Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-16
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent
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I next year. MAI. Mckinley was asked
what he thought the returns from the
local spring elections indicated, and he
replied: They indicate that the voters
of the republican party are rapidly get
ting IN line for the great battle next
year, and, marx my words. that the re-
publican party viii elect the next Presi-
dent of the United States.''
Secretary Rusk is the recipient of
many congratulations ON his success in
getting Germany to rescind its probi-
bition of American meats and meat pro-
ducts, and he is proud, as he has q right
to be, of what he has accomplished, but
he is still hard at work, through the
State department, trying to convince
the Government of France that il will
De wisdom for it to follow the example
set by Germany and open its markets
to our meats, and he believes that he
will eventually succeed.
Every republican sincerely regrets
health has caused him to tender his res
ignation to the governor of his state,
and not even the belief that he
will be succeeded by so able
man and so good a republican
as Secretary Proctor reconciles them to
the loss of Mr.. Edmunds. who has been
member of the Senate Is years on the
9Th, of the present month. It is believ-
ed, although neither Of the gentlemen
concerned will talk about it, that it was
to enable Secretary Proctor to close up
some matters in his department in
which he is greatly interested, before
leaving the Cabinet in order to enter the
Senate, that Senator Edmunds made his
resignation to take effect on the first of
November next. Some people think
that for either Senator Edmunds or Sec
rotary Proctor to confirm this would be
to imply that an understanding had been
reached with the governor of Vermont
before it was known that there would
be vacancy in the Senate.
The three days celebration OF the ecu
tennial of the United States patent sys-
TEN. began on Wednesday with pub
lie meeting presided over by the
President and addressed by Secretary
Noble, Commissioner of Patents Mitch
ell, Labor Commissioner Wright Hon.
Robt. s. Taylor, of Indiana, Justice
Batchford, of the u. S. Supreme Cour.
and Senator Plat. closed this afternoon
with military review, participated in
by regular troops and militia. The cell
ebration has been a success, although
the attendance of strangers has been
much smaller than was expected by
some of its over sanguine projectors.
The question among democrats is. did
Governor-Senator Hill intentionally
throw tariff firebrand into the Speak
ership fight? Intentionally or not his
recent letter announcing that he had no
sympathy with free trade has created a
a stampede among the supporters of
Mills who is an avowed free trader, and
1t now looks as if there would be a reg
ular monkey and parrot time in the
Fifty-second Congress on account of
this question having been precipitated
into the arena by Hill. Mr. Cleveland
is understood TO be for Mills and free
trade.
The war department is still receiving
numerous offers of volunteers in case of
war with Italy, but if these would-be
soldiers do not smell powder before Italy
declares war against the United States
they will have to wait some time for
that pleasure. 1t is not positively
known whether Mr.. Blaine has yet sent
his answer to the last dispatch of Rudi-
nj. the Italian prime minister, which
has not been made public, but | under
stand that il was read and approved at
the last cabinet meeting.
There are several applicants for the
vacancy made by the resignation of Mr..
Windrim, Supervising Architect of the
Treasury, and as Secretary Foster is
now considering the matter the appoint
ment is looked for daily.
Ex-Representatiye Crounse, of Ne
braska, who served IN Congress with
Secretary Foster, has been appointed
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to
succeed Gen. Batcheller, of New York,
who was appointed minister to Portugal
just before the adjournment of Con-
greSs.
Charles f. Kincaid. the newspaper
correspondent, who shot and killed ex-
Representative Taulbee in the Capitol
building last year, has been acquitted
of the charge of murder