Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
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WASHINGTON

GARFIELD is badly worried by the office
seekers. Uneasy lies the head that
wears presidentshlp.
SECRETARY BLAINE is to have as hand
some a house in Washington az that of
Senator Cameron.
The average age of Senators in Congress
is 50 years-the oldest being 66 and the
youngest 43.
IN the case of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company VS.. the United States, the
Court of Claims awarded the company
damages amounting to 1921, III. The suit
was for money due for mail service.
GEN. WALKER will propose to the skill
ed assistants in the census bureau that
they work all summer for nothing and
trust to the sense of justice of congress to
repay them at the next session.
CARMICHAEL's postal card, in which he
made an abusive remark regarding General
Malone, is to be a boomerang against the
postal clerks who ventured to read the
card, and they will be tired for that
offense.
JACOB THOMPSON, of Mississippi, mem
Der of Buchanan's cabinet, who is now in
Washington on private busiress, says he has
vet to meet the first southern man who
has spoken unkindly Of Garfield as presi-
dent.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD promises to attend
the Atlanta exposition inNoyember. His
private secretary, J. Sttnley Brown, is
going to Europe on public business, and
o. L. Pruden will serve temporarily.
Ex-senator DoRsEY'S connection with
the star-route frauds is said to be clearly
| indicated by the evidence in the hands of
the Attorney Generals assistants. The
prosecutions will not be begun before Sep
| tember.
| The President has appointed Edward L.
Chapman postmastec at Great Bend, Kas.,
| and Frank nj. Tracey postmaster at ST.
Joseph, Mo, and signed the commission
| of q. K. E mer as postmaster at Rich
mond, Va.
POSTMASTER General James in exposing
the star-route frauds not alone. saves the
country millions of dollars from the bogus
mail service now, but he also renders it
! impossible that such wholesale s%indling
shall ever be perpetnted in the future.
REPRESENTATIVE Germans of Indiana
will endeaYor to hay President Garfield
withdraw the nomination of Senator
KahlO as consul geneal to Berlin. Their
hostility is based upn Kahlo,s votes in
the legislature in faDr oftemperance and
woman suffrage. ..f
THERE is no truth in the report that
Assistant PostmasterGeneral Tyner con-
templates resigning He returned to
Washington after bsiness trip to New
York and Philadelphia. He SAYS that he
resignation Is not desred. Con. Tyncr
will probably remain yhere is.
PRESIDENT CARRIED and party paid a
, visit of inspection to lortresS Monroe, the
Soldiers Home, near Hampton, Va, and
the normal school anc national cemetery
l there. The Dispatch with the presiden-
tial party aboard, ihe1 sailed around the
United States fleet, whose yards were
manned with cheering'ows of blue jackets.
GEN. BRADY, of sar-route notoriety,
threatens to bring sui against Attorney
: General MacVeagh ad PostmasterGen-
I eral James, if he shalbe indicted for con-
nection with the str-Dute rascalities. and
! has secured the services of Shellabarger,
I Wilson, Ben. Butlr ad Bob Ingersoll to
y conduct the proseciti0 and his own de-
fense. He protests t be able to estab-
5 lish his entire inneere of all charges
S preferred against him His vindications
will cost him some moey, however,
THERE are runao1s Washington that
Secretary Blaine andNr. James Russell
Y Lowell, United States 1inister to Eng
land, may soon chang, 1laces 1t is init
mated that Mr.. Blain. anxious to go to
England, and that Mr. Lowell is quite
; willing to take his plae if it be satisfac-
4 tory to the President and Mr.. Blaine.
: There are many also wi think it desira-
Bile that Mr. Blaine shod go to London,
e SO as to remove all obstaes to better feel
/ ing between all sectionsf the Republican
r party,
= The Star-Route mitigating Com
y mittee, sustained as it by the president,
s the encouragement tn postmaster gen
:. eral is making very -satfactory progress,
The committee has scovered that a
Z route, for which there as not the least
necessity, was being matained at an an
nual expense of the Mon of 100000
n This route will be diontinued on the
, Recommendation to thecommittee, which
,. is Endorsed by the posiaster general, and
q thus 100000 per ANN is saved without
n in the least cripplingle postal service.