Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrom our regular Correspondent. /

cablegram from Rear Admiral Gherar-
di, commanding the North Atlantic
squadron, asking that the new Ameri-
can minister 10 Haytl be sent immedi-
ately as Legltine had abdicated and
Hippolyte In now on top In that change
able little island. The French and
English captains have placed them
selves under Admiral Gherardi's orders
I'M case Of any trouble at Portland
Prince. Fred Douglass is the new min
lister. It Is expected that he will start
this week. It Is said that the Haytians
object to Douglass as minister; they
want a white man.
Permission has been granted by the
Agricultural department to some of the
Knight Templars who will attend the
Conclave In this city next October to
pitch their tents In the department
grounds.
in his glory this morning and he only
arrived In town to-day, and 1t Is doubt
full whether he will remain. No other
member of the cabinet is expected be-
fore next week.
A special train left this city Saturday
night with large crowd bound for
Milwaukee to attend the G.. A. r. en-
campment. The business men of Wash
ington have invited the organization to
hold their next annual encampment
here.
Arrangements have been completed
for grand excursion. extending from
October 3rd, to November 14th, and
taking In every place Of interest from
Omaha to Massachusetts, to be given
by the State department to the dele
gates to the three Americas Congress
which meets here October 2. Some in.
favorable comment has been made here
because the south Is not to be visited
blythe excursionists. It hardly seems
fair to leave that section out as long as
1t Is on trip which has to be paid fol-
by the government.
"MahOne's nomination by the Re.
publicans" said Virginia Democrat OF
prominence, "has made the fight In
Virginia serious thing for US. Ma.
hone, as an organizer, has few equals
and no superiOrs and we have got q
hard fight on hand to hold the State. u
The same views are expressed by many
Democrats here. They believe they
can win but only by the hardest kind
of work. .
To think ofthe International Expo.
sition of 1892, being held in any other
city than Washington is out of the
question. The government owns ample
grounds here right down in the heart
of the city to erect all the necessary
buildings upon. FOur-fifths of the
Congressman heard from on the subject
favor Washington and there is not the
slightest doubt that the exposition will
be held here as 1t should be.
Civil service commissioner. LYMAN
says that the report sent out from here
stating that the commissioners had
talked with President Harrison about
the proposed extension of the rules
to cover the chiefs of divisions in the
departments Is an error. The subject
has not been called to the President's
attention, but will be, when he return.
to this city as the commissioners are
unanimously in favor of its adoption
An open rupture between the commits
sion and one of the cabinet is said to bt
one of the probabilities of the near fu
ture. Ei.I
The navy department has had to Is.
sue new proposals for building the fiv.
new cruisers provided for at the las
session of Congress, because the bids re
ceived for those first issued were all IL
access of the amount appropriated. Il
is feared that vessels of the class desired
cannot be built for the amounts stipu
lated by Congress, and that the matter
will have to be referred back to tha
body for further action. We seem tt
have all sorts Of drawbacks in the build
ing Of our new navy. fs#s
Representative Breckenridge of Ken
lucky was in this city last week. II,
does not think the Republicans will
have any trouble to organize the House
nor does he think there will be any Sc
rious contentious over the contested
election cases unless the Republican,
attempted to seat men not legally en-
titled to the seats. Personally Mr.
Breckenridge is opposed to an extr'
session of Congress but from a politica
standpoint he hopes one will be called
He said: ito have discordant element
together is en- element of weakness"
Frank Hatton has "let up" on tn
civil service commission. Perhaps h,
is waiting for Mr.. Roosevelt to return
and perhaps-he has been fixed.
A new Democratic weekly paper is t.
be issued here in few days. 1t is un
derstood that the principal stockholder
are New Workers.
If Republicans here know anything
of the Presidents intentions in tn
matter, the idea of calling an extra ses
sion of Congress has been abandoned.
The Ohio Republican office holder
here are already heing notified tha
their presence at home at the comm,
State election is an imperative necessity
and that if they stray away they do s.
at their own risk.