Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-31
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Present Revenues sufrcient for Philip
pire Expenses. -washincton Gossip.


pine Expenses. -washincton Gossi,
Secretary Gage thinks IL will not be
necessary to issue boU1s or Increase the
war tax to furnish the money REQUIRED to
sustain the new army now being raised
for the Philippines. Other treasury Of
| ncials hold the same opinion. for up to
| tho present time the increase in the
revenues from the war taX has amounted
to $l00C COO, 900 per annum, over the custo-
mary cecepts, and it Is estimated that If
the army is recruited up to its fun
strength, the additional expense will be
but about 800 900 which is Just what
he war tax Is raising, says a Washington
correspondent. Secretary Gage says that
the running expenses of the govern
ment have not been materially increased
by tho war with Spain, and leaving the
additional cost of the army out Of con-
sdcration, the ordinary revenues would
be ample to meet them. 1t Is only the ex-
traordinary expenses of the army which
must he met from outside sources
Secretary Root is back again in WASH
ncton, and there are now four cabinet Of
ficers at the capitol. These are Secretaric s
Gage, Root and Wilson and Postmaster
General Smith. Secretary Hitchcock is ex-
pected back in a few days and by the time
tho President returns next week almost all
of his cabinet will be ready for cabinet
meeting. This meeting which will prob
ably take place Tuesday, September J. will
be the initial one for Secretary Root who
has not yet met his colleagues around the
cabinet table.
The cabinet officers may not remain in
Washington long after the President re-
turns and 4 cabinet meeting or two is
held, for many of them have not completed
heir vacations and have reserved Septcm-
Der for their outing. 1t is likely also. that
IL Mrs Mckinley is in good health the
President may take another tcip of "A
week or two. Secretary Long and Secre-
tary Hay will both be back next week.
and so will Acknowledgement Griygs. POST
master-Gcnoral Smith has returned to
Washington from his trip to New Eng
land. and will probably remain for some
time Mr. Smith finds WASHINGTON very
pleasant those summer days. for, although
he morning are warm the afternoons and
early evenings are not so hot as they were
last month.
Mr. Smith IS taking great deal of exer-
else at night in learning to ride the blcy-
Gle. He bought wheel early this summer
thinking that he needed exercise after his
days work in tho department. Like all
beginners. he was shy of being seen on
the street. 50 he waited until after night
fall and then started out lie has now be-
como quite an expert ridcC, and. instead
of wheeling up and down the asphalt
streets he wonders ont upon the country
roads for his evening rides.
John r. Mclean no sooner arrives in
Ohio and opens his campaign for COVER
nor than he announces his opinion that
Began will be nominated by the democra-
tic party next year, and while protesting
that hc-McTlean-does not want the place
On the tail of the ticket. this last assertion
is made so flintlN as to be virtually a hid
for the place. The democrats are very
much worried by a fear that they will not
he the first to put Bryan in the field as
q candidate. 1t is fog this reason that so
many prominent democrats are now cry
ing Bryan. What they fear s that the
populists will call an carly convention and
nominate Bryan, and by the time the
democracy IS ready to put up a Pres-
dental ticket the populists will have
taken sir man, and they will be in the
embarrassing position OF being obliged to
indoCse the popnlist nominee instead of
having the populists indorse the demo-
cratic ticket
| When the populsts were obliged to in
dcrse the democrats in 1896, the objections
| o following the democrats were answered
with the reminder that it was the popu-
| lists own fault in not having met first and
made the democrats follow them. 1t was
then stated that in 1900 the populists
convene first. and these remarks are now
being resurrected 1t is this which makes
SO much talk among democrats of an ex-
raordinariy early convention, some going
so far as to say it ought TO be held in
February or Mach
/ The democrats in Washington. especially
the free traders, are alarmed over reports
from Texas as to the spcead Of protection
feeling in the Lone Star STATE. Protection
and prosperity are doing wonders for that
commonwealth. and the people down
there having had experience under the
b. avifc 'na,