Show washington LETTER aug senator allison EBS the treasury surplus is gone at least that for the canent year is it has been wiped ot by the unusually large appropriations ladeby made by the present con congress ress this thia discovery dio dib covery is likely to prove ome LOme whit awkward fur for the tariff r reformers e and bug bag created a i ei ilabe ensa tiou lre an isquia live gen ius the arav for pensions public buildings the river and harbor bill and other things fit arted in to do a little figur ing first he 9 t the estimate ealim ates s of the treasury department f r the re of i the he current fiscal year then he footed up the lions already made and those certain to ha be made by b coutress Cou grosa gress the startling result wa was that there was no sur for abis year or such euch a small smal one as ai not to to bo worth noting it ii seems strange that important matter should have been over looked until this time it is likely to have a very important bo boario on many things it makei it very doubt doubtful fal whether the dependent pez pension sion bill wilt will got get through the boua or thi or the next ses seas sion of the fiftieth congress likewise the blair educational hill bill fo a the br b the souse of either on of these bills aou d acala a big and last bul bui py by ir means nit uns least it will bu bate e an imbur lunt hint bekris berbig on the pending campaign it there is no nj surplus no neild ned cin CAB exist for reducing of any kind the caus are till nil worked up about it and it may result in the republicans of the senate abandoning abando Ding their efforts to for eulate a substitute for the mi 1 Is 13 3 bill in the meantime r let everybody keep keel cool and ba patient during this warm weather senator allison is making up an official statement that may pui a different face on the maiter secretary has gone to for two weeks the united states man of war Gae been ordered t to 0 hafti to look after american interests dur iii ins 0 the tha present trouble tiou bleon on thit is lud tho the republican senators are till at york work on the substitute forthe for the hills bill althou although 11 it is said that mr blaine is ende endeavoring vo ring to get them LO 10 abandon the idea entirely but the most prominent members of the fi nance canes committee say thit it is no do i true rue and thit th it they are ging ligh ii 9 h ahead with their bill bil which bilich thet propose to discuss and pass before tl they claim too t iha ha heir beir laute will bo be 1 lie ilia house that at least twenty dem will wiil vote tote with the of f the house for the substitute per haps they will and perhaps they wi I 1 not time only can tell 11 T there e are many rumors quinora here her that mr clevelend is dissatisfied with the management of chairman price of the democratic national executive bom aud and wants him to resi resign col lamont lament says hes best reports are false but still they are repeated and details entered into by I 1 he gis gossipers sipers the house committee on expenditures tu res in the th treasury department to whom was referred the bill providing far for the prin printing ol oi government se curili e a ia the b e highest style of art hive have made their report I 1 it amends the bill so as to provide that thai all government securities bond 4 notes and internal revenue stamps shall be printed in the highest style of plate plat printing from band roller presses it also chan changes the law to 0 o as to require that tb he e chief of the bureau of Engra engraving En gravin yin and printing shall bo be a practical en engraver rater or place printer joint discussions seem to bo be drw ing in favor again representatives juvey and rival candidates candida candi daien tem for governor of india have bay agreed to make a joint canvass and now it is is proposed th that at speaker carlisle challenged challan ged mr blaino blaine for a joint discussion of the tariff each to make twelve speeches in in as many primi nent cities citie ii mr carlisle has already expressed his and it I 1 ii s that the will bo be agreeable to mr blaino blaine thi the speeches will certainly draw large cra crowd w ds and the people will be well repaid for atten attending aing if the arrangement can be carried out jut some idea of the enormous evor quantity of tariff literature sent out from here may be gathered from the fact that up to date the boding room alone alon has used this year I 1 envelopes euve for speeches this ito ij in excise of the number ever used before in a single year tear the house has been wit without bouta a quorum over half the time F ince since the passage of the mills bill bil I 1 ahe laral iava cadets cabets who were son sen to fenced need to dismissal from the service lor for had bad sentences cm commuted by the president to oho mouths con hoeme t and the loss of their annual leave the scare they received will do good |