Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-08-08
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.

Secretary Carlisle has begun the reor
ganization of the Treasury Department
A number of clerks have already beef
dropped and others reduced as far a
possible under the civil service rules.
Much interest has been aroused amonl
statisticians by the discovery that tn,
figures OF the balance of trade agains
this country for the fiscal year ending
June 80 last, as shown by the record O
the bureau OF statistics OF the Treasury
Department, were about SAC, 100000 on
of the way. Instead OF an adverse bal
ance OF S93,000,000 the corrected returns
have shown only about $50, 10000
| Special Supervising Agent Jingle say:
| all it can with the money on hand fol
the enforcement of the Geary exclusion
law. He claims that, If the $50,00C
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 lille
sally 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 alle-
CATION of collision 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
ters 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
he Treasury agents have no right to in
their acts.
So far as the State Department is in
ormed, there are no American citizens
esiding in Siam except missionaries. II
not believed to be necessary to take
ny SPECIAL measures for their protection.
he United States has no representative
n Siam, and the Consul-General at
'angkok, Mr.. Boyd, is in this country at
resent, leaving the office in charge of
is son, the Vice-Consul. If the welfare
| our missionaries should be threatened,
Inch is unlikely, they can without doubt
ecure protection on application to the
llnister OF some other nation, as will be
ne case with the French residents. The
interests OF the United States
Siam are insignificant, the exports
eng very few and the imports being
ade up OF teak wood, used in ship.
ulldlng, and some trihes of Oriental
1d Malaynesian decorative work.
1t is said at the Navy Department that
Harmony's recent retirement,
I which the department has been crit
lsed, was in strict accordance with his q
fltten request. He cabled the depart v
ent from Hongkong March 10, asking
pc ordered home and retired upon his !;
rival IN the United States. He sug- :.
sted June as the most convenient }
tie tor his departure. In a letter of
arch Z he after asking for detachment
ia; pom my arrival in the United
ate,s, which fact will report by tele-
aph, | ask that may be placed on the
'lred list, as authorized by the statute
wing served over forty years continu. E
sly IN the navy of the United States" n
'rll "a the President approved the ap- o
cation, to take effect upon the Admi-
IS arrival in the United States, which I
IS June rs, as reported by the naval t,
ent at San Francisco. An order was Il
'ordlngly issued placing him on the n
red list. The next day the Admiral
agraphed his arrival, and asked TO he
lred June 20, but it was impossible TO q,
lnge the date, as the order had already g.
N issued and was mailed to him. y y