The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-04-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.


The President has honored the news.
paper fraternity again by appointing
Robert ?. Porter, of New York, Su.
perintendent of the Census. Mr.
Porter was one Of the founders, and is
Rt present the editor CT that very
sprightly Republican daily, the New
York Press. He has an international
reputation as writer on industrial
topics, and no man has done more in
the last ten years to popularize a pro.
lection tariff than be, and few men
better qualified than he to superin.
tend the taking of the next census
could be found.
Oklahoma is long way from Wash.
ington, but its affairs are just now
receiving a great deal of attention
from officials of the Government. The
Attorney General and the Controller
of the currency are trying to decide
whether they shall grant charters for
several national banks there for which
applications have been made. The
law says such applications shall be on
file one year before the charters shall
be granted. But this being the open.
ing of nsw Territory, is claimed to
be an exceptional case. A decision
is expected in few days. The Post.
office Department is making UNUSUAL
efforts to provide mail facilities for the
citizens (to be) of the new country.
Several inspectors are now there to ex.
anime proposed mail routes, etc. First
Assistant Postmaster General Clark.
sou, who has been over the ground,
says Oklahoma is the garden spot of
the West, and that in less than six
months its population will be 100000,
and that in two years it will be ad.
mitted as a State.
Red Cloud, the Sioux Indian Chief,
called on the President this week. He
said that he "only called to pay his
respects" when an inquisitive news.
,.sEseeEE-@au asked him what Office he
was tryi6g to get.
The number of changes in fourth.
class postmasters now runs from 100 to
100 per day. These postmasters have
no stated term but from action that
has been taken by the Department in
a number of cases it is inferred that
the commissions Of all those having
served four years or longer are con.
sidered as having expired.
The Railway Mail Service is being
improved as rapidly as possible. AL.
ready there have been more than 500
changes therein and the good work
still goes on. Speaking of this matter
Mr.. Clarkson said: at has been the
policy of the Department to displace
incompetent clerks and appoint ex.
perieneed and efficient men who left
the service during the last administra-
tion, where such are available and
desirious of re-entering the service.
The Railway Mail Service requires
men not only of superior intelligence,
but men whose faculties are in perfect
working order. Men who possess
every requirement of the service are
comparatively few, and are not easily
secured, but when such are found they
should be retained 10 the service as
long as possible. Efficiency in the
postal service can be obtained only
after a long struggle, and to remove
such men in order to make places for
political favorites, irrespective of their
fitness, is public wrong and should
not be tolerated"
Secretary Blaine says there are
more than $500 applications on file at
the State Department for the 2lO
United States consulships.
Postmaster General Wauamaker,
believing that the newspapers of the
country should be given every facility
for obtaining aud disseminating the
news of the day, has resciuded an
order issued during the last admins.
tration prohibiting trainmen carrying
newspaper correspondence and pack.
ages of newspapers on trains other
than mail trains. The issuance of this
order several years ago has been the
cause Of great Inconvenience aud com.