The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-27
Attic NATIONS CAPITAL
WHAT THE LAW MAKERS ARE DOING

President Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle as t the financial policy OF
the administr alton has been revived
ana given a new dress, 1t being
stated nov that the President
intends to use the vacancy 10 the
Supreme Court TO get rid OF Score.
tary Carlisle. Your correspondent
can state on the authority OF one
who knows whereof ne speaks that
there isn't the slightest friction
bet ween the President and Secre.
tary Carlisle; on the contrary, their
relations have constantly grown
closer as each came to fully under
stand the mind and disposition Of
the other, both having found unex.
pected traits in the other to admire.
secretary Carlisle rightly declines
to Dignity the story by denying 1t.
It is easy to account for the reap
pearance of the story at tGis time.
Exciting political news is very
! scArce--the calm bbfofe the storm
is now on-and It was considered
by the originator of the story that
Sec Carlisle's appointment to the
vacancy in the supreme Court was
possible, if not very probable, and
| IN case he should be appointed he
the writer could claim credit tor
having had exclusive advanced Off
| cial Information, and If he wasn't
appointed the story would 1904 be
forgotten anyway.
Speaking Of that Supreme COult
vacancy, l have Just had a talk
| with a gentleman who is as close to
President Cleveland personally as
| Any man in the world on the rumOl
| which has at various times con.
! nected the name of tbree members
| OF the cabinet with the vacancy
He said: cit Is very easy for me to
| tell you why I feel certain that Mr.
| Cleveland will not break into his
cabinet to fill that vacancy,
| aIthough Secretaries Gresham and
! Carlisle and Attorney General
1Olney, all of whom have beer men
toned, would either of them make
a model Justice on the bench Of the
] greatest Court In the world. But
that doesn't enter into the case at
all. II should be remembered that
| Mr.. Cleveland spent about four
| months in selecting the members OF
! mis- cabinet, and that each member
was selected with special reference
| to the work that Mr.. Cleveland
expected that particular department
over which he presides to do
towerds making his admlnlstIatlo
a success. Now then, is 1t rea.
| sonable supposltion that before the
! new machinery has fairly got to
going Mr.. Cleveland would even
eotertaln the idea of changing any
| one of the men he had so carefully
| selected to another position, howev.
or much honor there might be for
the individual in the change? |
think not, l should sooner expect
| to see the Senate Invaded than the
! cabinet, to I'LL this vacancy"
Commissioner LOchren isn't wor.
lrylng over the fuss that is being
| made because of the suspension 1T
the pension OF JuStica Charles l..
| Long, OF the Supreme Court OF
Michigan. He says he has no
apology to make and that Judge
! Long in making application for his
| pension alleged that he was totally
helpless, and that be is now draw
! ing q salary of $4,000 a year, which
| shows that he is long ways from
oeing totally helpless, and that she
case is proper one for investiga-
lion.
Secretary Carlisle nailed another
}mlsstatement when he said that
| neither himself nor any official Of
the Treasury Department was
eng aged in the preparation OF a
tariff bill, ana that neither he nor
| the President had ever contemplat
ed such a thing Treasury officials
are preparing Information on the
subject which will De placed at the
disposal of the House committee on
Ways and Means when 1t begins
work on the tallff bill.
an attempt was made to make 1t
appear that the acting Director of
the Mint had done something extra
ordinary III refusing to pay more
than the London price for silver
bullion and there was for While a
lot 1T Wild talk about bringing "the
usurpatlon Of authority" to the at
tentlon OF Congress-, INDUCED In
mostly by republicans who didn't
Gaze a rap about silver but thought
they saw in the incident an oppor-
tunlty to embarrass the admlnistra.
5lon. The talk was stopped as sud-
tenly as it began, for a little lnve.-
t'gation brought out the fact that
IN 1878, when John Sherman was
secretary of the Treasury and
under the Bland act, then just gone
into effect, was compelled to buy
S2,O0O.00O worth of silver q month,
for coinage, he not only refused to
pay more than the London price,
out when American holders of
silver refused IT, sell at that price.