The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-06
WHO IT Isl
GuesserS and Politicians All at
Sea
AS to the Probable Secretary of
State
TO FOLLOW GRESHAM.
Governor Francis of Missouri is
Mentioned.
TO FOLLOW GRESHAM.

WASHINGTON, June 6.-The president
is proceeding with deliberation in the
selection of a successor to the late Sec
rotary Gresham. It may be that he is
in correspondence with some one touch
ing his appointment to the cabinet,
and that, following his usual practice,
he refrains from allowing his inten-
tions to become known until he is as
sured that any offer he may make will
surely be accepted. It is assumed that
the new secretary of state will not be
announced until the cabinet is again
complete.
So far as can be learned now the
president has not formally advised At
torney-General Olney of his wish that
he should accept transfer to the state
department, but it is believed that in
following this course the president is
simply waiting to make sure that he
can fill to his satisfaction the place
that will be vacated by Mr.. Olney.
Among the rumors is one to the ef-
feet that after transferring Mr.. Olney
to the state department the president
will place Secretary Hoke Smith in the
attorney-generals office and fill the
Office of secretary of the interior by
the appointment of ex-Gov. Francis, of
Missouri. It is known that the presi-
dent has the kindest feelings toward
Mr.. Francis and his appoint
ment would be in line with the
policy the president has leaned
toward lately of recognizing the
younger and more progressive ele-
ment in his party. Secretary Smith,
being a lawyer by profession, is also
supposed to have decided preference
for the y-generalship.
1t is now expected that the president
will leave Washington for Gray Gables
early next week, and therefore the an
nouncement of the cabinet changes is
looked for very shortly.
THE WAR EXPENSES OF CUBA
WASHINGTON. June GA semi-oficia1
statement has been received here from
the leaders of the most infential ele-
ments in Cuba showing that the war
expenditures are becoming so enormous
and the sugar and tobacco in
dustries so improbable that they
believe a general uprising will result
from the hard times caused. The por-
ton of the statement concerning the
desperate conditions prevailing is as
follows: THE war expenses of 1868 to
1878 were paid by Cuba. Spain fur
nished 212, 367 men, but not single
dollar Cuba was loaded with nearly
$780, 600, 0OG debt, besides a yearly
budget of S5s. 900, 900 in those ten years.
Gen. Lovellard declared in the Spanish
cortes that the war expenses had been
$780, 600, 600, or n average Of $40, 00O, 900
year. Sugar produced then with slave
labor was sold at 81 cents a pound.
The tobacco industry was in such
hourishing condition that the minister
of the colonies, Romeo Robaledo,
called the buildings of their factories
palaces Leaf tobacco was sold 100
per cent above to-day's prices. Per
contra sugar sells to-day at /. SO cents
pound, or 80 per cent. below
cost of production and is
pressed to its last ditch by Ger
man beet sugar. The tobacco industry
is ruined beyond redemption by tariff
war. Leaf does not pay the cost of
labor at to-day's prices. The produc-
ton of Cuba this year will be: Sugar
$32, 900, 900; tobacco, S12, 900, 900; fruits
and sundries, S. OOO, 900; total, $40
600, 900; deficit, S45, ZOO. 600. Expenses:
Budget, 500, 500, 900; extra octrol tax,
IS. 500, 600; imports, S35, 900, 900; mu-
nicipal budgets, $40, 1000 600; extra
war expenses at least $40, 900, 900. To-
tai, 1914, 600, 600. A S., 900. 900 deficit is
the last straw on the camePs back
The budget of 1S93-1s94 was closed
with Sc, 900, 900 deficit and sugar sold
then at 2 625 cents pound, while this
year it sells at 1.S6 cents pound"