The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-06
CARLISLE IN HIS OFFICE.
Bushels Of Letters Come 10 Him Every
Day.

Unite in Suggesting sehemes-Some
Samples of a Queer Lot.
F. C. Carpenter, in New York Press,
Washington, Sept. Livery one is
now thinking of the treasury depart
msnt. It is the financial pulse of the
United States. Put your finger on it and
Won can tell just how smoothly the silver
and gold blood is flowing through the
body Of our country Just now this
mise is jumping at fever heat. 1t is
visited daily by men from all parts of
the United States. Bankers and wage
earners come here alike to see the Secre-
tarv of the Treasury. There are women
as well as men, and long haired old
lady from Kentucky haunts the corridors.
The press is, in fact, so great that Secre-
tary Carlisle will not see any one who
has a new scheme to propose. The
schemer is met by one of the watch dogs
of the treasury and is told that the sec
rotary is too busy. Even at the secre-
tarys home on X street the pressure of
Office seekers~ cranks and theorists is
great.
Mr.. Carlisle is usually at his desk a
short time after 9. His mail has already
been opened and the greaterpart disposed
of A vast number of the letters which
are addressed to the Secretary of the
Treasury never meet his eye. 1t takes
several clerks to merely open the envel-
Opes,
He is looking well. He has had some
trouble with his right arm, but his eye is
bright and his complexion is good.
He disposes of matters very
rapidly. He lets his subordinates
attend to almost all the details of the de-
partment. 1t was the lack of ability to
do this that killed Secretary Folger, and
it is said that Daniel Manning might
have been alive to-day had he possessed
it, From about 10 o'clock the congress-
men and senators began to come in. The
most of them the day was there wanted
Offices for their constituents, and only a
few talked finance. Senator Joe Black
burn came in and stood awhile talking
He smiled as he left, and judge he got
what he wanted. At 11:30the room was
about empty Secretary Carlisle re-
ceives callers during only two days
of the week, and this morning
there were none received after
u. At this time the secretary
went to the consideration of his official
duties and worked right along until after
q. taking a half hour at l O'Clock for
luncheon He works Sunday as well as
week DAYS, but he tries to forget his work
in the evenings. Every morning there are
a large number of letters from all parts of
the country describing the troubles of the
different sections as to the money mar
kets, and urging him to do something for
their relief. A large yart of the mail is
made up of schemes and theories. Many
of the letters tell him how to deal with
the gold and silver question. Some advise
as to the ratio and others advocate the
establishment Of banks and bank
ing systems. Many of these letters
are from bankers of acknowledged
reputation, and saw some from Henry
Clews of New York, Wharton Barker of
Philadelphia, and others. The majority
of the letters, however, were from
cranks. l looked over perhaps a bushel
of them this morning. Some were writ
ten in pencil upon old old newspapers.
Others on blanks as large as a sheet of
wrapping paper, and some were in type
writer's, of which the following are speci-
mems;
"We though humble farmers, would
like TO ask your honor a few questions
concerning the financial situation of our
country What has caused the Demo-
cratic party TO depart from Jeffersonian
principles on the silver question! X 4
We have the utmost confidence in you as
a financier, but we fail to see anything
but discrimination against silver under
Cleveland's administration"
A big Cincinnati business man intro
duces himself as follows;
My Dear Sir-Drops from heaven
make oceans. Drops from individuals
have been known to change governments.
A drop from one as obscure as myself
might work wonders"
The man then goes on to say that the
people have lost confidence in the national
banks, and he would have them amended
so that no one connected with a bank,
from the president down, should have the
right to borrow of the bank.
letter from one of the best known
New York bankers, i'll speaking of the
stringency of the money market, says:
Why, 1 had a man in my Office to-day
who owes only $3.50, coo and who has prop
erty which, at an extremely low valua-
tion, is worth more than 81 100000. He
cannot get extensions and he will have to
fail"
This banker urges that something be
done at once, and he says that congress
will have a'corpse to deal with if it does
not act very soon.
n letter from Baltimore banker reads
as follows:
As a sound democrat, a Cleveland man
ana believer in arithmetic, l protest
against any refusal to redeem the treas
my notes of 1890 in gold" The letter
then goes on to say why he protests and
TO predict a panic.
Some of the letters came from foreign
countries. A famous bimetallist of Eng
lana writes fifteen pages of typewriting,
showing how his scheme will solve the
currency question, and there is letter
IRON one Of the most famous eX-senators
Oh Lhe south advising Secretary Carlise to
ADOPT his views and thereby become the
next President of the United States"
A largo part of the correspondence is
nLgd with denunciations of Wall street.
A letter from a Pennsylvania lawyer
reads:
For Gods sake+1eep our country out
OF the hands of the financial kings, the
bullion brokers, the railroad wreckers,
tAe stock gamblers and such like gangs"
Inc letter goes on in favor of free coin
One Of these anti-banking letters is
Written on eight thin strips ofpaper about
gg"o inches wide and twelve inches long.
~ IS closed with a request that the
Writer be pardOned for not copying his
iloIes' as ne is very busy. His eightpages
Uegln as follows:
our position of relying upon views of
oJuers rather than the New York bank
cr' IS The correct one. The banks are no
more nor less than an immense money
rust organized to enrich themselves at
.Ae expense Of the country. Bank stocks
All LWentV-tiV0 Vparg in Naw York cttV