Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-08-17
sECREIRY NOBLE.
Holds the Fort Alone at Washington The Telegraph.--The Vacancy on the Supreme Bench. --The Sioux Reservation,
Prom Our Regular Correspondent.)


 WASHINGTON, D. O., Aug. 9, 1889.
 Secretary Noble is just now holding the fort all alone, he being the only member of the cabinet in the city. The rest of them are scattered around about as follows; Secretaries Blaine and Tracy are with the President at Bar Harbor Secretary Windom is in Boston looking after some complicated custom matters Secretary Proctor is at his Vermont home; Secretary Rusk is'in New York city endeavoring to make arrangements with the railroad managers that will facilitate the Government inspection of all shipments Of live cattle; Postmaster General Wanamaker is at his country residence in Pennsylvania, and Attorney General Miller is in Indianapolis, where he will meet the President on the 22nd inst, and return with him to Washing ton after the laying of the cornerstone of the soldiers new monument ln that city.
 All payments of bills against the Gov ernment for work done by the telegraph companies have been suspended until some agreement shall be reached as to the prics to be paid. Mr. Wanamaker still sticks to his first opinion that one mill per word is enough, while the tele- graph companies insist that they lose money at the present rate of one cert per word.
 Avery interesting story has been float ing around Washington for day or two, which belongs to the important, if true" classl It states, on seemingly good au thority that the President has decided to appoint Secretary Noble to the vacan- cy on the bench of the Supreme Court, and that the vacancy in the Cabinet will be filled by either making Assistant Postmaster Clarkson Secretary of the Interior, or by transferring MT. Wana- maker to that position and making MT. Clarkson Postmaster General Secre tary Noble says he heard this news first from a newspaper man. That gives it very bad black eye to start with. The President like all other sensible public men is very friendly towards the news paper men, but he is hardly friendly enough toward them to have told one of them of such an important appointment before informing the man to be appoint ed. So, nuch for the first part of the story. As neither Mir. Wanamaker nor Nr. Clarkson are lawyers, 1t Is certain that neither of them will ever be made Secretary of the Interior by President Harrison, for he long ago put himself oa
 ecord as believing that only lawyer should be at the head of that depart ment. That disposes of the last part of the yarn.
 Secretary Noble on Wednesday re- ceived the following telegram from Ex- Gov. Foster, chairman of the commas sion which has been negotiating for the purchase of portion of the great Sioux Indian reservation in Southern Dakota; We have won the fight. Will leave to- morrow for Chicago. Will write you fully from Chicago.
 The dispatch was forwarded to the President at Bar Harbor. Gov. Eos ter's colleagues on the commission are Mai. Gen. Crook, U. S. A., and Hon. Wm. Warner, of Missouri. When the agreement just arranged by tEis com mission is approved by congress, which it is certain to be, about 100000 acres of land will be opened to settlement. The government is to pay the Indians Sl25 per acre for all lands sold to home stead settlers for the first three years after the act goes into effect, D cents for all disposed of in the next two years following; and 90 cents per acre for what remains undisposed of at the end of that time.
 Assistant Attorney General Tyner in tn letter of inquiry from the Chief Clerk of the post office depart ment, has written that when three names are certified by the Civil Service for appointment. and one of them is a discharged sailor or soldier be must be selected for the place.
 Frederick Douglas, who was recently appointed Minister to Hayti, says he does not expect to go there until the present troubles are settled sufficiently the beligerents.
 Editor NJ H. DeYoung, of the San Francisco Chronicle, had q long consul tation with the President before he went away. The subject discussed was, who should be made Minister to China? 1t is not believed that MT. De Young. or any other Pacific coast man, is can 1idate for the position. He only wish ad to give the President an idea of the public opinion in hIs section on the matter
 The President made quite a number of appointments of more or less impor- tance before he left the city last Tues day.