The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-08-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON D. c, Aug. End, 1889.
Editor Herald: 4
The president has returned to the
White House, where he will remain urs
til next Tuesday when he starts for Bar
Harhor to pay Secretary Blaine visit.
He will spend the entire day of Wednes-
day in Boston where he will be met by
Walker Blaine.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
received the resignation of Postmaster
Paul of Milwaukee, whose administra-
ton of that Office was so severely scored
by recent report of the civil service COM
mission.
The news of the seizure of the Cana
dian sealing vessel BLACK Diamond" by
the United States cutter Rush" for TAX
ing seals i'll Behring sea is being discussed
with great interest here, and there are
plenty of people who believe we shall
have row with England IT we do not
back down. l don't know about, that
but it's dollars to ginger cakes that there
will be 10 repetition of the disgracetul
backdown INDUCED in by the Cleveland
administration when similar seizures
were made three years ago. The law
says that all vessels caught illegally tax:
ing seals in Behring's sea shall be sliced,
con6scated and sold, and it is the inten-
ton of the present administration to see
that the law is obcyed. The president
issued a proclamation OF warning in
| March. If England does not like our
laws, 50 much the worse for England.
Hon. William Mckinley. the popular
representative from OHIO, is in town this
week. He has been quietly resting in the
mountains OF Pennsylvania for some
weeks. He does not say so, but from his
manner think he is confident of being
elected Speaker of til. House. He says
| there's no doubt about Ohio electing
Foraker, the state ticket and a republi-
can majority i'll the legislature, ensuring
a republican successor to Senator Payne.
Maj. Mckinley will take an active part
in the Ohio campaign.
While the opponents of the civil service
law are hitting some hard ticks, the com
mission is not idle. 1t proposes to ask
the president to place all chiefs of di-
visions in the classified service 1t is not
| probable that the request will be even
seriously considered, to say nothing of
being granted, by the president, for the
fact cannot be denied by any careful OBJ
server that the civil service law is steadi-
| ly growing more popular.
1t has been decided by the commission
engaged in investigating the re-ratlng of
pensions to make a preliminary report
| TO Secretary Noble next week and leave
| it to him whether they shall continue.
During the month of December 1883,
when the Office was in charge of Gen.
Black, they found the total number of re-
issues to have been 1900, of which
about one to fifteen were re-rated, and
during the month of May, $780, when
Mr.. Tanner was in charge the reissues
| were 800 with the percentage of re-
| ratings slightly increased. The object of
| this comparison was to discover whether
there had been any radical change in the
methods of making re-ratings. The pre-
lininary report will say that there has
| been no gross violation of law, nor any
| discoveries of sensational or serious
character. This will be good news to
everybody, except the newspaper cores
pondents who have been filing their pa
per up with stores of the terrible condi
ton Of things il, the pension Office.
When Governor Foraker was renomirl-
ated there were q lot of ''smart alick"
democrats running around Washington
saving that Senator Sherman would sulk
and remain in Europe, where he is now,
until after the election. They feel like
| fools now that the Senator has written
to say that lie will be home in time to
| take an active part in rejecting GOV
| ernor Foraker. OF course no republican,
ever believed that John Sherman would
ksuk. He isn't built that way. He is
! republican, because he believes in the
principles advocated by the party and
not because it does or does not nom
mate any Particular man for any Office.
The president will go to Indianapolis
OH the 22nd. inst. When the ceremony Of
| LAYING the corner stone of the new SOL
| diers monument is to be held.