Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
{From our Regular Correspondent
WAsHNGTON, April 18th, 1SS!

Secretary Blaine laughed heartily
when a gentleman asked him if there
was any truth in the story that he in
tended shortly to retire from the
Cabinet, and for answer passed his
hand around the gentleman's arm
and conducted him over to look at
the interior changes that are being
made in the old Seward mansion,
near the White House, preparatory
to its occupence by the the Blaine
family next fall.
The Democratic attempt to make
it appear that the relations between
the President and Secretary Blaine
are not pleasant and harmonious has
proven a dismal failure. The opin-
ion here is that the whole story was
concocted and written in the Office
of the New York paper which print
ed it as a special Washington dis
patch. What makes this opinion all
the stronger is that this same paper
in its editorial columns has been
predicting just such state Of affairs
ever since the fourth of March. It
is very strange that such a startling
discovery should have been made by
only one correspondent, out of hun
dreds prowling around Washington
seeking news for their papers. Unless
something that is at the present time
entirely unlocked for shall occur,
Secretary Blaine will continue to
look after our foreign affairs until
March 1898, if not longer.
So few appointments have been
| made by the President this week
| that suspicion has been created
among the crowd of Office seekers
here that the slow pace has been a.
| dopted for the special purpose of
firing them out. The result is that
many of them have gone home leav-
ing their papers on file, believing
that to be the best policy.
The President informed a Demo-
cratic Senator that it was his pur-
pose whenever he had to appoint a
Democrat to Office, such as one mem
ber of the Civil Service Commission
and the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, to insist upon his being a
protectionist. This decision has
created panic among the free-trade
Democratic aspirants, chief among
whom may be mentioned ex-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Thompson, who
wants to serve his country as a Civ
Il Service Commissioner.
+ It is stated at the State Depart
ment that an understanding has been
reached with England and Germany
whereby it is agreed that pending
| the termination Of the coming Sam
oan conference at Berlin the three
treaty powers - England, Germany
and the United States - shall each
keep only one was vessel at Samoa
| The Agricultural Department has
concluded the series Of experiments,
commenced several years ago, On the
manufacture of sugar from sorghum
and Prot. Wiley, who has been il
charge Of them concludes that tht
manufacture On a small scale can b.
made commercially successful.
| It is stated positively in quarter
where it would most likely be frs
known, that Col Dfiield, of Michigan
has been selected for the place 0
Solicitor G General. 1t may be som'
time, however, before the appoint
|, ment will be made, as the presen
Solicitor General, Mr.. jerks, ha
been requested to remain in Office un
til the Government telephone case
have been disposed of by the Su
preme Court.
The President has been thinkin
Of taking short vacation in orde
Ito get some much needed rest but b
has finally decided not to leav
Washington until the 18th. instan
when he goes to New York to tax