People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence.

FROM WASHINGTON. An IntcrcfiliiiK Batch of From llieCupllol. Krom our Kesitlur nt. Washington. Oct. 5. 1*94. That “politics makes strange bedfellows" is an adage that has grown trite, but it did not seem possible a little while ago that politics could ever make bedfellows of Senator Hill and President Cleveland. Yet a movement is now under way to do that very thing, and many politicians believe that it is go* ing to succeed. Tne idea accord* ing to your correspondent’s information, is that Mr. Cleveland is to use the influence of his administration to help elect Senator Hiil governor of New York and that in the event of his election he is to announce

at he prefers remaining in the > riate and resign the governor- •• ‘ip. allowing Congressman Dan L 'Ckwood, the candidate for lieutenant governor, who is a strong friend of Mr. Cleveland’s, to become governor. Secretary Limont is now in New York working on this scheme, which wi , if successful call off al! the de uocriiit’copposition to Hill. • e a ihe grand shake-up in the Ci-easury department is over, i he bureaux which the Dockery ’ ommittoe recommended should •e abolished are no more, advantage was taken of the reorganization to make about 500 Juingcs in the classification of the clerks in I he Treasury, mostly in favor of the clerks who beoag to the . dominant party. There is a wide difference oi opinion as to the reorganization. -Some contending that it. will be beneficial to trie government as Well as to those who do business

with the government, while many predict that tiie removal of checks and safeguards upon the expenditure of public money is a hazardous experiment to make, one that is likely to encourage crookedness. Time will tell which are right. @3O The wording of the indict nmnts found this week by the Washington gi’and jury, against llavomeyer and Searless, the president and secretary of the sugar trim!, fur refusing to answer questions asked by the S-.-im.te in\cs!iga’ ing committer sounds very m ic'i. in places, like apolitical campiign document, a-lhuiiyh there is no good reason for h-iieving that the lawyers who drew them had any such i iientii n. T »e indictments open by givinir the terms of the sugar schcd lie of the McKinley tariff law and say “that the i several terms and provishms of: aforesaid schedule of said act ( were of great benefit and advantage to the interests of a certain corporation called the American ( .Sugar refining Co.” (the sugar trust). The inui< tmeiits give a complete history of the tariff legislation, so far as it relates to the sugar interests, and after quoting newspaper articles charging tual the Senate sugar schedule was made in return for the contributions of the sugar trust to the democratic party conclude by finding that “these matters were especially per'i nent to so much of tiie inquiry as had for its object th* assertbia nent, as a matter o' fact, v aether the said amend ment- o tiie tariff bili ha I been made lw the relining company, or whether they had been permitted to dictate the amendment-. Il consideration of large, sums of money con;rib’ ip.l b-r the company to the campaign committee of the democraiic party to aid in the election to the Senate of members of that parly.” Somehow nobody seems to think that the indictments are going to result in any punishment for the sugar trust men,

Ex-Senator Wade Hampton, iof South Carolina, who is now |U. S. Railroad Commissioner. I has been somewhat harshly criticised because of a published interview with him. in which he argued against government ownership of railroads and said t lat the demand that the government should foreclose on the Pacific railroads, when they de-1 fault in the payment of tlieirj bonds held by the government! to secure in >i;ey loaned then.! did not come from the best-in- i formed people of the Pacific ■ coast. His elites contend that owing to his official position it was bad’taste for him to publiclev express such opinion<. It is worthy of note that every Railroad Commissioner since the office was established has‘been extremely friendly to the Pacific roads. The office is in fact little more than a sinecure, and the only wonder is that Congress has not been asked to abolish it long ago. • • • It is easy for the visitor to the Congressional headquarters of the democratic and republican parties to see that the campaign has reached the anxious stage, for both the old parties. Roth are loud in their claims, so loud, in fact, that, they thereby show their anxiety and uncertainty as to what the result is to be Documents, nine-tenths of which .vilLprobably never be read by anybody, are being sent out by the ton by both committees.