The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-07-25
TN derIings In the Treasury ne.
partment hold mp Appropria-
lions at VIII.
A AIidsummer Cabinet Meeting
hastily assemblies for pnr-
poses unIxnOwn.
The Republicans Will not as X
POpuIists to help organize
the Senate.

subordinate official OF the U. S. Treasury.
According to this claim, the comptroller
has the authority to refuse payment Of
appropriations made by Congress and
approved by the President, whenever he
believes, or makes preteuse of believing,
that said payment would be unconstitu-
tional, and the claimant has redress or
appeal, except to enter suit for the
amount claimed in the Court of Claims.
The first noti.e of this remarkable claim
of authority was given several days ago
when voucher for about $4,000, in
favor OF the Oxnard Company, of Ne
braska. manufacturers of beet sugar.
was held up bv the Comptroller, and the
company notified that the Comptroller
would hear argument as to the constitu-
tionality of the Act of Congress APP
propria.ing $23s 900 to pay the bounty
on beet sugar manufactured before the
repeal of the bounty clause OF the Nc.
Kinley law. The Comptroller says he
believes the sugar bounty law to have
been unconstitutional, which is little
queer, in view OF his having allowed
$12, 100000, or theaeabouts, to be paid
out under that law during the fiscal
year, ending June 80, 1894, without a
protest. The real facts in this business
are we'll known. Comptroller Bowler is
merely figure head, who repeats his
lesson just as it is taught to him. In
addition to the money appropriated for
the beet sugar makers, there was Sc, 900.
600 appropriated by the last Congress
to pay deferred sugar bounties-they
will be deferred sure enough, it seems.
This money the administration doesn't
wish to paw out until a Republican Con-
gress shall have put more money IN the
National Treasury. Comptroller Fowler
has been swelled up by praise aud made
the tool of smarter men to carry ont
this idea. The same tactics are, accord
ing to current report. to be used to de-
fer payment on the contract made with
the International Steamship Company
for the transportation of sails to Europe.
This contract was made by Mr.. w ana
maker, when he was Postmaster General,
under an Act OF Congress, and includes
the use OF the steamships owned bv the
company as government cruisers in time
of war.
That mysterious Cabinet meeting has
naturally been the subject Of much gos-
sip and of numberless rumors. That the
Spanish minister, who came TO Washing
ton about the same time that Secretary
Oiney did. if he did not accompany him,
was the cause of this Cabinet meeting is
certain. and that it discussed the Cuba
revolution. Allelseis conjecture, owing
to the air Of mystery with which those
who attended the meeting have since
surrounded themselves, although it is
difficult to imagine any good reason
why there should be any secrecy as to
the position this government occupies
towards either Spain or the revolving
Cubans. Rumor says the Spanish, min
lister went so far as to ask that those
American editors who are disposed to
sympathize with the Cubans should be
muzzled by the Secretary of State. The
administration would seem to have
about all the muzzling it can attend to.
in irving to shut the mouths of the Sill
yer Democrats, without tackling the
editors of the country, although Secre-
tary Olney is probably fully in accord
with the idea ola press censorship.
The Populists are much chagrinned
over the latest phase OF the reorganiza-
ton Of the Senate at the beginning of
the coming session of Congress. They
have been confidently counting upon
being asked to join the Republicans in
the reorganization and, of course, receiv-
ing liberal share of the committee chair
manships and of the Senate patronage.
It has lately come out that many of the
Republican Senators would much rather
not reorganize the Senate than to do
it with the assistance OF the Populists.
This wasn't pleasing to the democrats.
who do not wish to retain control of
the committees without the power to
control votes enough to carry anything
through, and some Of them have intim-
ated to the Republicans their willingness
to vote for reorganization that will
divide the Craftsmanship and the patron
age between the Republicans and the
Democrats, leaving the Populists out al
together No one has authority to ac-
cept this for any other proposition con-
corning reorganization until it shall
have been submitted to caucus of Re-
publican Senator's, but all the same its
contamination probable enough to have
DESTROYED the extensive air castles which
the PopuIists have been building on the
belief that they would hold the balance
Of power and could dictate their own
terms for the reorganization Of the
Senate.