The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGroN, Oct. %, 1891.

Inc return OF CeCTeLhTy DIhlhc lul
nished Senator who loves to joke and
who is warm personal friend both OF
the Secretary and Mr.. Harrison, an OPP
portunity to raise a smile in a circle OF
congenial spirits this morning. He said
"Well, am glad that Mr.. Blaine's come
home at last, and / hope that every time
| 90 to the White House for little chat
with Ben | shall not be reminded of a
verse in one of Bobby Burns poems
BY yOn castle wa, at the close Of day,
/ heard a man sing, tho his head it was
gray,
And as he was singing the tears down came,
There'll never be peace till jamie comes
hame.'
Mr.. Blaine's return is everywhere talk
ed about, but beyond the bare fact no
accurate knowledge is at present to be
obtained. Some say that he will only
nominally resume the head of the State
department, while others will do the
work but those who know the DISPOSE.
ton of the man know better than that (;
he isn't the sort of material of which
figure heads are made. He will either
take up his work with all the earnestness
which characterized the first two years
of his administration of the State depart
ment, or he will not take it up at all.
1t is said that his family would be
pleased to have him resign the cares of
official life but for him to do that would
be to practically announce himself AS a
Presidential candidate.
1t is a noteworthy fact that although
the Fifty.second Congress has not met
for its first session there are already eight
vacancies in its membership, three by
resignation Gall from New York; and
five by death-Spinola, New York; Ford,
Michigan; Gamble, S. Dakota; Houk,
Tennessee, and Lee, Virginia. With the
exception possibly of the Virginia vacan-
cy, which has just occurred, these vacan.
ces will all be filed.
The case of Boyd VS.. Thayer, arising
from a contest for the governorship of
Nebraska, has been advanced on the
docket of the United States Supreme
court, and the first Monday in December
has been assigned for its argument.
This is the way a personal friend who
is frequent and social visitor at the
White House speaks of Mr.. Harrison:
A." The President does not give any one
an intimatiOn in advance of his inten-
tons in regard to appointments. / do
not believe, and have good reasons for
saying it, that he even takes the men,
bers of his Cabinet into his confidence.
He is one of the most non-committal
men ever saw" This style may not be
satisfactory everybody, particularly those
who believe themselves entitled to adj
vance information, but it is decided
improvement upon that adopted by some
other Presidents we have had of leaving
people under the impression that their
wishes were to be complied with, without
exactly making positive promise, while
knowing that nothing of the kind was
contemplated.
Maj. Gen. Schofield in his annual re-
port to the Secretary of War, just sub.
mitted, devotes much space to the lessons
taught by the Sioux Indian outbreak
last winter, and recommends the addi-
ton of few thousand men TO the army
so that sufficient body of troops may at
all times be kept in the vicinity of the
great Indian reservations, thus removing
all danger of uprising and saving a repe-
tition of the enormous transportation ex-
pense to which the government was put
last winter in the removal OF troops from
distant points to the scene of disorder.
He says that satisfactory progress has
been made in the construction of the
gun factory ut Watervleit, n. Y, aud in
the manufacture of type guns of the
highest qualities. lie says that the pol
icy of enlisting Indians in the army has
been satisfactory rs far as il has gone
but that was probably written before the
latest reports were received from the
officers engaged in recruiting Indians.
These reports say that the Indians refuse
To enlist in the Infantry branch of the
service. The General fails to make any
report of the Commander Of the Army
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