The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-08-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rom our regular corrospondent.J

1he President has returned TO the
White House, where he will remain
until next Tuesday when he starts for
Bar Harbor to pay Secretary Blaine
visit. He will spend the entire day of
Wednesday in Boston where he will be
met by Walker Blaine.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
has received the resignation of Post
master Paul of Milwaukee, whose ad.
ministratiou of that office was so Sc.
verely scored by a recentr eport of the
Civil Service Commission.
The news of the seizure of the
Canadian sealing vessel "Black Dia-
mond" by the United States Cutter
"Rush" for taking seals in Behring's
sea is being discussed with great 10
terest here, and there are plenty Of
people who believe we shall have a
row with England if we do not back
down. l don't know about that, but
it's dollars to ginger cakes that there
will be no repetition of the disgrace.
ful back down INDUCED in by the
| Cleveland administration when SINH.
lar seizures were made three years ago.
The law says that all vessels caught
illegally taking seals in Behring's sea
shall be seized, confscsted and sold,
and it is the intention of the present
administration to see that the law is
obeyed. The President Issued a proc,
lamation of warning in March. If
England does not like our laws, so
much the worse for England.
Hon. William Mckinley, the popu.
lar Representative from Ohio, is in
town this week. He has been quietly
resting in the mountains of Pennsyl-
vania for some weeks. He does not
say so, but from his manner l think he
is confident of being elected Speaker
of the House. He says there's no
doubt about Ohio electiug Gov. For.
aker, the state ticket and Republican
majority in the legislature, ensuripg a
Republican successor to Senator Payne.
Maj. Mckinley will take ap active
part in the Ohio campaign.
While the opponents of the civil
service law are hitting some hard
licks, the Commission is not idle. 1t
proposes to ask the President to place
all chiefs Of divisions in the classified
service. 1t is not probable that the
request will be even seriously consid-
cred, to say nothing of being granted,
by the President, for the fact cannot
be denied by any careful observer
that the civil service law is steadily
growing more unpopular.
1t has been decided by the Commits.
, sion engaged in investigating the re-
rating of pensions to make a prelimi.
nary report TO Secretary Noble next
week and leave it to him whether they
shall continue. During the month Of
December 1888, when the office was in
charge of Gen. Black, they found the
total number Of reissues to have been
: 1900, of which about in Is were
. rerated, and during the month of May
= 1889, when Mr.. Tanner was in charge
3 the reissues were /, 800 with the per
t centage of reratings slightly increased
The object of this comparison was tt
discover whether there had been any
l radical change in the methods o
making reratings. The preliminary
report will say that there has been M
gross violation of law, nor any dis
coveries of sensational or seriou
!. character. This will be good news t,
everybody, except the newspaper cor
respondents who have been filling
:, tEsir papers up with stories of Il,
terrible condition of things in tn
Pension office.
II When Governor Foraker was re
is nominated there were lot of "smar
aleck" Democrats running arount
Washington saying that Senator Sher
e man would sulk and remain in Eu
e rope, where he is now, until after th
/ election. They feel like fools no,
% that the Senator has written to sa
e that he will be home in time to tax
& an active part in reelecting GOverno
u Foraker, OF course no Republican
ever believed that John Sherman
s. would sulk. He isn't built that way
ie He is a Republican because he be
~ i~e lieves in the principles advocated b
W the party and not because it does O
y does not nominate any particular ma
ie for any office.
Postmaster General Wanamaker ha
% requested the Secretary of the Treai