Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-08-30
EXCESS FOR AUGUST
Expenditures Will Exceed Re.
ceipts by Five Millions.
so TREASURY OFFICIALS FIGURE
This Is Based Upon the Showing Made
for the First Two-Thlrds Of
the Present Month.

Washington, August 24.-The ex-
penditures Of the government for the
first two-thirds of the present month
exceeded the receipts by $i,0o9, 1898.
Only $3.50, 600 remains to be paid on
account Of pensions, and the treasury
officials estimate that the deficit will
be reduced during the next ten days to
about IS, 900, 900. The excess of ex-
penditures over receipts last month was
$8, ,478, 1865.
The recent payment Of salaries at the
agricultural department in silver dol
lars has called attention to the fact
that on two previous occasions em-
ployes were paid in gold. The de-
partment books show that August 81,
1898, $4,000 in gold was paid to en-
ployes and $500 in gold was paid TO
certain employees August 10, 1894. In
commenting on this statement, Secre-
tary Morton said that while under the
recent payment there had been strenu-
GUS objections on the part Of those paid
in silver coin, the previous disburse-
ment of gold met with no protest
whatever. He added that he would,
If necessary, put into actual practice
the proposition to pay two Mexican
dollars for every United States dollar
when the present value of So cents was
lowered TO make the plan consistent.
Officials of the state department
were asked today if the declaration by
Great Britain, that Hawaiia's course
toward British subjects in the last in
surrection was proper, would affect in
any way the the claims of the United
States made on behalf of certain citi-
zens involved in the same affairs.
They replied that, as the United States
and Great Britain were not working in
conjunction, the action of Great Brit
ain could not bind the United States
The cases of persons claiming United
States citizenship would stand or fall
on the question whether or not each in
dividual had fair trial.
Unofficial information received at
the navy department indicates that the
Port Royal drydock is not yet all it
should be, and, possibly, if an attempt
were made to dock big ship like the
Indiana or other first-class battleships,
there might be great deal of trouble.
The weak spot Of the dock is at the
entrance, and whether it is due to the
soft condition of the soil around the en-
trance or some defect in the building of
the dock will not be made plain until
the official report of the board that was
present at the time the trial was made.
No statement can be obtained as yet
from the treasury department concern
ing the charges against Congressional
Librarian Spofford, but it is stated
there that even if the published state
ment of the irregularities in his ac-
counts are found to be true, it is un-
likely that he will be liable to any
penalty, except dismissal from Office,
should that action be decided on by the
president, to whom he is directly re-
sponsible. His accounts, it is held,
merely render him liable to the charge
of malfeasance in office, from which
only dismissal could result.
Acting Secretary McAdoo today re-
ceived note from the Turkish minis
ter to the United States, saying the
Turkish government had informed him
that thorough investigation had been
made of the alleged outrages ON Amer
leans at Tarsus. Il was learned that a
cook in the family of Professor Chris
tie, of st. Paul's institute at Tarsus,
had been assaulted by native Turks
No Americans were concerned in the
matter or injured. The minister also
stated that the Turkish officers would
be tried and punished.