Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Comparison of the Record
of Reflections.
GREELY ON wEBFOOr WEATHER.
The Naval Station at Pago PagO,
Samoa, and the Coal Supply OF
Our Men-of. War.
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WASHINGTON, April 3.-Of the three
hundred and fifty nominations sent to
the Senate during special session by
President Harrison, the following were
rejected: Murat Halstead, minister TO
Germany, and Isadore S Loventhal,
postmaster at Modesto, California. The
following remain unacted upon (and
therefore denied(, at the end of the ses-
sion: W. II. Whiteman, to be Associate
Justice of the Territory of New Mexico;
Edwin l. Kursheedt, to be Marshal for
the Eastern District OF Louisiana, and
six postmasters. President Harrison's
nominations were contained in 2S4 mes
sages. During the special session of the
Senate at the beginning of President
Cleveland's term he cent to the Capitol
418 messages; Is OF his nominations
failed to receive confirmation, but there
we're no reflections. At the last session
of Congress, during the administration of
President Hayes, the Senate failed to act
on 106 of his nominations and rejected
three. This record has never been
equalled.
HESITATION IN ACCEPTING.
The appointment of Ellis A. Roberts
as Assistant Treasurer at New York, was
made without his knowledge and there
is low some doubt as to his acceptance
of the office. The death of Assistant
Treasurer McCue made it essential that
there should be as little delay as possible
in the qualifying of his successor. The
situation is further complicated by
a change in the office of United
States Treasurer. Mr.. Huston has
telegraphed that he will be in
Washington by the end of the
present week, but so far has not indicated
when he will qualify and relieve Mr..
Hyatt. There is an Impression that he
will delay qualifying until after affairs in
the New York office have been settled,
which will at least take five weeks. A
declination on the part of Roberts will
delay matters still further.
THE NAVY DEPARTMENTS DoNGs.
1t is unlikely that the Navy Depart
ment will proceed to establish naval
station at the harbor OF Pago Pago, on
the Samoan Islands until the Berlin Con-
| ference concludes its work. Last Cen
gress appropriated 100000 for this pur-
pose and the money is now available,
| but it is thought that any radical step OF
this nature might tend to jeopardize the
process of the Conference.
| Besides the 600 tons Of coal that were
sent to Samoa on board the Monongahe-
| la, and which should be there now, the
ship Sachem, which sailed from New
York fortnight ago, carried 1900 tons,
and should make the passage in about 95
days.
Four large rifles for the new cruiser
| Charleston have been finished at the
yard and sent on their railroad trip to
| San Francisco. Their carriages will be
completed in two or three weeks and will
be sent Immediately afterwards.
GREELY ON OREGON WEATHER.
Last July the Senate passed a resolu.
ton directing the transmission of reports
| prepared under the direction of the Chief
| Signal Officer upon the climate and cli-
matte conditions of Oregon and Washing
| ton Territory. These reports, together
with illustrative charts and letter from
General Greely, have just been published
and, in view of the emigration to the far
West, will be found to be of general
interest. The rainfall of the Pacific
| Coast is the heaviest in the United
States, ranging from 20 to 10 inches an
nually, but this enormous fall covers
only six per cent. of the area of Oregon
ard Washington Territory. On the other
hand, the land area where less than ten
| inches fall is less than five per cent. of
the whole. Wheat can be grown in
nine-tenths of the two States with
out irrigation, owing to the eoua-
BILE rainfall. Agricultural opera
tions are more fruitful with a
small rainfall than in some sections of
other States with a considerably larger
precipitation. Remarkably equable tenn
perature conditions also obtain, the en-
tire range of mean annual temperature
over this territory being but 81 degrees
from 451a at Foit Colville, in Northeast
ern Washington Territory, to "a degrees
at Ashland, Oregon. In the same lati-
tude, along the coast. the range
OF temperature in summer time is
only 81 degrees, from Sc at Port Angeles,
Washington, to 5915 at Fort Stevens, Ore.
gon. During the winter months, the
mean temperature of more than half of
these States is above the freezing point,
and on the coast ranges, between 40 and
45 degrees.
General Greely says: 'To summaries
Oregon and Washington Territory are
favored with climate of unusual mild
ness and equability, while the immediate
coast regions have very heavy rainfslls,
yet such rain occurs during the
winter months, from December to
February, and, in all cases, the wet sea-
son gives place gradually to the dry sea-
son, during July and August. While the
preponderatiug amount Of rain falls dur
ing the winter, yet the spring, early
summer and late fall are marked by
moderate rains at not unfrequent inter-
walls, These climatic conditions favor.
to marked extent, the growth of most
cereals and other important staples.
THE GUNS MAY BE RECOVERED.
The Trenton, when wrecked at Samoa.
carried down with her some fine modern
rihed guns. These may be readily
placed on another vessel or used in the
fortification of the new naval station at
Pago Pago, if they can be recovered.
Consequently some curiosity is expressed
by the naval officers as to whether Ad-
miral Kimberly has taken steps to raise
the guns from the shallow harbor.
COLLECTOR MAGoNE RESIGNS,
Collector Magone, of New York, was
ct the Treasury Department and had in
terviews with Secretary Window and
notwithstanding Tichenor. The
latter said Magone's visit related entirely
to the routine business of his office.
From other sources it is learned that he