The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-02-01

washington Letter.

crown, in the form of the Treasury port
folio. The Iowa politicians of his own
party are urging upon him the necessity OF
accepting, for, it his refusal is final, Iowa
will not be represented in the Cabinet at
| all, and of course such a consummatlon
would plunge the republic into mourning.
To-day Senator Allisoa's appointment as
J Secretary of the Treasury would give more
| pleasure to members of both Houses OF
| Congress than the selection of anyone else
| could. john Sherman has enemies by the
| score. John Wanamlker is looked upon
| as a pious fraud, and the man has not been
| found who can count Mr.. Blarne's warm
enemies. 1t is certain that ii both the hairs
! of his head and the enemies Of his policy
| are counted the latter sun is by far the
| greater.
Still the impression that Mr.. Blaine will
be Secretary Of State grows every hour
and he is besieged at his hotel by the mob
of place hunters. That tiresome news
paper lay figure known ass'one very near the
President-elect'' has even announced that
Mr.. Blaine has already been offered the
position and accepted it. This is coupled
with the announcement that Mr.. Wanama-
ker will be Postmaster General, though
there is a dim impression that the eminent
Philadelphian would have gone to Europe
two weeks ago if he had felt sure of his
chances. Mr.. Wanamaker had been orig
inally cast for the part of Secretary of the
Navy, with the vague idea that it would be
an appropriate position for a Philadelphia
man. His selection would be regarded by
| congressman as one of doubtful wisdom
| Business men are not deemed of great
weight in politics. The wealthy old mer-
chant who goes in for that sor. of thing is
simply regarded by political heelers as a
delightful mint, to be run day and night.
Mr.. Wapamaker has had his own exper-
fence in that direction. Very little is
known outside his own city of his actual
personality. There is along distance be-
tween his self.avowed tender Christian
conscience that will mol ever permit him
to advertise in a Sunday paper, and the
story broadly limited at in the Senate by
Mr.. Morgan to the effect that John has
hundreds of women in his employ who
drudge year in and year out for thirty-fve
cents a day. If both avowals are correct
one might be excused from inviting Johns
careful consideration of that striking
Biblical allusion to straining at a gnat and
swallowing a camel.
Tomorrow Secretary Whitney Will send
to the Chairman of the House Naval Com
mittee a letter giving his views of the
Samoan difficulty. Inasm UGH as the ques-
ton is one purely of diplomacy and the
Navy is in no condition to enter into a
fight with any first class power, it is some
what difficult to understand what value is
TO be attached to the views of Secretary
Whitney on this problem. If Secretary
Bayard would present his excuses for his
painful neglect of the question and his
i~nadequacy to handle it and have them
published in a cheap form for popular dis
tribution, he would fill a long-ielt want.
The owl-like gentleman from Delaware,
however, withholds his thoughts from
meaner beings and allows the world to
remain awake of nights worrying about
what he is thinking.
On Saturday the omnibus Territorial
bill was considered by the Senate Com
m ittee on TIE territories n d,
as was to be expected, with little favor.
The report will be adverse oil the ground
that the bill affords no actual relief. I'm
patient Representative Springer, goaded
by his alleged success, is expected to in
troducc another enabling acs next wee k
for the admission of Arizona, Idaho and
Wyoming. This confers upon Mr..
Springer the proud title of champion
wholesale statesman Of America.
The growing desire for the settlement
of contested Congressional elections in the
courts proper, instead of the House itself,
is intensified by the probability of a large
number of contests in the Fifty-first Con
in disputed districts in Tennessee, Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, and more are talked Of else
where.
Mrs. Ye Wan and Mrs. Ye Cha, whose
names are faithfully indicative of theil
dimin1tive persons, are the latest addi-
tious to the ladies of the diplomatic corps.
These ladies are the chief wives of high
official dignitaries from Corea, that ''fur
therest inch of ASIA" which professional
travellers are now ~delighting to honor
These ladies have not yet appeared in So
ciety and so far as seen, and that has been
only a glimpse of black hooded figures
waddling out of the railway station, are
rather sorrowful additions TO the diplo
matte households.
Minister Phelps departure from Eng
land is not regarded as an inconsolable
loss by the entire British people. The
days of diplomacy as a high calling ap-
pear to be over. America gets along fairly
well, too, without Lord Sackville.
WESTON.