New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, Oct. End, 1885
Another comparatively uneventfu
week has passed. Nothing of specia
interest has occurred at the White
House or in the Departments presided
over by the different Cabinet officers
Exciting political contests are going or
in Virginia, Ohio and New York, but
owing to the policy Of the: Administra
ton to avoid interference in the State
politics these contests do not excite
their usual interest here. The Presi
dent said recently in conversation with
some intimate friends that he had re.
fused and would continue to refuse to
take any active part in any state cam.
paign, and the members of his Cabinet
have pursued the same course, but not
without some hesitation. 1t is easy to
see, and the President recognizes, that
it is a difficult task for such men as
Manning and Whitney to keep out of
the New York canvass. Still, Mr..
Cleveland said, with some satisfaction,
that Secretary Manning declined to WIS.,
it Albany this summer, although his
private business required his personal
attention, lest his presence there might
t be misconstrued and connected with
some political movement. Secretary
Whitney remarked, just before the
President left Washington, that he was
quite convinced the Administration had
larger matters to attend to than look
ing out for state political conventions.
You may put it down as Il certain fact
that the Administration Will not bother
with the local politics of the states, and
all talk about Hoadly being renominat-
ed in Ohio to please the President, is
without foundation in fact. The Presi-
dent recognizes that keeping the State
machines well in hand is no part of the
business of the Administration.
Representative Morrison is in hecity
and in conversation yesterday: said
that there would be an effort made in
the next Congress looking to a reduc-
ton of tariff taxation. AS far as he
knew there was no concerted effort or
combination with this end in view, but
undoubtedly some one would offer such
a bill. Ii his plan for :. horizontal re-
duction should not find favor, probably
y perpendicular scale might be present
ed and adopted. One thing was GER
tain, however, there would be some
tariff legislation by the Forty-ninth
Congress, but just what plans would be
formulated he must decline to answer
at present. Some of the persons who
had been growing at him for his views
on the tariff would be given an oppor.
tunity 10 suggest something better, for
this question could not be evaded by
the lawmakers of the United States.
Secretary Lamar's clerks very much
regret the Secretary's illness. 1t has
doubled their work. By being at home
under the care Of his physician, he es.
capes all the interviews that take up
most Of his time in office, and conse-
quently gets through y vast amount of
real work. During tile few days he
has been ut home he has gone through
4 small wagon load Of official papers.
He has kept his stenographer and half
q dozen type-writers busy,late and ear
". BY the time the Secretary RECEIVERS
he will have wiped out most of the
work accumulated on his hands before
his illness had commenced.
Prof. Alexander Agassiz, of Cam.
bridge. who has been offered the posi-.
ton of Superintendent Of the Coast
Survey, is the richest scientific man in
America, with the possible exception Of
Alexander Graham Bell, and if he &C.
cepts the place it will be at much
sacrifice TO his personal comfort. Prof
Agassiz has been mnniticent benefac
tor Of Harvard College, giving hundreds
of thousands of dollars to sustain tina,
| institution when its revenues have beer
reduced from time to time. The sourc,
| of his great wealth is the Calumet ane
Hecla mine, in Michigan. which ha
yielded him millions. He has recent,
taken much interest in the Coast Sur
vey. and in the columns of the New
York Evening Post has defended it
management in q manner which show
I. that lie has the interests of the publ
service entirely at heart.
!. After a thorough test Chas. L. Roc
J: most positively asserts that Acker'
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