Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-10
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.

Secretary Carlisle has begun the reor-
ganization OF the Treasury Department.
a number Of clerks have already been
dropped and others reduced as Jar as
possible under the civil service rules.
Much interest has been aroused among
statisticians by the discovery that the
figures Of the balance OF trade against
this country for the fiscal year ending
June 30 last, as shown by the record OF
the bureau Of statistics Of the Treasury
Department, were about SAC, 100000 out
OF the way. Instead Of an adverse bal
ance Of 1900, 600 the corrected returns
have shown only about $4,000, 900.
Special Supervising Agent Tingle says
that the Treasury Department is doing
all it can with the money on hand for
the enforcement of the Geary exclusion
law. He claims that, if the $4,000
available July should be broken into
Immediately for the purpose OF entering
into the wholesale deportation OF Chi
nese, very soon there would be nothing
left TO pay the special agents and other
officers OF the Treasury engaged in keep
ing the Chinese out OF this country. He
says that officers of the government are
at present engaged in gathering infor-
nation as to the Chinese who are ille-
gally here, and that the Treasury intends
TO enforce the law.
The report of Chinese Inspector Scharf
on his investigation OF the fraudulent
entry OF Chinese at the port OF New York
has been received at the Treasury De-
partment. No report from Collector
Hendricks as to Inspector Scharf's allie
CATION Of collusion by New York officials
is yet received. 1t is alleged in Wash
lngton City that the customs officers at
New York have been extremely lax in
issuing Chinese certificates, and that
whenever the Treasury agents or inspect
ors have undertaken to investigate mat
tiers they invariably have been given the
cold shoulder. This state of facts is said
to apply to no particular administration.
10 some extent the same condition of
affairs, it is said, exists in other cities,
where the customs officers seem to think
the Treasury agents have no right to in
yestlgate their acts.
So far as the State Department is in
formed, there are no American citizens
residing in Siam except missionaries. 1t
Is not believed to be necessary to take
any special measures for their protection.
The United States has no representative
in Siam, and the sul-General at
Bangkok, Mr.. Boyd, is in this country at
present, leaving the Office in charge OF
his son, the Vice-Consul II the welfare
OF our missionaries should be threatened,
which is unlikely, they can without doubt
secure protection on application to the
Minister OF some other nation, as will be
the case with the French residents. The
commercial interests OF the United States
in Siam are insignificant, the exports
being very few and the imports being
made up OF teak wood used in ship
building, and some trihes of Oriental
and Malaynesian decorative work.
1t is said at the Navy Department that
Admiral Harmony's recent retirement,
ior which the department has been crit
iclsed, was in strict accordance with his
written request. He cabled the DEPART
ment from Hongkong March l3, asking
to be ordered home and retired upon his
arrival in the United States. He sug-
gested June Z as the most convenient
date Tor his departure. In letter of
March he after asking for detachment
sad: Upon my arrival in the United
States, which fact I will report by tele-
graph, ask that | may be placed on the
retired list, as authorized by the statute,
having served over forty years continu-
ousl y in the navy of the United States"
April "a the President approved the APP
pllcation, to take effect upon the Admi-
rails arrival in the United States, which
was June 20, as reported by the naval
agent at San Francisco. An order was
accordingly issued placing him on the
retired list. The next day the Admiral
telegraphed his arrival, and asked to be
retired June 30. but it was impossible to
change the date, as the order had already
been issued and was mailed to him.