The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-09
WASHINGTON
NEWS NOTES
WEEKLY LETTER FROM OUR
CORRESPONDENT.
EDITOR GRANTED BAIL

Dies. Receipts and Expenditures
Statement by Treasury. Precaution
in Target Practice.
Postmaster General Payne and his
associates in the management of the
department affairs are having no end
Of trouble in trying to right even the
minor difficulties which were closed
by the investigation. One of these
matters is the few cases brought to
light of alleged excessive payments
for rentals of buildings for postoflices
in different states. Accepting the re-
port made by the investigators as ac-
curate, and that the rentals in some
instances were too high, the depart
ment has been at work to bring about
reductions. Excessive rent payments,
was alleged, on grounds Of undue ia
Voritism. In scme Of these cases the
rents were reduced at once, and in
others large amount of correspond
ence and further inspection by field
officers has been necessary to deter
mine the equities of the eases. The
government has control in all matters
Of this kind, for it makes leases sub
ect to conditions Of notice Of can
collation. within very short periods,
and these conditions are enforced In
. mandatory way by the government
by orders being issued that payments
Of office rent will be stopped if the
new conditions desired to be made by
The government are not acceded to.
In most cases the effect of such no
tees is to bring the owners Of build
ings to a prompt agreement. In this
way the government often exacts from
owners of buildings additional facil
tiles in the way Of furniture and 9TH
sr necessaries, which no other renter
Of buildings would be able to secure
in the ordinary course Of leases in
cities. Many people have found to
their sorrow that Uncle Sam is an ex-
AClIuH UelduC VI
The comparative statement of the
government receipts and expenditures
show that for the month Of May, 1904,
he total receipts were $41, 6SS, 059,
and the expenditures $96,41S,472. The
latter amount includes 100000
paid on account Of the Panama Canal
purchase and 100000 loaned to the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The
receipts from the several sources Of
revenue follow: Customs SIS, S51 ,421,
decrease as compared with May, 1903,
s1,600,000; internal revenue $685.
1872, decrease 100000; miscellaneous
e4,179,505, decrease 100000. The
expenditures on account Of the War
Department amounted to $f0,576,929,
an increase OF $2.650000; on account
Of the navy $9,405,472, an increase of
pl,S50,0G0 Pensions increased from
b12, ,635 to $13, 944, S4S.
John Barrett. the newly-appointed
United States minister to Panama,
while minister to Argentina, made a
study of cotton growing in that re-
public, the result Of which he has just
given In report to the Department
IF Commerce and Labor. Mr.. Barrett
is convinced, he reports, that there is
/. section Of Argentina and Paraguay
as large as the combined area of Loui
Siana, Mississippi and, Alabama, Geor
gia and South Carolina equally well
suited In climate and soil for raising
the best qualities Of cotton, and will
soon have the transportation facili
ties 20 make it a great cotton growing
industry, and so become serious
competitor of the United States in the
cotton markets of the world.
TIE difficulties that the United