The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-29
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND GOES
TO CHURCH THEM MORNING,
BUT NOT AT NIGHT.
MINISTER RANSOM'S SALARY PAID

MINISTER RANSOM'S SALARY PAID
Acting Comptroller Bowers. of the
Treasury Department Settles the
Matter by Signing the Required
voucher-- Treasury Surplus in Sight
Fourth Glass Z sst- ofli ces to be Placed
Under the Civil Service.-Mo
Silver Views.
Special to the News and Observer.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Sept. %.
There has been some surprise that DR..
Sunderland would be willing to have
even so great man as DR.. Talmage as
CO. pastor. He has held the reins of his
church aim ,st half century, and is still
vigorous and active. 1t turns out now
that friends of DR.. Talmage, and others
who wanted Washington to have at least
one great preacher, were negotiating to
lease the Academy of Music for DR..
Talmage, when some of the leading
members of DR.. Sunderland's church
suggested the idea of inducing him to
become co pastor. 1t was a happy
idea The versatile and popular Tai
mage will come here in October to
preach. 1t is probable that he will con-
duct the evening services, leaving the
old pastor to preach at the morning ser
vice. If that arrangement Is carried out,
the President will not hear DR.. Talmage
at all, for he never goes to church a.
night. And, for that matter, he is not
a regular attendant at the morning ser
vice, though he is usually present in the
winter. Speaking of Mr.. Cleveland re-
calls a statement made to me not long
ago by member of the New York Ave
nue. Presbyterian Church. He said: "Mr.
Cleveland has never put his foot in our
church, though it is only a stones
throw from the White House. /
have always thought that he had
a prejudice against our church for the
reason that long ago we had pastor
who had formerly lived in Buffalo and
who denounced MIR. Cleveland severely
when he was first candidate for Presi-
dent. Mr. Cleveland never forgets -
never shows resentment bat | have
thought he kept away from us because
he associated the church with the unfair
assault upon his good name. "
There is probably no ground for this
suspicion, for Mr.. Cleveland has never
set foct in any church in Washington
except the First Presbyterian, unless
upon the occasion Of some official care-
mony, as the services ID honor of the
President of France heidi in st. Matthews
Catholic church in June Of last year.
Mr.. Willie Williams, son of Col Henry
G. Williams, died suddenly in Virginia
this week. Cji. Williams was SUNNI on
ed by telegraph.
President Cleveland has in c9ntem
plation an order placing all the fourth
class postoffices under the protection OF
the Civil Seryi;e law. There were On
July of the present year 70,064 post
masters in the United States, of which
number &c, $50 were in the fourth class
list, and will be protected by the pro
posed extension of the Civil Seryi 70
rules. The peculiar character Of the ser
vice will make il necessary to devise
special rules for the appointment Of these
postmasters, and the President, the Off
cials of the Postoffice Department and
the Civil Service Commissioners have
had the matter under consideration for
some time.
a Treasury surplus is in sight. For
the first time IN two years under normal
conditions the receipts Of the Government
will this m )nth exceed the expenditures
The indications now are that the surplus
for the month Of September viii amount
to about 81, 500, 900 to 81 900, ,000 This
favorable showing il a source Of much
satisfaction to the high officers OF the
Treasury Department, who believe that
the turning point has now been reached
and that the new tariff Law will hence
forth prove its efficiency in raising
enough re, euues to meet the expenses of
the Government UpfavOrable trade
conditions Lave hitherto delayed the &C
complishment of this object and the VII
SOC Law hes not until now brought intC
the Treasury the full amount that was
expected of it. Now that business is IN
proving, trade once more getting brisk
and commerce again beginning to as
sumo normal proportions, the Treasury,
the nations pulse, feels the accelerated
action through all the arteries of trade,
and, instead Of showing deficit, begins
to accumulate a surplus.
Whatever Mr.. Morrison does or says !,
watched now with more interest than
ever, sirca the belief has become current
that he has more strength and availa
bility tor the Democratic Presidential
nomination than any other Western man
In a recent interview at his home II
Waterloo, I'll. Tan unlucky name for Z
home town, in answer TO the question
chow can the Democrats come together
on the financial question in this State 2
he said:
IF the Democrats are to win, some
common ground must be selected OF
which all Democrats Of Illinois can stand
/ don't believe there is Democrat in th'
State who desires a silver dollar to b,
worth less than a gold dollar. l confes,
that don't want 10 see such condition
of affairs.
"We cannot get along well with
out the use Of both gold anC
silver as money, and they should
be equal in value for purposes Of trade
and commerce and the payment of debts
/ don't want to see either metal lose it
value as an article of exchange for com