Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-20
WAsHINGToN LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent,
WARRINGTON, March 10 1880.

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I (From our Regular Correspondent,
T. &r WASHINGTON. March 10 1889.
General Harrison's second week
in the White House differs little from
the first; there is daily the same
crowd OF Office seekers and their
hackers, up stairs in the executive
office, and down in the East Room
those that call only to pay their re
spects. Only few appointments
have as yet been made, owing large
ly to the difficulty in reconciling the
conflicting claims of the many appli.
cants, but those that have been made
seem to give general satisfaction to
the party leaders here, and have been
promptly confirmed by the senate.
The President has signed an order
extending the time within which the
Railway Mail service shall be brought
under the operation of the civil SER
vice law, from March Is, to May l,
1889. The extension was made al
the request of Civil Service Commits
sioner Lyman, who says the time
asked tor was necessary. Postmas-
ter General Wanamaker will doubt
less take advantage of the extension
to rid the service Of hundreds of in
competent men that are now in it.
1t has been a long time since fam
lily prayers were held every morning
in the White House, but they were
begun with Gen. Harrison's first
morning, and will be continued as
long as he remains there.
Senator Stewards resolution for the
purchase for coinage of $4,OO0,oOG
silver bullion per month was Offer
ed, but was laid on the table.
|. The Senate committee on Pacific
railroads will start from Chicago
April 6, on a tour Of inspection over
those roads. The trip is expected to
take about seven weeks. The men,
bers of the committee are Senators
Frye, Dawes, Hiscock, Davis, Nor
gan, Butler and Hearst.
Senator Dawes received over fifty
registered letters, all containing ap-
plications for Office IN one day this
week, and his Republican colleagues
are but little behind him in heir mail
matter. Surely everybody cannot
hold office, not at the same time any
way, therefore brethren, why would
this not be good time to stop writ
ing to your memblr or senator? He
willsget everything he can for his
constituents, but as industrious as he
may be, he cannot accomplish i'm
possibilities.
Might this be called case of bri-
berry? Interstate Commerce Com
missioner Walker, whose salary from
Uncle Sam is only $1,000 year, has
been enforcing the law against some
of the big railroads in manner that
was not at all to their liking. The
aforesaid b., railroads have formed
an associati"', and have employed
Commissioner Walker for three years
1t a salary of S25, 900 year. The
question very naturally arises, did
the railroads agree to pay this S75-
900 in order to obtain MI. Walkers
services or do they propose paying
it to get Mr.. Walker off of the board
of Interstate Commerce Commits
}sioners? 1t is large sum of money
land the railroads expect to get even
in some way,or they would not offer tc
Ipay it. 1t is just such episodes as this
Ithat causes the number of people
Iwho favor the Governments control
/ ling all of the railroads to be con
.Istantly increasing.
N Tuesdays and Fridays have beer
1 set for regular cabinet meetings.
The Senate has re.arraged it,
standing committees, but few changes
sslwere made other than those necessa
Try to make places for the new mem
bers.
I The Canadian question is one tina
! will not down. 1t is continually
cropping out in unexpected places
4 for instance, when Senator Payn'
I proposed in the Senate that the Sc
I lect committee con relations will
Canada be dropped as usurpator.
y 70 the functions Of the Executive, b.
stirred it up in a lively manner. Sen
ator Hoar in defending the exlstenc
Of the committee, said: ''It is useles
& to be blind to the fact that there is
n large and growing body of men il
II Canada that desire annexation to tn
81 United States" Senator Cullom ts
I ivored the committee and hoped tina
j it's Investigations would result j
making the two countries one. Ser
Il ator Sherman favored the commute
and thought that if the countries r.
i mained separate, peace would be q
Utmost impossible. Senator Edmund
'lIand Hale were willing to vote for tn
sl,bommittee, but did not propose I
/, commit themselves as favoring al
!. nexation. Senator Morrill, had n
'lIobiection to the committee, but b