Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-11-27
Washington City News.

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mOnths-a duck shooting trip in Mary
land-in time to preside over a very i'm
pOrtant Cabinet meeting, at which
portions of his annual message to
| Congress, which will be unusually i'm
portant this year, were read and dis
cussed. The name of the successor to
Secretary Proctor was also submitted,
and there was some informal talk about
the success of Minister Fred Grant in
getting the government of Austria to
withdraw its prohibition of the importa-
tion Of American pork, which is now re-
garded as an assured fact. Secre-
tary Blaine has something interesting
to say about the reciprocity treaty with
Mexico and his final instructions to
Minister Ryan, who left Washington for
the city of Mexico this week. The ne
gotiatiOn of this treaty or agreement
will probably bS officially concluded and
announced soon after Minister RYAN gets
back to his post of duty, as only q few
of the minor details remain to be settled.
The President and every member of
his Cabinet realizes that they have a
season of hard work before them, and
that, politically speaking, the coming
session of Congress promises to be
most important one, as the action Of the
democratic House of Representatives,
from its election of a speaker to it's ad-
journmeAt will be pregnant with results
affecting the Presidential campaign and
the commercial and industrial prosperitys
now, SO general throughout the country,
and they may be relied upon in conjunc-
tion with the republican Senate, to be
on the alert to counteract the evil of any
wild cat legislation that may be at
tempted by the democratic House.
When the statement was made by re-
publican speakers and newspapers dur
ing the recent campaign in New York
that if Tammany Hall succeeded in car
rying that state it would attempt to co.,
troi tue democratic 5n,.yloI4~ ...,y,a.~
was pooh-poohed by many people, in
Guiding some republicans. Well. the
prophecy is already fulfilled, and the
agents of Tammany Hall are in Wash
ington demanding that Crisp shall be
elected Speaker Of the House, just as
next year they will be at the democratic
national convention demanding the
nomination of some man who will
promise, if elected, to allow them to
introduce into national affairs the cor
rupt methods which have made the New
York city government a stencil in the
nostriIs Of honest men everywhere. The
Speakership contest will be test of the
strength of Tammany Hall in national
affairs; if it can have Crisp elected
Speaker it can dedicate the democratic
Presidential nomination next year.
Secretary Foster is very much inter-
ested in the experience of Immigration
Commissioner Schulteis, who IN order to
ascertain the bottom facts about the
immigrants from Europe, came over
from Europe in the steerage as one Of
them, and made some startling discov-
cries concerning the methods Of certain
European associations in assisting un-
desirable people to come to America, az
well as the immoral practices in the
steerage of European steamers. Secre-
tary Foster says that no amount Of
steamship influence will prevent his get
ting at the bottom of this whole business
and putting stop to it, if it can be done
under the present laws, and he thinks
it can be.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
nearly completed his annual report,
which will be business document from
beginning to end He will give the re-
suits, as far as they have been obtained
of the experiment made by the depart
ment by authority Of the last congress
in extending the free delivery of mail to
small towns and villages, which will
show that the service has resulted in
increased business at every postofice
where it has been introduced, to say
nothing of the convenience and saving
Of time to the residents of small places
in having their mail regularly delivered
at their houses, and the report will
strongly urge an appropriation sufficient
iY large to make this service general
The report will also contain some in
teresting matter concerning the war on
the lotteries, the new postal subsidy
law, the reports from county seat post
masters, and a renewal of last years
recommendation for the establishment
Of a postal telegraph,
Ex-senator Edmunds made his ap-
pearance before the people of Washing
ton in new role this week, presiding
officer Of the church congress now in
session here.