Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-25
BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE
Mugwumps Howling Themselves
Hoarse at Blaine.
eAYARD is THE GUILTY MAN
The Restoration OF Consuis' Fees
For the Vcrification of Invoices
Democratic Act--HarSison
Busy With His Message.
WAsHfNGToN BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
513 FOURTEENTH STREET,

The mugwump and democratic newspapers
of New York and Boston, which always
work together like journals of their two
headed party invariably do, have been howl
ing themselves hoarse this week over what
they claim to be republican restoration OF
the fees of the United States consuls for the
verifcation of invoices" They charge
Secretary Blaine, for the purpose of favor
ing his republican friends, with having re-
newed the old practice of permitting con-
suls to appoint notaries public from
among the residents of the countries where
the consuls are located, who charge fee
for verifying the invoices of exporters.
These notaries charge about Sl.50 for each
oath administered and it is alleged tho con-
suls only have to pay them very small pro-
portion of this amount, the balance of which
goes into the officers pocket.
Your correspondent to-day examined the
records at the state department and found
that the restoration was on February .,
1883, upon the suggestion of Secretary Bay
ard.
If there is anything IN it to be criticised
the mugwump and democratic newspapers
should lay it to the administra ton of Presi-
dent Cleveland, where 1t belongs.
HARRISON HARD AT WORK.
1t was almost l2 o'clock to-day before
President Ha rrison got through with the
dictation of his letters and opened the doors
to his private Office for the reception of
those who had busin ess with him. Not two
dozen people asked to see him during the
entire day. When half past - o'clock ar
rived the oors were closed and the presi-
dent resumed work on his message. He has
the greater part of his recommendations
II. t14 rn,yint of
the work under him, together
with the statistics which he will
receive from the reports of his cabinet Off
GERS, constitute the principal labor which he
has yet to perform.
The president has adopted very good
plan for the preparation of his message. He
keeps upon his table scratch tablet, and
whenever an idea occurs to him which he
wants to incorporate into his message he
makes memorandum of it and drops the
sheet into private drawer. He has received
great many ideas by his frequent talks
with public and private citizens and as
soon as a practical suggestion
is made he stops his conversation or work
long enough to get down reminder. Thus
he has great number of these little sheets
of scratch paper containing ideas to be in
corporated into his message When he has
covered all of the topics he wants to treat on
in his message he will take out his memo
randum and after classifying the subjects
will begin TO put them together into perma-
nent form. This last work he will not do
until all of his cabinet officers have laid their
reports before HIN and he has carefully gone
over them. He will not complete the last OF
his work on the message until the end of
November, although he will begin sending
the first part of his message to the public
printer ten days before the close of next
month.
For the next four weeks the president in
tends to give up as little time as possible to
the public unless he finds that he is making
such rapid progress with his message that
he can spare the time.
REIGN OF TERROR.
A reign of terror prevails IN the pension
bureau
| 1t is believed that large number of dis
| missals from the Office will be made among
the employees connected with the rerating of
pensions, and that General Raum intends to
| make as clean q sweep as possible in reor.
| ganization. The general refuses TO say what
he intends TO do, but there is very little cause
| for the alarm existing. Some of the EN-
| ployes whose pensions were rerated without
authority of law, and without going through
| the usual formalities of application and eX-
| animation, will be compelled to refund
| the money received or retire from their posi-
| tions, while others who were disreputably
| connected with some of the work under
Commissioner Tanner will be unconditiOn-
| ally "fired out'
| The changes which will take place by rea-
| son of the appointment of new commits
L
| whose guilty consclences on account of the
disreputable official acts or incapacty feel
that the AK should strike them, whether it
| will or not, and who are therefore appre-
| hensive of danger hourly.
| NEBRASKA AND IOWA PosTMAsTERs
| Nebraska-Ansley, Custer county, Charles
| S. Ellison.
Iowa = Frankvile Winneshek county,
Mrs. M. e. Chamberlain; Kensett, Worth
county, Edwin Clopp; Ogden, Boone county
/ ri
county, j. A. Taft; Thurman, Fremont
county. Perry Milligan.
| ARMY NEWS.
BY direction of the secretary Of war, hos
| ptal steward George Lander, now on duty
| at Fort Omaha, having been placed upon the
| retired list as Of this date, in conformity with
| the law, will repair to his home.
The superintendent of the recruiting
| service will cause. thirty recruits TO be as
| signed to the Seventeenth infantry and for
| warded under proper charge TO such point or
| points in the Department Of the Platte as the
| commanding general of the department shall
| designate After arrival IN that department
the recruits will be distributed as equally as
| practicable among the companies of the
| regiment.
First Lieutenant Edgar w. Howe. of the
Seventeenth infantry, Second Lieutenant
Samuel Leay, ir., of the Twenty-hrst in
fantry, and Second Lieutenant Harvey r..
Wilkins, of the Second infantry, have been
detailed to Willetts Point for instructions
in torpedo service during the term commence
ing December l. 1889.
At the wedding here this morning of
Passed Assistant Engineer Warner Baldwin
Bayley, of the navy, to Miss Annette Will
| hanson, Mrs. Buchanan, of Nebraska, a
cousin of the bride, was present in an ele-
CANT toilette of heliotrope brocade and
| black velvet
One of the topics to be treated at length in
the forthcoming report OF Secretary Proctor
is that of the army enlistment. An
increased appropriation will be asked to
carry into effect the suggestions for improve
ment in the present system. The secretary
will, whether the appropriation is increased
or not, put into practice next year scheme
from the working of which he confidently
expects great Improvement, that is to send
to the encampments of the national guards
| OF the several states recruiting officer who
will be authorized to enlist members Of tho
guards, and this class the secretary believes
will be vastly superior TO the ordinary re
cruit, and not be so susceptible to the temp
tation to desert An inducement to enlist
will be offered TO militlamen IN promise to
keep those of one state In the same regiment,
so that the feeling of lonesomeness may be
| reduced to the minimum.
BY direction of the secretary Of war Ser
geants Charles +. Monaghan, George Shee
han and Leonard Dorsh will be reduced u
! the ranks for improper treatment of re-