Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-11-07
DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST THURSDAY, NOVEMBER L 1885,
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrOm our regular Correspondent. ]
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. %, 1889.

Secretary Noble seems t0 be able tO
get into more trouble than all the rest
of the administration together. The
idea seems to be getting into peoples
heads that he is good deal like the
man on the jury who got mad because
the other eleven obstinate fellows kept
him away from his wife all night. An
other idea that is making friends among
the working Republicans, is to bring
about state of things that will enable
Mr.. Noble to appreciate the feeling of a
man who receives kick from the Presi-
| DENTAL boot. In plain words, move.
ment has been started among Republi-
cans, to drive Noble out of the Cabinet,
and from certain things, am inclined
to believe that il will eventually sue
ceed, but not without desperate fight
on the part of the Secretary. Here's an
extract from letter received by Mr..
Noble New York Republican. who
in resigning the office of Special Exam
! iner of the Pension office, used language
that caused Mr.. Noble to refuse to ac-
cept the resignation and to remove the
writer:
~ am free to say, personally you are
a puppet, officially sycophant, and
Individually a coward and craven. ]
simply desire to say that I will place
my letter and all my relations with you
before the President. Ifhe sustains you,
as suppose he will, shall be only con.
firmed in the general conclusions that
he has selected you, and some others of
your caliber, to misrepresent the men
who made it possible for Benjamin
Harrison to insult the nation by put
ting you in place which neither your
services nor character could justify, and
which your whole personality is proof
positive that violence to every sense
of decency and propriety, was attended
by your selection"
Representative Joe Cannon has vir-
tually thrown up the sponge in the
Speakership fight, by announcing his
intention ofgoing home this week to re-
main until the middle of November.
This action is surprising, in view of the
fact that Mr.. Cannon has been actively
engaged in canvassing for votes almost
ever since Congress adjourned. have
never seen man except Mr.. Cannon
himself, who thought that Cannon had
the slightest chance of ever becoming
Speaker, and now this one man has lost
hope.
Representative Mills, whose name
became a household word through its
connection with the Democratic tariff
bill during the last Congress, has taken
quarters here for the season. He has
entirely recovered his health, which
came near breaking down from over
work last winter. Mr.. Mills will not
have tariff bill during the Fifty-first
Congress, but he proposes to see that
the Republicans do not pass one with
obnoxious features.
All of the immense power welded by
the administration is to be brought to
bear upon Congress this winter for the
purpose of getting rid of the surplus.
One of the first schemes to be pushed is
that of Government aid for several lines
of steamships which are to run to South
and Central American ports, and
which, in return for a liberal subsidy,
are to realize Secretary Blaines Utopi-
an ideas regarding the commerce of
those countries. This idea of Govern
ment.subsidies to private individuals
or corporations, has always been an
by the Democratic party, and
I see no reason for supporting that the
Democratic leaders will allow any such
measure to pass the House.
Swell society circles are all torn up
because the new Chinese minister has
announced that he will take no part in
the winters entertainments. This is
all the more disappointing because the
former minister made the old "Stewart
castle" a center for all that numerous
class of diplomat-worshiping Wash
ingtonians. The new minister has his
wife with him, and as she is the first
high caste Chinese woman ever to visit
this country, he probably fears to turn
her loose in Washington society.
The last meeting of the cabinet was
very long and stormy. The President
submitted a rough draft of his first
to Congress, and the members
of his official family took turns in jump
ing on it with both feet. The thing has
Of course been kept very quiet, but
such matters always get out in some
way or other. According to the in
of your correspondent, Secre-
taries Blaine and Window were the
"kickers". Mr.. Window OBJ
jected to the financial part of the mes
sage as outlined, and Mr.. Blaine had
decided objections to the stand taken
on certain matters within the province
of the State department. The argu-
ments were long and somewhat heated,
and finally when it was agreed to SUBJ
NIT the matter to vote of the Cabinet,
the President was defeated, the only
votes he received being those of Attor-
ney General Miller, Postmaster Gener-
al Wanamaker, and Secretary Noble.
The President then expressed his will
lingness to change the disputed mat
ter and peace reigned once more. But
for how long?