The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-01-24
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN,.Janu 18th 1850

! The Observation-Disclosures and Mrs. Nor
ton have arrived in the city. They are
stopping at the Normandie, the hotel
! where Mr.. Blaine and his family are To-
Gated for the winter. There may not be
any significance in this, but it has had the
effect of strengthening the already gener.
ally prevalent opinion here that Mr.
Blaine will be at the head of Gen. Harri.
sons cabinet.
An agreement has been reached by the
conferees of the senate and house on the
bill providing for Secretary of Agricul
ture, so that unless, the president shall
interpose a veto, which is not at all
probable Gen. Harrison will have one
more officer in his cabinet than any of his
predecessors have ever had.
The house committee on military affairs
has made a favorable report on the bill
to revive the grade of Lieutenant General
of the army and providing for the selec,
ton of a major general to fill the posi-,
ton. This would limit the selection to
Gems. Schotield, Howard and Crook, but
it is the special object of those engaged
i'll pushing the bill to secure the promo
ton Of Gen. Schoield There is so much
opposition to the measure that there is lit
tie probability of its becoming law at
| any early date.
Records are dangerous things, as many
politicians have occasion o know. One oil
the latest possible victims ofrecord meme.
SIS is Gen. w. S. Rosecrans, at present
register of the treasury. Gen. Rosecrans
| is nearly seventy years of age and his
various ups and downs have left him a
poor man. Therefore his friends in con.
gress have introduced bill, which has
been favorably reported by the military
committee of both houses, to place him
| on the retired list of the army with the
rank OF Major General, in order to pro.
vide him with the means of passing the
remainder Of his life in comfort. There
would probably be little or no objection
to the passage of the bill were it not for
the tell-tale congressional record, which
shows that Gen. Rosecrans, while a mem.
Der of the house from California, made a
most determined and bitter, although
fruitless light, against the bill placing
! uen Grant on the retired list of the army
| Gen. Rosecrans own arguments are sure
to be used against his bill when it comes
/ up.
Have a ma ority of the senators
turned anarchists" asked a gentleman
in the gallery of ne Senate on Wednesday
morning. The cause OF the question was
a number of long, round packages on the
desks of many of the senator's, each one
of the packages done up in red, and look,
ing not unlike rolled-up flags. AS soon
as the senate was called to order it was
discovered that each package was pc,
| titIon from a state in favor Of the pass.
age of what is known as the Sunday
| Rest bill. The petitions were gotten
up under the auspices of the w. c. T. u.
! and the 81 gnatures are said to represent
over fourteen millions of people. The
wrappers Of red cloth were put on them
: . attract attention.
II. ir.s. IN. has sent two MESA ges
md o.. LII: <seiveay on&cnce OF the state
. sc e. --:nclU relating to Hayti and Samoa
TO the senate, and they have been referred
to the committee On foreign affairs.
| General Black, commissioner ofpensions
| does not want to be shelved after the
fourth Of March, so he is trying to make
hay while the sun shines by getting him
self appointed Judge Advocate General
of the army by Mr.. Cleveland before the
| latters term expires.
The fate of Lord Sackville ought to
have been sufficient to have prevented
! the representatives Of forei ign govern
tnents from ever again expressing opin'
ions on legislation in this country that
were likely to be published. But it has
not. Already some diplomat, presume
. bly, connected with the French legation
l'has allowed himself to be interviewed on
The Edniunds resolutions reaffirming the
Monroe doctrine. which were recently
passed by the senate and which are now
before the house committee On foreign
affairs. The diplomat had the boldness
to say that the senate had no business
i pass the resolutions in question, and
then added: The Ednunds resolutions
are intended TO put spoke i'll the whee
of the Panama canal project and to hin
der that enterprise in favor of the scheme
| to biid canal across Nicaragua" He
also had the audacity to intimate that
the European governments would pay
no attention to the resolutions, ever
should they be passed by the house apd
approved by the president. What the
| administration will do with this case re-
| mains to be seen.