The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-29
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
News and Comment From Uncle Sans
Headquarters.

Washington, ID. c., July, 2e, "A
the close OF business July 10, the ex
penditures of the government exceed
! ed the receipts in the startling sum d
: twenty-Seven million, nine hundred
and eighty-six thousand, six hundred
, and fifteen dollars, and fifteen cents
The receipts continue to run behino
!, the expenditures at the rate of two
million a day, and the republicans are
worried over the situation, as the
chances are that the deficit at the end
OF the fiscal year, June /, 1906, will &c
beyond the hundred million mark, in
which event the democrats would
have a great advantage in the con-
gressional elections next year.
The great speech delivered in the
house of representatives on the SUBJ
! ject of greater markets for American
cotton by congressman Adam M. Byrd,
of the Fifth Mississippi District, has
been productive of splendid results.
The President recently appointed five
trade commissioners to go abroad for
the purpose Of finding new markets
for American products, especially cot
ton and cotton goods. This is in line
with suggestions contained in Mr..
Byrd's speech.
Southern senators and members of
congress making summer visits to
Washington in behalf of their constit-
uents declare their intention to fight
TO the death the Townsend ESch Bill
to regulate and control the railroads
by the Federal Interstate commerce
commission because OF the clause con-
tanned in the bill empowering the
commission with authority to pre-
vent discrimination between blacks
and whites in interstate railway trav-
ell. The bill is the product of two
northern republican congressman
Townsend and ESch-who have never
let an opprtunity pass TO vote to un-
seat democratic member whose seat
was contested by Il republican.
Mississippi has less than forty-tive
per cent of her quota in the govern
ment service under civil service rules.
There is a splendid opportunity for
bright young men and women to Sc
cure good positions in the several de-
departments of the government, If
they will but apply to the United
States Civil Service Commission,
Washington, ID. c., for information
as to what is required to pass sue
cessfdi examination, and the time
and places of examinations. After
passing successful examination, the |
applicant S name is placed on the eleg-
ible list, and from this list all ap- |
pointments are made as vacancies oc-
ment. No political influence is re-
quired. In fact, it is prohibited I'M
der the rules. Merit counts for ev-
The Mississippi Society,". composed |
of MssissippianS residing in Wash
ington. is preparing for a large and
meeting the first week in
August.
Preliminary returns to the Chief of
the Bureau of Statistics of the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture
show the acreage of corn planted to be
about 81, OIL 900 acres, an increase of
about 2,0So, 900 acres, or 2.3 per cent.
on the area planted last year.
Government reports show the value
Of raw cotton exported from this
country to Germany in 1904 to be
S109, l23, 65S, while the value of that
to Germany in 1894 was but
S34, 675, 76l.
Leading democrats, high in the
councils of the party, give 1t as their
opinion that the next great national
will be fought on the ques
ton Of reduction Of the tariff. The
high tariff the republicans have piled
On the country is bardening the peo-
Die and causing great deficit in the
'eyenneS of the government. 1t is
pointed out that all clements Of the
lem1cratic party can be united on
his issue and no other.
Returns OF the Bureau of Statistics
If the department Of agriculture
show that 22.2l6,673 bushels of grain
we're exported from Gulf ports dur
ng the five months ending May 81.
1905.
Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., who was re-
GENTLY dismissed from his position as
associate statistician Of the bureau
If statistics of the United States de-
nartment of agriculture. for selling
the crop report in advance, married
the daughter of a Mississippi carpet
Dagger named Lake. Lake published
4 republican paper at Jackson in the
palmy days of carpetbagism, and at
one time held the position of United
States marshal for the southern dis
trict Of Mississippi. When it got too
warm for him in Mississippi, Lake
came to Washington and was given
an easy berth in one of the govern
ment departments. He was gather
ed unto his fathers some years since. |