Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-23
The Thriving Territory Anxious to be Num-
bered Among the States.
SHE HAS THE REQUIRED POPULATION.
An Instance Showing How Easily Con
grcssmen Change Their Views
Upon Some Very Inn
portant Questions.
WASHINGTON BUREAU TuB OMAHA BEE,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET.
WAsuINGToN, ID. c., June %.

unit for statehood We are ready and wait
ing. The census will give us nearly one hun
dred thousand population, and but for the in
surmountabo difficulties of enumeratng
population scattered over region one and n
half times as large as the six New England
states it would give us 125,000. Wyoming
will have largely a home market for her
products. Her coal, iron and timber will go
to treeless and fuelless Kansas and Nebraska,
Her agricultural products will go to feed her
miners and snelters, while her stockwill con
sumo the surplus corn of Nebraska on their
way east.n
CHANGING CURRENTS IN CONGRESS.
Evidence was given the past week of how
easily men in congress suddenly change their
positions upon very important subjects. The
day before the tariff bill was reported from
the senate committee on finance it was stated
positively that the provisions in the tariff bill
relating to imported tobacco and tobacco
taxes would not be disturbed When the bill
was reported the abolition of the tobacco
taxes was found to be eliminated from the
Mckinley bill. Five days before the senate
passed the free coinage bill almost Il majority
of the entire senate from the republican side
signed pledge that they would not support
free coinage bill. The majority for free
coinage was amazing The house, it will be
remembered, voted down free coinage by
very decided majority. 1t is now known that
had the senate bill been taken from the speak
er's table the day after it come from the upper
branch of congress the house would have
given an almost two-thirds majority for the
senate bill-thereby completely changing its
expression of only few days since. Nobody
can make anything like an intelligent fore
cast of congressional action while congress IS
composed of the present membership.
PLUMs NOT EAGERLY SOUGHT.
b,p pf n m h1a
for the nine appraiserships under the Nc
Kinley valuation bill than has ever been
known for so many large places. The duties
of these appraisers are not onerous Ihey
consist in making estimates from the work of
the real appraisers, and the abilities of the
appraisers should consist more i'll business eX-
perience and common sense than law or book
study. Honesty is the prime qualification
necessary. So far real specific or general
ability is concerned no more is absolutely
necessary than is required in good chief of
division in a department worth $1,000 year,
while the appraiserships are worth 81, 600
year, and are to be regarded rs positions for
life or during good behavior. 1t is not likely
| that more than twenty names have in real
| earnest been presented for these nine posi-
tions, while there have been over 100 names
| presented for single position requiring as
much ability and as high character and
worth less than half the salary.
THE ATTACKS ON MIR. wANAMAKER.
Not in score of years has man in public
life been subjected to the venomOus attacks
which have been heaped upon Postmaster
General Wanamaker since he accepted the
position in General Harriscn's cabinet. Mr..
Wanamaker is a republican, and an earnest
believer in the policy of protection During
the campaign he spoke out his views as to the
policy of the party to which he has always
been attached, and subscribed sums of money
| and collected larger sums from other men
who were of the same view of thinking as he.
This fund materially aided the national com
| mittee in distributing protection literature
and in paying the legitimate expenses of an
expensive contest Because he subscribed to
the fund and because he induced others to
do so he has been persistently charged with
buying his seat in the cabinet. How absurd
this is even those who write him down know
full well.
Mr.. Wanamaker has borne all the charges
without murmur. He has been assailed
time after time. He has been bounded from
New York TO California and from Maine to
Texas, and yet not word of complaint has
ever been heard from him. He has conducted
the affairs of his Office in a manner which
should commend him to every American citi-
cen, regardless of party, and he has conducted
these affairs at great personal loss. Only
few days ago he was compelled to dis
pose of an enormous jobbing business
which he owned in Philadelphia, because his
duties in Washington absolutely prohibited
his attention to private affairs.
Two years ago the firm of John WanamalIer
| & Co. purchased Il jobbing trade, with the
understanding that the sellers might have the
| privilege of buying it back within three years
| if the purchasing firm desired to sell. This
| jobbing business amounts to more than
| 81 ,OO0, 900 month and was good investment
up to the time that Mr. Wanamaker was able
| to give it his personal attention, but owing TO
| his official duties he was obliged to neglect
| his private business, and found that it would
| be impossible to carry on this branch of his
| business as long as he remained in Washing
ton. He therefore sold it back the other day
| to the firm from which he bought it. There
| are three concerns in Philadelphia under the
name of Wanamuker One is Wanamaker Il
| Brown one $. NJ Wanamaker u Co.. and the
| other John Wanamaker
| Every time either of the first two firms has
any business operation which involves an
| attack on the government the opposition
! newspapers and blackguards generally per-
| sist in attacking John Wanamakcr and in as
| serting that his relations with the govern
| mcnt give hm opportunities TO further his
| own business interests, yet John WanamaSer
| has no connection whatever with either
| Wanamaker & Brown or S. NJ. Wunamaker
| x Co., nor has he had for years. Not only
| has his private business been dragged into
every political discussion, but the utmost un-
fairness prevails in discussing his public
acts. Every time a letter carrier is dismissed
| from the service or clerk is relcgated to
| private life the postmaster general is as
| sailed all along the line, yet he cannot
answer these attacks, although he would
have perhaps excellent defense in each and
every instance.
A case in point; Recently a number of
| letter carriers were discharged in "A certain
central city and mt least hundred news
| paper articles have been written abusing the
| postmaster general for the removals. and as
sertions have been freely made to the effect
that political considerations alone and a de-
sire To violate the spirit of the civil
service law accounted for these
changes, yet it would be easy TO
show from the files of the department and
the reports of the inspectors that these men
were dismissed for good and sufficient causes.
! Letter carriers found in improper houses and
! in saloons with their uniforms are not fit men
! for the government service, ana they have
! been quietly dismissed rather than bring dis
! grace upon their families by giving publicly
! the action OF the department. This is only a
sample. The postolfice department records
! will show when some one succeeds the pres
| ent holder Of the postOhice portfolio that Mr.,
| Wanamaker has not only lived up TO the
! spirit of the civil service law, but that he has
in many cases tried hard 10 retain men whose
| conduct fired them for dismissal and whose
/ politics were at variance with those of tho
I party in power.