The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-17

(From ourregul&r correspondent
Washington, July 10, 1891.

(From our regular correspondent
Washington, July 10, 1891.
Secretary Noble has gone way, he said
for rest, and no ore will tell where he has
gone, ard that has again started the rumor
that be intended resigning. At the In
terror department the officials have all
adopted the know-pothipg policy, as far as
the Secretary is eoreeIned, but ore OF his
family is authority for the statement that
he has no idea Of ~resigniug.
Members ofthe Farmers Alliance do not
take kindly tie a published interview With
ex.Congressrnan Perkins, Of Kansas, who
was here 2 few days ago, in (which lie p&iut-
ed a Snost doieiul picture Of Affairs in Kan
sas, saying in fleet that The State vas
rapidly going to the ''demnition bowWoHs'
because Of TIE success Of tie Alliance.
which be accused among ether things of
being in favor Of the Reputation OF private
debts. a Kansas Alliance man who vas
at Alliance Headquarters here to-day said
of the interview 1T is an outrageous libel
upon the State as well as upon the Alliance.
We co not favor the reputation Of debt
and have never lone So, and all such re-
ports, as Mr. Perkins knows very well, have
been circulated by our enemies solely for
the purpose of bringing diseredit upon the
organization. I am afraid that Ar. Per-
kins will have to be classed among the
soreheads. He isn't the first man who
has been under the impression that lis
retirement from Office meant the destruc-
tion Of tie oouutry's prosperity. Ii any
member Of the Alliance is in debt to Mr.
Perkins it is safe 70 sag that lie isn't pre-
pared TO sell his claim at a Iuinousd dis
count, nor has he, so far as have heard,
expressed any intention Of leaving the
State"
Secretary Fosters idea hat the Offices
Of five out of six Ct tie Auditors Of the
Treasury might DE abolished without in
jury to the interests # the country, is a
good one and should be carried ont. but it
isn't very probable that # will be, because
it cannot be done without tie consent Of
Congress and it is always safe to say, judg-
ing from the past, that a majority Of any
Congress will be in favor Of increasing
instead Of decreasing Government patron
age. Il has not been many years since the
late Samuel J. Randall proposed an
amendment to an annual legislative ex-
ecutiye and judicial appropriation bill
abolishiDg these very b~uceaux and others
on the ground that their work vas simply
a duplication Of the work OF ether bureaux
Of the Treasury and therefore unnecessary.
Mr.. Randall collected a mass ofdata show
ing that the adoption OF his amendment
would save more than a million ard a half
Of dollars each year, but as soon as be
began to push his amendment he discover
ed that it would be impossible to get it
through the House, so he reluctantly
abandoned it. Nobody v ho knows any
thing about the business Of the Treasury
department can deny that Mr.. Randall was
and thai Mr. Foster is, right, nor does
anybody think that Nj. Foster can succeed
in getting a lot of Offices abolished, any
better than Mr.. Randall did.
Mr.. Powderly's long open letter address
I'll ~ l1kIAttatg 4A9kf4 EEbAttiiLL ILt
recent conferences about tie seven knights
of Labor discharged from the bureau of
engraving and printing has been much
discussed here, aud there is a general feel.
ing Of regret that 1t should have been
written; It's tone is such that it has injured
rather than helped the cause for which Mr.
Powderly is laboring;an and it locks too much
like a political attack upon Mr. Foster
to suit many Of these whose sympathy had
been With the Knights since the beginning
o. the controversy. Dir. Foster has declined
to answer the letter, saying that he would
not enter into a controversy with Mr. Pow
derby upon such a basis.
Secretary Rusk is going TO Wisconsin
this week for an extended vacation. He
will be accompanied By his family,
The country will soon know whether the
scientists are ii2nt in claiming that rain.
fall can be produced in any locality By
artificial means, as the Agricultural de.
partment has started a party for the arid
section Of western Kansas with sIl the
necessary parapbernalia for making the
experiment. Prot. Dyreutorth, who is
in charge of the party, is very cor
ident Of success, and he certainly has the
best wishes of everybody.
Fourth Auditor Lynch, a colored Miss
issippiau, who bias just returned from the
South, says that Harrison will have a solid
Southern delegation in the next Republican
national convention, and that it cannot be
broken. If Mr.. Lynch is right it will differ
very much from any delegation ever sent
by the South to a Republican convention.
as Senator Sherman and other Presidential
candidates know to their cost.
Fred. Douglass who is here row ON leave,
will net return to Hayti as minister. and it
is doubtful whether any one will be sent
in his place for quite awhile. WESTON.
Come let's have a drink Certainly, If
IT'S Root Beer made with Knapp's Root
Beer Extract.