The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-04-05
The Egis Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, April 5, 1889.
OUR EASHINGTON LETTER.

Prom Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, April LIST. 1SS9.-lIave Harrison
and Blaine any influence with the Republican
Senate
If so, how much? Since the Senate, by the
very decisive vote of % to 10, rejected the
nomination of Murat Halstead, editor OF the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, to be minister
TO Germany, these questions nave been asked
ON every hand and many answers have oeen
given. II is well known here that Harrison
aud Blaine took occasion to inform every Re-
publican Senator that they were deeply interest
cd in lialstead's confirmation aud yet the senate
voted against his confirmation, only nineteen
fIvOring IT, and two of them were Democrats,
Messrs. Blackburn and Call Therefore the
Inference is that Harrison and Blaine have no
very great amount of influence with the Sena.
tors of their party This rejection of Halstead
10y Republican votes is very queer thlns
aud is likely to make trouble for some of the
parties for a long time to come. That the
Democrats should have voted against his con-
firmation was to be expected, but what puzzles
people hcreabOuts is why such rampant
bloody shirt waver as Ingalls, should have
joined them. Halstead's opinion OF those Re-
publcans who voted against him will make
mighty interesting reading.
The surprise created by the nomination OF
Robert Lincoln to be Minister to England has
not yet died out, and Republican applicants
for the big appointments stlll open are
anxiou4y inquiring If the Garfield boys want
anything, because If they do there is no reason
after the Fred. Grant and Lincoln appointments
why they should not get II.
1t looks very much as though that Senatorial
boycott WAS beginning to get in its work.
The Senate will adjourn this week, and
President HARRISON will be very glad to see them
70 away as he has few more appointments of
the Halstead order to make, aud does not
banker after other rejections at present.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walker
has resigned to take effect to-day. He has ac-
rod ma n n association Df
railroads at an annual salary Of 81, 100
The pleasure trip Of the Senate committees,
which was to have started from Chicago on the
9th instant, for six weeks inspection and ill.,
vestigaton Of the various Pacific railroads and
branches have postponed the junket until fall.
Corporal Tanner says no clerks will be re-
moved in the Pension office except for cause.
We shall see.
"If Whitelaw Reid does not return TO this
country in disgrace shall be greatly surprised"
said a well known Republican to me to-day.
Upon my asking his reason Tor thinking so, lie
said: "Reid is heavily interested in corpora
ton that Is nathng more nor less than busi-
ness fake. One end of it's rests in Washington,
where ii Is looked after by one OF the shrewdest
as well as most interruptions men in the
country. Both Reid and this man, who by the
way is now in Europe, were roped into this
scheme and have now many thousands Of dol
lars tied up in it. They have long ago agreed
that the best thing to do was to unload the
whole thing on European capitalists, and for
that purpose the Washington member of the
affair went to Europe about ten days ago, and
is now awaiting Reds arrival. Of course Reid
will endorse the Washington man, and his
official position as L. s. Minister to France will
cause his endorsement to have great weight
with European financiers, and the probabilities
are that the unloading of the fake will be a sue
cess, 1t will not take long for the purchasers
TO discover that they have been robbed, and
that Reid's endorsement did it. ThenT'
General Black, eX.CommissiOner of Pensions,
has gone TO Chicago, where he will resume the
practice OF law.
1t is said that Gen. Joseph +. Johnston, Com
missioner of Railroads, will not be removed by
the new administration, owing to request
from Gen. Sherman asking for his retention.
T.. A. s.