The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-23
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


ing pretty hard of late on his mes
sage which is now finished concluded
to take little recreation, so he quiet
~ slipped away last week and for |
three days enjoyed himself shooting
ducks in Maryland. He returned to
the White House Saturday night.
greatly pleased that he WAS so sue
cessfu in killing ducks and not less
so over his success in getting away
from Washington without the knowl-
edge of tine argus-eyed newspaper
men.
Uncle Sam, who is nothing if not
hOspitabIe, gave grand combina'
ton excursion to Annapolis Satur-
day. A special train took the Three
Americas Congress and the Interna-
tional Maritime Conference, and ii
number of prominent officials includ-
ing Secretaries Blaine and Tracy, to
the Capitol city of Maryland. The
objective point of the exrurSionists
was the United States sailor factory,
and the visitors were loud in their
praises of its products as shown by
the stock now on hand both flushed
and unfinished
If The candidates for the minor Of
fees under the House of Representa-
tiyes keep on increasing at the pres
ent rate, there will he as many can
dldates as there are Republican MEM
bPrs of the House. Among the most
prominent of the newly announced
candidates are eX-RppreSentative
Guenther and Gen. George A. Sheri.
dan, fer Clerk, and Mr.. Charles H,
Gray, prominent newspaper cores
pondent, for Sergeant-at-arms.
Secretary Ru-k says, in reply to
criticisms of the Agricultural De-
partment because its agents have
uUarantined a number of cattle in
/ Pennsylvania. that such action was
taken under the law establishing the
! bureau of annual industry, and that
it was considered necessary for the
protection of the great cattle inter-
ests of the country against the much
dreaded plurO pneumonia.
Much interest has been created
here by the report that eX Represen-
tative and ex-Secretary of War, Nc.
Crazy, OF Iowa, is the Presidents
choice for the vacancy upon the bench
of the Supreme Court. Judge Nc
! Carry has for some years been resi-
dent of Kansas City, where he is the
legal representative of the AtchiSon,
| Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, hav-
ing resigned United States Circuit
Court judgeShip in Iowa. to which he
was appointed by President Hayes.
to enter the service of the railroad.
He would he an honor to any court,
and the report of his prospective APP
poin:ment has been well received
here.
Representative GrosyenOr, of Ohio.
is very emphatic in his denial of the
newspaper charges that he and other
! Republican Representatives did not
work faithfully for the election of
Gov. Foraker. Mr.. GrosvenOr fur
niShes figures showing that Gov.
Foraker receives better support in
his lGrosvenor'sj district than in any
other in the state.
Postmaster General Wannamaker
! is devoting much time just now TO
a careful revision of the estimates of
theamOunt of money necessary to run
the POst0tfice department during the
fiscal year beginning July l, 1889.
The Civil Service Commissioners
deny the truth of a Washington tele-
gram in a New York paper which
stated that they were making prepa-
rations for a Congressional investi-
CATION. Of course, the Commission
ers ought to know just what they are
doing, but if they are not making
preparations for Congressional in
vestigation, they will be awfully
sorry that they didn't before they
are many months older. For they
are Just as certain to be investigated
by the FTifty-first Congress as a
Speaker of the House is to he elected.
Somebody should read the parable OF
the foolish virgins.
Owing to the very small number
Of Republicans at present in town
there is very little being done in the
Speakership campaign. Four of the
candidates are here but they do not
seem to he worrying over their
chances. Every week it has been
thought here that next week the
fight will begin IN earnest. Up TO
date there has been no fighting, not
even the mildeSt sort of a skIrmish,
and there is no sign of any, though
you are told on every side '.iuSt wait
until next week" IF there is to be
any fighting, which 1 very much
doubt. it will be short, sharp and de-