Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-03-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
wAsHrrGroS. D. c.. March. 4. i5gl

Il
dry civil appropriation bill author
izing the secretary of the treasury to
issue certificates Of indebtedness to
meet the deficit In the revenues, be-
cause OF an agreement among oppos-
ing senators to talk away the rest OF
the session, If he didn't; but before
doing SO he made speech in which
were some remarkable charges
against the democratic secretary Of
the treasury, to be made by demo-
cratic senator. He said that the res
ponses of the secretary Of the treas
ury to injuries Of the senate, as to
whether this legislation was needed,
were on their face misleading; that
/ there would be dificit for the fiscal
year Of $60,OO0,0O0 and for the calen-
dar year Of $300O0,0O0; that treasury
officials had acknowledged to him
! (Gorman) personally that there was
u mistake Of s30OO0O00 in Secretary
Carlisle's figures Of the amount Of
money now available to meet gov
eminent indebtedness; that the ex-
penditurcs had been underestimated
by Secretary Carlisle to the extent
OF $40,W0OO0 and he added; "The
truth Is, that they Treasury ofiicials)
made d mistake about year ago in
making up their balances Of 100000,
600, and they have been trying to adj
here To it ever e.nce.r Mr. German
did not speak with any excitement
but with the calm deliberation Of a
man who had personally gone over
the figures Of which he spoke as lie
said he had also, that he was some
what Of book-keeper himself. 1T is
not strange that there should have
been excitement on the floor Of the
senate to such an extent that the SER
vices of the sergeant-at-arms had to
be called for by the Vice-President
10 restore orler, something that the
oldest habitue Of the senate does not
rcmember to have ever before been
done. Nor is It strange that men say
Secretary Carlisle should be i'm
peached, either for incapacity or for
violation Of the oath Of Office.
II seems that whenever some gov
eminent wants something said to an
other government that it does not
care to say itself II calls on the
United States to say it, and If Secre-
tary Gresham has declined single
request Of that sort the fact has been
successfully kept from the public
and buried in the archives of the de-
partment of state. So far nothing
serious has come Of Secretary Cires-
hams latest attempt to do the parrot
act, but the incident is not yet clos
ed. 1t was the insignificant govern
ment If San Domingo that made use
Of the ever plant Gresham this time.
France sent three war ships to
the harbors of the little black
republic. Now this was none
OF our business, yet Gresham, when
requested by the government of San
Domingo, told France that no hostile |
demonstration must be made. The
French government took this inter-
ference much more good-naturedly
tnan Japan did similar one, and
even went so far as to explain just
what IS was trying to accomplish.
But those war ships were not with
drawn. Gresham then sent another
10 the French gov
eminent intimating that those war
ships would better be withdrawn.
There the matter stands nc present.
One of Greshans little schemes
was too much even for the democrat
liz house. He promised to pay the
British government $i25,000 for dam
ages sustained by Canadian sealers
in Bering sea, hut when an attempt
was made to appropriate the money
the house, very properly, refused by
IL vote % li2 to IL to do it, fifty dem
ocrats voting with 93 republicans
against the Appropriation. Repre-
sentative 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 aggregated only little more /
than one-third Of the amount asked |
for by Gresham, that won the fight.
The retirement o. Mr.. Bissell from (
the cabinet did net create a ripple, rs /
ii had been known for some time
that hc would 20 out.
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