The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-08-04
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, July 81. /

Secretary Carlisle's friends would like the
public to believe that the Secretary and MIR.
Cleveland are ON the best of terms, but the
known facts indicate directly the contrary.
1t Is understood here that Mr.. Cleveland's
message to Congress has been completed,
and he has at ne time since he called the ex-
ira session consulted with Secretary Carlisle,
although there Is every reason to suppose
that the message Is entirely devoted to sub
jects belonging to the department over which
Mr.. Carlisle presides. One of Mr.. Carlisle's
assistants was summoned to Gray Gables to
furnish Mr.. Cleveland with desired financial
information but Mr.. Carlisle did not go, al
though 1t would have been Just as easy for
him to have gone as II was for the Assistant
Secretary to 20, but 1t was the Assistant Sec
rotary, and not Mr.. Carlisle who was in
vited.
Another thing pointing Enthusiastically to a
lack of that confidence between the two men
which should exist between President and
his Secretary of the Treasury was Secretary
Carlisle's positive statement, made to per-
sOnal friend, not an hour before Private Sec
rotary Thurber made public the appoint
ments of James L. Kilbreth to be Collector
and Walter III. Bum to be Appraiser at the
port of New York-two of the most import
ant appointments yet made by Mr.. Cleveland,
from 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 not even take
the trouble to go from his Office in the White
House to Secretary Carlsle's Office in the
Treasury building, scarcely stones throw
away, to inform Mr.. Carlisle that these i'm
portant appointments had been finally de-
cided upon, and the first intimatiOn that Sec
Carlisle received of them was from the news
papers. To appreciate the full significance
OF this snub, for 1t was clearly intended as
such, 1t 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
will undertake to say, but it certainly looks
as though Mr.. Cleyeland were trying to
freeze him out.
IF Senators Hill and Murphy do not
fight the administration nOw," said Tam
many democrat speaking of the appoint
ments of collector and appraiser of the port
or New York, lit may be considered certain
that they will not fight it at all. 1t will be
Impossible for Mr.. Cleveland to more directly
insult them than he has done in making
these appointments. Not only a,e both az
the appointees anti-Tammany, bu they ale
also anti-Hill, in everything that The express
sion applies" No one at present in WASH
ington seems disposed to venture an opinion
as to whether Hill and Murphy will attempt
to defeat these two nominations when they
come before the Senate for confirmation
but, as the Tanlmanite 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 Secretary of
War and those arising in connection with
his Assisting Mr.. Cleveland to boss the
democratic party, Dan Lamont has a pri-
vate job to look out for. The Whitney street
railroad syndicate wants charter for an
electric railroad in Washington and Lamont
has assumed the task of getting it from
Congress. 1t is proposed to build this road
on Massachusetts Avenue, from one end of
the city to the other Massachusetts Ave.
is one of the handsomest residence thorough
fares in Washington, and various attempts
to secure charters for building street rail-
road thereon have been defeated in Congress,
but it remains to he seen what weight will
be given the wishes of its residents by
democratic Congress, particularly when those
wishes are opposed by the administration.
A stranger in Washington would today be
unable to see anything which indicates that
In Ole week Congress will be in session.
Members are arriving unusually slow and
when l asked one of them the cause of it,
he answered: whats the use of any
hurry, the slate is all fixed up for the organ
ization of the House; after that time individ-
uals will have something to say, and they
will be here to say it."
Senator Quay has arrived. He favors the
immediate repeal of the purchasing clause
of the Sherman silver law and an early adj
journment of the extra session, but he ac-
knowledges that he is in a minority when it
comes to the early adjournment question.