Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The President has signed an order extending the classified service to include all printers and pressmen employed in the various executive departments. •The official statement of the assets of Bingen Bros., bankers, of Genoa, Italy, who recently failed, shows them to be £2,500,000. The liabilities are £14,000,000. Secretary Carlisle has forwarded to the President the report of William E. Meyers, expert treasury accountaut, in the case of Ainsworth R. Spofford, librarian of Congress. The Secretary recommends that Spofford be removed and that proper steps be taken to recover the full amount of the deficit. The expenditures of the government for the first two-thirds of the present month exceeded the receipts by $7,000,202, but only $1,250,000 remains to be paid on account of pensions, and the treasury officials estimate that the deficit will be reduced during the next ten days ta about $5,000,000. The excess of expenditures over receipts last month was $8,478,800. The ••hottest’’ man iu Washington is Nathaniel Paige, principal counsel for the claimants iu the celebrated Mora case, just forced to a final settlement. As a part owner of tho $1,500,000 claim it would seem that Mr. Paige should be wreathed in smiles Instead of clouded with frowns, but he, has a grievance. The larger part of bis contingent fee was dependent upon the payment of the interest, amounting to something like $650,000, and the waiving of that part of the claim shuts him out of over SIOO,OOO. Nb wonder he is angry, Joy he lias been putting in most of his time for seven or eight yenrs in the case. It transpires that the Mora family—-father and children - will not benefit largely by the payment of the claim, most of it having been assigned around among capitalists and lawyers.