Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.


fnArElHon1 IeN|IYut IHlOH4nE Hlti
probsbly be areel,f hqAket to leern
thai the frply gqol fUf H|pus RenIenin
fiae been jHduIgInH IN sInfhI Sunday
eyeprelon. bit stIeh 3 5IIe t9ek Pi1us
Be1nY IN WASH tod Setu} Jay 1hdfn-
ing on board Of thR GavernIus6t vetAel
Despatdh and the sailing hditers Dr.
ders were 10 Keep going night and dsy
until the Feturii, 10 y, VhAhinofpn
Tonight. And to- make maIthf3 worse
lie has led off with him such in bdcepts
as SecfefAry WindoIn who hes not yet
entirely recovered ffdrn the etfedls Of
his own indulgence at the Iate New
York celebration, Secretary Rusk, who
by the way, needs salt air very much
since he was fresh" enough to think
that welding a scythe for five minutes
in the presence of several newspaper
correspondents was sufficient to pOpu-
larize him with the Agriculturists and
working people of the country, and
lastly but by no means least, Joe Haw-
ley, who although born in the State Of
North Carolina. can and does constant
ly give the trickiest citizens Of the
State which he represents in the United
State OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in
all manner of things. Mrs. Harrison
was along, but so also were the two
Mckee children, who probably fully
occupied her time leaving the four
mark the number-pious gentlemen to
indulge In their favOrite game to as
great an extent as they might wish.
What was done will probably never be
known as neither of the four concerned
are likely to tell anV tales,
Chief Justice Fuller finding the resi-
dence in the suburbs which he now Oc-
cupies under lease to be too far from the
Capitol for him to walk to and from the
Supreme Court room in the Capitol,
has purchased one Of the most desira-
BILE private houses III this city, located
almost in its centre. The price paid
was 500, 900 cash.
Mr.. Palmer the new Public printer
took charge of the Government print
ing office this morning. Mr.. Benedict,
the retiring Public printer has not been
a popular official no man can be, In that
office, who properly looks out for the
interests of the Government, but he has
nevertheless been one of the very best
Public Printers we have ever had.
There has been less waste and more
work turned out for the amount paid
than was ever before known in the his
tory of the office.
At last the colored man and brother
has captured Presidential appoint
ment. The lucky man was Rev. J. M.
Townsend, of Richmond, Indiana, and
the office wac Recorder of the General
Land Office, not big Office by any
means, but just now the race is extreme
ly thankful for anything it can get.
Corporal Tanner is getting to imagine
himself the biggest" man connected
with the administration. Some of his
personal friends have already began to
talk of him as Presidential candidate.
If less than two months at the head of
the pension bureau has had this much
effect, what may be expected of four
years?
The $3.50, 1000, 900 in the United States
treasury has all got to be counted in
order that Mr.. Hyatt the retiring Il cas-
urer may take the receipt of the new
treasurer, Mr.. Huston, for the same.
The count began to-day and is expected
to last something like three months.
Nearly four-fifths of the money consists
of standard silver dollars.
The appointment of Ex-Governor
Thompson of South Carolina as the
Democratic and Mr.. Theodore Roose-
welt of New York, as the second Repub-
lican member of the Civil Service COM
mission, makes the board complete for
the first time in many months. One of
the first things that the commissioner
intends to do is to contest the recent
decision of the Interior department
that appointments in the Census bu-
reaus would be made without Civil-Ser-
vice examinations.
Mr.. Wanamaker is opposed to one
cent postage. He seems to have already
become victim to the fever that Post
master Generals always get soon after
appointments and seldom ever get rid
oft. That is the absurd desire to make
the post office department self sustain
ing.
It's dollars to ginger cakes that some
New Hampshire paper mill gets in its
work early in the administration of the
new public printer. My reason for think
ing so is that little "Biliy" Chandler
helped Palmer fix up his bond and also
went on it himself. Now Chandler never
does anything for nothing. and his long
experience in manufacturing Govern
ment contracts in which he has been
silently interested causes me to believe
that in this case he will stick to the
same line of tactics that have made him
a rich man.
The next Congress will have sixteen
contested election cases to determine
thirteen of them from the south. The
papers in several of these cases are now
at the Government printing Office be-
inor nut in fnrno