Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb.ll, 1884.
The little dispute between eX-Speaker
Keifer and Correspondent Boynton has
not been settled yet, and the more it is
stirred up the worse it gets for Keifer.
Nobody here accepts his statement
that Boynton made corrupt proposal
to him, as against the latter's good
character and reputation. BOynton has
never been known to have any interest
in jobs, and the money in this one is on
the opposite sidefrom the one he is said
to haye eXpoused. A committee of the
House will endeayer 70 find out wheth-
er Keifer has not added contemplate
falses to his other meanness.
Probably the most disgusted man,
though, is the unfortunate McGar-
rahn, who owns the immortal claim
which started the controversy, and who
now sees it led off, sidetracked as it
were, on one of,the inumerable branch
issues that have marked its course
through the departments, the courts
and Congress for the pest twenty years.
He has no concern with the Keifer-
BoYnton controversy, except in so far
as Mr.. Boynton tried to do him a slight
kindne IS, as almost any one would who
knows his story; and its agitation will
probably put him further off than ever
from getting a hearing on the mer-
its. "Mac" takes his long ramblcs Il
bout the streets by night and day,
which seems his only method Of work.
ing off surplus activity, more detected
ly than is his wont. 1t looks as though
the rich New Idra Company would
keep him out of his own for many years
longer.
The bloody shirt scheme of Senator
Sherman and some of his Republican
associates hasI fallen so fiat as to be
hardly worth carrying on. The COM
mittee appointed will pretend to take
testimony, which will be printed and
circulated for campaign purposes; but
it is doubtful now whether this sort of
thing will do not more harm than good
to their'own cause. Presidential booWs
are growing mum erous now, new ones
springing up every few days The
most astonishing thing Is the apparent
inr0ads made by Logan on thelAdmlni-
stratien strength. 1t looks now as
though there would be a nice fight be-
tween Logan aud Arthur, which will
probably defeat them both. Senator
Don Cameron writes to a friend in
Washington that he will not take pos
session of his seat in the Senate until
after the question of Presidential can
didacy has been settled. He says that
he wants to be out of the way, because
if he interested himself in behalf of any
candidate the cry of bossism would be
raised in the convention. 1t cannot be
that Don is quietly working for the
nomination himself. Such political
modesty is unparalleled.
There are two significant signs of the
growth of Washington as winter re-
soft for the wealthy. One of them Is
the "boom" in the furniture business,
which is really worth a passing word.
It is now undoubtedly the largest
single trade here, outside of provisions.
Every dealer has enlarged his place to
nfp
ments have been started, some of them
in what have been heretofore private
parlors, to satisfy the lately developed
craze for "art" furnishings, in the
shape of screens, potteries, dados and
the like. Two of the largest halls,
that of the Odd Fellows and Tall
madge Hall, are given up to the display
of furniture, viii ch, though it bears a
most unrighteous percentage of profit,
has the drawback Of being bulky and
requiring great space. A iargb eating
house on the Avenue went into bank
ruptcY; its rooms were Immediately
seized upon by the furnit ure establish
ment next door. The roller-skating-
rink of the city has found it more prof
liable to sell out to another dealer in
household goods than to continue it's
proper fun ction-greatly to the grief
of the young folks. A former hotel at
the corner Of Seventh street and Penn
sylvania avenue has long been devoted
to the sale of furniture, and some firms
have lesser warehouses and "branches"
scattered about the city. PHONo.