Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-05-12
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
W WASHINGTON.

I ADMIRAL PORTER has been appointed
Inspector General of the navy.
IHE president has nominated Eliot c..
JeWett, OF Missouri. to be superintendent
OF the new assay office at St. Louis
SENATOR LOGAN has plainly shown his
intention to vote against the confirmation
! OF Robertson and Stanley Mathews,
GENERAE GEORGE SHERIDAN has resign
ed the recordership of the District of Co.
lumbia, and will doubtless be succeeded bv
Fred. Douglass.
IT transpires that Dorsey made direct
inquiry of Attorney General McVeagh if
he were implicated by the testimony tax
en- IN relation to star-rOute contracts and
received a calm answer in the affirmative.
THE post office department is consider
ing the legal questions involved in plan
to cut down the expendited star routes to
the point where they were before Brady
increased them to their present proper
tions.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD states that in his
letter to Senator Dawes he declared that
he would not assist in elevating Journal
ist who constantly attacked and DETAINED
him. The clause refers to the republican
nominee for secretary of the senate
The awards for carrying the mails in
various parts of the country under the
miscellaneous advertisement of the 10th of
March, were finally decided upon Saturday.
In opening bids, a material departure
was made from the usual custom, the OBJ
lect being to prevent fraud.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD, on being inter
vleweG regarding his appeal to Brady to
contribute literally to the campaign fund
stated that the star-route contractors were
never thought of when the letter was writ
ten, the only idea being that Brady would
AID his party in the struggle from his am
pie means.
THE programme agreed upon by the
committee of the republican senatorial
caucus at Washington, includes the hold
ing of executive sessions at once, all nom
nations now on the table to be referred to
appropriate committees, the various trea-
ties to be fully acted upon, and the un-
contested nominations then considered
SENATOR DAWES has telegraphed to
New England paper denying that he, or
any committee of which he is member.
advised the president to withdraw the
nomination of Judge Robertson, or recon-
mended to him or to the caucus that action
on the nomination be postponed until an
other session.
CHAIRMAN JEWELL, of the republican
national committee, has issued a circular
inviting expressions of opinion from re-
publicans throughout the country in re-
gard to the best method of electing dele
gates to the next national con-
vention. 1t is the purpose to SO arrange
matters that the Incidents of the
last convention cannot be repeated.
IT is announced from Albany that Judge
Robertson has been requested by Presi-
dent Garfield to visit Washington, and
will proceed thither by the end of the
week. The judge declares that he will
take no step to placate Conkling Collect
or Merritt has engaged a summer resi-
dence in the country, which fact elbows
how slim are the hopes of going to Lon
don.
THE republican senators met in caucus
twice on the 4th inst. As result, an ex-
ecutive session will be held at once, at
which the Chinese treaties will be the first
business in order. The nominations to be
acted upon will be those TO which no re-
publican senator from the same state as the
candidates shall raise an objection. Conk-
ling has therby scored what will prove to
be a permanent point against the presi-
dent.