The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-03-01
FROM WASHINGTON
Special 10 Tue CAnnoN ADVOCATE.


interest in his big ranch down there has
beens purchased by Colonel Iugersoll
and John b. Alley, of Boston. These
two are to meet Dorsey inn short time
aud join him in trip to Old Mexico af-
ter looking. over the property they have
just acquired. But Dorsey has not been
occupied wholly with business matters
siuce he has been here. Politicians,
lobbyists, men with schemes, applicants
for pensions, have thronged his pnrlors
from morning until late at night. There
ars two politicians who have spent many
hours with bin whcso visits havo no
littls political significance, Tbese are
Senator Logan sad Riehard Crowley
Last s@paISsr Dorsey was very bitter iH
bis remarks abeut Io4AR. He felt very
ktSAlJ tAs siiaat sa1sed by ths resou-
tioA of thAnks ts Colonel Hooker, aRois-
tAnt secretary Of the RePublicsA Nation
nj Com mittee, bnat Lug9a offered No
mention NJ all vas made Of Dorsey's ser
vices, and be regarded this omiSsiOn az
on intended iHsuit. But it appeSrs tsSt
Dorsey has changed his views ia that
respect; at all evsHts, 10 is certaie thht
whatever differences there may have been
they have all been gTaooshSd over. II is
A Question how mach good the ex Star
route defendant can do anybody in
politics inst nov; hut candidate who
Is real anzious generally accepts any
kind of aid be Vs@ aet.
Hon. l.. M. Marble, x.Commissionsr
OF PateSts, who recently resigned to IN
ter upon TIE praesiee of his prof. ssion
hess, HAS found plenty to 90, aud is
locking more hale aad hearty tssn when
prssidiDS over thRt Vezatious depart
mslt. the Patent OHce, lie thiRks With
mauy others that tus Government ices
tor letbers patest naight we'll be reduced,
nEd thst instead Of earning a lara . saT-
plas fEom the tax upon ludustEy and
gssius, tbs Office should siHply he self
sustaiuips. There are ether Reforms
which Mr.. Marble would have been glad
TO iuaugurate had be reaein.d ia the
Office. One of these, the ocmpilinS of Il
complete descriptive digest OF sill tie
atents issued frDp tie topndiae
OF the Office. he did haYe begus, by Il .
consent OF Congress, and very valuable .
and convenient work it Woald have been
to the public and the dep irtmsat, but
so much opposition was made by parties
interested in keeping the Office in Its
present state, that Congress was induced
to withhold necessary appropriation tor
carrying on tho work. In a few years st
most the department will adySnss to Mr.
Marbles views on ali these points,
Meanwhile bis long eoaaeetion With it
both RS law officer aad Commissioner OF
Patents, enables him to ronder valuable
service to those who consult him. It Is
wonderful how rapidly toe business OF
the Office increases and what complica-
tioas grow out of it. just now there Is
among many other contests a hot battle
over the different telephone patents
The Bell Company have had practically
monopoly SO far, but it is II question
wbethor other claimants will not be able
to sh W priority,
Washington is not very greatly excited
over the report from London that Bis
inarck had refused to reyNiYe the resolu-
ton assed by the House of Representa-
tives in honor Of Herr Lasker. Members
and Senators in general have heard al.
most nothing Cpon the subject, Only
Il few read the papers in which the re-
port of the rebuff given by Bismarck was
published. Those who have read the
r.port are not incli1ed to regard the
matter IS at all serions. 1t is not re-
garded as matter requiring counter &C
tion. At best, they say, generally, that
the action of Bismarck is only piece
Of fill-breeding-a rudeness that does net
cali for special resentment in the way of
further action.
Congress has been in session more
than two months of what is known as a
Presidential year, and both parties have
confronted each other in silence. without
II positive movement having been made
on either side likely to affect the election
next November. II was intended by one
wing of the Democracy to make the tar
iff the NEST marked line of separation
between this Democrats and the Republi-
oans; but both sides are more or less
distracted oy the economic theories that
| are respectively urgedby the advocates
| of protection and of tariff reform, and ~
no bill on this subject is likely to pass
at the present session, 1t may be dis
missed for the action or the silence OF
the two National Conventions.
1t is said here that there IL not one
United States Senator in favor OF the
nomination of President Arthur at Chi
oago. His mos. intimate friend in the
Senate Senator Miller, of California, has
said reluctantly that he would like to see
Arthur reelected bat that his veto of the
Chicago bill would be used to bis disad-
vantage in all the Pacific States, The
two States which menace the President
most are Ohio and New York. In Ohio
Foster says that Arthur could not carry
the States, aud ex-Secretary Sherman re-
members certain controversy he held
with his former Collector of the Port of
New York, and severe documents ema-
mating from the Treasure throne about
that time. Senator Miller, of New York,
is said to have remarked that when the
time came and New York was called up
on TO show the faith that was in her, 1t
would show that Mr.. Arthur could not
carry the State, and shown in such a
manner that there woul be no sufficient
reply. The Senators generally say that
the President gives them what they
want and they have no complaint Of
him, but that he has no policy and not
much moral courage; ard one Of them
compared him to sturgeon whose back
bone was merely piece OF gristle.
Regular to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WAsHINGToN, d. c.. Feb. 81, 'S3.
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