The age-herald., 1901-12-31
Cabinet Rumors Holiday Diversion.
 Long and Roosevelt Not Friendly.

Miles as it's naval counterpart is to Schley and promotion above the rank of captain in the army is said to be very difficult for afl officers who are not favored by the clique. At least one startling fact to this effect could be related here and would be were it not that it's relation would seriously harm the wronged un- offending.
 But Mir. Root is held by men competent to judge him to be as man of conspicuous ability, and almost everybody is convinc- ed that he will shortly succeed Secretary Hay as the head of the cabinet and law fui heir presumptive to the Presidency. as the Secretary of State would become President in event of a vacancy before March 4, 19o5-from which untoward event may the kind fates preserve the coun- try
 Smiths gone Cages gone, Long's going all of the Mckinley ministers" are go- ing except Root and Wilson.
 Within a boys easy stonesthrow of the particular spot where this copy is being ground out' is a sum of cash money the counting of which would re- quire one man working eight hours day and counting one dollar every sec ond something like eighty years to count it, making 8 rough guess on the basis of the eight hundred and thirteen millions of dollars now In the United States treasury; the figures being too stagger- ing for real mathematical calculation just now, that being left as excellent exercise for the boys in the schools But let's see-eight hundred and thirteen mill lion seconds-3,600 seconds in the hour S6,400 seconds in the day-S65 days and odd hours, minutes and seconds in the year-O pshaw! Give it up. Speak of growing under the burden of riches-why, that big stone palace across the street is simply bowling holding It's heavy hoard!
 There Is the truly meat figure of three hundred and eighteen million dol lars in gold coin there, and close by the precious metal that is bright and yell low, hard and cold'' and is "battered, bartered, bought and sold-gold, gold, gold" there are nailed in stout oaken boxes and secured in deep and cavernous vaults, into which there is no earthly chance for one to break, four hundred and fifty and six million silver dollars, over the like of which there has been somewhat of political hubbub in this na- tion these ten years past.
 Now here is another example for the boys in school. Assume the diameter of a silver dollar to be one inch and an eighth, would all those millions in the treasury, if placed edged to edge in a straight line reach from Washington to Constantinople or would those silver discs reach within coaling distance of the silver moon? That is quite fascinating to be sure.
 It Is rather surprising to find in to- nights official report of the treasurer. from which these figures are obtained that in the treasury there is now the sum of one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-three cents in fractional cur rency in the treasury. Perhaps it is kept for show-old five, ten, twenty-five and fifty cent paper bills-for no such money has been printed in twenty years and more. s4..s-
 Seriously, the too excellent condition of the treasury is giving the President and the Republican leaders in Congress much concern just now, for they are divided as to the best method. politically of course, by which to reduce the rapidly accumu-
 
 dangerous accumulation. The published statement tonight shows an "available cash balance" of $175,000,000, in round fig ures, that is to say, there is virtually that much money for which there is no particular need, for the daily receipts far exceed the expenditures upon the weekly average.
 Many of the best men in the Republican party favor material modification of the Dingley tariff but the trusts don't, and that settles 1t. The brewers desire the war tax taken off beer, which would make a hole thirty million dollars deep in the yearly income of the government but the powers that be are said not to favor the proposition. The building of the Nicaragua canal would not apprecia- bly, affect the treasury, because the ex- penditure necessary would be spread over a series of years, with perhaps but five millions for the first year.
 And thus doth the burden of dollars perplex the party in power.
 In their charming home in H street last night Judge William L. Chambers and Mrs. Chambers entertained former Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Her bert and number of other Alabamians in celebration of the Christmas season Up to the present time Judge Chambers duties as a member of the court of Span ish war claims have kept him very busy, and he has been unable to take holi- day for some months.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER,