Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-28
The Only Question is Can the
Treasurer Use It,
UNCLE SAM'S MANY MILLIONS.
The Trouble is These Funds are Protected By
Law Against Everyday Use.
Mills Prospects for the Speakership Not
Decreasing Any The Assistant
Treasurer Takes tho Oath
of Office.
Leech's Find
Special to the Gazette.


WASHINGTON, April 27.-The president
evidently made a mistake when he selected
Foster for secretary of the treasury. What
was wanted at the time he was compelled
to chose a successor TO Window was man
who could discover new resources in the
treasury, overtaxed by congress, that was
determined to make billion record; but
which was not trying TO provide a
billion Of income. The treasury is
in distress Secretary Foster admits, and
everybody knows that 1t is q matter OF
daily talk in the treasury that the income
of the government will not be as great
during the next fiscal year as the outlay.
One officer who takes cheerful view and
finds that there is money plenty III the di
rection of the mint has been looking over
the books and he finds that the government
has in its vaults to-day in good hard money
over S25S, 100000 available for and
of the legitimate expenses OF
the government and that it is
ridiculous to talk about any of the obliga-
tons OF the government being diShonored.
It's a matter of fact that there has not been
any serious suggestion that any Of the OBJ
legations of tie government are to be dis
honored, but it is apparent, despite the
masses of money that may be raised, that
more money has been appropriated than
can be used if the laws and trusts of to-day
are to be respected. 1t is remarkable that
Leech who is at the head of the bureau
of the treasury, and who was in
that position after Window had begun 10
see that there would be some difficulty in
MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET,
should not have intimated to Window that
he had made the valuable discovery that he
has just induced Foster TO allow him to
publish as approved by the secretary of
the treasury. Some of them who
have been reading about Leech's
discovery of the S25S, 100000 of land
money available for all sorts of expendl-
lures are inclined to receive the outgiving
of the director of the mint with some reser-
walton and to be anxious to know whether
the funds he has been looking at are not
protected by law against the use of the
secretary Of the treasury for general pur
poses.
THE SPEAKERSHIP.
The suggestion that Reagan's resignation
may change the aspect of the speakership
contest strikes politicians with less force
than it did before Governor Hogg ap-
pointed Horace A. Chiffon to the vacant
place. Since the adjournment of
congress it has been ascertained by
Mills friends that the position of
Crisp would not be so formidable as some
of the canvasseS made during the session
would have led one to suppose. Leading
| members of the Georgia legislature are I'M
derstood to be opposed to Crisp and it is as
serted that he cannot expect to have the
solid support of the Georgia men. As it has
also been asserted that the Texas members
were not solid for Mills, it might be infer
red that he could rot be the choice, but sew
eral of Mills men, mostly reelected Menu
bers, insist that if Mills is not the speaker
the man shall not be from the North. That
will encourage Springer, Cultivate, By
mum and one or two less anxious men. 1t
will also increase the chances for election
of Representative w. L. Wilson of West
Virginia who is now in the far
West advising the Democrats about
the course they ought to pursue in organic
ing their campaign clubs to win in the presi-
Dental campaign. Wilson would make a
speaker as judicious as Carlisle, and some
of the men who know him think he would
have Carlisle's good qualities and in add
ton answering tirmness and courage, that
is as desirable in speaker as honesty and
impartiality.