The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-04-10
FRIDAY APRIL 10, 1891.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

The crowning shame of the republi-
can administration occurred, if my in
formation be correct, and | have every
reason for believing that it is, Satur-
day afternoon, when ]. Gould ac-
Companied by his son George called at
the White House and delivered his
orders to Mr.. Harrison, together with
his ultimatum as to what he would do
if they were not obeyed. From there
he went to the Post Office department
and gave Johnnie Wanamaker a much
worse shaking up than that given by
"Tedd' Roosevelt some months ago.
Mr.. Wanamaker would have liked
very much to have kicked Gould out
of his private office, but there were
reasons, aside from Gould's "pulp'
with Mr.. Harrison, why he dared not
offend the ''little wizard" of Wall
street, who had in his inside pocket
some papers with the Wanamaker
autograph thereon.
Gould told Mr.. Harrison that unless
his demands i;were met he might as
well abandon all hope of a vindication
in the shape of a denomination, and
from the smile Gould wore when he
clambered into his private car, en-.
route for St. Louis, Mr.. Harrison must
have promised him something. What
does Gould want? The same thing
he always wants, his only deity -
money. Ever since June 1850 the
Western Union Telegraph Company
has been carrying the Governments
kilograms without rendering a bill
therefor. because Mr.. Gould refused
to accept the compensation set for the
work by Mr.. Wanamaker. Want
number one, is to be paid for this
work at his own instead of Wana-
makers price. Want number two, is
to secure liberal slice of the postal
subsidy fund for his Pacific Mail line,
which it seems he had heard was to
be left out in the cold in the grand di-
vide. Want number three, is the in
crease of the amounts paid to all of
his recently acquired Western rail
roads for carrying the mails. Modest
isn't he l shall watch carefully to
see how many of these wants are sup
piled by Mr.. Harrison's administra-
ton.
Another scandal has been talked
around town about the new contract
for supplying the Post Office Depart
ment with postal cards. BY the way,
the rev cards, which are to be furn-
lshcd in two sizes and colors, are to
have design that would reflect no
credit upon cross-road printer upon
the address side, in the upper right
hand corner of which is to be a port
rait of General Grant. The new con.
tract has been ostensibly awarded to AL.
Daggett, the Brooklyn politician, not
withstanding the trouble the depart
ment has had with him during the last
two years under a similar contract,
but the real contractor is George E.
Lemon the king of the pension lobby,
who has carried Daggett through all
his troubles with Wanamaker. Some
say that Lemon is to furnish the postal
cards for nothing, the price going to
certain parties who are not to examine
too closely into some of the business
methods of the pension king.
Mr.. Blaine is rollicking in the glory
he has obtained by calling the bluff of
of the Italian Government, but for
some reason he refuses to give out
copy of the last dispatch he received
from Rudini, the Italian prime minis
ter, and all the Information we have
had about the dispatch, said to be a
straight back-down on the part of the
Italian Government, has come by
press-cable from Rome. 1t is said
that one reason why this dispatch is
withheld from the public by Mr..
Blaine is that it raised question of
Ieracity between Baron Fava, the re-
called Italian minister and Mr.. Blaine,
md makes it very plain that one or
he other of them has been handling
he truth very carelessly. Baron Fava
5 still here but he refuses to be seen,
ind Mr. Blaine says the dispatch will
lot be made public until after his re-
ply has been prepared and sent.
Meanwhile the public are well salts
ned to know that all danger of serious
complication with Italy has passed.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the Patent system of the United
States is to be celebrated here this
week, and great preparations are be-
ng made for three days of enjoyment,
10Th intellectual and physical. Most
the prominent inventors of the
'untry are expected to take part in
c program of entertainment in some
opacity, and their presence alone will
tract large crowd.
Mr.. Harrison expects to start on