Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1891-07-25
Satisfactory Change in the
Treasury Workings.
THE CONDITION OF KANSAS
The Farmers Alliance Brings
Deplorable State of Affairs.
Major Mokinley's District - Ohio
Coming to Sec the Tariff Meas
ure 1t its True Light.
WASHINGTON, July 10. 1891.

WASHINGTON. July 10, 1891.
Secretary Foster is still receiving con-
CALCULATIONS :or having changed the
form OF the treasury statement so as TO
conform To common sense and plain
business principles by giving the actual
condition Of the cash in the treasury in
such a manner that it can be under
stood by all. OF course there are class
OF democrats who would willingly see
the credit of the country ruined and its
treasury bankrupt if thereby they
cold score a political point for their
party; to this class the change is not
satisfactory; they are still calling the
treasury bankrupt in the face of the
fact that it has $50, 100000 IN available
cash to meet any demand that may be
made upon it. Mr.. Foster has, however,
10 bis possession documentary proof
that prominent democratic business
men in the great trade centres approve
OF and endorse the change, as being one
for the better.
The question of what will be done
with the Chilian insurgent steamer
Itata is being very much discussed by
government officials, and as from the
first, there is wide difference of opin-
ion, some thinking that the vessel is
bound to be released by the court and
that she never should have been taken
after she got out OF American waters,
while Others are confident that the
court Will decide that the navy depart
ment was right in chasing and bringing
hes back. The Chilians, both the Bal
maceda government aud the insurgents,
who claim to be the constitutional GOV
eminent of that country, are represent
ed here by eminent counsel prepared to
outwit each other if possible.
There are many republicans here who
are not ardent admirers of Senator Quay,
but in the attack which has been made
| on him by lot of Philadelphia mug
wumps who voted twice for Cleveland
and the same number of times for the
present democratic governor of Pen
sylvania, there inst republican here as
far as known who does not side with
Quay. To "kick" is the privilege OF
every citizen, but when man during
two national campaigns throws his
influence and casts his vote against the
presidential nominees OF his party, as
nine-tenths OF the signers of the attack
on Senator Quay are said to have done,
he certainly has no right to dictate
what the party be abandoned shall or
shall not do. 1t has been generally
understood from statements made by
Mr.. Quay's friends that he would retire
from the head Of the national COM
mittee before the beginning of the pres
ldental campaign, therefore the present
attack upon him is simply regarded as
an attempt to furnish the opponents of
the republican party with political am
munition.
misrepresentation Perkins, of Kansas,
who is now in Washington on business
does not give a very cheerful statament
OF the condition OF things in his state.
He says: "When We were afflicted with
the grasshopper. the drouth and other
plaques we had the sympathy Of the
people at large, but since We have
endorsed the farmers alliance by electing
| its men TO congress the public haa lost
| confidence in us as a state; money is
scarce and it is almost impossible to
borrow it. The money that has been in
the market has been withdrawn, The
leaders of the alliance have declared for
what is practically fiat money and the
Reputation of debts. Mrs. Lease, one
Of their champions, Is going about
/ nrnanI1Ino cnarnfino 70 H.
foreclosure Of mortgages and the col
lection of debts, while Senator PETER has
publicly said that the people of Kansas
are too much involved to pay their debts.
My successor is coming to congress to Sc
cure legislation on a platform that de-
clares the residents of cities are sup
ported by the farmers, and that it would
be cheaper to keep them in the poor
houses than as tradesmen in the cities.
In all the state, save afew cities in the
mineral belt, there is no. a nail being
drivenn or a single being put on. All
improvement has stopped and the intel
lgent farmer is beginn ming to realize that
instead OF helping them, the alliance has
added to their evils and precipitated ad-
ditlonal misfortunes upon them"
Mr.. w. K. Miller, of Ohio, who re-
sides in Maj. McKInley's old congress
slonsl district, is here on business, and
says OF the campaign in that state:
"One thing about McKinley's candidacy
Is that there are no explanations to
make, no fixing up of bad records. You
know right where to find him on every
subject. The people of Ohio are now
understanding the tariff better, and are
realizing the deception practiced upon
them by the democratic press. A re-
action has set in, and there is no uncer-
talnty about the success of the re-
publican ticket in Ohio this year; the
only thing that is in donbt is the size of
the republican majority" Mr.. Miller's
language is about the same as that of
every Ohio republican who has visited
Washington since the nomination Of
Maj Mckinley.