The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-23
POT POURRI.
senator Ben, Hill at an Old and Dir
~ Trick
silly Rumor About Blaine Not Going
Into GarneId's Cabinet.
Concerning the Debts and
Revenues of the Country.


Washington dispatch says: Senator Ben
Hill has been untiring in his attempts
to persecute Senator Kellogg, hitherto,
but he has not met with much success.
His latest essay is his attempt to fasten
on Kellogg the charge of having been
the cause of the premature publication
of the recently negotiated Chinese trea-
ties. There does not seem to be the
least foundation for the charge. Ger
tain, however, the democratic senators
have not scrupled to do, on various oc-
casions, what the Louisiana senator is
charged with. Curious stories are
afioat that Hill and other senators hope
to find guilty republican and expel
him, thus securing majority in the
senate. The Burlingame treaty was
not published until after it was ratified,
and doubtless the greater portion of
the troubles which this country
has had for the last few years on
account of the Chinese question, are
due to the fact that this treaty was
negotiated in the dark, and the persons
whose interests were most affected by
it, were kept in ignorance. Califor-
mans say, if they could have been
made acquainted with the details of
the treaty there would have been such
an outcry against it on the Pacific coast
that the senate would never have rati-
fed it, and the agitation that has con-
tinued from that time to this, in conse-
quence, would not have been possible.
The Inter Ocean's Washington dis
patch has h long story, which, SIM
mered down. is that Blaine is not GER
tain to be secretary of state after all;
that Morton, of New York, is the man;
that the Grant men will have two men
in the cabinet, which will be Grant
and not Blaine cabinet. From the
manner in which the correspondent
slashes about and crosses himself, the
conclusion is natural that he has no
particular information.
The Tribune also mentions the above
story as being an "output Of Garfield's
fool friends.''
A Washington dispatch to the Inter
Ocean says: Senator Carpenter is quite
i'll, he having been confined to his house
some days. His physicians forbid him
to receive callers, although his condi-
tion is not considered dangerous. His
trouble is said to be threatened conges-
tion of the lungs.
1t is believed at the treasury depart
ment that at the beginning of the year
there would be no surplus this month.
The funds necessary to be set aside for
the purchase Of thirteen million bonds
falling due December 31st, and interest
amounting to some fifteen millions, due
January 1st, together with heavy pen
sion payments, conduced to swell the
expenditures, so that on the first day of
the month the treasury books showed
that the redemption fund had been cut
into five millions. Secretary Sherman
has held that about one hundred and
forty millions must be held to keep ON
the safe side, for redemption, and in
order to make up the deficiency, he
suspended the weekly purchase of bonds.
In the meantime the resources were
declining, and 1t was thought all that
could be accomplished from the revenue
of the month would be to pay expenses
and replace the deficiency in the re-
demption fund. The situation now
looks better, and while the revenue is
not so great as for the corresponding
period last year, it is still SO large as to
encourage the hope that there will be
some surplus to apply to the debt re-
duction.