Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-06-09

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Secretary Carlisle has made it rule
to see everybody that called on him at
his office until this week, when after
much deliberat.on he came to the con-
clusion that his promiscuous callers
were taking up so much of the time
that should be devoted to weightier
matters that it was his duty to follow
the Presidents example and deny him.
self to general callers, and an an
nOuncement to that effect was made.
1t is easy enough to see Secretary Car
Isle il your business is of public ma
ture, but otherwise you cannot. The
oretically it seems'hard on some of his
callers, but practically there was no
other course left for him to take. In
the present state of the country the
official duties OF the Secretary of the
Treasury are of the highest import
ance, more depending directly upon
him than upon any other member of
the cabinet, and John Griffin Carlisle
has never shirked or neglected his
duty, although he has often found it,
as he probably does in this case, more
or less painful to perform.
Democrats were surprised when
President Cleveland left Washington
for few days of rest and recreation at
Hog Island, Va, without appointing a
new Public Printer, as the term of Mr..
Palmer, the incumbent, expired se,.
eral weeks ago. Whether right or
wrong the failure of any one OF the
score OF applicants for this Office to get
the appointment is taken by many to
mean that none of them will get it,
but that it will eventually go to some
man who has never made or probably
even thought of making an application
for it. 1t has been rumored for several
weeks that President Cleveland has
been making quiet inquiries of some of
his callers about various men who had
been suggested to him for the place.
Commissioner of Pensions Lochren
has decided, after mature considera-
ton, that to carry out his policy sue
cessfully in the Pension bureau he
must have new chiefs in every division
in the office, and the present chiefs,
some of whom are VIGOROUSLY ineffi-
cient, will all have to go. Some of
them who have made fairly good
records will be allowed to remain as
clerks. Some OF these chiefs, although
they are Republicans. have influential
Democrats trying to save their official
heads, but Judge Lochren says he in
tends to put the office upon what he
considers a strictly business basis and
that no amount of influence will
change his purpose.
That inexperienced young man."
Comptroller of Currency Eckels, is
very vigorously administering the
business connected with his Office.
He says he intends to put a stop to
National banks being used to bolster
up outside wildcat financial schemes
that would have no standing or credit
whatever were it not for their supposed
with National banks.
Nobody knows better than Mr.. Eckels
that it is big contract that he has
undertaken, but il he succeeds he will
certainly be q popular man with the
solid business interests of the country,
which are naturally opposed to the
dummy mushroom financial concerns
that always do so much to demoralize
legitimate business. Mr.. Eckels en-
phasized his position on this question
by telling Mr.. f. A.. Mears, the presi-
dent OF two North Dakota banks that
failed this week, who called on him to
say that he expected both banks would
resume business, that the banks would
not be permitted TO resume, and
further that no National bank with
which he (Mears) was connected would
be allowed to begin business Is here
otter.
How many OF the Republican papers
which have been criticising Secretary
Carlisle for removing Republican
chiefs OF division and asserting that
their Democratic successors were in.
competent, will have the manliness
to print his latest order, directing the
Examining Board OF the Treasury
Department to increase the minimum
for testing the fitness of applicants for
appointment as chiefs of division from
Is to 80 per cent?
Secretary Gresham has received no
official communication from the
Chinese government giving even the
slightest intimatiOn of the intention
OF that government to adopt retalia-
tory measures towards Americans re-
siding in China because Of the Geary
law, notwithstanding numer-
GUS more or less sensational state
ments to the contrary. The oppor-
tunity was too good for the sensation
mongers to lose; hence the rumors.
As was generally expected, the
Presbyterian General Assembly found
Dr. Briggs guilty of heresy. Dem.