The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-17
POWERS man GETSLEFT
The Commodore Having Anything But
a Pleasant Time Of t..
He Would Like to Thump the WASH
ington Correspondent For Tell
ing the Truth About Him
A Census Scheme.

Special to the standard.
WASHINGTON, July l6.-The Missoula
and Lewiston land Office appointments
were made by the president to-day, and
were as predicted in these dispatches two
weeks ago. George Steele did not get his
appointment as agent from Blackfoot, the
commune ications from Montana leading
the president to conclude that the people
who know George are not convinced that
he is in all respects the best man that the
government can find TO be Catlin's sue
cessor. Power, il seems, was the only
man who wanted Steele to have the po-
sition, and the other alleged senator and
Representative Carter refused to subscribe
to his recommendation, leaving il to be
inferred that Powers support of Steele
was purely personal.
Power has been reading paragraphs
that he does not like i'm the Montana
papers. He was very angry because the
story, which was true, that Wilson of
Washington wanted TO slap his face, got
into the papers. Now he is indignant be-
cause IL was learned that Sanders looked
for pair for him in vain. He wants to
"thump" somebody. IL he has any sense
of order he would begin his ''thumping"
by settling up the little affair with Wilson
and then, If anything was left of him,
to turn to the newspaper men and punish
them after they had reported the behav-
ior of the Washington man In action i'm
appropriate style. IL he dislikes to have
anything said about his inability to get
pairs he ought to stay single. Power has
a bold bad friend who reads the Montana
papers and shows all the unpleasant
things they put on record about him.
Less than a month ago, as | have told
you already, Z. G.. Brooke, postmaster at
Whitehall, asked Sanders To present his
resignation and to try TO get Wesley w.
Mccall appointed. Brooke has held the
Office since 1868 and has been good dem
ocrat all the time. To-day the postmaster
general appointed Mr.. Mccall whose ap-
pointment Brooke had requested, but the
injustice was done of announcing that
Brooke is removed" instead Of being al
lowed to resign as he requested TO be al
lowed to do.
The republicans having the deal they do
not mean to miss a trick IL they can
stack the cards to suit themselves. While
the federal elections bill is awaiting the
| decision of the republican caucus that
has not yet agreed to gag the minority,
the managers have representative Gear
Of Iowa at work at the census Office
out u schetne Wltn tne aiu
superintendent by which a new appoint
ment bill can be brought into congress
before adjournment. The expectation
now is that Porter will be able to show
that the Southern representation, and
perhaps the representation of some of
the Eastern states, should be reduced,
while that of Western republican states
should be increa sed. This leads
the democrats to believe the re-
ports that the census in the
South has been bad and that the
count of the negroes has been very care
less indeed. To reduce representation in
a state would make il necessary to elect
all the members left TO that state at large,
and would give all the gains TO the state
that would by electing at large gain one
or more republicans. II is probable that
IL this scheme is found TO be practicable
that the proposition TO change the senate
rules has as much TO do with putting this
plan through as il has TO make the elec-
tions bill possible of passage.