The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular oorrespondent.)

stairs in the executive Office, and down
in the East Room those that call
merely to pay their respects. Only a
few appointments have as yet been
made, owing largely to the difficulty
of reconciling the conflicting claims
of the many applicants, but those that
have been made seem to bave given
general satisfaction to the party lead.
ers here, and have been promptly con.
firmel 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 15, to May !,
1889. The extension was made at the
request Of Civil Service Commissioner
Lyman, who says the time asked for
was necessary. Postmaster General
Wauamaker will doubtless take ad.
vantage Of the extension to rid the
service of hundreds of incompetent
men that are now iu it.
1t has been long time since family
prayers we're held every morning in
the White House, but they were be.
gun with Gen. Harrison's first morn.
ing, and will be continued as long as
he remains there.
Senator Stewards resolution for the
purchase for coinage of s4,000,000
silver bullion per month was again
offered, but was laid on the table.
The Senate Committee on Pacific
Railroads will start from Chicago,
April 6, on tour of inspection over
those roads. The trip is expected to
take about seven weeks. The members
of the committee are Senators Frye,
Dawes, Hiscock, Davis, Morgan, But
ler and Hearst.
Senator Quay received over fifty
registered letters, all containing sppli
cations for Office in one day this week,
and his republican colleagues are but
little behind him in their mail matter.
Surely everybody cannot hold office,
not at one time anyway, therefore
brethren, why would not this be a
good time to stop writing to your
member or Senator. He will get
everything he can for his constituents,
but as industrious as he may be, he
cannot accomplish impossibilities.
Might this be called case of brib,
cry? Inter State Commerce Commits.
sioner 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 afore.
said big railroads have formed an as.
sociation, and have employed Commits.
sioner Walker for three years at a
salary of $4,000 year. The ques.
tion very naturally arises, did the
railroads agree to pay this $4,000 in
order to obtain Mr.. Walkers services
or do they propose paying it to get
Mr.. Walker off of the board of Inter.
State Commerce Commissioners 1t is
large sum of money, and the rail.
roads expect to get even in some way,
or they would not offer to pay it. 1t
is just such episodes as this that causes
the number of people who favor the
Governments controlling all of the
railroads to be constantly increasing.
Tuesdays and Fridays have been set
for regular cabinet meetings.
The Senate has re arranged its
standing committees, but few changes
were made other than those necessary
to make places for the new members.
The Canadian question is one that
will not down. 1t is continually crop.
ping out in unexpected places, for in.
stance, when Senator Payne proposed
in the Senate that the select commit.
tee "on relations with Canada" be
dropped as being usurpatory of the
functions of the Executive, he stirred
it up in lively manner. Senator
Hoar in defending the existence Of the
committee, said: at is useless to bt
blind to the fact that there is a larg,
and growing body of men in Canade
that desire annexation to the United
States" Senator Cullom favored tht
committee and hoped that its investi
cations would result in making tht
two countries one. Senator Sherman
favored the committee and though
that if the countries remained separate
peace would he almost impossible
Senators Edmunds ard Hale wer
willing to vote for the committee, bu