The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-16
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Regular correspondent.
WAsulNGToS. July i. 1921.

hers, the Administration may te
the oatcnne OF toe Itata business.
IL - whispered IT, iasiie circles
here that tue opinions oil certain
people-the maf er is entirely too
serious Ia use names upon no better
oasis than rumor-havc been IN
iuenced both FOR and agal7st tie
GILLIAN insurgents by the receipt OF
large sums Or money, which has So
cording TO the story been furnished
~ certain parties iu New York who
are heavily Interested - Cli.iau com
nerce, and whose business r!valr.
Is thought bT many 20 lie st the
bottom of all the ,rouble ia that un>
fortunate country. Certain II l.,
that Bslnsceda and the Insurgents
are both represented Ia Washington
| by shreri agents ana lawyers. he
! latter Americana, and the appear.
aaces indicate that both SIZES are
well supplied with money and that
at least one side has paid big money
for the hit to use the news columns
Of certain newspapers. The admin
strati"n officially recognizes only
the Balmaceda government but
Selor Mont, tue representative here
of the GILLIAN insurgents, or, as be
says, 1.-The only constitutional gov
eminent Of Chilli appears to be
confident that the Itats will lie re-
LEASED by the courts and that the
insurgents will soon be recognized
by this Government.
1t is rather an odd coincidence
that Secretary Foster. the defender
Of tie extravaganza OF the billion.
dollar Congress, and a ms N who has
been prominent in his party as q
spoilsma", should b: We reached the
same conclusion that the late Hon.
Samuel j. Randall wto as chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations
of the Hoase of Representatives
made reputation for honesty and
economy in public expenditures
never surpassed, did as to the adyis-
ability Of abolishing five out of the
six Aud tors offices of the Treasury
department, because of the useless
ness Of the work dore in those Offices.
which consists almost entirely of
dup Heating the work done in tt G
offices Of the Comptrolers of tie
Treasury. Mr.. Randall once drew
up bill to abolish these and some
other useless bureaux of the Treas
ury department. but be found it
impossible to secure support for it
in Congress, because it meant b
large reduction ia the number of
clerks employed, which meant that
much less patronage foI the Cor
gGessmen. 1t would be an easy
matter, were Congress so disposed,
10 save nearly $4,000 COO per year
in this one Department., by taking
up and carrying out Mr.. Randall
original ides, which for some reason
Mr.. Foster has seen fit to endorse.
There has been a hitch in making
public the schedule for the subsidiz-
ed lines Of steam ships, which was
promised for last week by Mr.. Wan
amaker. 1t is still IN the hands of
Mr. Harrison, who took it for revis
ION before leaving Washington, and
those who ought TO know say that
fereDces between Mr. Harrison and
Mr.. Wsnamaker have been taken
cp by the latter's trying to make
plain TO the former jast what his
connection had been with She wreck.
ed keystone Bank Of Phiiadelphio;
and they say that Mr.. Harrison has
subjected Mr.. Wsnamaker to q much
more rigid cross examination than
the committee in Philadelphia did.
The republicans claim IN public that
Mr.. Wanamaker's se-eral explana-
tons haze completely exonerated
him: but among themselves they are
not quite 50 sure about it, and many
IF them predict that it is going to
give the party lots of trouble, par
! ticularly in Pennsylvauia- 1t is
certainly an affair to be deeply re.
GREETED, not Only by Mr.. Wanamak~
er's personal and political friends,
/ but by the plblic at large.
/ Prof. Dyrenforth of the Agricul-
/ tural Department IS on his way to
the most arid section Of western
Kansas, carrying With him the bal
looms, kites, dynatic bombs, ETC.,
with which be expects 10 obtain by
explosions in the air copioas fall