Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. March % 1876

| lfrOm our neHuar correspondents
WASHINGTON, March % 1889.
The President has so regulated the
calls of the Office seekers, or the hours
during which he may be seen by them
that he is beginning to get some little
breathing time, He is moving very
slowly, so much so in fact that some
are already beginning to murmm lat
his pace. But he says it is better to
go slow and be right than to 60 fast
and be wrong.
Among the prominent appoint
ments made by Gen. Harrison since
my last letter are the following ::
Jas. s. Clarkson, Of Iowa, to be First
Assistant Postmaster General :; Smith
A. Whitfield, of Ohio, to be Second
Assistant Postmaster General John
w. Mason, Of West Virginia, to be
Commissioner of Internal Revenue :;
S. r. Thayer, Of Minnesota, to be
Minister to the Netherlands Chas.
Z. Mitchell, of Conn, to be Com
missioner of Patents; Nathan 0.
Murphy, of Arizona, to be Secretary
Of that Territory w. B. Deacon to
be U. S: Marshall Of New Jersey !;
J. S. Burton to be U. S. Marshall for
Mississippi E J. Kursheedt U. s..
Marshal for Louisiana; B. D. Slaugh-
ter, U. S. Marshal for Nebraska;
Whitelaw Reid of the New York
Tribune, to be minister to France;
Frederick D. Grant, son of Gen. U.
S. Grant, of New York, to be minis
ter to Austria; John G. New, Of In
diana, to be Consul General at Lon
don, and julius Goldschmidt. of
Wisconsin, to be consul general at
Vienna. This is not long list, but
it IS everywhere conceded to be a
good one.
Mrs. Harrison has been quite i'll
this week with severe cold, but is
now much better, though still con-
fined to her room.
The republican Senators and Re
presentatives who have been here
since the adjournment of congress,
looking after their quota Of the Off
ces, are beginning to turn their faces
homeward. The most of them ap-
pear to be satisfied with the out look,
but of course there are some grum-
blers.
The nomination of Eugene Schuy-
ler, of New York, to be Assistant
Secretary Of State, has been with
drawn from the Senate, Mr.. Schuy-
ler having declined the Office.
The democratic correspondents
here, failing to discover anything to
criticize in the actions of the new ad-
ministration up to the present time,
have resorted to downright lying in
order to interest their readers. One
individual with a some what active
and vivid Imagination, sent off long
story purporting to give the full part
iculars of how Harrison was trying
to force Wanamaker out of the cabi-
net; even going to the extent of CIV
ing what was claimed to be a copy
of a telegram from First Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson to Mr..
Joseph Medill, editor Chicago Trib-
une, telling him that the President
wanted to get rid of Wanamaker and
that he (Clarkson) was to run the
Department. This lie had very
short life. 1t was promptly crush ed
by Postmaster General Wanamaker,
First Assistant Clarkson, and Mr..
Medill.
A discussion, or perhaps it would
be better to say general expression
Of views, during a recent secret ses-
sion Of the Senate. as to why the sal
ary of Congressman should not be
doubled, has caused a good deal of
discussion here. The Senate is in
favor Of it by very large majority,
but whether majority would vote
for bill enacting such a law, is
somewhat doubtful. Public senti-
ment here undoubtedly tavors such
a change; it is argued that no Repre-
sentative or Senator can keep house
in this city on less than $4,000 a
year, and keep up the style and ap-
pearance that is expected of him. 1t
is further argued that the cost of
living in Washington is now much
greater than it was when the present
salaries were fixed. But there is an
other side to the question, and al
though its upholders are in the
minority here, they probably have a
large majority Of the voters of the
country with them. They argue
that the present salary, $4,000 year,
Is enough, and that the people do
not send their Representatives and
Senators to Washington to ape the
manners of the European nobility,
nor to try to outdo the coterie of
millionaires who have Of late years
set the pace for Washington society,
but to work. IF any of them finds
/ S., 900 year insufficient to live on,
let him resign the place to a more
economical man. ..A.<~.
The country is certainly to be con
graduated on the prospect of in.
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