Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. /, 1S9'


WASHINGTON, Oct. l, 1897.
The Treasury deficit is still the fly
in the administration milk. The
deficit for the third month of the first
quarter of the fiscal year, which
closed yesterday, was not so great as
for the first two months of the quarter,
but that was because of a heavy de-
crease in expenditures and not be-
cause of any large increase in re-
ceipts. The deficit for the quarter is
in the neighborhood of $30,OOO,OOO,
and there is no good reason for ex-
pecting that it will be much less in
the second quarter, although men,
bers of the administration are now
predicting that the receipts of the
government will equal the expendi-
lures by the first of January. 1t IS
known that this continued deficit has
been a source of considerable worry to
Mr.. Mckinley and his cabinet, and
believed that it was one of the rea-
sons why the administration was so
willing to have the sale of the Union
Pacific Railroad rushed before Con-
gress meets. They count upon the
governments share of the purchase
money to increase the available cash
in the Treasury.
Mr.. Mckinley has returned to
Washington, but his travelling isn't
quite over for the season, as Boss
Hanna needs him in his business, and
has arranged another trip to Ohio for
him. 1t is understood that this trip
will be made the latter part of this
month and that while in Ohio Mr..
Mckinley will make at least one
speech for Hanna. If q little thing
like consistency cuts any figure with
the Hanna-McKinley combine, it
would be pertinent to ask if there was
improperly in the Secretary of State
taking part in the Ohio campaign,
why the President can do SO with
propriety?
The little gathering of goldbugs
calling themselves a monetary COM
mission" and claiming to represent
the entire country has, after dividing
themselves up into committees On
metallic currency, demand obligations
and banking, taken recess until
Oct. IL. So far as the public is con-
cerned they might just as we'll have
adjourned sine die.
The machinery of the Pension
Bureau is being unblushingly used to
help along the campaign of Boss
Hanna in Ohio. A number of clerks
have been transferred to the middle
division, in which Ohio is, from
another division, in order to expedite
all applications for pensions for citi-
zens Of Ohio now pending, and in Or
der that all pension inquiries made by
Ohio Congressman may be answered
the same day they are received. OF
course, this is not fair towards appli-
cants for pensions in other States, but
it allows the Ohio voter to see what
"pull" Hanna has, and after election
Ohio applications will cease to be
specially favored.
There was a very warm time in the
Office of the Postmaster General this
week, whibh resulted in an apology
from the Postmaster General to
Dick" Kerens, the Missouri Repub-
lican boss. The row started when
Kerens produced a peremptory order
from Mckinley directing that man
selected for postmaster ut Kirkville,
NO., by the Postmaster General,
should not be appointed. Mr.. Gary
got so mad that he accused Kerens OF
wanting to have embezzlers appointed
postmasters in Missouri. Then the
Missouri boss got "on his ear" and
made things so hot for Mr.. Gary that
he was glad to close the incident by
making an apology. What really
made Mr.. Gary mad was that Mr..
Mckinley would not allow him to ap-
point man postmaster who was op-
posed to Kerens. Dem.