Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-07
SENATOR INGALLS,.
His Movements in Washington American Exposition. -- The Civil Ser vsoe.--Extrs Session Talk.
CFrom our Regular Correspondent.)

WASHINCTON, U. C.. august 0J, IooJ.
 Senator Ingalls. who is now here, is
 puzzling his friends. He is working in "a rather secret and mysterious manner
 at some sort of project; some think
 he Is gathering material for serles of
 powerful speeches in the Senate this 1 winter, while others believe he is domg
 some important work. l think the lat
 ter are more likely to be right, because,
 aside from the Senator's well known lit crary bent, he is probably not averse to
 earning some money by his pen. He IS not q rich man, and the burning of his
 Kansas residence last year was heavy
 financial blow to him. Fortunately the
 Senator's literary ability is such that anything he writes is eagerly sought by
 the leading publishers.
 Senator Mandersin's letter to Com
 missioner Tanner declining to accept the
 increase of his pension to which it was recently decided by the Pension office he
 was entitled, until he had been re-ex-
 amined by a board of Surgeons and his right to it fully demonstrated, is just the
 sort of manly document that those who
 knew him might have expected under
 the circumstances. Charley Manderson
 is not the sort of man to take anything that he is not clearly entitled to, and his letter must have made those fellows who have been dropping insinuations about official influence" having been used in his case, feel rather cheap
 The great American exposition of 1892 will be held at Washington, and under the auspices of the national government. This may be accepted as an absolute certainty notwithstanding certain feeble | efforts of New York and Chicago people to secure the great attraction, and ruses it for local advertising pur- poses at the expense of the nation.
 Somebody has raked out, and printed | in the newspapers an old order of the | war department, dated May IS, 1863, | dismissing Second Lieut.. Charles | Lyman tat present civil service com | missioner from the army for disregard | of general order. This is very small | business, such an order was issued, but | If the searcher after ancient informa- tion had looked little further he would | have discovered that another order was afterwards issued revoking his dismissal | and giving him an honorable discharge | This is not the proper way to fight the | abusurd civil service law. Everyone | that knows them will agree that person ally the three commissioners Messrs Lyman, Roosevelt and Thompson are the most estimable gentleman. The in- congruity, absurdity and impossibilities of the civil service law are matters deserving of criticism, but to attack | the characters of the commissioners is decidely wrong, and will conceive nobody that the law should be repealed. The opponents of the law should see to it that the disseminator of such stuff as this order, and all of his kind are securely muzzled.
 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Batchellor, laughed when he was shown the story of Wall street combine to force the treasury to pay more for bonds and if 1t declined to do so to bring on a financial paric. You can say" said the Secretary, ''in the most positive language, that there will be no financial panic under the present admininistra- tiOn, and at pr sent it is getting about all the bonds it wants at the regular price and does not propose at present to pay more.
 The extra session talk has taken fresh start here. Every other man you meet IS now certain that an extra ces- sion will be called to meet the latter part of October This would enable those members who wish to take part in the November elections to do so without business, as after the cleo tion of Speaker nothing can be done by the House until the committees are announced, and to select and arrange them will take the Speaker at least two or three weeks.
 Representative Rowell, of Illinois and Peters, of Kansas, have gone to Louisiana to take part in the campaign now going on in the Third district of that State to elect a successor to the late Representative Gay. They will re- main until the election takes place, and will doubtless obtain some information that will be useful to them when some of the Southern contested election cases are under consideration by the House,
 The Census Bureau will occupy its new building about September 15, and until after that time, Superintendent Porter has given notice that he will see neither applicants for positions nor their friends.
 The local republican organizations lre making a lively kick against being eft out in the cold by the new District Commissioners.