Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-07-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONT
Washington, d. c., Jatty s 1891.

Washington, d. c., July 6 1891.
Secretary Foster isn't worrying to
any appreciable extent over the dis
pute which has arisen between the
Knights of Labor and the Federation
of Labor over the cases of the seven
members of the former organization
who were discharged from the Bureau
of Engraving and printing for cause.
Nor has he the slightest idea that the
trouble will prove to be a disturbing
element in the Ohio campaign. Mr..
Foster offered to forget the past rec
ords of the discharged men and to
give them work in the bureau as soon
as the applicants who were ahead of
them go to work, but this eminently
fair proposition was declined by the
executive committee of the K. of L.,
which insisted that the discharged
men should be at once reinstated to
their old positions, against the protest
of the Federation of Labor, which
claims, with justice, that it would be
unfair to reinstate these men over the
heads of other deserving applicants,
but which is perfectly willing that the
men should be again employed, if they
will make their application and await
their turn just as others have to do.
The democrats are doing their best to
persuade the Knights of Labor to at
tempt to carry the votes of that or
ganization over to them in Ohio, but
there is little probability that they
can succeed, for the very simple rea-
son that the Lnights of Labor are not
idiots.
The tin-plate liar having failed both
in his original mission and that of his
second choice, the convincing Of
sensible public that a Treasury which
was paying every claim presented at
a hundred cents on dollar and still
keeping a surplus of millions of dol
lars constantly on hand was bankrupt,
has now taken up as good subject to
lie about, Mr.. Blaine's health, and we
are informed by E'Bar Harbor specials'i
written in the home office, that 'Mr.
Blaine is terribly i'll and can scarcely
remember events a week Old'' and
more rot of the same sort. Officials
of the State department have the very
best of reasons for knowing that Mr..
Blaine's mental powers are in tip top
condition, because they are constant
ly receiving communication from him
relating to public business, and [ saw
a private letter written by his own
hand on an important business mat
ter which was received here this morn
ing, not nhour ago, which shows him
not only to be all right, but to be care
fully looking after his private inter
ests as we'll as the country's foreign
policy. Just let these fellows wait
until Mr.. Blaine returns to Washing
ton this fall and they will see what
good memory he has and how active
his brain can be.
EEThe right man in the right place.
is what everyone says when discuss
ing the appointment of x-Represen-
tative VIM. Edgar Simonds, of Con-
necticut, to be Commissioner of Pa
tents. He is a practical man and
thoroughly understands the business
or the very important bureau Whlch
he has been selected to preside over,
having for years been at the head of
a firm engaged in practice before the
bureau, besides having been since 1884
lecturer on patent law in the Yale law
school.
The schedule of the lines of ocean
steamers with which Postmaster Gen
era1 Wanamaker has made contracts
under the "subsidy' act of the last
Congress, to carry the mails, will
probably be made public this week,
and just to show how sectional this
administration is Mr. Wanamaker has
selected, among others, lines running
out of four Southern ports, Norfolk,
Virginia; Tampa, Florida; Galveston,
Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana.