Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-09-24
wAsHINGToNLErTER


The President has been given little
opportunity to do anything except to
receive callers since his return to Wash
ington, although many of his callers
have dropped word or two that may
prove useful in connection with the
filling of certain important vacancies.
II is said that gentlemen interested in
the appointments to the circuit, or as
some call 1t, the Appellate Court,
judges have been told. that it was use
less for them to bother the President
now, as he will not take up the
appointments until just before Con-
gress meets there being other things
requiring more immediate attention.
There Is a vacancy on the bench of
the Court OF Claims, which meets on
the 25th inst. that viii probably be
the first one filed. Then there are the
two vacancies in the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission, which have result
ed in practically cnppling the COM
mission; they will probably come next.
Then comes the reorganization Of the
cabinet, which the retirement of
Secretary Proctor and. Attorney
General Miller will make necessary.
! The latter has not been officially an.
| nounced, but there is little doubt OF
his having accepted a place on the
bench of the new Circuit Court, for
the District. which will take in In
diana.
The democrat, who can enthuse over
the nomination of Flower for Cover
nor by his party in New York has not
made his appearances in Washington,
where everybody knows, that Flower
owes every nomination or political
preferment of any sort, that lie has
ever received. to liberal expenditure
of cash. His nomination shows, that
however the democratic party in Ohio
may stand on the tariff, the New
Workers in the party do not object to
man. who as a member of the House
committee on Ways ana Meaus, so,
as many of his democratic friends pro-
tected by. the Mckinley bill as he
| could.
Gov. Campbell hns made an appeal
to the members of the National De-
mocratic Committee for money and
speakers, with which to meet the
enthusiasm Of the Ohio republicans.
aud he has received some money, and
the committee has promised to send
him lot of Speakers to keep him try
to make ut least a show of carrying on
an active campaign. 1t is common to
find democrats, who admit that Camp
bell hasn't the slightest show. but that
they believe in keeping up the fight,
because they hope, that the Farmers
Alliance fight on Senator Sherman
may result in giving the democrats
control of the legislature. On the
t'contrury, no repuUtfoor1, -~vsss--,.s..-l.--s..
in Washington since the campaign
opened, has expressed the remotest
doubt of republican success.
The Postmaster-Gener is very well
satisfied with the reception his circular
letter requesting county seat post
masters to visit the postofllces in their
counties and report upon their con-
dition, has met with. He has already
received more than 800 replies. and in
four-ilfths of them the postmasters
gladly accepted the work in exactly
the lines suggested by Mr.. Wanna
maker. and a few of them have al
ready made their reports. Abont one
fifth of the number were willing to
undertake the work with some modi.
flcation entirely acceptable to the
Postoffice department, and only few
declined outright and they ail-sav.
rnur IL IL UtcsfuEe ~rney lave no
assistant that they are compelled to
do SO. Mr.. Wanamaker is surprised
and very much pleased to note that
many democratic postnasters have
entered into the thing with the same
enthusiasm as the republicans, and he
is confident, that it will result ia
greatly Improving the service in small
| postoffices.
Secretary Foster at conference
with the Worlds Fair High Commits
sioners of Great Britain and Germany
told those gentlemen, that the United
States Government would do all
things in its power to dispose of all
difficulties in the way of foreign
exhibits resulting from the tariff laws
and that every possible evidence of
good will and desire to promote the
interests of foreign exhibits would be
given. "This fair, said the Secretary,
us not local to Chicago, is not local
to the United States, but is strictly u
worlds fair in celebration of an event,
in which all nations are interested.
Properly America is arranging the
matter, but all the nations of the earth
have proprietary interest in the
celebration. In every case, where the
tariff laws seem to interfere with
foreign exhibits. the Treasury depart
ment will make the most liberal con.
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