Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-22
WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Carlisle's Contemplated Changes
 n His Departm ent. GRESHAM'S LATEST MOVE Uncle Sam Not to Go Into Opposition to Newspapers.
 Treasury Chat.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-The republican congressional committee today decided the contest for the nomination from the Sev- enth South Carolina district between MT. Ellery M. Brayton and Johnson in favor of the former. MT. Brayton is Q white re. publican, formerly collector of internal revenue and chairman of the state republic can committee. tBs CARLIsLE's s CONTEMPLATED CHANGEsi
 The statement is made at the treasury de- partment that it will be month or Six weeks before Secretary Carlisle fills the va- cancy caused by the enforced resignation Of Supervising Architect O'Rourke, and that when he does make the appointment the rev architect will go into thoroughly re-, organized office, with the scientific and. technical branches of the work segregated from the purely administrative branches. This will be departure long coh- templated by Secretary Carlisle, as the principal source of trouble in the, architects office during tne former and clash between the scientific and non scientific branches of the office. The architects duties in the future will be con- fined as much as possible to the purely scientific and technical branches of the work, such AS engineering, drafting, con- struction and repair work, while the ad- ministrative branches of the office, such as tbe awarding of contracts, the accounts of divisions and the clerical work, will be un- der the supervision of the secretary of the treasury.
 Secretary Carlisle will devote much of the time intervening between now and the appointment of the new architect in per- fecting the reorganization of the office on the plan of the rough outline which is given above. Another reform of great impor. tance that Secretary Carlisle contemplates making in the arch1tect's office Is in the matter of specifications for public build- iDgs. Heretofore the practice has obtained of permitting bidders to designate what kind of stone they propose to use and to give their figures accordingly. Then tho fight would be carried before the secretary of the treasury as to the selection of the material of the building, and the builder psopos1ng the cheapest stone would, every thing else being equal, be awarded the con- tract. Secretary Carlisle will now first decide whether a public building should be constructed of granite, limestone, mar ble, or any other material, and if so, of what kind. and then the bids will be called for material.
 oREsHAM's 8 LATEST MOVE.
 Secretary Gresham has summarily de- molished the scheme recently made public to make the bureau of American republics self-supporttng by the insertion of paid ad- vertising in it's publications. Advertising Agent Wilson in New York, who had been appointed the canvasser of the bureau, was last night notified by telegraph to cease his operations, and Director Furbish of the bureau was ordered to recall his circulars and cancel his contracts at once
 It Is declared at the state department that the project was undertaken in the absence and without the Knowledge of the secre- tary, while the secretary was away on his vacation. As soon as the secretary heard of the nature of the plan he called Mir. Furbish in and directed him to suspend operations at once in regard to the solicita. tion of advertisements for the bureaus publications, and to cancel all the con- tracts he had made. The practice of sell ing the bureau handbooks, instead of fur. nishing them for gratuitou distribution which formed part of the new regime, is not included in the secretary's order, and it is presumed will be con tinued. There have been very strong protests filed against the practice, however, py senators and representatives in congress, who have been put to considerable personel expense in purchasing bureau handbooss to supply the demand of their constituents, which have heretofore been met at the govern ment's expenve. z9t
 TREASURY BALANCE EVENING TIP. f1 Two thirds of the month of September have passed and show that treasury exI penses for that period have exceeded the re- ceipts by nearly S3,000, GOO, the figures | standing; Receipts, SIS, ,000, ,000; expendisd lures, S21 ,O00, ,000. mol month progresses, bringing the totals all most together, even if the receipts do noN exceed the expenditures, as all the heavytl payments have been made.
 GOLD RESERVE INcREAsrNe. 1 The gold reserve has increased from s55. lL 226, GOO to nearly S5S, ,000 GOO. This increaseAl