Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Iron Our Regular Correspondent
wAsnINeros, Sept. Sd, 1867.

attention TO all the various branches
OF the treasury department., and TIE
result is that he Is likely to DO more
thoroughly posted on all the work
ings of his department than any
Secretary of the Treasury we have
had for long time. And he isn't
overworking himself, either. He Is
merely bringing his wide business
Experience to bear upon the work
ing OF the department, just as he did
when at the head OF the big Chicago
bank. He has wonderful knack of
speedily disposing of business.
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, cor.
rectly says: Organism and free silver
have gone over the brink forever.
New industries are being projected,
capital is coming out, business Is re-
viving, and, on the whole, this long
looked for and much talked-of era of
prosperity is not on the way, but
actually here"
Colonel Andrew Geddes, of Iowa,
widely known in Grand Army circles,
this week assumed the duties OF chief
clerk of the Department Of Agri-
culture.
Hon. John Russell Young this week
announced his selections of the re-
mainder of his chief assistants In the
management of the congressional
library, and everybody conceeds that
he has lived up to his promise that
each OF them should be chosen for
their special fitness to fill the posi-
tion to which they are appointed.
Those appointed were Prof. James G.
Hanson, Of Wisconsin, to be chief of
the catalogue department.; ThOs. H..
Clark, of Ala, to be superintendent
of the law library; p. Lee Phillips,
of ID. G.. to be superintendent of the
hall of maps and charts; Allen b.
SlausoD, of Oregon, to be superinten-
dent of the periodical and newspaper
department. w. r. Whittlesey, OF
Va, to be superintendent, and Miss
Myrtle l.. Mason, Of ILL.,, to be assist
ant of the music department.; A. p.
G. Griffin, of Mass, and Arthur II.
Kimball, of N. H., to be assistant
librarians; Lawrence Washington, of
Va, to be in charge Of Washing
tonian Library; and w. FL. Morse, of
r.. l., to be assistant in catalogue
department. There are about forty
clerks, attendants, laborers, &C., to
be appointed to complete the work
ing force of the new library, and the
number seeking those places is in the
neighborhood of seven thousand.
| Members of the administration are
not disappointed in the amount pro
duced by the Dingley tariff up to
date. The deficit OF about twenty
six million dollars for the months Of
July and August. was no larger than
it was expected to be. Large advance
importations lessened the tariff re-
ceipts, and large expenditures neces-
sarily had to be made in the first
quarter Of the new fiscal year. The
Dingley law is all right, and as soon
as the advance importations are used
up it will produce quite as much rev.
enue as Mr.. Dingley and the treasury
experts estimated in advance of its
enactment, and the the treasury will
soon accumulate sufficient surplus to
resume the republican policy Of re-
lducing the national debt by the re-
tirement of the bonds.
The attempt Of the silver dem
ocrats of Pennsylvania to compel w
F. Harrity to retire from the dem
ocratic national committee is regard
ed in Washington as the beginning o.
a fight to the death upon the golG
democrats by the silver democrats
The silver democrats have the party
organization in their hands, and they
: are apparently fully determined, thai
those members of their party who DE
cline to fall down and worship at tn,
shrine of the free coinage of silver
shall be kicked out of the party
! Nothing could please the Republican
/ more than to see this determination
! fully carried out, and the democratic
: party, municipal, county, State AM
National, committed to free silver.
Considerable gossip has been cause,
In WASHINGTON by the declaration o
lGov. OFerrall, OF Virginia, that b.
would not support the recently nom
mated State democratic ticket, blu
as the men who nominated tina
3 ticket, are in control of the election
machinery, this detection is not likel
, to affect the result. With an electio
law in Virginia that would ensur
: the counting OF the votes as they ar
cast, 1t would be an easy matter
defeat the democratic ticket.
C A MOST WONDERFUL CURE