San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent. |
WASHINGTON, July 81, 1888.

secretary SdrliSle lTleHuS WOulu
like the public to believe that the
secretary and Mr.. Cleveland are on
the best of terms, but the known
facts indicate directly the contra
nv. 1t is understood here that Mr..
Cleveland's message to Congress
has been completed, and he has at
no time. since he called the extra
session consulted with Secretary
Carlisle, although there is every
reason to suppose that the mes
sage is entirely devoted to subjects
belonging to the department over
which Mr.. Carlisle presides. One
of Mr.. CarliSle'S assistants was
summoned to Gray Gables to fur
nish Mr.. Cleveland with desired
financial information, but Mr.. Car
Isle did not 60, although it would
have been just as easy for him to
have gone as it was for the assis-
tant secretary, and not Mr., Carlisle,
who was invited.
Another thing pointing unmis-
takably to lack of that conf
dence between the two men which
should exist between president
and his secretary Of the treasury
was Secretary Carlisle's positive
statement, made to personal
friend, not an hour before Private
Secretary Thurber made public
the appointments of James L.
Kilbreth to be collector and Wal
ter III. Bum to be appraiser at the
port of New York, two of the most
important appointments yet made
by Mr.. Cleveland, from a strictly
political point Of view that he did
not think the appointments would
be made until after Mr.. Cleveland
returned to Washington. Mr..
Thurber did pot even take the
trouble to &C from his Office in
the White House to Secretary
Carlisle's Office in the Trea-
sury building, scarcely a
stones throw away, to inform Mr..
Carlisle that these important APP
pointments, had been finally de-
cided upon, and the first intima-
ton that Secretary Carlisle receiv-
ed of them was from the newspa-
pers. To appreciate the full sig
nificance of this snub, for it was
clearly intended as such, it must
be remembered that both of the
officials named are subOrdinates of
the Secretary of the Treasury.
Whether there Is any foundation
| for the rumOr, which will not down,
that Sec. Carlisle intends to leave
the cabinet is more than your cor
respondent Will undertake to say,
but it certainly looks as
though Mr.. Cleveland were trying
to freeze him ont
"If Senators Hill and Murphy
do not fighl line ministratiOn
now" said a Tammany Democrat
speaking of the appointments of
collector and appraiser of the port
of New York, "it may be consider
ed certain that they will not fight
at all. 1t will be- impossible for Mr..
| Cleveland to more directly insult
| them than he has done in making
these appointments. Not only are
both of the Apprentices anti-Tam-
many, but they are also anti-Hill,
in every thing that the expression
applies" No one at present in
Washington seems disposed to
J venture an opinion as to whether
Hill and Murphy will attempt to
defeat the two nominations when
they come before the Senate for
confirmation, but, as the Tamma-
nyite says, if they don't fight them,
they will probably not fight any
thing else that Mr.. Cleveland may
see fit to do.
In addition to his duty as Secre-
tary of War, and those arising in
connection with his assisting Mr..
Cleveland to boss the Democratic
party, Dan Lamont has private
! lob, to look out for. The Whitney
Street Railroad syndicate wants
charter for an electric railroad in
Washington, and Lamont has as
sumed the task Of getting it from
Congress. 7 he road is to be built on
MassachusC it's avenue, from one
end Of the city to the other. Mas
sachusetts venue is one of the
handsomest residence thorough
fares in Washington, and various
attempts to secure charters for
building a street railroad thereon
have been defeated in Congress, but
it remains to be seen what weight
will be given the wishes of its resi-
dents by a Democratic Congress,
particularly when those wishes are
opposed by the administration.
A stranger in Washington