| Show THE HARRISON administration REVIEWED THE greater part of a recent issue of the new york mail and impress ix press is devoted to reports of the condition of the different departments of the gov arment these reports axe are as full and as elaborate as if issued issue J directly from the heads of departments in an official way the newspaper which issues them says that they have been carefully revised by competent bands this means that they are semiofficial semi official what the object may be in calling the attention of the people to the state of the government in midsummer it is not easy to conjecture of course democrats will say that it is done to influence the fall elections especially in ohio and iowa and as the re reports PO arts give a very roseate hue to departmental affairs there may be some appearance of truth in what the opposition says saya however there to Is not much exaggeration in these reports according to them the government to really satisfactory and its various departments are working prosperously perou sly the state department under the able management of mr blaine has so 80 far scored a number of successes the behring sea difficulty has been ad adjusted on terms honorable to the united states our relations with canada continue most favorable the reciprocity scheme is going on excel bently so bo far only one country venezuela has absolutely repudiated our attempts at free commercial intercourse the pan american congress was a success the italian trouble has been handled in a masterly manner all these are facts patent to everybody the treasury Trea mury department under windom wendom and foster seems to have done very well the administration of ef the new tariff law is one of its greatest performances it has accomplished its work so far with ease and ami dispatch during the past nine months more goods have been imported than ever before in ane same period yet the duty was less by the portion of the national debt falling due this year was refunded at a rate of interest the lowest in the history of governmental ern mental securities the silver policy of the administration has bas been conservative serva tive and yet beneficial to the country silver is higher now than it has bag been for twenty years there has been a considerable increase in the currency of the nation and by it a threatened panic has been averted the war department under secretary proctor is reported satisfactory deser defier gions have practically ceased contract abuses have been suppressed an indian trouble has been settled with less loss of life than any in our previous history our coast de fences are being ably and expeditiously prosecuted the navy department under mr tracy is also in good condi condition tian everything that science intellect and wealth can do to obtain an efficient effective and superior navy is being done the department of justice under mr miller has accomplished a great deal of work it has bad be fore it during the past two years several great constitutional questions there are five of them now pending and the attorney general is ready to go on with them when court convenes the election laws have been efficiently enforced for the past two years the interior department under mr noble has accomplished its great work the taking of the census to the satis faction of the country at large the count was made in quicker time by three months than ever before when completed the lith 11 tb census will be the most interesting compiled in our history the indian bureau under mr mor gan has been re reconstructed constructed it Is said tor for the better the pension office and the land office are both abreast of their work when the present administration came into office cases in the latter bureau alone were unsettled the post office department under mr wannamaker is reported in excellent condition he ele has under consideration siJe ration the establishment of a postal telegraph scheme and also postal savings banks and certainly very few I 1 if any charges of mismanagement or inefficiency have been made against this department by even hostile politicians tic ians the department of agriculture under the genial jerry rusk busk is reported the best organized of any thou though gb it is but a recent creation under his management the meat and cattle interests are prosperous the restriction placed on these industries by france germany and england are about to be entirely removed this is owing to the active measures adopted at home by the D department rement on taa the whole the harrison administration seems to be doing very well of course the showing made here is entirely from a pa partisan rilean organ but the most pronounced opponent must admit that it makes an excellent showing the advocates of free sliver silver will take issue with the treasury report relating to that metal but otherwise they can not find very much fault with the existing condition of the various departments part ments |
