The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-31
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

any of his colleagues Will De mere De-
fore next week.
There is likely to be some delay in
the building of the five war vessels
provided for at the last session of
Congress owing TO the fact that the
bios received were largely in excess
of the amount appropriated to pay
for them. The Navy Department
has issued new proposals in which
some notifications are made which
it is hoped will enable the ship build
ers to get inside of the appropriations
with their bids. Boat naval officers
say that the appropriations are too
small to obtain vessels of the class
wanted.
Similarity of names brings about
some queer things. For instance. a
short time ago Andrew j. Whitaker,
of Illinois, who was formerly clerk
in the Fourth Auditors Office, was
appointed deputy Fourth Auditor.
Saturday the Fourth Auditor receiv-
led letter from Andrew J. Whita.
ker, of Carpentersville, Illinois. stat
ing that he had seen a notice in a
Chicago paper of his appointment as
Deputy Fourth Auditor, and that he
accepted the appointment, AS pos
session IS nine points of the law thu
first named gentleman will probably
retain the office while his Illinois
namesake will be allowed to keep the
disappointment.
Civil Service Commissioner Lyman
now says that the members of the
Commission have never mentioned
to the President anything about the
proposed extension of the Civil Ser
vice rules to the Chiefs of divisions
in the departments, but that the
commission is unanimously in favor
of it. Nobody doubts that at all.
The Commission is in favor of any
thing that will increase its power,
but a great many other people think
| it should be curtailed instead of in
creased.
Washington is not worrying much
about the efforts now being made by
several cities to secure the great In
ternational Exposition which is to be
held in 1892 to celebrate the four hun
Gredth anniversary of the discovery
of America. Unless the Exposition
is held under the authority Of the
United States it will not be a success.
That makes it certain it will be held
in this city. the only place proper for
1t. To hold it anywhere else would
make it simply local affair.
:, Acting Seer etary of State Wharton
says the Behring Sea seizures are
matters concerning only the Treasury
department, the seizures being made
by vessels of the revenue marine SER
vice. The State Department will
haye nothing to do with it unless the
British should send it some commu.
nication on the subject, which it has
not yet done.
Acting Commissioner of the land
Office Stone is now investigating the
alleged payment by the last admins
tration of S4S, 1000 on fraudulent sur.
veyors vouchers. The matter will
be laid before Secretary Noble as
soon as he returns to Washington.
Washington's delegation to the q.
A. R. encampment at Milwaukee
left here Saturday night. They car
ried cordial invitation from the
business men of Washington to the
G. A. R. to hold their next annual
encampment in this city. A meeting
was held last week and a number OF
our most prominent and wealthy
citizens pledged themselves to raise
all the money needed to entertain
the veterans should they accept the
invitation. Washington will give
them a rousing time if they will
come, besides showing them the
pref tiest city in the world.
The nomination of General Ma
hone by the Virginia Republicans
has created much interest here. 1t
ensures Virginia a red hot aggres.
sive campaign and it is generally
lbe,ieved by Republicans that the
brainy little man will win, and the
most sangulne Democrats admit that
the result is doubtful. When the fact
is remembered that these same DEM
ocrats are in habit of claiming ev-
erything this admission is not with
out meaning.
Judge Crowell. of Minnesota. who
WAS Sixth Auditor of the Treasury
when the Cleveland administration
came in, has been appointed CHER of
a division in the same office.
The administration is determined
that the foreign delegates to the
Three Americas Congress which
meets here on the 22nd of October