The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-04-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFron our Regular Correspondent
Washington. ID. C. Anril

which have been SO long anticipated
have at klast been made. That oI
Senator Teller for the Interior De-
partmcnt will be confirmed without
opposition by the Senate. Mr..
Chandler for the Navy Department,
it is also thought, will be confirmed,
but no. witout opposition. Mr..
Chandler was born at Concord, New
Hampshire, in 1885. He graduated
at the Harvard Law School and be-
gan the practice of law i'll 1856. He
has been a member Of the Legislature
several times, and was, for two years,
Speaker Of the House. In March,
1865, he was appointed by Presidan,
Lincoln the first solicitor and judge
advocate general of the Navy De
partment. In June following le was
made first assistant Secretary of the
treasury, and held the Office for near
ly two years. He was Secretary OF
the National Republican Committee
during the Grant campaign of 1868,
in 1876 he was counsel for the Hayes
electors in Florida; and, it may be
SAID that, if it had not been Tor his
presence in Florida during the count,
Hayes would not have been Presi-
dent. He was the head OF the Blaine
delegation from New Hampshire at
the last Chicago convention.
Senator Henry NJ. Teller, who has
been nominated to succeed Secretary
kirkwood, is a native OF Allegheny
county, N. Y, and is now fifty-two
years old. He prac,iced law in his
own State, and afterwards removed
to Illinois, where he resided four
years prior to his residence ip Colora-
do, which dates from 1861. Upon
the admission of Colorado AS a state,
he was elected TO the United States
Senate, which is the first public
office he ever held. During the pres
ent session, he has been chairman of
the committee on pensions, and also
a member of the judiciary, claims,
railroad committees.
The reasons fer the removal of
Secretary Kirkwood seem to he that
he is old and very slow in the trans.
action of business. Secretary Hunt
of the Navy has been sick much of
the time, and unable to attend to
the duties of the department. He
has been appointed minister to Rus.
sia, where he will have nothing 10 do
but to maintain the dignity of his
position, which he can do quite as
well as his predecessors Curtin, jew
ell, and Stoughton. Few men can
carry more dignity than Judge Hunt
besides he speaks French fiuently,
which is an important consideration
at St Petersburg.
Since l hogan wiring have
learned that Senator Tellcf has been
confirmed; and, if Mr.. Chandler
shall be confirmed. President Ar
thurs cabinet by his ow: appoint
ment will he completed, with the
exception of the present Secretary OF
war. Robert Lincoln, who remains
the only cabinet officer appointed
by Garfield. The first appointment
by the present executive was judge
Folger as Secretary Of the Treas ry,
aud this appointment was followed
by those of FreIynghuysen, Brew
s,er, Howe, Teller, and Chandler.
The House is still debating the
tariff commission bill. The presiden-
tial count bill passed the Senate yes
terday without amendment. The
bill to improve the Potomac river
front, which affects the interest OF
the district in greater degree than
any measure that has been before
Congress Tor years, will come up on
Monday.
Mr.. Farley introduced bill in the
Senate yesterday to execute certain
treaty stipulations. It is identical
with the vetoed bill except that the
term of suspension is made sixteen
years.
The Pls Iron Product Of the Euitea States
The pig iron product of any
country is very good measure ot
the progress of the country. Judged
by the increase in product last yea1
the progress was very satisfactory
The Chicago journal Of Commerce
gives the following:
"The total production of pig iron
ia the United States last year wa
4,l44,252 gross ton, compared witt