, 1889-06-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Orr Regular Correspondents.
WASHINGTON, June Z, 1889.

The vacant adjutant-generalship
promises to receive early attention
at the White House. Col. Kelton
has been acting as acknowledgement
for week. Opinions are growing
more pronounced in his favor, and
the general idea is that the Whipple
boom has spent itself, and that the
strong opposition it met from the
ranks of army officers has virtually
broken its back 1t has been learned
that the health of Col. Robt. Will
liams, who ranks next to Col. Kelton,
is far better than it has been for
years, and his absence from the field
of candidates for the lead of the
corps is due solely to a regard for
the principles of any promotion and
strong friendship for Col. Kelton.
1t is understood that he fully in
tends to stand up to the front for
the position when Kelton retires in
1892, after which he will have about
year and half to serve.
The word of Secretary Proctor, it
is thought, will have a good deal Of
weight in the decision of this ques-
ton, and his position will have much
to do with his future popularity
with the army. Those who know
him describe him as very conserve-
tive man, and if he follows out
this characteristic he will be likely
to go on the line of long-continued
custom aad defer to the rights of
seniority.
It has been more than a week
since the president has been as busy
with offiee-seekers as be was yester-
day. They came up smiling IN this
mourning to let the president know
thsp mad not forgotten him and in
cidentaIly to guard against the presi-
dents forgetting them. Sons Who
may have worn their welcome out
some time since discreditea the door
/ kecr'a Keep memory by asserting that
they were making .-- hfS' ea'':
They don't know the tenacity Oh
Qoorkeeper Loeffler's memory. He
remembers the fsees of al Yho pass
him, and it is q mistake to attempt
to deceive him. Many of the callers
he'd their hair brushed and rosebuds
n their button-holes to indicate
their long Continued freshness and
re budding hopes Mosts of the
callers these days wear flowers on
the Iapels of their eeats. = " - -
Congressman are coming back to
Washington. For weeks not more
than two or three Of them a day ap-
peared at the White House, but now
they are agsin walking into the
presidents library almost by the
dozen.
Acting Land Commissioner Stone
has issued an order directing that no
moro cases be sent to the board of
review for examination prior to- pat
ent and that the 11,G00 cases now
pending before that board be ex-
amined and disposed of as rapidly
as possible. This action is taken
With yieE to abolishing the board
at the earliest possible date. Acting
Commissioner Stone is also consid-
ering the advisability of abolishing
the contest division in the general
land office as unnecessary and a
hindrance to the prompt transaction
OF the public business. The board
of review and the division of con-
tests were created by executive order
during Commissioner Sparks admin.
istration of the general land Office.
4 statement prepared at the treas
ury department shows that there
was net decrease of SIG, 7S0,608 in
circulation during the month of May
last, and net increase Of SI,973, $40
in money and bullion In the treasury
during the same period. The prfn-
cipai loss in circulation was in gold
certificates, United States notes, and
national bank notes, and the princi-
cipal gain in treasury holdings was
in standard silver dollars, United
States notes, and gold coin in the
order named. The total circulation
June l is stated at 81, ,337, 40, 751,
and the total money in bullion in the
treasury on the same date 1864, ,692,
go.
Civil Service Commissioners
Thompson and Roosevelt hsye left
Washington for a visit to Troy, N.
Y, where they will inquire into GER
tain matters connected with the ex-
animation recently held there for
clerks and carriers in the postoffice
Commissioner Thompson will return
to Washington about Saturday, but
Mr.. Roosyelt will spend Saturday at
his home at Oyster Bay, Long Is
land. and reach Washington ON
Monday. The proposed trip of in
speetion by the commission to var
ious western points has been post
poned for ten days. n.