Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-05-11

it becomes certain that bonds will be
issued, by the statement that all 9th Ell
suggested expedients had been tried
and that their failure had compelled
the issue of bonds. Indeed, it has been
positively asserted by a personal
friend of Secretary Carlisle that Mr..
Cleveland wanted to issue $50, ,OOO, ,OOO
of bonds last week, and would have
done 80 had not Mr.. Carlisle stood so
firmly against it and finally told him
that he might get another Secretary of
the Treasury to issue them as he would
not, until everything else had been
tried. ...'
Mr.. Cleveland's proposition to the
Wall Street men to borrow $50, 900, 900
in gold from them for one year at 8 per
cent interest, and in default of pay
ment at the end of the year to issue
bonds for the amount did not strike
the average mind as a very brilliant
one. If was declined, however, be-
cause the Wall Street men did not
wish to take any chances about bonds
they want them issued, and will not
help the Treasury unless they are is.
sued, or definite promise made that
they will be issued at stated time.
There is disposition to criticise Mr..
Cleveland for having taken this finan.
cial busines into his own hands. but
as distinguished Republican Senator
remarked, sit is Cleveland, and not
Carlisle, who will be held responsible
for the success or failure of the finan-
cial policy adopted by the administra.
tion."
1t is stated by those who know what
is going on in inside administration
circles that the reason for the Demo.
cratic attack on reciprocity, which Mr..
Cleveland and his advisers have made
up their minds to destroy, by annul.
ling all the treaties made by the Har.
rison administration, lie that it stands
in the way of putting sugar and coffee
back on the dutiable list, from which
they were taken by Republican Con
gress. No duty can be leived upon
sugar or coffee coming from any coun.
try which has a treaty granting their
free entry into the United States
hence the determination to wipe out
the treaties. The programme is for
the administration to get all the reci.
procity treaties out of the way before
Congress gets ready to pass the ad.
ministration tariff bill, which is to put
q duty upon sugar, coffee, and proba.
bly, tea. The small wage earners and
farmers of the country can not fail to
appreciate at its full value this bit OF
Democratic craftsmanship, which W i'll
materially increase their living ex
pense with no possibility of benefiting
them to even the slightest extent.
ExCongressman Mckinney, of New
Hampshire, who wanted to be Com
missioner of Pensions, has been given
the comparatively insignificant posi-
ton of Minister to Colombia, Will,
exCongressman Thomas, of California
gets the Brazilian mission, and Wiley
OF New York, the consulship to Bord
eaux. That rule against appointing
"ex's" has been laid on the shelf
along with other rules which were vic
lated almost as soon as they were an
nounced.
The Government is being run jus
now with only one member of the cab
inet-Secretary Smith-in town, tn,
rest of them, with the exception of Sec
retary Lamont who remained in New
York, being on the way to Chicago
with Mr.. Cleveland, to attend tn,
opening of the Worlds Fair. Tn,
office seekers went sOmewhere-lots O
them didn't have money enough left t,
60 far-to wait for the return of tn
appointing powers, as they completed,
disappeared from Washington for tn,
first, time since the assembling of Con
gress, last December. Mr.. Clevelan,
is expected to return next Tuesday
\ when the Office seekers can make
fresh start,
Among the five government director
OF the Union Pacific Railway company
appointed this week, were Hon. Dol
Dickinson, the gentleman who ha
been posing as the Warwick of tn
administration and who said that h
declined to enter the cabinet, and Gen
eral Ntzhugh Lee, of Virginia, who, i
is said, did not ask for this or an,
other Federal appointment, being al
avowed candidate for the U. s. Senat
from his State. Some think that h
was given this position to make hin
withdraw from the Senatorial contest
but there is no reason why it shoul
have that effect 1t will be easy en-
ough for him to resign this place if h
can get elected to the Senate, whicl
will be by no means easy, as he ha
the liveliest sort of opposition.