The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-16
The Postponement of Reciproc-
ity with Canada a Fact.
THE DIRECT TAX DILEMMA.
The Clerks Endeayoring TO Figure The Exact
Amount Of the Tax Due Each Citizen.
The Confusion In the Treasury Department
Eliciting Murmurs of Disgust-Sena-
tor Edniunds and Secretary
of War Proctor.
NEGOTIATIONS POSTPONED.

Special TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April lO-The reported
postponement of reciprocity negotiations
with Canada until October Il is well
grounded. Secretary Blaine. though will
ing, is in no hurry 70 discuss the question
and would prefer holding of until the cleo
ton of more liberal party il Canada.
Blaine also holds that the fishery and
Behring sec questions, which are Still
pending, should be disposed Of before, or ist
the same time the reciprocity question is
settled, certainly not before. The fact that
the president Will soon leave Washington
for his trip South and West, 10 be absent
month or longer. also ADDS weight 10 the
reported postponcncut OF negotiations. -
does the fact that Secretary Blaine himself
will also leave Washington before long for
Bar Harbor for Z much-nceced rest. IL IS
pretty certain, however, that when the
Canadian reciprocity question comes up
again for discussion it will be coupled with
the Behring sea and fishery questions
Secretary Blaine said this morning that he
had nothing to say about the reported post
ponement Of the reciprocity negotiations
with Canada until next fall. The news
papers" said the secretary, with some
show of irritation, had taken the matter
out of the hands of the state department,
and as they seemed to be satisfied with
their ability to handle II he would leave
them entirely unhamperrd by any advice or
information on the subject
wHIRLwIND OF WORK.
The Office of the register of the treasury
is just now in the midst of a whirlwind of
work, brought about by an effort to
strighten out the accounts of the direct
tax. which congress voted TO refund In
the case of Northern states this is not diffi-
cult, as they generally paid their portions
in bulk. and the Federal government had
no relations with the individual tax payers
In the Southern states il is different There
1t will be necessary 10 figure out all the
private balances separately. Some of the
states where this has got 10 be done
have supplied special details of clerks, who
are now going through the books and
vouchers al the treasury, as the local Office
force was wholly incapable of shouldering
such a task. The books and papers are not
allowed to be taken out of the building; but
are conveyed, as required, to special rooms,
set apart for the visiting delegations. and
the regular treasury clerks are confused
over the way these things are sometimes
handled, and their mutterings are loud and
deep. There is no way of tell No how long
this visitation will last.
EDMUNDs FOR PROCTOR.
Among Senator Edmunds' personal
friends it is understood that his preference
is strongly for Secretary Proctor as his |
in Office. He has carefully an !
however, from making any such /
outward discrimination as would place him
in an attitude OF antagonism to or otherwise |
EN- barrass other candidates. He eutertainS |
q just horror of the interference, in such |
OF persons VINO have 10 good pub !
lie END to further by it.