The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-10-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, D. g, October %, 1897.

WASHINGTON, D. G, October %, 1897.
Secretary Gage has not yet even start.
ed to put his annual report on paper,
although the subject has probably not
been out Of mind many hours at time
since he became Secretary of the Treas.
ury therefore the enterprising newspa
per men who have, by making use of an
old interview with Mr., Gage just before
he came to Washington and a little
guessing, attempted to give the public
in advance the financial recommends.
tions that the Secretary Gage will make
in his annual report are little prema.
ture, not to use harsher term. Espec.
ial care will be taken by Secretary Gage
to prevent his financial recommendations
becoming public until his annual report
has been made.
Secretary Sherman put a stop to
a lot OF nonsensical stories when he an.
nounced his intention Of going to Ohio
for the purpose of casting his vote for
the republican State and legislative
tickets, in the success Of both of which
he is deeply interested.
Assistant Secretary Howell, Of the
Treasury DEPARTMENT. who has direct
charge of the Custom Houses of the
country, has just returned from visit
of inspection to Detroit and Chicago He
says he found business booming, and
added: 1.-The total value of the exports
of provisions, including cattle and hogs,
from the northern border districts during
the month of September were ST. ,2S1 ,243,
against $973,96S in September 1896, and
in addition there WAS a large increase in
the exports Of domestic manufacturers
over that of Septembtr last year." That's
what pI election is doing tor the United
States.
If the charges which have been filed
with the Post Office Department against
Postmaster Mowry, at Charleston, S. G.,
are true, he has been making public
Office private snap sure enough. He
has held the office for about eleven years,
having been originally appointed during
the first Cleveland administration and
left in Office during the Harrison admin.
istration because of the failure OF the
republicans OF the city and Postmaster
General Wanamaker to agree upon his
successor. He received his third com.
mission during the last Cleveland admin
istration, and it has about year to run
before it expires, but il the investigation
now being made substantiates the
charges made against him, he will prob
ably be sunmarily dismissed. One of
those charges is that ever since he has
been postmaster he has had in force
sci Of Iules for the trifing lnfraction of
which fines have been imposed upon the
employs es OF the Office, and that these
fines, which aggregate large sum, have
been pocketed by Mr. Mowry.
hon. Eugene Hagan, who was chair.
man Of The Sound Money Democratic
State Committee OF Kansas last year, and
who is now wishing Washington, paints
this beautiful word picture Of things in
in his State: "Our people are better of
than they have been in fifteen years.
The banks have plethora of money and
the farmers are no longer worrying oyer
the mortgage question. They have been
lifting their mortgages with rapidity
To use slang phrase,
Kansas is on Easy street. People have
absolutely nothing to say about the is,
sues over which they were wrought up
80 fiercely in 1896. think that the al
lance between the populists and silver
democrats will not be of long duration.
Sooner or later 1t will break in pieces as
q result of friction over the division of
the Offices. The conservatism of the
present populist State government shows
that the days of wild eyed radicalism in
Kansas politics have passed away for.
ever."
Mr.. William P. smyth, U. s. Consul at
Hull, England, has made an official re.
port to the Department of State that
ought to be read by every opponent of a
protective tariff in this country. This
'eport says in part The fall of 1897 re.
,alls the fall of 1890, when the Mckinley
dill pat it's first crimp in English compe.
ition. remember the staggering blow
t received when the bill had chance
% reach out with full swing, and what
. loud and terrific shout went up from
III parts of the Kingdom for retaliation.
But if the Mckinley bill floored English
Industries, in 1890, and held them in
'ubjection for three years. while our
interests at home were
permitted to enjoy brief period OF pros.
oerity, the Wilson bill brought them to
heir feet in hurry again. Its enact.
nent was a boOn and a BLESSING Tn Emo.