fairs which must press upon theyodog state becaur. John Adonis being vice-i-refllent. there was no other man of qiit.1 gifts available who had had so Irrre n experience In the field of dl-i-tr-miu-y Ageln and again Jefferson ri.d been chosen for foreign missions endir ih Confederation; he was ri rienn minister to France when t'.'sr lilugtnn's summons railed hhn to A.! tcrrfsryshlp of state; anl he r ! of ilut race of Virginia ststes-m ststes-m n from whom Washington might t'-s 'Tiahly count upon receiving a sup-i sup-i rt touched with personal loyally. Ti hard Henry Lee. Patrick Henry in. (J. orce Mason were home-kecrlug r'irlls, snd doubted of the succese of ri siw government; but Jefferson, iVmi.-.Ii hs bad looked upon Its making fccin across the sea. approved, and ;- ready to lend his aid to its sue tr-irful rstaMishnient. In spt'Ointlng Kdmund Randolph to )" nt'orny general, Washington was I it thoo'lng a brilliant yoang man l orn he loved out of a great family of lawyers who had held a sort of r-rlmscy at the bar In Virginia ever (rce ho roMld remember almost ever ilnre she had been called the Old Do ailc-in. Knox was Iblrty-nlne. Kdmund Ran eolpb thirty-six; but If Washington ebose youug men to be his romrad-s tnd gnld-s In counsel. It was but sd-ether sd-ether capital proof of his own msstery In affslr. Himself a natural leader, he r cognized tbe like gift and rapacity rapac-ity In others, even when fortune bad sot yet disclosed or brought tbem to the test. Hard to Fill Offices, It wss bsrd. In filling even the greater great-er offices, to find men of eminence w bowers bo-wers willing to leave the service of their atatee or tha security and ease f private life to try the untrvdden patba of federal government The state were old and secure so men tbouKht the federal government was new and an experiment The stronger sort of men, partlculefly amongst t'wr hrrj o the law. showed, man ( si v i rt reluctance U Untlf fwa.-t't -Hb nw twtltatlor.s set t, .. - r.' Ms n.cnths ago; and Wash-I Wash-I tH be meant to make ter liberal ullowance for differences of opinion, would Invite jio man . to Hand with him In the new service who did not thoroughly believe Jn It -. He was careful to seek out six of the best lawyers to be had lu the country when he made up tha Supreme Su-preme court and to choose them froan ns many states John Jay of New York to be chief Justice; John Kut-ledice Kut-ledice or South Carolina, William Cushlng of Massachusetts, John Hlalr of Virginia; James Wilson of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, and R. H. Harrison of Maryland Mary-land for he knew that tha government govern-ment rnunt draw Its strength from the men who administered It, and that the common run of. people roust learn J:o respect It In the persons of Its oftlcrrs. Rut he was equally careful to Dad out In advance of every appointment what tha man whom he wished to ask thought of the new government and wished Its future to be. Many to whom he offered appointment appoint-ment declined; minor offices seemed most to go a-begging amongst men of assured position such as It waa hla object to secure. It needed all the tact and patience he could command to draw about him a body of men such aa the country must look up to and revere. His Utters again went abroad by the hundred, and. as so often before, be-fore, to persuade men to their duty, build a bulwark of right opinion round about thti government, make bis pur poses clear and his plans effective. He. would spare no pains to make the government both great and permanent Tours Eastern Ststes. In October, 17s9, bis principal appointments ap-pointments all made, the government In full operation, and affairs standing still till congress should ninet Ogsln, he went upon a four weeks' tour of the eastern states, to put the people In mind there, by his own presence, pres-ence, of the existence and dignity of the federal government, and to make trial of their feeling toward It. They rec--fvd hi. n with cordial enthusiasm, for he was secure of their love and admiration; ad-miration; ai d he lad once more a royal progrtb from place, to place all the way to far New Hampshire and back again. He tudi.Mjf!y ron'rlved to make It evirywhr felt, nevertheless, by every ev-ery turn of ci-reinot-lal and behavior, that ha bud route, not aa the hero of tbe l:vol,jiion, but aa tbe president of the I'ljlled States At Porton Governor Hancock sought by cordial nots and pious of Illness to force Wellington to waive the courtesy of a first cll from . blm, and so give the executive of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts precedence. If only for old friendship's sake. Itut Washington would not be so defeated of bis er rsnd; forced the perturbed old patriot to rome to him. swathed as he was tn flannels and borne upon men's shoulders shoul-ders up the stairs, rer Ivfd him with prim roiirteny, and satisfied the gossips gos-sips of the town once and for all 'bar precedence belonged to the federal government at any rate, so long aa George Washington was president Having s-en him and feted him, the eastern towns had seen and done horn-sge horn-sge to the new authority snt over them. Washington was Satisfied, and returned with a noticeable acrenrion of spirits to the serious work ot federal fed-eral administration. Hamilton Hi Support No man stood closer to him In his purpose to strengthen and give pres-tlqo pres-tlqo to t!i government than Hamilton; Hamil-ton; and !- man wus able to discover the meant wi'h a surer gnlus. Hamilton Ham-ilton kn"v who the well-wishers 31 the new poverr-tiient were, whence Its strength was to be c'rawn, wbat It must do to af prove Itself great and permanent, with an frmight and thoroughness thor-oughness Washington himself could not mstrh: for Hamilton know Washington Wash-ington aud tho seats of his strength In tbe country ss thnt self forgetful aian himself could not. He know that It was the commercial commer-cial class of tbe country such men as he hsd himself dwelt amongst at the great port at New York who were bound by self Interest to the new gov ernment, which promised thero a single policy In trade, In the stead of policies a half score; and that the men who were atandlng to Its support out of a reasoned prudence, out of a high minded desire to aecure good government gov-ernment and a place of consideration for their country amongst the nations of the world, were Individuals merely, to be found only In small groups here and then, where a special light shone In some mind. ' He knew that Washington waa loved most for his national character and purpote amongst tbe observant middle rlisses of substantial people In tba richer countlea of Pennsytva nla. New Jersey, New York and New F.ngtand. while his neighbors In the south loved bim wtth an Individual af feet Ion only, and rather aa tbelr hero than as their leader In affairs. He saw that the surest way to gel both popular support and interna llor.al resoext waa to give to the gov ernment at once and la the oat set a place of command In the business and material Interests of the country Such a policy every maa could comprehend, aad a great body of energetic and In-(raanttal In-(raanttal men would certainly aappcrt: tst alone could make the government re era real from the first a veritable power, not an Influence and a ehadow merely, "Here waa a man, unqueatlonably. who had a quick gaolua In affairs; and Washington gave him leave and Initiative Initi-ative with such sympathy and comprehension com-prehension and support aa only a nature na-ture equally bold and equally original could have given. Hamilton's meae-urea meae-urea Jumped with Washington's purpose, pur-pose, ran with Washington's perception percep-tion of national Interests; and they were with Washington's aid put Into execution with a promptneas and derision de-rision which must have aurprlsed the friends of the new governuont no less than It chagrined and alarmed It enemies. en-emies. Hla Plan of Finance. ... Having done Us work of organisation organisa-tion during Its first summer session, the congress came together again. January 4, 1790, to attempt the formn-Iatlon formn-Iatlon of a policy of government, and Hamilton at once laid before It a "plan for the settlement of the public debt" which he had drawn and Washington had sanctioned. He proposed that provision should be made for tbe payment pay-ment ot the foreign debt In full that of course; that the domestic debt, the despised promise tnJ paper of the Confederation, should be funded and paid; and that the debta contracted by tbe several states In the prosecution of the war for Independence should be assumed by the general government govern-ment as the debt of the nation. No one could doubt that tbe foreign debt must be paid In full: to that congress con-gress agreed heartily and without hea-itation. hea-itation. Rut there waa much la the rent of tha plan to give prudent men pause. To pay off tbe paper of the Confederation would be to give to the speculators, who had booxht It up la the hope of Just such a measure, a gratuity of many time what they had paid for It. To assume the state debts would be taken to mean that the state were bankrupt or delinquent, that the federal government was to be their guardian and financial providence, provi-dence, and that the capital of the country must look only lo the government govern-ment of the nation, not to the government govern-ment of the ststes, for security and profitable employment This was nationalizing na-tionalizing the government with a vengeance, ven-geance, and was a plain bid. benldes, to win the money class to Its support Members whose constituencies Isy away from the centera of trade looked askance at such measures, and deemed them no better than handing the government over to the money lenders of the towns. Out boldueas and energy prevailed, as they had prevailed pre-vailed In the adoption of the Convtttu-tlon Convtttu-tlon ttaelf, and both measures were carried through tha house the first at once, the second after a close and doubtful struggle by stratagem and barter. Part of Plan Opposed. Jefferson had been In Franca when Washington called blm to assuror the headship of foreign affairs at home; had not reached New York on hi return re-turn voyage ant II December 23, 1789; and did not take his placo In Wash ington' ing-ton' council till March 21. 1790. All of Hamilton's great plan bad by that time passed congress, except the assumption as-sumption of the state debts, t'pon that question a crisis bad been reached It had wrought congrea to a dangeroua heal of fellng. Members Mem-bers from the aouth, where trade wa4 not much astir and financial Interests told for less than local pride and sharp Jealousy of a too great central power, were set hotly against the measure; most of the northern members mem-bers were as hotly resolved upon Its adoption. Mr. Jefferson must have caught echoes and rumors of tbe great debate as lie lingered at Montlcellb In order to adjust his private aTalr before entering en-tering upon hi dutle In the cabinet The measure had been lost at last In the house by the narrow margin of two votea. Itut the minority were In no humor to aubmlt. They decll.nrd to transact any buslnras at all till tbey should be yielded to In this matter There were even ugly thresta to be heard that some would withdraw from congress and force a dissolution of tbe Union rather than make concessions upon the one side or the other. Jefferson's Support Won. , It was to this psss that things bad come when Mr. Jt-ffersoa reached the seat of goverrrmeot; and his arrival gave Hamilton an Opportunity to show how consummate a politician ba could b In support of hla statesmsnshlp. Tbe southern member wanted the sst of the federal government established estab-lished within their reach, upon the Potomac, Po-tomac, where congress might at least be lid of Importunate merchants and money tenders clamoring at Its doors, and of Impracticable Quakers with their petitions for the abolition of slavery; and were almost as hot at their failure to get their will In that matter aa the northern men were to find themselves defeated upon tbe question of fbe stata debta. Mr. Jefferson was fresh apon tbe Held, waa strong among tbe southern member, waa not embroiled or committed com-mitted In tbe quarreL Hamilton be-soaght be-soaght him to Intervene. The succees of the governmort waa at atake, he said, aad Mr. Jefferson could pUek it out of peril. Might It sot bs that |