Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Special Correspondence

WASHINGTON, D. c., July, 10, '95
zen. Harrison is not candidate for
the Republican Presidential nomina.
ton. Once more that positive state.
ment is made by a gentleman who pre-.
sumably enjoys Gen. Harrison g conf.
dence. This time it is Hon. John w.
Foster, of Indiana, who was Secretary
OF State during the closing months of
Gen. Harrison's administration. Mr..
Foster clinches his statement by saying
that he believes the Indiana delegation
Will go to the next Republican National
Convention without State candidate
for the nomination, and united on any
candidate. He thinks the delegation
will be divided between Allison, Nc
Kinley and Reed, but he doesn't ex-
press any opinion as to what proper
tion each of those three gentlemen will
control. Mr.. Foster, who has been in
China for several months, acting as
adviser to the Chinese government in
Its negotiations with Japan, was given
cordial welcome back to his Wash
ington home, this week, by gathering
of personal friends which included
about all the prominent people now in
town. The Chinese government was
anxious to place Mr.. Foster upon its
permanent pay roll, and made him q
very fattering offer, but he declined,
being too good an American to per-
manently enter the service of any for
eign government.
Senator Pritchard, the new Repub-
lican Senator from North Carolina,
was in Washington this week. He said
ne thought the Administration was
miscalculating the strength of the free
silver Democrats of that State. Speak
ing of his own position, Senator Pritch.
ard said it was now just what it had
been ever since he reached the years
OF discretion. 81 am" said he, 'for
protection and neutrality-suspicious.
for the undeveloped industries and raw
materials of the South, and the use of
both gold and silver as money metals"
1t is estimated by those who have
had access to the figures that the ex-
cess Of Treasury payments over re.
ceipts has for the first eleven days of
the new fiscal year averaged more
than million dollars day. Much of
this money should have been paid out
before the first Of July, but it was held
back 80 as to keep down the total of
the deficit for the fiscal year that closed
June 30. 1t is now admitted by intel
ligent Democrats that legislation for
the increase of the revenues of the
government will be one of the absolute
necessities of the next session of Con-
gress. Republicans have known it
ever since the new tariff was under
discussion in the last Congress, and
urged the Democrats then to adopt
tariff bill that would provide sufficient
revenues for the maintenance of the
government, but the urging was in
vain.
The Administration is very much
alarmed at the prospect of the Repub-
lican Congress passing bill raising
the duties on such articles as are too
low in the present tariff law, in order
to furnish the money to run the gov
eminent, and it is resorting to all sorts
of schemes to create public sentiment
against any revision of the tariff and
in favor of raising the money by some
method of internal taxation. One of
the shrewdest of these schemes is that
for the increase of 81 barrel in the
internal revenue tax on beer They
calculate that the temperance element
will favor an increase in this tax, but
their principal reliance is upon the in
fuence of the eastern brewers, who
will, it is said, favor the increase be.
cause it will have tendency to drive
western beer, which is now largely
consumed, out of the big eastern cities.
The western brewers already have to
pay the freight and meet the prices of
the eastern brewers in their home
cities, and, it is claimed that with a
dollar barrel added to the tax and no
increase in the selling price they would
not be able to do this, and that the
eastern brewers would gladly pay
dollar barrel additional if they could
thereby get the eastern trade now held
by western brewers.
1t is now stated that failing in his
ambition to secure fourth nomin alton,
as he almost certainly will, Mr.. Cleve.
land has about made up his mind to
pueh Secretary Olney as the Admins
tration candidate for the Democratic
nomination. The man that could en-
thuse over Mr.. Olney as candidate
would make good exhibit for mu-
scum; he would be the boss freak.
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