The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-08-14
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Aug O. 1876


WASHINGTON, Aug. 0, 1880.
Secretary Noble Is just now holding the
fort all alone, he being the only member
OF the Cabinet in the city. The rest Of
them are scattered around about as fol.
lows; Secretaries Blaine and Tracy are
with the President at Bar Harbor; Secre-
tary Window is in Boston looking after
some complicated custom matters; Secre.
tary Proctor Is at his Vermont home; Sec
reiary Rusk is in New York city endervor.
Ing to make arrangements with the rail-
road managers that will facilitate the Gov.
ernment inspection Of all shipments of
live cattle; Postmaster General Wana-
maker is at his country residence In Penn.
sylyania, and Attorney General Miller is
In indianapolis, where he will meet the
President on the 22d inst. and return with
him to Washington after the laying Of the
cornerstone Of the, soldiers monument In
that city.
All payments Of bills against the Govern.
ment for work done by the telegraph com.
panies have been suspended until some
agreement shall be reached as to the price
to be paid. Mr.. wsnamaker still sticks
ssl5dfssEEs fsEs ssRSiA'qa sSsq htA tAsA 9ps " t5SpRs
insist that they lose money at the present
ate OF one cent per word.
A very interesting story has been float
ing around Washington for day or two,
which belongs to the important II true''
class. 1t states, on SEEMINGLY good author
ity, that the President has decided TO ap.
point Secretary Noble to the vacan-
cy on the bench OF the Su-
preme Court, and that the vacancy
in the Cabinet will be filled by either max
ing Assistant Postmaster Clarkson Secre-
tary of the Interior or by transferring Mr..
Wanamaker to that position and making
Mr. Clarkson Postmaster General. Secre.
tary Noble says he heard this news first
from a newspaper man. That gives II
very bad black eye to start with. The
President, like all other sensible public
men, is very friendly to newspaper men,
but he is hardly friendly enough towards
them to have told one of them of such an
important appointment before informing
the man appointed. So much for the first
part of the story. As neither Mr.. Wana-
maker nor Mr. Clarkson are lawyers, il Is
certain that neither of them will ever be
made Secretary of the Interior by Presi-
dent Harrison, for he long ago put himself
on record as believing that only lawyer
should be at the head of that department.
That disposes OF tthe last part of the yarn.
Secretary Noble on Wednesday received
the following telegram from ex.Gov. Fos-
ter, chairman of the commission which
has been negotiating for the purchase OF a
portion of the great Sioux Indian reserva-
ton in Southern Dakota: ave have won
the fight. We leave tomorrow for Chi
cago. win write you fully from Chicago"
The dispatch was forwarded to the Presi.
dent at Bar Harbor ExGov. Fosters col
leagues on the commission are Maj. Gen.
Crook, U. S. A, and Hon. William War
ner, of Missouri. When the agreement
just arranged by this commission is ap.
proved by Congress, which Il IL certain to
be, about 100000 acres of land will be
open to settlement The Government is
to pay the Indians $1.25 per acre for all
lands sold to homestead settlers Tor the
first three years after the act goes into ef-
feet, % cents per acre for all disposed Of
in the next two years following and 80
cents per acre ior what remains undis-
posed Of at the end Of that time.