Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-07-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our rcgular Correspondent

WASHlNGIONi JuIS U, 1OoA'
Mr.. Wapamaker knows a good deal
more than he did, and his increase of
knowledge hasn't added any to his
opinion of himself. He has been
humiliated by finding out that he was
after all only a clerk for Mr.. Harrison.
The long delay in giving out the list of
Steamship companies which have been
selected under the mail subsidy law,
passed by the billion dollar Congress, to
carry our foreign mails, is at last eX-
plained. Some weeks ago Mr.. Wana-
maker stated that he had completed the
list and would in q few days make 1t
public. Hr. Harrison at once sent for
Mr.. Wanamaker and told him not to
make the list public before bringing 1t
to him for revision. M. w. kicked,
hut he had to give up the list, and Mr..
Harrison carried it with him when he
went to the summer capital at cape
May Point. At the Postoffice depart
ment they expect that MIR. Wanama-
ker, who spent the Fourth and Sunday
at Cape May Point, will bring the re-
vised list back tomorrow, and that 1t
will at orce be made public.
1t is learned from source that IS
authentic that no lines running out OF
Southern ports south of Norfolk, ex-
cept Tampa, Fla; Galveston, Tex, and
New Orleans, will get any of the sub
8v, money, which is to be put where
twill do the most good to the Repub-
lican party.
And that isn't the only time that Mr..
Wanamaker has been recently hui
inflated by the gentleman who is now
so industriouslv at work to secure a re-
nomination to the Presidency. The
last Congress, among its other efforts
to dissipate the Treasury surplus,
created an entirely new office, that OF
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, ,
and the salary for the new officer be-
came available on the first of the pres
ent month. Mr.. Wanamaker supposed,
of course, that he would be allowed to
select the man to fill the office, but he
was quickly undeceived by Mr.. Harri-
son. who not only selected the man,
but also ordered the P. M. G. to turn
over to him as q part of his duties the
supervisor of the fourth'class post
offices.
This necessitated an entire reorgani-
zation of the entire department, as the
fourth-class postmasters had been for
years under the direct control of the
first assistant. Well, that reorganiza-
tion is now going on. Maj. Rathtone,
the new Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General, is practical politician of the
Ohio school, and what he doesn't know
about the methods used by the repub.
licans during the last three national
campaigns would hardly be worth
knowing. He is relied upon to swing
the army of small postmasters into line
for Harrison, and instead of the notori.
GUS dispatch "How are the departments
doing?'' which Garfield, when candi-
date, sent to Brady, of Star route fame,
Mr.. Harrison will be telegraphing to
Rathbone: "How are the postoffices
doing?n Meanwhile Mr.. Wanamaker
is, to use bit of slang, not "in It,"
The Pension Office is going TO be the
cause of some very lively times in the
next Congress, between the investiga'
tions that are to be made into its work
ipes and the renewal of the fight for Its
transfer to the War Department, which
it now seems will certainly be made
and there is reason to believe that the
movement will be more popular than
ever before, and that it will go through:
The Washington people are as much
puzzled about the real conditioner Mr.
Blaine's health as they can possibly be
One telegram will say that ne Is per-
fectly well and the next that he is dan
gerously i'll; one person will inform
YOU that he IL in daily communication
with his assistants at the Department
of State anaanother that he has had ne
communication with that department,
since he left Washington. You cal
take your choice, but it would be safe
to charge nine-tenths of the statements