The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-04-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.

eral days ago, but it is among the prob
abilities that he may be compelled, much
against his will, to do so by the pressure
of important public business. For the
season, there is an unusual number of
questions requiring the personal attention
OF the executive The Behring Sea matter
heads the list of international buainess,
and as the sealing season is about to open
aud the negotiations between Mr.. Blaine
ond Sir Julian Paunceforte. the British
minister, over the details of the pro-
! posed arbitration are of very delicate
nature, complications positively requir.
| ing the Presidents presence in Washing
ton may arise at any time.
| Among the important domestic ques-
tions to be determined by the President
are the organization and membership of
the land claims court provided for by
the late Congress, and the new United
States Circuit court judges, whom Mr..
Harrison has about decided to APP.
point before Congress meets again,
in accordance with the recent opinion
of Attorney General Miller that he had
legal right to do so. These are the
things that have made it doubtful
whether the President eau get away
from Washington for quite while, but
he is SO anxious to make this trip that he
will certainly go if these things can be
put into satisfactory condition before
warm weather sets in. The first inten-
ton was to have started about April LIST,
but that is now impossible, and if he
goes now it will not be until some
time in May.
No orders have yet been received in
structing our ministers to France and
Germany to notify those governments
that unless they removed the prohibition
they have placed upon American meat
and meat products, We would retaliate
by placing like restriction upon some
thing of like value now imported by us
from their respective countries, but the
feasibility of some such action on the
part of this government has been several
times discussed by the cabinet, and Sec.
rotary Rusk is known to be strongly in
favor of it, believing it to be not only
justifable but required as an act of jus.
tice to American interests. This being
| the present status of the matter, it
would not be surprising if such orders
should be issued at any time.
Senator Sherman has for many years
occupied an interesting position in
American politics, and never more so
than at the present time. Some months
ago it was stated that he would not be
a candidate for re election to the Senate,
a statement which he has neither de-
MED nor affirmed. Now the news comes
that ex Gov. Foraker of Ohio is to be a
candidate for the Senate. Elk Congress-
man Thompson of Ohio is now in Wash.
ington, and he was asked who he thought
would succeed Senator Sherman. "John
Sherman" he replied, "has very
strong hold upon the people of Ohio, be-
cause they believe in his ability and in
tegrity, and as long as he desires to re-
main in the Senate he will have no diff
Guilty in being elected. Mr.. Sherman
never leaves his constituents in doubt as
to his wishes, and you may be certain
that his position will be fully defined at
the proper time. Will the Republican
State convention adopt the Illinois idea
OF recommending Senator? | shouldn't
| be surprised if it did; the idea is being
agitated and it is popular However,
that would make 40 d,tlc,.,c IN the re-
suit"
Mischevious dame rumor, after pro.
tracted rest, has again begun the foolish
work Of predicting cabinet designations.
Secretaries Noble and Proctor, according
to the unreliable jade, are shortly to re-
sign. As a matter of fact | don't be-
lieve either of them has ever had the re.
hottest idea of resigning. Mr.. Proctor is
out of the city on tour of inspection,
but Assistant Secretary Grant assured
me there was not the slightest founda-
ton for the silly rumor, and that he
knew Mr.. Proctor had mapped out work
for himself in connection with the de.
partment that would last for the rest OF
the present administration.
fhe rumor of Secretary Mobiles con.
templated resignation, which, by the
way, has now become quite .'chest
nut" IS also, am informed by those
who would certainly know, equally
foundationless, and probably originated
with parties who would like to see hin
out, because of their failure to contro
his decisions upon certain importan
matters in which they were pecnniaril,
interested.
General Sherman's old friend, Genera
Joseph E. Johnson, followed him closet,
to the final bivouac. He died her
Saturday evening in his eighty.secont
year. REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.