The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1895-03-07
POLITICS AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, March I, 1895.

Sundry Civil Appropriation bill
authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue certificates of in.
debtness to meet the deficit in the
revenues, because ola agreement
among opposing Senators to talk
away the rest of the session, if he
didn't but before doing so he made
a speech in which were some re-
markab!e charges against a demo-
cratic Secretary of the Treasury, to
be made by democratic Senator.
He said that the responses of the
Secretary of the Treasury, to in
quiries of the Senate, as to whether
this legislation was needed, were
on their face misleading; that there
would be defici for the fiscal
year of $50, 100000 and for the cal
endar year of $30,0O0,OO0; that
Treasury officials had acknowledge
ed to him (Gorman) personally
that there was a mistake of 100000
900 in Secretary Carlisle's figures of
the amount Of money now avail
able to meet government indebted
ness; that the expenditures had
been underestimate by Secretary
Carlisle to the extent of 10000, 900,
and he added: "The truth is, that
they (Treasury officials) made a
mistake about year ago in max
ing up their balances of $S0,0OO,00J,
and they have been trying to adj
here to it ever since" 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 he
said he had; salso, that he was
somewhat of a book.keeper him
self. 1t is not strange that there
should have been excitement en- the
floor of the Senate to such an eX
tent that the services of the Ser
geant-at. Arms had to be called for
by Vice President Stevenson to re-
store order, something that the old
est habitue Of the Senate does not
remember to have ever before been
done. Nor is it strange that men
say Secretary Carlisle should be
impeached, either for incapacity
or for violation of the oath of Office.
1t seems that whatever some gov
ernment wants something said to
another government that it does
not care to say itself it calls on the
United States to do it, and if Sec
Gresham half declined single re.
quest of that sort the fact has beer
successfully kept from the public
and buried in the archives of the
Department of State. So far moth
ing serious has come of Secretary
Gresham's latest attempt to do the
parrot act, but the incident is no
yet closed. 1t was the insignificant
government of San Domingo tha'
made use of the ever plant Ores
ham this time. 1t seems that il
order to force settlement of q Ions
score against San Domingo, France
sent three war ships to the harbor'
of the little black republic. Nov
this was none of our business, We
Gresham, when requested by thu
governme t of San Domingo, tolt
France that no hostile demonstra
ton must be made. The Frencl
government took this interferenet
much more good-naturedly thai
Japan did a similar one, and ever
went so far as to explain just wha
it was trying to accomplish. Blu
J those war ships were not with
drawn. Gresham than sent anoth
err communication to the Frencl
, government intimating that thos
warships would better be with
|, drawn. There the matter stands a
present.
, One of Gresham's little scheme
was too much even for the demo
+ cratic House. He promised to pa.
the British government $l25,0O0 70
damages sustained by CANADIAN
sealers in Bering Sea, but when a
attempt was made to appropriat
the money the House, very proper
Iy, refused by vote Of l43 to ll2 {
do il, fifty democrats voting wit
SO republicans against the apprO
| priation. Repres sentative Hit, c
H., led the fight against the apprC
priation, and it was his shown
from the official records, that a
the claims for damages which hav
! been filed by Canadian sealers ag
, gregate only little more than one
! third of the amount asked for b
Gresham, that won the fight.
| 1t has been a long time since tn
Senate was in an excited conditio