Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-09-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. Is, 1891

From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. Is. 1891.
1.-THE president, said a member of the
administration, who has been Mr.. Harri-
sons guest at Cape May Point within a
week, has not, except in a general way,
yet given any consideration to the selection
Of successor to Secretary Proctor, nor is
it probable that he will for several weeks
to come. There are other things occupy
ing his attention at present, and there is
no good reason for his being in hurry to
pick out a new secretary OF war. My own
impression is that two new members OF
the cabinet will be appointed at the same
time, and that the appointments will not
be made until late in October, possibly not
until November" The gentleman declined
to name the other member OF the cabinet
who he believes will resign, but there are
reasons for believing that it is Attorney
General Miller, who is thought to be
booked for one OF the new circuit court
iudgeships, although he refuses to discuss
the subject.
Secretary Blaine will return to his duties
at the state department not later than the
first of October. Word was received at his
Washington residence this week to get it
ready for the family at once. This will be
very unpleasant news for the ghouls who
have labored SO industriously through the
summer just passed to kill him. but to the
thousands OF patriotic Americans who ad-
mire his manly way OF conducting our for
eign affairs it will be most welcome news.
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alarmed at his speakership prospects, and
his friends in their efforts to secure eastern
support for him have been giving it out
that his ideas about the free coinage of sill
yer have lately undergone a change and
that he may in the near future write let
ter defining his position on the subject.
And they hint that in that letter he will
take position very near to that occupied
by Mr.. Cleveland on the same question.
The question of the seizure of the Gillian
steamer Itata, which many people feared
might become a serious as well an eX
pensive one, has been happily settled, at a
conference held here, with Secretary Foster
and Attorney General Miller representing
this government, and ex-Mayor Grace, of
New York, and Messrs. Montt, Foster and
Trumbull the new Chilian government.
Under the agreement reached the Itata is
to be turned over to the Chilian govern
ment and the case against her for violating
our neutrality laws nolled in the courts,
and the Chilan government is to pay to
the United States a sum equal to the ex-
penses of the cruiser Charleston in making
the chase after the Itata. This is very
satisfactory ending of the matter, much
more so than if the Chlian government
had made demand for heavy damages on
account of the seizure.
The state department has been officially
notified that Denmark, which followed
Germany in excluding American pork, has
followed the same example in removing re-
strictions upon its importation, and is
now prepared to admit all that may be
shipped there accompanied by the United
States certificate OF inspection. Secretary
Rusk is not doing much talking about his
triumphs, but his friends are shouting, as
they have right to do, for to him more
than other one man is due the credit for
meat inspection law, without which the re-
strictions upon the importation Of Ameri-
can pork would not have been removed by
Germany or Denmark. The secretary is
hopeful that France will follow suit and
remove the restrictions upon the importa-
tion before the close of this year.
The is to be another vacancy on the in-
ter-state commerce commission, Judge
Thomas NJ. Cooley, of Michigan, having re-
| signed on account OF continued bad health.
He was appointed by Mr.. Cleveland when
the commission was first organized, and
although he is Republican and a majority
of the commission were then Democrats,
| he was unanimously elected chairman.
In order To facilitate the shipment OF cur
rency to the South and West, necessary to
move the immense crops OF those sections.
the treasury department has removed all
restrictions on the deposit OF funds at the
subtreasury in New York to cover such
shipments.