The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-11-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

now one of the daily sights at the capt.
toll. All the rest of the candidates for
speaker of the house are here too, but
there is little chance for electloneering,
for the reason that big majority of
the republican representatives seem to
have made up their minds to eat their
Thanksgiving turkeys at home. Mr.Reed
is perfectly confident, notwithst anding
the effort to combine the field against
him, of his no animation on the first or the
second ballot Of the caucus. His oppo-
nents concede that he will lead them all
on the first ballot, but claim that his
vote will not increase afterwards. So far
the contest has been entirely friendly and
exceedingly quiet and there is not the
slightest indication of it's becoming 9TH
erwise
The president is now considering the
report of the civil service commission con-
corning the alleged violation of the law
by the Old Dominion Republican League
in sending circulars to Virginia republi
cans residing temporarily in Washington
asking contributions for the late cam
paign. The commissioners cleim to have
case against the league, or rather
against several federal office-holders who
are members of it, but the general inn
preston is that no law has been violat-
ed.
Gen. Raum made several important
changes among the officials of the pen
sion Office this week, among them being
the appointment r. A. Duman OF lnd'-
ana to be chief of the mail division, and
the appointment of the Commissioners
son, Green B. Raum Jr., to be chief of the
appointment divi.ion which has just
been created. No dismissals were made
to make room for these appointments.
The parties they succeeded were trans
ferred to lower positions. Miss Tanner,
daughter of ex-Commissioner Tanner has
resigned her position as confidential sec
i rotary to the commissioner and been APP
pointed to similar position by United
States Treasurer Houston, who said, in
offering her the place that it gave him
pleasure to show his appreciation of the
work her father, Corporal Tanner, did in
| Indiana last year.
The appointment of success or to
First Deputy Pension Commissioner
Smith is looked for every day, it being
generally conceded that Mr.. Smith, who
is now away on leave, will not resume
| the duties of the Office.
If this thing keeps on while longer
the civil service commissioners will think
they own this country outright. One of
them actually had the impudence IN a
conversation with outside parties, to
make threats as to what the commission
would do to the president it he did not
order the attorney general to prosecute
the two officers of the old Dominion
Republican League that are federal Of
fce-holders, and whom the report of the
civil service commission charges with a
violation OF law. This fellow seems to
forget that the same power that made
the commission can unmake it.
1t is believed that Mrs. Goodloe widow
of the late Col. c. NJ. Goodloe, will sue
coed her late husband as collector of in
ternal revenue for the sixth Kentucky
district. There were six candidates, but
two have withdrawn in favor of Mrs.
Goodloe. If she is appointed she will be
the first woman to hold similar posi-
ton.
The five new representatives from the
four new states do not mean to take
back seats because they were late in get
ting in to the feast. They have already
had meeting and selected the committees
of the house to which each of them will
ask to be assigned. so as to be able to
look out for the interests of their sections.
They recognize the value of united &C
ton.
Secretary Blaine presides over the
meeting of the Three America s Congress.
1t is not yet known whether the recent
revolution in Brazil will make any change
in the delegates from that country. The
Brazilian delegates will take no part in
the proceedings until their state is better
defined than at present.
Commissioner of patents Mitchell thinks
the reproach Of being behind-hand with
its work will shortly be removed from
the patent Office. 1t has recently been
catching up at the rate of one hundred
cases week, that is, the office is dispos-
ing of one hundred cases in excess of the
number received each week. This is as it
should be. The inventors of the country
deserve prompt attention from the gov
eminent.
Secretary Window says he has given
no inkling of what the policy of the
treasury department is to be on the sill.
yer question to any person outside the
cabinet, and that all publications made
on the subject have been drawn from the
imaginations of the writers.