Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — WHO GOT THE MONET? [ARTICLE]

WHO GOT THE MONET?

There is a matter connected with Mr. Cleveland’s bond sale or gold purchase, whichever it is to be called, that needs to be explained, It is a matter of about 89,000,000. If a four per cent, coin bond having twelve years to rnn, sold this week, as it did, at 110|, it is plain that a similar bond running for thirty years is worth 119 f. But the price at which Grover Cleveland sold the $62,500,000 of four-per-cents, to the foreign syndicate was only 104. The difference is more than $9,QOOsOOO. / Who got that money? Where did it go? The bankers didn’t get it surely. Mr. Cleveland didn’t make them an unnecessary present, did he? They were certainly willing to give as much for the bonds as would be had in an open sale, r weren’ t they ?Then "who got that sum of nine millions? Was it a commission, and if so to whom? Will Mr. Cleveland explain? or Mr. Carlisle? Or perhaps Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. Cleveland’s law partner, can do it?- —— ——— By the way, what was Francis Lynde Stetson’s connection with this bond business, anyhow? Was’ it as a broker, and if so, where "Was Secretary Carlisle, who draws 1 a salary from the government for attending to its financial matters? Was it as a lawyer, and, if so, where was Olney? Where does Stetson come in, and how much does he come in for?—New York Press.