The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-12
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.

Secretary Carlisle has begun the reor-
ganzatOn Of the Treasury Department.
A number Of clerks have already been
dropped and others reduced ~ far az
possible under the civil service rules.
Much interest has been aroused among
statisticians by the discovery that the
figures Of the balance Of trade against
this country for the fiscal year ending
June 30 last, as shown by the record Of
the bureau Of statistics OF the Treasury
Department, were about $40,0O0,0OO out
Of the way. Instead OF an adverse bal
ance Of $13, 900, 600 the corrected returns
have shown only about 5000 900.
Special Supervising Agent Tingle says
that the Treasury Department il doing
all it can with the money on hand for
the enforcement Of the Geary exclusion
law. He claims that, if the $4,000
available July should be broken into
Immediately for the purpose Of entering
into the Wholesale deportation Of Chi
nesc, very soon there would be nothing
left 10 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 az TO the Chinese who are lille
gally 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 ale
CATION of collusiOn by New York officials
is yet received. 1t is alleged in Wash
ington 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
tors they invariably have been given the
cold shoulder. This state Of facts is said
TO apply TO no particular administration.
To some extent the same condition OF
affairs it is said exists in other cities,
where the customs officers seem to think
the Treasury agents have no right 10 in
yestigate their acts.
So far as the State Department is in
formed, there are no American citizens
residing in Siam except missionaries. 1t
il not believed TO be necessary to take
any special measures for their protection.
The United States has no representative
in Siam, and the Consul-General at
Bangkok, Mr.. Boyd, is in this country at
present, leaving the Office in charge OF
his son, the Vice-Consul. If the welfare
sl, ,,,,ll Is.
which is unlikely, they can without doubt
secure protection on application to the
Minister of some other nation, as will be
the case with the French residents. The
commercial interests OF the United States
in Siam are insignificant, the exports
being very few and the imports being
made up of teak wood, used in ship
building, and some trifles OF Oriental
and Malaynesian decorative work.
1t is said at the Navy Department that
Admiral Harmony's recent retirement,
for which the department has been crit
icised, was in strict accordance with his
written request. He cabled the depart
ment from Hongkong March l3, asking
to be ordered home and retired upon his
arrival in the United States. He sug-
gested June 7 as the most convenient
date for his departure. In a letter OF
March Z he after asking for detachment
said: upon my arrival in the United
States, which fact will report by tee-
graph, ask that may be placed on the
retired list, as authorized by the statute,
having served over forty years continu-
ously in the navy of the United States"
April "a the President approved the ap
plication, to take effect upon the Admi
ral's arrival in the United States, which
was June 26, as reported by the naval
agent at San Francisco. An order was
accordingly issued placing him on the
retired list. The next day the Admiral
telegraphed his arrival, and asked to be
retired June 29, but it was impossible to
change the date, as the order had already
been issued and was mailed to him.