Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. DC. Mar. 1. '95.

WASHINGTON. DO, Mar. 1. '95.
Senator German was compelled to
withdraw his amendment TO the Sun
dry Civil.Appropriation bill authoriz-
Ing the Secretary of the Treasury to
Issue certificates of indebtedness to
meet deficit In revenues. because Of an
agreement among opposing Senators
to talk away the rest of the session, II
he didn't but before doing so he made
q speech In which were some remarka-
BILE charges against democratic Sec
rotary OF the Treasury, to be made by
a democratic Senator. He said that
the responses of the Secretary of the
Treasury to inquiries of the Senate, as
to whether this legislation WIS needed,
were on their face misleading; that
there would be deficit for the fiscal
year of $50. 900 900 and for the calen
dar year of $50, 900 900: that Treasury
officials had acknowledged to him
(Gorman) personally that there was
mistake of $50. 900 900 In Secretary
Carlisle's figures of the amount of mon.
ey now available to meet government
indebtedness; that tho expenditures
had been underestimate by Secretary
Carlisle to the extent OF $40, 900 600.
and he added The truth il. that they
(Treasury officials) made a mistake
about a year ago in making up their
balances of $50, 900 600. and they have
been trying to adhere to 1t ever since
Mr.. German did not speak with any
excitement bat with the calm deliber-
alton of n man who had personally
gone over the figures of which he
spoke. as he said he had. also. that he
was somewhat of II book keeper him-
self. 1t il not strange that there
should have been excitement on the
floor of the Senate to such an extent,
that the services of the Sergeant-at-
Arms had to be called for by Vice
President Stevenson, to restore order,
something that the oldest habitue of
the Senate does not remember to have
ever before been done. Nor is it Il
wonder that men say Secretary Car
Isle shonld be impen chsd. either for
incapacity or for violation of the oath
of office.
It seems that when some governs
ment wants something said 10 another
government that it does not want to
say itself it calls on the United States
TO say it, and if Secretary Gresham
has declined single request of that
sort, the fact has been successfully
kept from the public and buried in the
archives of the Department of State.
So far nothing serious has come of
Secretary Gresham's latest attempt to
do the Parrot act. but the incident is
not yet closed. 1t was the insignifi.
can't government os San Domingo
that made use Of the ever plant
Gresham this time. 1t seems that in
order to force settlement of a long
score against San Domingo. France
sent three war ships to the harbors of
the little black republic. Now this
was none of our business, yet Gresh-
am, when requested by the govern
ment OF San Domingo, told France
that no hostile demonstration must be
made. The French government took
this interference much more good.na-
turedly than Japan did similar one,
and even went SO far as 10 explaine
just what IL was trying to accomplish
But those war ships were not with
drawn. Gresham then sent another
to the French govern.
ment intimating that those war ships
had better be withdrawn. There the
matter stands at present.
One of Greshain's little schemes was
too much even for the democratic
House. He promised to pay the Brit
ish government S425. 900 for damages
sustained BY Canadian sealers in Ber-
ing Sea, but when an attempt was
made to appropriate the money the
House. very properly. refused by a
vote OF 143 to 112 to do it, so demo-
Gratis voting with SO republicans
against the appropriation. Represen-
tative Hit, of Ill ;, led the fight against
the appropriation, and It was his
showing from the official records, that
all the claims for damages which have
been filed by Canadian sealers aggre.
gated only little more than one-third |
of the amount asked for by Gresham,
that won the fight.
There is no excitement in the House,
which is killing time by debating and
passing bills which will never be heard
of in the Senate, while waiting for the |
Senate to return the amended appro>
priation bills the leaders having decid-
ed not to allow action on ANYTHING