Nevada County picayune., 1891-09-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our special correspondent.

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 Secretary Foster is in fair way of earning the title of the Colonel Sell CTS of the Administration from hls propensity to see everything in it's rosiest light. About the first of July he was telling everyone of the great benefits which would follow the eX- tension of the sol ,o00, ,00O of U per cent bonds at per cent, and how glad the national banks would be to take all that might be surrendered by private parties in order that they might increase their circulation. Now that the extension of the bonds has proven a tizzle, not half of them hay ing been presented for extension, one would suppose that Mir. Foster would feel bad enough to at least keep quiet. Not he. He is, accord ing to his own statement, not at all disappointed over the failure of his first large financial transaction, and he breaches from the text of what a good thing it is for the "dear people that S2j ,000,0 or S30,O ,O00, ,O00 is to be put in circulation by the re- dcmption of these bonds and how much good this increase in the circu- lation will do business circles. He reminds one of the young physician who when asked how he was making out in a family where he was attend inc a woman in confinement, said: "Thc mother is dead and the child is dead, but hope to pull the father through. '
 Rcpresentive Mills has gone over to New York and it is probable that while there he will make a little in- vestigation into statement made here few days ago that the New York delegation was divided in it's choice for speaker as follows: Crisp 1G, McMiIlan 6, Mills 1. The state ment was made by member of Tammany Hall, but it's accuracy was at once questioned by Mir Mills friends, who claim to have the best of evidence to prove that it was wrong in every case. MT. Mills will go to Ohio shortly to make speeches in the campaign.
 The noble army of "cx's" is again marching upon Washington, each and every member of it anxious to get the place which is to be vacated by Secretary Proctor, who has been formally notified that he is to be ap- pointed to serve out the uncxpired term of Mir. Edmunds in the United States Senate, and those who fail will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that they have temporarily got out of the obscurity into which they had sunk, by having thcIr names mentioned as possibilities for the va cant seat in the cabinet by the obliging newspapers. If you have curiosity to sec these names get a copy of the last Congressional Direc- tory and check off the names of all the men who retired from Congress with the Fifty-frst Congress, and you will have a correct list of them. It IS said that the New England Sen ators have demanded of Mir. IIarri- son that he shall appoint man from that section to the vacancy and that the Republicans of the Northwestern States have made like demand. Mir. Harrison will place the appoint ment where it will fetch the most votes for Harrison in the next Re publican national convention, no matter who it may please or dis please, and the belief here IS that the place will go to eX-hoyernor Cheney, of New Hampshire, unless Gen. Alger can be persuaded to accept it.
 There is clash of opinion between the Interior department and the Dep artment of Justice. Secretary Noble holds that notwithstanding the recent judicial decision that the sale of lager beer in indian Territory was legal, that he has the power, under (. S. statute, to prevent it, and has in- structed the Indian agents to seize all found in the Territory. The At torncy General holds that the dccis- ion of Judge Bryant of the Eastern District of Texas is good law until it is reversed by a higher Court, and under that decision dealers have a right to sell beer and to demand pay for all the beer seized by the h. dian agents.