Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-01
Washington Letter.

ihe President has. IL Is understood
here. decided that NJ. NJ Estee. Of Cal
lfornia, shall enler his Cabinet when he
! reorganization made necessary by Inc
+ retirement Of Secretary Proctor and he
expected retirement Of Attorney Gen
eral Miller, take place. ID is as yet IN
, certain uhei ner Mr.. Esiee viii become
Attorney Geeoral or Secretary ofthe in
terror. as Secretary Noble vii probably
be given The privilege Of exchapeng
his present portfolio for tina, Of Attorney
General If be 81 she's 10 do so. and ID Is
be eyed nal he does Mr.. Estee would
probnbly have gone into he Cabinet
when it was FIRST organized bui ne De
c med serving n any plsce except tbat
II A orucy Genefs o. Sccretsrs Of Tie
lnfeiIor and Dol IA OF these places had
heen rendered 10 aud accepl ed by he
dtesenl incumbeufs before ihe President
was made acquainted with Mr. E,lee's
wishes.
Secretary Foster viii 90 10 Ohio about
the first Of De- ober for The purpose of
taking The stump for Mckinley His
speeches Wi IN The main. be upon IT,
nancial topics although he VIII pot
slight State affairs. upon which few meu
IN Ohio a,e 50 well posted The Secre-
tary takes special pleasure in recal iug
the doleful predic ions which the demo
Gratis have made of The coming crash in
I the Treasury ever since he became its
head, and of the ease with which the
Treasury has passed every pred cled
crisis. not only without default or deficit,
but with cash to spare. Az these :bines
be will tell the Ohio voters in his own
I inimaiable style. He will also show
them with indisputable figures that the
present democratic predictions Of future
bankruptcy are as wild and baseless as
were all of those which have gone be-
( fore.
Postmaster General Wanamaker, ever
alive to increasing the efficiency of the
postal service, had the Division Supern-
tendeuts of the Railway MailService Of
the entire country here this week, in or
der that they might confer ant give each
other the benefit of their individual ex-
perience in improving the service. The
4 Improvement Of the mail service has
been continuous from the time 1t came
back into the hands of the republicans,
somewhat crippled on account of the
inefiiciencY of large number of The
employees appointed by the Cleveland
administration, but the improvement
during the fiscal year ending June so
last, as shown by the Official reports,
was something marvellous, and reflects
grea. credit upon every body connected
with the service in any capacity. The
railway mail clerks distributed $780,
600, 900 pieces of mail matter, which
was $50, 000, 600 more pieces than were
distributed the previous year. and only
one error to each 4.193 pieces handled
was made. against one error for each
2,799 pieces the previous year, and the
number of complaints have been fewer
than evet before, while the compliment
tary letters from business houses have
never been so numerous The Supern-
lendents say that the present fiscal year
will show marked improvement upon
the last, good as that was.
Secretary Foster has made a COM
promise with the lawyers representing
the importers who under recent deci-
sion of the courts were entitled to "a re
bate on all of a certain class Of hat trim
mugs imported for some Years 1t is
thought that the sum to be paid under
the compromise will be somewhere in
the neighbofhood of $4,000 600. where
.as if the parties had struck out for all
that they could have been awarded by
I the courts, the amount wouId have been
/ largely in excess of $50 Dec, 900. besides
the costs of defending the numerous
suits. The compromise is regarded as
an economical one.
The President is almost ready to an
nounce a number Of important appoir
ments, and it will not be surprising if
some of them are made before this let
ter is put into type
Republicans who have allowed them
selves to be led astray by the idea that
southern democrats who have joined
the Farmers Alliance woul3 combine
with them in forming a nalional third
party, the principal OBJECT of which
would be to right the real and faucied
wrongs Of the Agricultural aud laborng
classes, may ind food for thought in the