The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

and most Republicans think he has
a good right to be, on account of the
Senate's rejection of the nomination
of Murat Halstead, editor of the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette. to be
minister to Germany. A few Repub.
lican Senators, on account of personal
ill will towards Mr.. Halstead, Joined
the Democrats under the leadership
of "Standard Oil" Payne. of Ohio,
and succeeded in bringing about this
rejection of the appointment. 1t will
be strange if they do not all live to
/ regret their action. And it will be
stranger still if the Republican edi-
tors of the country do not resent this
attempt on the part of certain Sena-
tors to establish Senatorial censor
ship of the press, for there is no use
to mince matters. that is just what
the rejection of Mr.. Halstead means.
He was not rejected because of his
inability to fill the position to which
he was appointed with credit to him.
self. the Republican party and the
country, but because in the conduct
Fof his paper he has seen fit to express
his honest convictions in its editorial
columns, of certain things affecting
certain Senators, particularly those
who are generally believed to owe
their seats to questionable practices.
When the people of this country ap-
prove of the punishment of fearless
editors like Halstead. if such a time
shall ever come, the days of a Repub-
lican form of Government in the
United States will be numbered. 1t
is to such men as he that the masses
always look to expose corruption in
high places, and God forbid that the
day shall ever come when thew shall
look in vain.
Two Democratic Senators, Black
burn and Call voted for the confir
nation of Mr.. Halstead, and Mr..
Blackburn made strong speech in
favor of it, but they could not break
the hold "Standard Oil" Payne had
on their Democratic colleagues. The
following Republicans voted against
Mr.. Halstead: Evarts, ingalls,, Plumb
and Teller. Senators Stanford, Stew
art, Jones and Cullom did not vote at
all although it is openly stated that
they would have voted against con-
firmation had their votes been neces-
sary to reject.
The news of the total loss during
hurricane at Apia, on the Samoan
islands, on March 18th, of the U. S.
Steamers Trenton and Vandalia and
the partial wrecking of the Mir sic, to-
gether with the drowning of 46 Off
GERS and Seamen, has cast gloom
over Washington, Owing to the re-
cent canard about the blowing up of
the Nipsic, this news received little
credence when it was first received
here. on Saturday. But later, Secre-
tary Tracy, of the Navy, received
cablegram from Admiral Kimberly
giving particulars and a list of the
men drowned. 1t is truly, as the
President says, national calamity,
and this country could ill afford to
lose two. and possibly three, of its
vessels of war, to say nothing of the
lives of the gallant men who persisted
in the storm. Better that we had
never heard of the insignificant but
troublesome Samoan islands.
The following is list of the most
important nominations made by the
President since my last letter: John
T. Abbott, of New HAMPSHIRE, to be
Minister to Columbia; E. H. Terrell,
of Texas, to be Minister to Belgium
Robt. Adams, of Pennsylvania, to be
Minister to Brazil l.. B. Miner, of
California, to be Minister to the Cen
trail American States w. L. Scruggs,
of Georgia, to be Minister to Ven
ezuela w. O. Bradley. of Ken
lucky, to be Minister to Corea G..
Chandler, of Kansas, to be First As
sistant Secretary of the Interior
Geo. l.. Sharp. of Idaho, to be Gov
ernor of that Territory; E. j. Curtis,
of Idaho. to be Secretary of the same;
R0bt. II. Lincoln. of Illinois, to be
Minister to England ; Murat Hal
stead, of Ohio, to be Minister to Ger
I Ianys; Allen Thorndvke Rice F.; of
New York. to be Minister to Russia;
Patrick Egan, of Nebraska. to be
Minister to Chilli !; Thomas Ryan, of
Kansas. to be Minister to Mexico
John Hicks, of Wisconsin. to be Min
ister to Peru Geo. B. Loring. of
Massachusetts,, to be be Minister to
Portugal F. E. Warren, of Wyom.
ing. to be Governor of that Territory,
and B. F. White, of Montana, to be
Governor there.
The President has unofficially noti-
aod the Senate that after tomorrow