Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-01-23
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s, 1889.


The Vice. President-eiect and Mrs.
Morton have arrived in this city.
They are stopping at the Normandie,
the hotel where Mr.. Blaine and his
family are located for the winter.
There may not be any significance In
this, but it has had the effect of
strengthening the already prevalent
opinion here that Mr.. Blaine will be
at the head of General Harrison's
cabinet.
An argument has been reached By
the conferees of the senate and house
on the bill providing for secretary
of agriculture. so that unless the pres
ldent shall interpose a veto. which is
not at all probable, Gen. Harrison
will have one more officer in his cab
met than any of his predecessors have
ever had.
The house committee on military
affairs has made favorable report on
the bill to revive the grade of lieuten-
ant general. but there is so much OPP
position to the measure that there is
little probability of its becoming a
law at an early date.
Records are dangerous things, as
many politicians have occasion to
know. One of the latest possible vlc-
TINS of record Nemesis is Gen. w. S.
Rosencrans, nearly 20 years old, and
his various ups and downs have left
him poor man. Therefore his friends
have introduced bill in congress,
which has been favorably reported
by the military committee of both
houses, to place him on the retired
list of the army with the rank of ma
jor general, in order to provide him
with the means of passing the re-
mainder of his life in comfort. There
would probably be little or no objec-
ton to the passage of the bill were it
not for the teil-taie Congressional
Record, which shows that Gen. Ros-
encrans, while member of the house
lIoAtl lllOSO NCbCl
mined and bitter a though fruitless
| fight against the Aill placing General
Grant on the retired list of the army
Gen. Rosencrans' own arguments are
certain to be used against his bill
when it comes up.
General Black, commissioner of
pensions, does not want to be shelved
after the fourth of March, so he is try
ing to make hay while the sun shines
by getting himself appointed judge
advocate general of the army by Mr..
Cleveland before the latter's term ex-
pires. "
The fate of lord SackviIle ought to
have been sufficient to have prevented
the representatives of foreign govern
ments from ever again expressing
opinions on Legislation in this country
that were likely to be published. But
it has not. Already some diplomat,
presumably connected with theFrench
legation, has allowed himself to be
interviewed on the Edmunds resolu-
tions reaffirming Monroe doctrine,
which were recently passedby the SEN
ate and which are now before the house
committee on foreign affairs. The
diplomat had the boldness to say that
the senate had no business to pass the
resolutions in question. and then
added: 1.-THE Edmunds resolutions
are intended to put spoke in the
| wheel of the Panama canal project
and to hinder that enterprise in favor
of the scheme to build a canal across
Nicaragua. He also had the audacity
to intimate that the European govern
ments would pay no attention to the
resolutions, even should they be
passed by the house and approved by
the President. What the administra-
ton will do with this case remains to
be seen.