Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-06-29
FROM WASHINGTON.


w ASHlNGTON, ~. ". june 20, 1914.
The A dminislration will promugate to the
public in few days nm order strictly forbid
ding all federal oflicehoders from partici patng
personally active in political manifestations,
as well as being, or becoming members Of
political committees, either ex-ofiica OF other
wise, and holds that while the enforcement of
this rule will probably work for n time against
his party it will in the end benefit il and
concluded by saying that il any federal Office
holders thought their duty to their party
required their individual exertions he had no
objection to their resigning their Offices, but
they must give up one or the other.
The report of the committee OF investiga-
ton wherein they condemn the loose manage
meni of, as well as the employment Of two or
three times the employees more than necessary,
many appoin tments being made OF persons
friendly to the Presidential aspirations OF Mr.
Bristow, is not at Il relished by the particu-
lar friends Of The late Secretary Brlsow, who
retort by asserting that the report was made
in the interest OF The Bunk Note Cos. to
whom Mr.. Brstow refused to make awards.
AT all events there has been big leak in this
bureau for the past decade, and it is about time
it was corrected.
Henry Ward Beeche- called upon Hayes last
Wednesday and prevailed upon the Admins
tratien to retain a leading member Of Plymouth
church, and witness in the Parsons Iilton-
Beecher adultery case, Que Freeland, collector
of the Brooklyn district, whose resignation
had been called for, but Rutherford B. did
not commit himself to the Parson however, but
turned the matter over to ''brolher john" Of
the Treasury portfolio for investigation and
report.
From dispatches received here through Army
sources we are informed that another big
Indian war has begun. We are inclined to
believe, however. that the picture is vastly
overdrawn, as the main dispatch reports only
one hundred Indians on the war-palh.
The awards for mail service under adver-
tisement Of April 10 give entire confidence
here in regard 10 accuracy, impartiaity aud
promptitude in every particular and complete
the entire mail service of every State and
Territory, and will go into effect on Septem-
Der LIST, proximo, and continue until the end
of each term respectively.
The Presidential Mansion has for ths past
few days been over-run with delegates each
one having some axe to grind. Mr.. Hayes
listened attentyey as usual, blu. they departed
without receiving any additional information
as TO his intentions.
Considerable dissatisfaction ey;sts among
Kentucky Republicans a, the appointment
by Mr. Hayes of Gen. Harlan and Col Bris-
tow to important positions. Harlan wanted
TO go in the Cabinet and Brisow gazed eager
ly for the Supreme Court Bench. Great com
plant comes from Kentucky at the small
patronage bestowed upon them by the Admin
istration, and at a private meeting held at
Cincinnati the friends Of Brstow determined
to still further urge him for the vacancy in
the L. s Supreme Court.
Notwithstanding tho repeated assertions
that Mr. Hayes would spend the summer in
" In 1uttac rf Ia
office, his good intentions have broken down,
and he will no doubt spend as little time here
AS did his predecessor, Grant. His trip to
New England will consume a week or more,
and then he proposes trip South, winding
up at the Greenbrer White Sulphur Springs,
Va. The programme as at present mapped out
will undoubtedly keep him from the city the
best part, if not all summer This ''circuit
riding disease is evidently "ketehin."
Gen. Garfield, aspirant for the speakership
through the overtures made to him by Mr.,
Hayes, now bewals his Disappointment and re-
grets giving up his chances for the Senate
being quite outspoken in his denunciatory
mutterings Of the treachery Of the Admins
iration. After all his sacrifices he gets no ia
vors he asks al tho White House, and his in
iuence with the Administration amounts to
just nothing. The letter of Mr. Hayes prom
ising him the speakership will ne made public
at sometime in the future when 1t i'll be more
effective than at present. Mr.. Hayes feels no
little embarrassment at this threat. having been
little ore free when he wrote than sound
discretion would dictate.
The recent invasion of our territory on this
side of the Rio Grande by Mexican troops, and
the capture of and holding them as prisoners
by Gen Ord was a subject for tho considera-
ton of the Cabinet since our last letter, when