Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-04-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[FrOn our Regular couespOna..t.l

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WAsHrNGoN, ID. C., April IL, 1855.
Probably the most laborious and the
worst bored of the heads ofdepartment.
| is the Postmaster General, who moi
only has the full control of the appoint.
ments in 4S, ,535 post offices In the United
States, but has practically the oversight
in the appointments of the other :. .332
Presidential offices. Naturally there.
fore, the Office and the corridors
adjacent TO the Office of Mr.. Villas have
been thrOnged to absolute crowdinp
during the past three weeks by those
who being Ia desire to stay i'm, and
| those twenty-four year fellows who
have patiently waited to get in. The
number Of officials, employees, contrac-
tors, postmasters, mail carriers and mail
agents who pay homage and fealty to
the Postmaster General, embraces one
third of the entire civil list of the coun-
try, and this fact may account for the
other fact that the average Postmaster
General is a shOrtlived individual. In
eleven years, during which time we
ordinarily should have had but three
Postmasters General, we have had nine,
and Mr.. Villas is the tenth. The last
administration averaged over one per
annum, having had James, Howe,
Gresham and Hatton, and the six an
nual reports that have been transmitted
to Congress in the past six years, have
been signed by six different Postmasters
General.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
which takes the initiative in everything
pertaining to the safety and comfort of
railroad passengers in this country, is
now disputing England's supremacy
in the matter of speed. The trains on
the Great Western Railway, from Lon
don to Liverpool, annihilate the dis
tance at the rate of fifty miles an hour,
exclusive of stops, but what will Mr..
Bull and the rest Ofthe world says when
they learn that the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Road whirls its passenger train from
New York City to Chicago q good thou
sand miles, in twenty four hours-in-
Guiding stops? By the schedule that
went into effect last Sunday, the great
cities ofthe East are thus placed within
twenty four hours with the metropolis
of ftheWest, and this wonderful achieve
ment is accompanied by the most
positive guarantees of comfort as well
as perfect safety. Neither pains nor
expense have been spared in the adop-
tion of every possible means to insure
passengers against accident, so that the
inauguration of this new enterprise is
destined to secure for this line the con-
tinuance of that popularity that its
admirable management in the past has
won from the whole travelling public.
The conflict between the Government
and the people in regard to the settle
ment of the Oklahoma domain, can be
adjusted and concluded only by the
opening of that vast region to its oc-
cupation by its legitimate owners, the
people. 1t is domain that belongs to
and ought to be in unmolested possess
ion of the Government. The excuse
for now keeping actual settlers out of
the Territory, is that it may be added
to the ranchmen and cattle-kings who,
if they once get a foothold there, will
not fail to occupy it to the exclusion of
any and all individual settlers. These
lands belong to the United States Gov
ernment to all intents and purposes and
all the proclamations that the executive
may send out in the next four years will
not serve to divest the people of their
right to have this magnificent region
opened to actual occupation by the
white settler. PHoNo.