The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-08-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

East 18th Street, New York.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 9, 1889.
Editor Herald:
Secretary Noble is just now holding
the tort all alone, he being the only men,
Der of the cabinet in the city. The rest
ofthem being scattered around about as
follows: Secretaries Blaine and Tracy
are with the President at Bar Harbor,
Secretary Window is in Boston looking
liter some complicated custom matters
Secretary Proctor is at his Vermont
nome; Secretary Rusk is in New York
city endeavoring to make arrangements
with the railroad managers that will
facilitate the Government inspection Ut
all shipments OF live cattle; Postmaster
Gene'al Wanramaker is at his country
residence in Pennsylvania, and Attorney
General Miller is in Indianapolis, where
he will meet the President on tn. 22n |
ms. and return with him to Washington
I! -: \" laying of the cornerstone OF
c!.S s'l'i - new monum ent IN that CITY
All pavments OF ills against the
Government for work done by the tcle-
graph co" p 'nies Lave been suspended
untl some agreement sh Ill be reached
us to the price to be paid. Mr.. Wan
'i'mnksr still sticks to his first O. inion
nat Cn- mill per word is enough, while
lie telegraph companies insist that they
l2se money at the rate of one cent per
word.
A vcrT interesting story has been float
ing around Washington for a day or
NO, winch belongs to the 'important,
ii true class. 1t states, on seemingly
good authority that tie President has
de !ded to appoint. Secretary Noble to
the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme
Court, and that the vacancy in The cab;-
net viii DC tilie:! by either making ASSIST
mt Postmaster Clarkson Secretary IF
tn, Interior. or by transferring Mr..
Wannl'r a er 10 that position and max
ing mi. Sl&rkSCG fostE ;,stt1 General.
Secrt tarY Noble says he heard this news
FIRST from newspaper man. That gives
1t very bad black eye to start with.
The President ike I'll other sensible pub
lie men Is very iti:n,ily towards Tie
newspaper nleh, but he is hardly friendly
enough towards them to have told ore
OF them or such an important appoint
mcnt bcinre Informing the man to be
appointed. So much for the first part
OF the Story. Asnti5her Mr.. Wannamaker
nor Mr.. GARRISON are lawyers it is GER
tain that neither of them will ever Re
m ide Secretary Of the Interior bv P.esi-
dent Harrison, for he longs to put him.
SILL on record as believing that only a
lawyer ih0nd Ec at the head of that
de artment. That disposes of the last
part of the yarn
Secretary Noble on Wednesday received
the following telegram from ex- Governor
Foster, chairman of the commission
which has been negotiating for The pur
chase of a portion of the great Sioux
Indian reservation in Soi1th Dakota:
We have won the fight, we leave to-
morrow for Chicago. Will write YOU
fully from Chicago"
The dispatch was forwarded to the
PRESIDENT at Bar Harbor. Gov. Fosters |
colleagues on the commission are Mai.
Zen. Crook, U. S. A. and Hon. William
Warner of Missouri. When the agree
nent just arranged by this commission
s approved by congress, which it is
certain to be, about II 100000 acres Of
and will be opened to settlement. The
Government is to pay the Indians $1.25
Der acre for all lands sold to homestead
settlers for the first three years after the
lct goes into effect, rs cents per acre
or all disposed of in the next two years
blowing. and SO cents per acre for what
emalns undisposed OF at the end of that
ime.
Assistant Attorney General Tyner in
esponse to letter of inquiry for the
hef Clerk of the Post Office depart
leut, has written that when three names l.,
re certified by the Civil Service Commits
ION for appointment, and one of them is ,
discharged sailor or soldier he must be ,
elected for the place.
Frederick Douglass, who was recently
Ministerato Hayti, says lie +
oes not expect to go there until the
resent troubles in that unhappy country k
e settled sufficiently for this Govern G.
ent to recognize one of the beligerents. =
Editor M.l\DeYoung of the San FRAN :,
SEQ, Chronicle, had long consultation .
It'll the President before he went away. h
lie subject discussed was, who should
made minister to China? 1t is not u
lieved that Mr.. DeYoung, or any other "
'cific coast man,.is candidate tor the
sition. He only wished to give the d.
esident an idea of the public opinion in h;
section on the matter.
The President made quite a number of tn
pontmnnus of more or less import b.
&c before he left the city last Tuesday. A.
ZEAL EsTATE.-The following recen-