Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-18
WASHINGTON.


administration, may be the outcome
of the Itata business. 1t is whisper
ed in inside circles here that the
opinions of certain people-the mat
ter is entirely too serious to use names
upon no better basis than rumol-
have been influenced both for and
against the CHILEAN insurgents by
the receipt of large sums of money,
which has, according to the story,
been furnished by certain parties in
New York who are heavily interest,"
ed in Chilian commerce, and whose
business rivalry is thought by many
to be at the bottom of all the trouble
in that unfortunate country. Certain
it is that Balmaceda and the insur>
gents are both represented in Wash~
ington by shrewd agents and law
yers, the latter Americans, and the
appearances indicate that both sides
are well supplied with money and that
at least one side has paid big money
for the right to us the news columns
of certain newspaper. The admin
istration officially recognizes only the
Balmaceda Government, but Senior
Mont, the representative hele of the
CHILEAN insurgents, or, as he says,
"the only constitutional government
of Chilli" appears to be confident that
the Itata will be released by the
courts and that the insurgents will
soon be recognized by this Govern
ment.
1t is rather an odd coincidence that
Secretary Foster, the defender Of the
extravaganza of the billion-dollar
Congress, and man who has been
pre-eminent in his party as spoils-
man, should have reached the same
conclusion that the late Hon. Sam
uel ]. Randall, who as chairman Of
the Committee on Appropriations Of
the House of Representatives made 8
reputation for honesty and economy
in public expenditures never sur
passed, did as to the ACCESSIBILITY O
abolishing five out of the six Audi
tors offices of the Treasury depart
ment, because of the uselessness o
the work done in those offices, which
J consists almost entirely of duplica
ting the work done in the offices o
the Comptrollers Of the Treasury
Mr.. Randall once drew up a bill t,
abolish these and some other useles
J bureaux of the Treasury department
but he found it impossible to secur
/ support for it in Congress, because j
meant a large reduction in the mum
Der of clerks employed, which mean
that much less patronage for the Con
4 gressmen. 1t would be an easy mat
ter, were Congress so disposed, t
save nearly $2.OOO.0OO per year in thi
. one department, by taking up an
carrying out Mr.. Randalls originf
idea, which for some reason Mr.. Eos
ter has seen fit to endorse.
There has been a hitch in maxim
n public the schedule for the substitute
lines of steamships, which was prom
0 ised for last week by Mr.. Wanams
. ker. 1t is still in the hands of M
6 Harrison, who took it for revisio
before leaving Washington, an
those who ought to know say tn;
5 the trouble has been that all the cor
y ferences between Mr.. Harrison an
/ Mr.. Wanamaker have been taken u
by the latter's trying to make plai
to the former just what his conne
. ton had been with the wrecked Key
p stone Bank of Philadelphia, and the
n say that Mr.. Harrison has subiecte
Mr.. Wanamaker to a much mo-
rigid cross examination than Il
committee in Philadelphia did. I'll
republicans claim in public that NJ
Wanamaker's several explanation
have completely eXonerated hin
D. but among themselves they are n
n, quite so sure about it, and many
lg them predict that it is going to civ
+ the party lots of trouble, particular
" in Pennsylvania. 1t is certainly 6
IN IN affair to be deeply regretted, not on
il. by Mr.. Wanamaker's personal al
he political friends, but by the public
large.
II Prof. Dyrenforth, of the Agricult
e, raj Department, is on his way to Il
D, most arid section of Western Kansa
carrying with him the balloons, kite
dynamite bombs, etc., with viii,
- he expects to obtain by explosions
he air a copious fall of rain in TIL
:. region where rain is unknown.