The Coconino sun., 1891-08-29

nected with the Interior department"
is the selection Of some one to take
Secretary Mobiles place, as there is the
best authority for stating that Seere-
tary Noble is extremely anxious to lay
down his present onerous burden as
soon as he can do so without embar-
rassment to his chief. Many also
believe that a change is to be made in
the head of the Pension Office, the
most important, as far as size and cost
are concerned, of the bureaus under
the Interior Department, but both of
these places have been changed so
often by report that there are naturally
many dopbters now.
There is another important matter
under the supervision of the Interior
Department that may have had some
thing to do with bringing the President
home ahead of the time he expected to
come. That department has brought
all the power at its disposal to bear
upon the cattle barons who occupy
what is known as the Cherokee outlet,
in order to get them to comply with
the law enacted by the last Congress
and remove therefrom, but If reports
received here are to be relied upon not
one of them has moved or given the
slightest intimation of any such inten-
ton. The matter will be called to
Mr.. Harrison's attention as soon as he
comes back, and it is said that the de-
partment officials will urge upon him
the necessity OF removing the violators
of law 10y force.
1t may be too that the new recip-
rocity treaty with Venezuela, which is
said to need only Mr.. Harrison's ap.
proval and his official proclamation to
go into effect, has had something to do
with changing his plans. There are
also other things which need attention.
For Instance, it is generally conceded
that coaling station Ill the West
Indies is necessity for this govern
ment, and, according to Fred Douglass,
our late Minister to Hayti, we have
no prospect of getting one from that
country at Mole St. Nicholas. Where
shall we get onel The report that the
German government was trying to buy
the Island Of st. Thomas has brought
to memory the fact that Denmark, its
owner, once as mark Of friendship
offered to sell it to the United States
for nomulal sum, and Secretary Sew
ard. then at the head of the State De
partment, agreed to its purchase, bu,
for some reason it was never bought
1t might be bought now, if Germany
has not already got ahead of US. There
is no lack of important business tc
occupy Mr.. Harrison's attention when
he returns.
The squabble in the Pennsylvania
Republican. Convention about the
resolution endorsing Blaine has beer
much disc ussed by few politicians
of both parties who are now in Wash
ipgton, and they all agree that it looks
like the blaine boom is to be one oi
the regula. features of the campaign
instead of mere fash in the pan, as
some people had been disposed to re
gerd it, and there seems also to be q
disposition on the part Of all of them
to belle We that Mr.. Blaine is bound tc
Ce nominated unless he positively for
bids the use of his name, and there i:
a growing inclination that he will not
do that.
A New England Republican, now ir
Washington, has suggested curious
Presidential ticket, which he says
would prove strong one if run on q
plasform which shall have no other
pllnks except reciprocity and opposi
tion to sham civil service reform. The
ticket which he thinks would just fl
that platform is Blaine, of Maine, and
Gordon, of Georgia. Truly, that would
be a combination of opposites, and
handouts would probably be required
to keep it together.
We hive lots Of people in Washing.
ton this week, but no politics to speak
of. The American Association for the
Advancement of Science, more than a
thousand strong, is holding its annual
convention here; Tuesday and Wednes'
day the National Association of Am
ateur Oarsmen held its annual regatta
on the Potomac, and Wednesday and
Thursday the veteran telegraph opera
tors, including the 'oldtime telegraph"
ers" and the military telegraphers,
held reunion, which closed with
probably the most unique meeting ever
held in this or any other country.
There we're wires running into the hall
connected with every large telegraph
office in the country, and every word
of the speeches made by Mr.. Wana.
maker and others was Instantly tucked
to more than one hundred thousand
listening operators in every section Of
the country.
State Department officials will
neither deny nor confirm the report
that new reciprocity proposition has
been recently made by the Canadian
government.
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