Nevada County picayune., 1891-10-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
i From our special correspondent. l

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 9, '91.- Mir. Harrison, who once snubbed Mir. $ Clarkson most unmercifully according to Republican authority has suddenly discovered the great ness which that person carries con- cealed somewhere about his person, and, presto change! MT. Clarkson is the sole companion of long presi- dential drives, and has the honor of being dined at the White House. It is but a repetition of the old, old story, circumstances alter cases. v | When Mir. Clarkson was a very sore headed minor official, mad because the newly elected President refused to have him in his cabinet, Mir. Har- rison, who had not then began to think of renomination, did not hes itate to let it be known how little he thought Clarkson amounted to, but now things have changed. MT. Clarkson is Boss" of the National committee of his party, and even if some people do say his "boss' is Quay, MT. Harrison regards him as being of sufficient importance to be conciliated at the present stage of the game, and MT. Clarkson seems in no way 10th to being conciliated, and Senator Quay has left the Penn sylyania long enough to come to Washington to see what there is in it for him.
 The eyes of the Methodists all over the world are now turned to- ward Washington. The Eumenlcal conference of that church, with del egates from every section of the world began two weeks session here Wednesday. The first of these conferences was held ten years ago in London.
 The gossips now have it that Cali fornia and New Hampshire are cer- tain of the two cabinet appointments and that MT. Estes and ex-tiov. Cheney are the men who have been selected. The first is backed by Mir. NJ. II. DeYoung, the California sboss," and the last by Senator Chandler, the once was and would be-again again New Hampshire boss -
 The Republican National commit mittee will meet in Washington No- vember 20th, for the purpose of for mally electing Boss" CIarkson to succeed Boss" Quay as chairman of the committee, and to ratify Boss" Clarkson's choice of the time and place for holding the nomi- mating convention next year.
 ASatan rebuking sin, :" or in more homely phraseology, the kettle calling the pot black must have been thought of by the delegation of New York merchants to whom Secre- tary Foster was posing one day this week as the non-partisan business Secretary of the Treasury. It was q sight that ought to have made .he very stone pillars of the Treasury building fall down in amazement when Secretary Foster grayely in- 1 formed these shrcwd New Workers that there were more than fifty col lection districts throughout the coun- try that might be abolished without l detriment to the service, and at an annual saving of several hundred 1 thousand dollars, but that he was | IDOWerlpSS in the matter because the wicked politicians want the govern ment patronage increased instead of reduced. What Mir. Foster said is true enough as far as the collectors of customs go, but it would be diifi- cult for him to convince those who know hlm that he really wishes to abolish them. But from the fact l that he mentioned ten districts in Maine and eight in Massachusetts that ought to be abolished 1t looks to "a man up a tree" as if the politl- clans he wanted to frighten were the anti Harrison Senators and Represen- tativcs from Maine and Massachu- setts If they will promise to work for Harrison delegations to the Ma tional convention they will probably l find it an easy matter to convince 1 Mir. Foster that all of those collec- ton districts are as necessary to the country as they are to the aforesaid Senators and Representatives.