The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-19
LBTTBR FROM WASHINGTON.
FROM OUR REeuLAR coRREsroNDENT

I 4utIe has Detu u SOOu uedl OF lULeFes
here in Ohio politics for some time past
Indeed, it looks almost as though tn
Washington end was rather running
the machine. Up to the meeting of th,
Republican Convention there was ,
strong impression here that the Gov
ernorship question would finally
settle down to a contest between Sher
man and Thurman, but the nomination
of Foster changes the aspect Of things
The interest Of Presidential candidai es
is what cOmplicates matters from 2
Washington standpoint, and, so far as
Ohio Il concerned, the Grant movement
has received check, while sherman
takes the cake" as the boys say. Il
is an Administration triumph. Secre-
tary Sherman is the Administration
candidate for President. His friends
and the Administrators friends ex-
peet to see him beat Grant for the nom
ination. Blaine is doing positively
nothing in the matter Of his own can
didacy. He says he came so near the
nomination cnce that he is sure light
ming cannot strike him. II the nomi-
nation should come, he would no doubt
be very glad Of it, but he will not incur
animosities and subject himself to the
anuoyauces and the anxieties Of being
a candidate. or course his friends will
urge his case as they did before, but ]
really do not believe that Blaine has
any hope for himself He thinks Sher-
man is stalking ahead very rapidly.
Pennsylvania is no doubt for Blaine;
but what will the CamerOns do? Until
Sherman began to loom up as a candi-
date, Don Cameron was heartily for
Blaine, after Grant. He has been dis
posed to be fol Grant against everybody,
bat now he may switch around and 90
for his uncle, John Sherman, in whose
house he courted his charming wife.
But Don will never try any more Of the
Hartranft business. The probability is
that he will be for Sherman first. then
Grant, and then Blaine. He has given
up Conkling as an impossibility. Rams
dell, Of the Philadelphia Times, relates
the following anecdote about Don and
Blaine, which will he understood bv
those who remember how Don, by main
strength as it were, kept the Pennsyl-
vania delegation from voting for Blaine
in the Cincinnati Convention, when
two-thirds Of them were for him, and a
few votes would have nominated him:
The other day, when the recoH menda-
tiOns for the appointment Of PennsyI-
vania Judge were ready to be sent to the
President, Blaine, Don and another Sen
atOr, who shall be uameless, stood to-
gether in the Senate Chamber. one of
them holding the envelope addressed,
'The President, Executive Mansion
\ page stood near at hand to take the
recon mendation to the White House.
The naneless Senator, V no held the en-
velope, placed his hand on the young
Senator's shoulder ard said: don,
Blaine ought to be in the White House
receiving papers bearing that address," !
YES" answered Don, "and he would /
have been il had not been a fool, >" and /
he and Blaine shook hands on it.
One Of the well-known women of
Washington is Mrs. Kate Sprague, the
beautiful and accomplished daughter of
Chief Justice Chase, who married Sen
ator Sprague, of Rhode Island, when the
Spraeues were wealthy aud powerful.
She is now living here at "EIgewood.u
her late fathers suburban residence.
aud seems destined to always occupy
public attention in one way or another.
Last year she succeeded in getting a bill
through Congress exempting this prop
erty from taxation, and also won a law
suit Of some sort here in the District
Courts, Senator Conkling appearing as
her attorney. Now she has Just won
another suit, the circumstances of which
have caused considerable comment. A
sued her for bill of sos
for photographs and views taken to
illustrate biographical sketch Of her
father. The photographs were made by
her order and submitted for her approv-
al, but she placed the financial respon-
sibility on the author Of the biography.
The photographer sent the bill to her
husband, ex-senator Sprague, who re-
piled that be had nothing to do with
Mrs. SPrsgue's bills. The Court refused
to give judgment against her on the
ground that a married woman is a nom
entity in the District, and caunOt be
sued. IL cOmplicates matters some
what, as the position that she does not
own separate real estate don't consist
exactly with the exemption Of fine a
piece Of property from taxation because T
.he owner of it is woman, and the ]
laughter of man the country has !
owed TO honor. Mrs. Sprague was the a
observed Of all observers in the Senate e
gallery last Winter, and, altogether, her o
,areer has been a little notorious Cen o
raj sherman accompanied her in her :
eceut attendance at Court /
Dom PEDRO. L
josh Billings suggests that manv a Y
Oung poet might be able to collect his
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