Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-08-08
WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON. Aue. 2. ,sa.

W hACh W w othCt ot0thVs
Postmaster General Wannamaker
has received the resignation OF Post
master Paul, of Milwaukee, whose ad
ministration of that Office was SO Sc
verely scored by the recent repUrt of
the Civil Service Commission.
The news of the seizure of the Ca
madam sealing vessel "Black Dia-
mond" by the United States Cutter
Rush" for taking seals in Behring's
Sea, is being discussed with a great
deal of interest here. and there are
plenty Of people who believe we shall
have row with England If VIC do not
back down. i don't know about that.
but its dollars to ginger cakes that
there will be no repetition OF the dis
graceful back down INDUCED In by the
Cleveland administration when SINH
lar seizures were made three years ago.
The law says that all vessels caught
in taking seals in Behring's sea shall be
seized, confiscated and sold. and 1t is
the intention of the present admins.
tration to see that the law is obeyed.
The President issued proclamation
of warning in March. If England
does not like our laws, so much the
worse for England.
Hon. VIM. Mckinley, the popular
Representative from Ohio, is in town
this week. He has been quietly rest
ing in the mountains of Pennsylva-
MIA for some weeks. He does not say
so. but from his manner / think he is
quite confident of being elected Speak
er of the House. He says there is no
doub. about Ohio electing Gov. Fora
ker, the State ticket and republican
majority in the legislature, ensuriDg a
republican successor to Senator Payne.
Maj. Mckinley will take an active part
in the Ohio campaign z
While the opponents of the civil SER
vice law are Hitting some hard ticks,
the Commission is not i5le. 1t propos-
es to ask the President to place all
chiefs of divisions in the classified ser
vice. 1t is not probable that the re-
quest will be seriously considered, to
say nothing of being granted by the
President, for the fact cannot be de-
MED 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
500, of which about i'm Is were re-
rated, and during the month of May
1889, when Mr.. Tanner was in charge
the reissues were 1900 with the per-
centage of reratings slightly increased.
The object of this comparison was to
discover whether there had been any
change in the methods of making re.
ratings. The preliminary report will
show that there has been no gross vio-
lations of law, nor any discoveries of
a sensational or serious character.
This will be good news to everybody,
except the newspaper correspondents
who have been filling their papers up
with stories of the terrible condition
of things in the Pension Office.
When Governor Foraker was renom-
mated there were lot of ''smart al
eek" democl ats RAINING around Wash
ington saying that Senator Sherman
would sulk and remain in Europe.
where he is now, until after the cleo
ton. They feel like fools now that
the Senator has written to say that he
will be home in time to take an active
part in re-electing Governor Foraker
OF course no republican ever believed
that John Sherman would sulk. He
isn't built that way. He is republ-
can because he believes In the princi-
pies advocated by the party and not
because it does or does not nominate
any particular man for any Office.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry to suspend the payment of all tele-
graph bills until the question of rates
is settled. The telegraph companies
object to the proposed rate-one mill
per word but will go right along do
ing the Government business, trusting
to get q fair price for it.
Secretary Tracy has appointed a
board of naval officers to make recon-
for the building up and
aintaining of an efficient navy.
The President will go to Indianapo-
lis on the 22nd. inst, when the cere-
mony of laying the corner stone of the
soldiers monument is to be held.