Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-07-09
Iron our regular Correspondent
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON, June %, 1891.
The President is working diligently in|
= order to get the executive business I'M
such shape that he can spend Indepen-
fdeLce day with his family at Cape MayI
Point and unless something now unfore-
seen shall occur he will leave here on Fri
Ebay and will not return for several weeks
At the last Cabinet meeting the business
4 of the Government for several months tol
come was mapped out. The last silver
sact leaves it discretionary with the 8. re-
ftary of the Treasury whether any part of
1.-THE silver bullion purchased each month
! shall be coined into standard silver dollars.
but as the minis will be kept busy for sew
eral months in coming the trade dollar
bullion and the old and defaced fractional
silver currency now in the Treasury asI
provided for by act of Congress, 1t was
decided to defer the question Of the con-
3tinuation of the coinage of silver dollars
until fall. II was also decided that the
statement of the cash in the Treasury
should after July l. be made in the form
which was used when Senator Sherman
! was Secretary of the Treasury. This is al
3complment to Senator Sherman. As WE'LL
as a return to the common sense methodist
(which were in vogue when he was at the|
head of the Treasury Department, and /,
Is generally commended.
4 Secretary Rusk has Informed SENATOR
Paddock, who was here in search of infor-
imation, that he has unofficial information
that the governments of both German,
land France have decided in viev of tn,
recent establishment by the Agricultural
department of microscopic examination of
{portions of every carcass, to admit free of
GALL restrictions American dressed pork
land he expects that the official DEGREES
Twill be promulgated in both countries be
5fore the first of next October.
i Everything is In readiness for the OH !
fetal transfer this week of the weather bu
Sricultural department. II is expected that
tGen. Greeley, the present head of thu.
5Signal Service, and several Of his scientif
&c assistants will for q time assist in run
ming the bureau.
] Much interest is felt by the scientific
staff of the Agricultural department in tn,
Experiments which have been recently
Smade here to produce rain by exploding
sartiticisl gases in the air, aud they believc
'hst it will prove \ success. 1t is soon Il
abe practically tested in the arid regions OF
Jcither Texas or Kansas, and then we shall
! see whether science can control the rain,
ifan.
4 At the close Of business at the Treasury
ddepartment Saturday afternoon there was
"a cash surplus on hand, exclusive of the
3twenty odd million dollars on deposit
with the national banks and about the
4 >ame quantity Of fractional silver in the
jFreasury, 81 BOO .29j. BY adding these
3sums together there is surplus Of nearly
$3.50 600, 900, which doesn't look much like
That deficit of which imaginative Demo
4crat> have been making nightmare for
3somc time past.
4 For some time the Ordnance department
1of the Army has been trying to find =
Suitable carriage upon which TO mount th'
1new ,welve-iuch, breechlpading. rineo
4 mortars intended for harbor defense A.
last il has succeeded, and contract hss
lbeen made for eight carriages Of the Rus
jsan type which has stood the recent sey-
1k l.. firm, which control the American
rights of the pstentees. Sll 800 is to b,
lpaii for each of these carriages for tn,
4hrst eight, but If seventeen more Of them
I are ordered within a year they are to b,
FURNISHED at SOS each.
i Ex-senator Ingalls, delivered lectur,
Ito day before the Glen Echo Chautauqua
Snow 10 session just above Washington on
1.-THE banks of the Potomac river. and from
the large crowd which went to hear him
III is evident that he has lost none of the
Sdrawiug qualities which have so often
damned the Senate galleries in DAYS gone
sby.
II the informal conference with Canadi-
Ian officials on reciprocity which the Presi-
3dent set for next October Is not declared
aoh, which is thought TO be among the
probabilities. the Cana dians will probably
Sdiscover that they have not helped their
jcause any by making public informal com
smuncations between Secretary Blaine and
sSir Julian Pauncefote on the subject.
(which those gentlemen had agreed should
2be considered confidential. The Canadians
4have also misrepresented Mr.. Blaine in or
ader to make it appear that the proposition
flor 4 conference first came from him.