The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-12
ITf7m our regular e0TTs'F'77s'El
OUR wAsHfNGrON LETTER.


Have Harrison and i:la,ne any inilu-
enc. win the Republican senate.
II 80. how much? Since the senate.
~ The vq,} decisive vote Of o5 ID ~. re-
iectel tho nonination ~ Mnrst llalstrai,
editor OF Tie Cincinnati Commercial lin
zefte, 20 be minister 10 Germany, thest'
questions have boon asked on every
hand aud many answers have been civ
en-. II IL wei. known here that Harrison
and Blaine took occasion IN inform every
Republican senator that they were yer,
deeply interested IN Halsteai : con TRINA
ton and vel the Senate voted against ~
confirmation, only nineteen fsvoring II,
and two OF them we're Democrats
Messfs. Blackburn and Call.
Therefore The Inference is that Har-
rison and Blaine have no vNry great
amount OF Influence with The Scnstors o.
their party. This rejeclio. ~ IIalstead
by Republican votes isa very quee.
thing, and i likely 10 make trouble for
some OF the parties for 4 long tine 10
come. That the Democrats should have
voted against his confirmation was 10 BE-
expected. hut what puzzles people herea-
bouts Is why such rampant bloody
shirt waver rs Ingalls, should have join
ed them. Hastead's opinion OF those
Republicans who voted against him
will make mighty interesting reading.
The surprise created by the nomina-
ton OF Robert Lincoln TO be Minister TO
England has not vet died out, and Re-
publican applicants for the big appoint
ments still open are anxionsly inquiring
II the Garfield boys want anything. be-
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the Fred Grant and Lincoln appoint
menfs why they should not getit.
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Walker has resigned. lie has accepted
the management Of an association q
railroads II an annual salary of $4,000
The pleasure trip OF the Senate con-
mittee which was to have started from
Chicago on the 9th inst for Fix weeks
inspection aud investigation Of the vari-
Gus Pacific railroads and branches, has
been postponed until fall.
Corporal" Tanner saws no clerks will
be removed in the Pension Office except
for cause We shall sec.
III Whiteaw Reid does not return to
this country in disgrace shall be great
liz surprised" said well known Rspub-
lican 10 me to-day. Upon my asking
his reason for thinking so, he said
"Rcid j. heavily interested in n corpors-
ton that Is nothing more nor les than
business fake. O.e end OF il rests in
Washington where il is looked after by
one Of the shrewdest AZ well as most
inscriptions men Ia the country. Both
Reid aud this man. who by the way i
now In Europe. were roped into this
scheme and have now got many thou--
ands Of dollars tied up in IL. They have
long ago agreed that the best thing 10 do
was 10 unload the whole thing on Euro
pesn capitalists, aud for That purpose.
the Washington member Of the affair
went TO Europe about ten days ago, aud
- now awaiting Reid's arrival. vi
course Reid will endorse the Washing
ton man, and his official position As U. )
Minister 70 France will cause his en-
dorsement 70 have great weight with
European fnanciers. and the probabi!i.
ties are that the unloading OF the fake
will be success. II will not take long
for the purchasers to discover that they
have been robbed, and that Reid's en-.
dorsement did it. Then?
General Black, ex-Com missioner o.
Pensions. has gone TO Chicago, where BIZ
will resume the practice Of law.
1t Is said that Gen. Joseph T. Johnson
Commissioners OF Railroads. will not b.
removed by the new administration
owing 10 request from Gen Sherman
asking for bis retention.
Two Southern Gentlemen were stand
ing in the House corridor recently II
conversation with member OF Con
gress, when one Of them placed the sol
OF his shoe against the wall. A membe
Of the Capitol police force, who feels
his duty 10 regulate everything With
the scope Of his observation, rushed Q
him to stop this awful dissertation, an
III tone Of thunder told him to put hi
foot down. The gentleman looked ;
the spot where his foot had been, an
discovered thai the wall was staine
knee high with tobacco juice tor abol
ten feet in each direction, thanked Il
officer tor the hint.
1T was awful kind Of that fellow
keep me from selling my shoes, WASH
it?' he remarked 10 his amused frien
who fully understood that the polio
man had intended 10 administer
whitening rebuke.
Good Judges estimate that II has taxi
somewhere 10 the neighborhood Of fl
tons OF plug tobacco and four tons
fine cut to fresco this portion Of the WI
the beautiful snuf-brown that now al
tinguishes II. @. A 5.