Arizona republican., 1893-10-06
NO REPEAL.
Repeal of the Sherman
Act Impossible.
Comprise Talk Not Com
ing from Silver Men.
But From Democrats Who Fear
Party Disruption.
Serious Falling Off in the Receipts
of the Postoffice Department
Treasury Deficit in Sight.

The senate has become really very SEN
sational this week. We have had Don
Cameron's speech and Stewards attacks
upon the president, and something like
q monkey and parrot exhibition by
Senators German and Wolcott. This
all tends to bad feeling, of course, and
it makes the repeal of the Sherman act
still more doubtful. fail to find any
well informed person in fact who be-
lieves that unconditional repeal can be
in any way possibility. What is
more, the talk about compromise
which is now creeping into the news
papers, does not proceed. as has been
commonly represented, from the silver
men so-called who feel anxious lest the
outcome should be unfavorable to them,
but rather from leading Democrats, who
hope to see their party kept together.
One Of the leaders upon the Democratic
side, said to me only yesterday that he
could not believe that if the senate
passed some compromise measure like
the Faulkner amendment perhaps or
something similar to it, and it was sent
to the president for his signature, he
would not veto it; that he could not in
plain sight of the disruption of his
party which would be sure to follow.
1t is not to be forgotten that the in
lection of the elections bill repeal into
tte. 8ituation has been the work of
Democrats. They have partly wanted
to defeat the repeal of the silver pur-
chase clause by this indirect mothod.
They have also partly wanted to keep
their party together as no other issue
could. It all contributes to the con-
fusion, to the probability of COM
promise if anything.
900
The talk of the moment is the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Van Allen to be am
bassador to Italy. There are serious
things about it, but it is all looked
upon chiefly as comical. Horace White,
the editor of the New York Evening
Post, whose word is never questioned,
of course, inside of the Office of the Ev-
ening Post at least, says that Mr.. Van
Allen contributed $4,000 and expected
this appointment considered, indeed,
that it had been promised to him.
This proposition so filled the pure and
holy hearts of Mr.. White and of Mr..
Richard Watson Glider, the editor of
the Century, with alarm and chagrin,
that they proceeded to raise $50, 900 to
buy off Mr.. Van Allen. Now comes
forward Mr.. Whitney, however, who
declares that he never promised any
thing to Mr.. Van Allen, and never even
took his campaign money, and Mr..
Whitney adds that anybody who knows
him, knows very we'll that he would
never think of doing such wicked
thing. He insists that Mr.. Van Allen is
fitted for the place, and that Mr..
Cleveland appointed him to it upon
that basis purely. There the matter
rests. There is nothing we can do
about it. except perhaps to wait for
some further statement from Mr..
Wh1te-or perhaps from Mr.. Glider,
who, according to Mr.. White, his part
ner in misery, knows why the fund oi
$4,000 that they raised, was not
adequate to induce the Newport dude
to withdraw his expectations.
900
An actual increase OF from eight to
ten per cent in the gross receipts of the
postofice department may fairly be
counted upon. In the month OF June
the department showed an increase Of
gross receipts of a little over eight pei
cent. In July, the increase was only
little more than three per cent. Ii
August, there was an actual falling of
of four per cent, as compared with the
receipts of August a year ago. These
are startling figures. OF course they
mean nothing in relation with Mr.
Bissell's present philosophical and pro
gressive management of the department
for | know it to be both progressive
and philosophical means simply thai
the general business of the country has
fallen off exactly as indicated by these
figures. 1t seems incredible, but it il
none the less fact, that the business
people and the public generally have
written letters so much more seldom
and that the total earnings of the sec
ond class postage have been decreased
SO much by reason OF the falling off o
subscriptions to periodicals, and the un
doubted decrease in the distribution O