Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
President Arthur's Junketing Tour Among the
Catskills-Senator Logan's Residence
Star Reuters Colonel Brad.
From our Regular Correspondent.

E"tiohai capital Up W tue present
month Washington had experienced
very little oppressive summer weather,
but with August the temperature has
raised full upon us, and in spite of the
previous salubriousness of the season
an exodus has commenced. The off
GERS of the Government, from the exec.
utive down to host of minor officials
and their families are nearly all away
There is the President having grand
picnic up among the Catskill Noun,
tains, accompanied by two little girls
and his friend, General Sharpe, all Of
whom share in the publicity that is Civ.
en- to bis travels and the entertainments
which he attends. The telegraph
brings full account of the movements
of this prime excursion party, and il
would seem that Mr.. Arthur has never
at any time since he became President
got so completely rid of the cares Of
public business as during his present
tour. Then, among the departures las
week, was Father Frelinghuysen, who
also directed his steps to the Catskill
and it is said disturbed the tranquility
of the President by bothering him will
cares and details about certain interna
tional relations. Thus it is that the,
steal away one by one, and leave Wash
ington to enjoy a summer siesta unit
September, when the vacation horde re
turns with q rush and politics wax rec
| hot.
| In spite of the old truism that ap
pearances are deceiying, it seems q:
though Senator Logan has evidently
made up his mind that he is to be the
next presiding officer of the Senate, fol
after boarding for number of years he
has now determined TO 90 to house,
keeping. His boarding house is rath.
er unpretentious affair on Twelfth
street near the Treasury, but he now
determines to make Capitol Hill his flu.
ture home. He will reside at THE
Naples as the property belonging tc
"Olivia," the correspondent, is termed
The house is charmingly situated in the
square at the intersection of Pennsyl
vania and South Carolina avenues, q
short distance from the Capitol. Here
Senator Logan proposes to receive and
entertain visitors in very different
style from what he has been wont to dc
in a Washington boarding house. Be-
sides, there are disagreeabe recollec.
tions with his present abiding place, fol
it was at the common table he first met
the assassin Guitcau.
Truly, the lot of Star Route counsel
is not happy one. There has been
another disagreement among counsel
in the matter of the last efforts of the
Government to strike retribution among
the rascals, ard the eases will have tC
lanquish for n while longer. Las
spring while the Springer committee
was threshing over the old Star Route
straw, Attorney General Brewster an
nounced that he proposed to begin q
vigorous prosecution of the civil suits
against the Star Route contractors tc
recover, il possible, some of the plum
ho1 oh ain -, - 10.
successful raids on the Treasury. The
prosecution was to be vigorously pressed
and millions of dollars were to be re.
covered to the Treasury. Following
this announcement came the appoint
ment of Colonel VIM. o. Bradley, OF
Kentucky. to carry on the work of pro-
secution. Colonel Bradley is of good
Kentucky stock, aud is reputed as an
able, thoughtful, we'll read lawyer. He
lives at Lancaster in the very heart OF
the blue grass country, and has imbibed
as much of its spirit and as little of its
spirits as any man within its pleasant
borders. He has always been prominent
in politics, formerly as Democrat and
more recently as a Republican, al
though he has never held or sought q
political office, and changed from one
party to the other on principal solely,
retaining the respect of the best people
in both. He seconded Conkling's nomi.
nation of Grant in 1880, and afterwards
stumped New York for Garfield When
he accepted the Attorney Generals res
ponsible charge, Colonel Bradley buckl
ed down 10 work in Washington, wisely
and diligently preparing the prelimin
I aries for the suits. When he believed
himself ready to begin he said to the
Attorney General that, warned by the
misfortunes which had attended the
prosecution of the criminal suits against
members of the Star Route ring, largely
because of the antagonism among the
Government counsel, he desired to con
troll the selection of his assistants. He
wanted to know personally every mar
engaged in the prosecution down to tho
humblest Stenographer. The Attorney
General said that he proposed to run
the eases himself aud that he wouIt
select his own agents. Colonel Bradley
expressed his opinion of such a course
| calmly but clearly, and then suggested
that the first man to be prosecuted
should be Stephen W. Dorsey, the king
pin in the Star Route alley But Mr.
Brewster would not listen to it, and thet
Colonel Bradley, in his pure Anglo
SaXen, gave the Attorney General 8
piece of his mind. and left the case.
and the Department, together So far
his successor has not been appointed
and the cases seem to be about as Ian
guild as ever. LEMON.
Hendricks Accepts.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug 20.-Tht
following is a copy of sx-Governol
Thomas A. Hendrick' letter of accept
ance of the Democratic nomination for