Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-05-05

failure had compelled the issue of the
bonds. Indeed, it has been positively
asserted by personal friend of Secre-
tary Carlisle that Mr.. Cleveland wanted
to issue S500O0,000 of bonds last week
and would have done SO had not Mr..
Carlisle stood so firmly against it and
finally told him thai he might get an
other secretary Of the treasury to issue
them as he would not, until everything
else had been tried,
Mr., Cleyeland's proposition to the
Wall street men to borrow S50,OOO.00O
in gold from them for one year at 3 per
cent interest, and in default Of payment
at the end of the year to issue, bonds
for that amount did not strike the aver
age mind as a very brilliant one. 1t
was declined, however, because the Wall
street men did not wish TO take any
chances about bonds; theg want them
issued, and will not help the treasury
unless they are issued, or a definite pro-
mise made that they will be issued at
stated time. There is disposition
to criticise Mr. Cleveland for having
taken this financial business into his
own hands, but as a distinguished re-
publican senator remarked, 1T is Cleve-
land, and not Carlisle, who will be held
responsible for the success or failure of
the financial policy adopted by the ad.
ministrauon.'
1t is stated by those who know what
is going on inside administration cir
cles that the reason for the democatic
attack on reciprocity, which Mr.. CIeve-
land and his advisers have made up
their minds to destroy, by annulling all
the treaties made by the Harrison adj
ministration, is that it stands in the
way of putting sugar and coffee back on
the dutiable list, from which they we're
taken by a republican congress. No
duty can be levied upon sugar or coffee
coming from any country which las a
treaty granting their free entry into the
United States; hence the determination
to wipe out the treaties. The program
is for the administration to get all the
reciprocity treaties out of the way be-
Pow, o,,,rraCg atg raalv 70 nocs tba al
ministration tariff bill which is to put
duty upon sugar, coffee and probably
tea. The small wage ehrners and farmers
of the country cannot fail to appreciate
at its full value this bit of democratic
craftsmanship, which will materially
increase their living expenses with no
possibility of .benefting them to even the
slightest extent. Elk Congressman Nc
Kinney, of New Hampshire, who wanted
hd be commissioners of pensions, has beei
piven the comparatively insignifcahtt
position of minister to Colombia, wbilei
ex- congressman Thomson, of California
gets the Brazilian mission, and Wiley,
of New York, the consulship to Bordeaux.
That rule against appointing "ex's' has
been laid on the shelf, along with other
rules which are violated almost as soon
as they we're announced.
The government is being run just now
with only one member of the cabinet
Secretary Smith-n town, the rest of
them, with the exception of Secretary
Lamont who remained in New York =,
being on the way to Chicago, with Mr..
Cleveland, to attend the opening of the
worlds fair The tlice-seekers went
somewhere, lots of the didn't have money
enough left to go far, to wait for the re-
turn of the appointment powers, as they
have completely disappeared from Wash
| ington for the first time since the assem-
bling of congress, last December. Mr.
Cleveland is expected to return next
Tuesday, when the Offices seekers can
make a fresh start.
Among the five government directors
of the Union Pacific Railroad company,
appointed this week, were Hon. Den
Dickinson, the gentleman who has
been posing as the Warwick of the ad-
mlnistration and who said that he de-
clined to enter the cabinet, and Gen
Fitzhugh Lee, OF Virginia, who it is said
did not ask for this or any other Fed
eral appointment, being and ayowed
candidate for the L. s. senate from his
state. Some Think that he was given
this position to make him Withdraw from
the senatorial contest, but there is no
reason why it should have effect. 1t
will be easy enough for him to resign
this place if he can get elected to Il e
senate, which will by no means easy, as
he has the llYesliest sort of OnDOitsOn