The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-12-01
NEW ORLEANS:
SATURDAY. MoRNrNe. DECEMBER ]. 1919.

DGssENsIoNs IN THE CABINET.-There are now
unmistakeable signs of dissension in the present
Cabinet. Speaking Of the announcement made
from the Treasury Department that there would be
deficit offeen millions, the correspondent Of the
Philadelphia North American, whose relations to
Mr.. Clayton are well known, says
"When it was determined to announce the de-.
felt which is now discovered it would have been
far more satisfactory to-the commercial cornmuni-
ties, which were precluded from the information
until doied out through channels having no svmpa-
thy or interest Ia common with them, to have been
furnished with an exhibit Of the manner in which
it occurred. As it is are left TO conjecture and
suspense, and are as likely as not to adopt false
conclusions upon subject Of very large moment
to those interests which have most claim upon the
confidence and respect of the administration. and
which have harassed il with the least demands"
The Washington Republic comments on this
passage in terms which indicate a decided dislike.
if not hostility, to the manner in which the Socreta-
ry Of State gives information to the public The
Republic says
There are various wayG Of conveying information
to the people Il may be communicated the
anonymous correspondents OF Journalist in other cities
and appear IN the shape Of mysterious hints and
| shrewd lnumatons in the first place. to be followed
up by telegTaphIc dispatches, and ampler details
from " well informed correspondents" or cores
pondeuts known to be in the confidence of a mem
! Der Of the Cabinet Il may then be mixed IN
with crude and rash speculation with false CLOSES
and comments, and turn all business affairs topsy-
turvy for a day or two, ill people begin to think TO-
themselves and obtain reliable facts from respopsi.
| bic sources. Meanwhile, the operations in the
| stock-marIet go on brskly; and in the end, men
find that they have been dubbed by an idle clanoI
which is raised for the purpose Of giving interest tc
letter from Washington.
| This IS one way, and in our judgment very bad
way. The same information may appear in a Jour
nal published in the city of Washington in the form
| OF plain statement of facts, without appendan
rhodomontade or appurtenent jargon and 90 to the
| whole people at and the same time with tho
weight derives from official sanction and respon.
| sible authority. With due Difference, we appre
bend that this is the proper mode Of conveying sucl
| information. Then, nobody derives undue advan
tage; press is disturbed because lis own cores
pondent has failed to be favored with exciting in
-telligence :; no unnecessary alarm is created n
| business Is unsettled no tock-jobbing RACES j
| Chestnut street or Wall street, and no men az
made bankrupts or millionaires
The writer in the North American complains tn;
the commercial communities were preciuded frol
| the formation, until toilet Out through channe
having no sympathy or interest in common wit
| them We admit that we have no peculiar SYN
| pathies Or interests with the commercial commun
! ties nor can we understand the suggestion tia
they have the mast clam upon the c0UfYsucc an
| respect Of the administration This is a novel AM
an irrational proposition. The commercial com
munities possess precisely the same 3" claim, an
none other upon the confidence and respect of tn
administration that is possessed by the agriculture
| mechanic, laborng and professional communities
| Our symparhics aud interests, we admit, are a
broad and general as those Of the American people
and we apPrehend that the people will hardly sym
pathize with the idea that they are to be preclude
from important and interesting information until
has been especially conveyed through interested an
| sympathizing channels to the. commercial comnu
mites.
Il is probable enough that with due ombellish
ment and with the aid OF appropriate rhetoric, tn
fact that there may be deficit OF fifteen millions
the treasury might have created as universal ALARM
and excitement rs was occasioned by the astound
ing announcement that two great countries were o
the of hostilities, in consequence of a cores
pondenee between two oftheir tunctionaries, abou
a key or two of tobacco