The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-02-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsH1NaroN, D. e., Jan. 80, 1888

Itislikely that the Agricultural Bureau
will very soon have new statistician.
The President will probably heed the
request of the Representatives in Con-
gress of Kentucky, Virginia, North Car
olina, Texas, Tennessee and Missouri,
and notify statistician Dodge that his
resignation will be accepted if rendered.
The Statistician says that he does not
care ifhe does step down and out, as the
salary is avery poor one any way for the
services rendered, and he believes that
be can do just as we'll if not better out.
side than inside. He has been in the
Office for some twenty years, and says
that while he may have erred in judg-
ment in his last falls estimate of the
tobacco crop, still he is not, and never
has been open to purchase by tobacco
spectators, and that he has never made
anything except his fixed salary out of
his statistical reports on the crops,
although he has had the opportunity to
make much. The verdict, however, is
that he must go, and that will make one
more Office to be filled by some good
Democrat.
The bill to grant Mrs. Logan pen
sion of $4,000 year, which failed to
pass the Senate last session met, with but
little opposition this session in the SEN
ate, and has passed that body after some
discussion by vote of IS to7. Imme.
diately upon its passage, Senator Vest
called up the bill to give the widow of
General F. P. Blair pension of $4,000,
and the same passed, as the vote on one
committed the Republican Senators to
the same vote on the other.
The knights of Labor are after the
Government Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. 1t seems that quite recently
the Bureau introduced improved presses
for printing the notes and silver certif-
Gates, which until then had been printed
by hand. The new machinery caused
quite reduction in the force, and the
Knights charge that the work done by
the machinery is for inferior to the hand
work, that it is rough and easily counter.
feited. The Knights are at the Capitol
in force, and their cause is champioued
by Representative Foran, who expects to
get an early report from the Committee
on the question.
The printing of the report of Senator
Cockrell's Committee, as to the condition
of work in the several Departments, is
nearly completed. It will cover over 300
closely printed pages, and makes great
many recommendations, many of which
will never be acted on for want of time.
The ministers here have been inter-
viewed concerning the Presidents gift to
the Pope, and many Of them are very
pronounced in their censure of the Pres.
ident for recognizing, as they say, the
Pope as a temporal sovereign, which the
King of Italy refused to do. Some of
the ministers, however, think that the
act is not Of enough significance to call
forth the notice that it has received, and
that it was personal and not official act,
and not an endorsement of The Pope's
temporal power.
Senator Ingalls, campaign speech the
latter part of this week, will not be
devoted specially to the tariff question,
but will treat of political matters gener.
ally, and is expected to be a caustic
arraignment of the Democratic party.
The Democrats, however, can stand it, as
they are accustomed to the Senator's sar.
casm, and will have au opportunity in
turn to show up the Republicans. So
far, none of the Democratic Senators
have made political speeches, but they
will before long. II.