Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-08-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. July 81, 1898,
From Our Regular Correspe ndent

would llke the puDiIc 10 peileSe
that the Secretary aud MIR. Cleve-
land are on the best of terms, but
the known facts indicate directly
the contrary. 1t is understood
here that Mr.. Clevelsnd's 8 message
to congress has been completed,
and he Las at no time since he
called the extra session consulted
with Secretary Carlisle, although
there is every reason to suppose
that the message Is entirely de-
voted to subjects belonging to the
department over which MIR. Car
Isle presides. One OF Mr.. Car
isles assistant was summoned
to Gray Gables to furnish MIR.
Cleveland with desired financial
information, but Mr.. Carlisle did
not go, although it would have
been just as easy for him to have
gone as it was for the Assistant
Secretary to 60, but it WAS the
Assistant Secretary, and not Mr..
Carlisle who was invited.
Another thing pointing unmis-
takably to q lack of that conf
dence between the Two men which
should exist between a President
and his Secretary of the Treasury
was Secretary Carlisle's positive
statement, made to a friend,
not an hour before private secre-
tarY Thurber made public the ep-
pointments of James I. kiibreth
to be collector and Walter II.
Bum. to be appraiser at the port
Of New York-two of the most i'm
portant appointments yetmade by
Mr.. Cleveland. from scrictlv po-
litical point of view,-that he did
not think the appointment would
be made until after Mr.. Cleveland
returned to Washington. Mr..
Thurber did not even take the
trouble to go from his Office in the
| White House to Secretary Cerlis-
les Office IN the Treasury building
scarcely stoues throw away, to
inform Mr. Carlisle that these i'm
portant appointments had been
finally decided upon, and the first
intimation that Sec. Carlisle re-
| celved Of them WAS from the news
papers. 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 correspondent vii! undertake
to ssy. but it certainly looks as
though Mr.. Cleveland was trying
to freeze him out.
IF Senators Hill. and Murphy
do not fight the administration
now,' said Tammany democrat
speaking OF the appointments of
collector and appraiser Of the port
of New York, sit may be consid-
cred certain that they will not
fight it at all, 1t Will be impossi-
ble for AIr. Cleveland to more di-
rectly insult them than he has
done in making these appoint
ments. Not only are both of the
appointees anti-Tammany, but
they are also anti-Hill, in every
thing that the expression implies.
No one at present in Washington
seems disposed to venture an
opinion es TO whether Hill and
Murphy will attempt to defeat
these two nominations when they
come before the Senate for confir-
nation, but, as the Tammanite
says if they don't fight them they
will probably not fight anything
else that Mr.. Cleveland may see fit
to do.
In addition to hia duty as Sec
retary of War and those arising
in connection with his assisting
Mr.. Cleveland to boss the demo-
cratic party, Dan Lamont has
private Job to look out for. The
Whitney street railroad syndicate
wants q charter for an electric
railroad in Washington and La
mont has assumed the task of
getting it from Congress. 1t is
proposed to build this road Oh
Massachusetts Avenue from one
end Of the city to the other
Massachusetts Avenue is one of
the handsomest residence thor
ough fares in Washington, and
various attempts to secure char
ters for building a street railroad
thereon have been defeated in
Congress. particularly when
those wishes are opposed by the
administration.
A stranger in Washington
would to-day be unable to see
anything which indicates that in
one week Congress will be in ses-
sion. Members are arriving un-
usually slow ard when [ asked one
Of them the cause oft, he answer
ed: NV hats the use OF any hurry, |
the slate is all fixed up for the or
ganization of the House, after that |