Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
AT THE White HOUSE
Acting Secretary Taylor
Makes a Statement.
JUDGEPARKER'S ERRORS
SOME OF HIS MEASUREMENTS
ARE CORRECTED.
JUDGEPARKER'S ERRORS
A Baltimore Delegation Gives En-.
couraging Information as to the
Maryland Situation.

II. A. Taylor acting secretary of the
treasury, was at the White House today on
business connected with his department.
On his way out he commented on some of
the recent speeches of Judge Parker re-
garding the condition of the treasury.
Later he made the following statement
''The attention of the department has
been called to the statement twice made
by Judge Parker that there have been ad-
ministration orders forbidding the publica-
ton of information concerning govern
mental expenditures. This is a mistake.
Mr.. Parker seems to have unfortunately
acquired from untrustworthy sources con-
siderable misinformation, especially about
the management and condition of the
Treasury Department, and also about or
ders issued to govern departmental action
generally. The only order issued concern
ing estimated expenses was that sub
ordinate should make any estimates public
until the heads of the departments had
gone over them with the President and
they had been approved. Before Mr.. Par
ker had made his second statement in ref
erence to order to withhold information
the Post Office, Interior and Agricultural
departments and the District of Columbia
had made and published their estimates
The estimates from the other departments
will be given out in the ordinary course of
business, as soon as they are made and ap-
proved, just as they have been in previous
years. The practice of the department in
this respect has not been in any manner
departed from this year.
MIR. Parker has evidently been led into
an error on another point. He seems to
think that the current monthly expense &C
counts have some relation to these estf-
mates. These estimates have no relation
wha to present expenses. They sim
ply represent the sums that Congress Will
be asked to appropriate to meet the ex-
penses of the various departments for the
fiscal year beginning July l, 1905, and end
ing June 30, 1906.
A Remarkable Statement.
MIR. Parker says further that for the
first two months of the present fiscal year
the expenses exceeded the receipts by
twenty-four millions of dollars, and adds:
How much more we have run behind since
1 am not able to state, because the public
has been denied all information pending the
campaign This is very remarkable
statement, and Judge Parker must have
made it on the spur of the moment without
reflection. He surely knows that the Treas
ury issues and publishes daily bulletin
each day and monthly bulletin each
month giving the receipts and expenses by
the day and month, and that these bulle-
tins are regularly published in all the lead
ing papers of the country. For instance,
the bulletin of October 20, the day before
the Judge made the speech referred to,
showed the deficit up to that day, from
July /, to be $20.:33, 542. a decrease of about
four millions of dollars during September
and up to October 20. Should this rate OF
increase of receipts over expenses continue.
as is quite certain, the deficit of July and
August alarming to the judge, would be
wiped out during the year. The student
of government finance understands perfect
ly that expenses are heaviest at the begin
ming of the fiscal year, and that defclt
for the first months is to be expected, and
is no evidence that 1t will continue through
the months to follow.
IF Judge Parker would apply to the
Treasury Department for informa ton as to
the methods of government business and the
condition of the public finances, he would
get prompt and accurate informa ton and
avoid the embarrassment of being led into
very palpable errors.
Republican Prospects in Maryland.
Representative Wachter and Gen. Felix
Agnus of Baltimore both called at the
White House today and both represented
the outlook in Maryland as growing better
each day for the republican cause. Il
came over on the train this morning. said
General Agnus, with Edward Cans. the
noted democratic lawyer and former demo-
cratic attorney general of Maryland. He
told me he would vote the republican ticket
this year, and that he knew of many other
democrats who would do so. [ consider the
prospects exceedingly bright for carrying
Maryland and they are growing brighter
right along. Representative WacnteF Was
of exactly the same opinion.
Mr.. Wachter introduced to the President
large delegation of Baltimore Hebrews.
who came over to present the President
with a scroll in honor of his coming birth
day The President will be forty-six years
Cid the 9th of this month. He was born
in New York city October p. 1853. The
scroll is in Hebrew script, and consists of
fifteen stanzas of poetry, composed and writ
ten by Israel Fine. Accompanying the
original is an English translation. Mr..
Fine, the author of the poem, and his son.
Louis Fine, who translated the Hebrew,
Were with the delegation, which consisted
of Isaac Hamburger Moses Pels. Manus
I. Hamburger, L. S. Baker Louis Weiss
and Sigmund Stephan. The President
thanked the delegation for their call and
for their kind remembrance.
The West for Roosevelt.
Henry T. Scott of San Francisco was a
White House caller today He said that he
did not know about political conditions in
the east. but that in the west everything
was well nigh solid for Roosevelt "Out
our way" said Mr.. Scott "the majorities
for Roosevelt will be tremendous
U. S. Grant. jr., of California was another
caller to predict great majorities for the
President in the west.
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