The Monitor., 1891-03-20
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Warrington Letter.
(rrom our regular correspondent.
WishinrtDn. Mlrth 16. is


Mr.. Harrison is still in doubt about his
right to appoint during the recess of Con
gress the nine judges Of the Uuited States
Circuit Court not sithstauding his Att'r-
ney General has rendered an elaborate
| opinion that he has that right. and that
similar opinion was given Mr.. Cleveland
when he was President by Solicitor Cen
| eral Jenks who sto I'd aud stinds high as
| LAWYER. II is couteDded by others,
among THEM many eminent LAWYERS. that
| the President cannot appoint these Judges
during the Congressional recess, as he
only has the power TO fill vacancies, and
these positions, it is maintained, are not
vacancies: therefore to fill them would be
making original appointments, which
should only be made with the advice and
consent Of the Senate. Whichever way
the question is decided by Mr.. Harrison
there will be no extra session of the Senate
called, as some gentlemen have suggested.
Personally / thiak that Mr.. Harrison
would much prefer deferring these ap-
pointments until December, so that he
| might take his Time in selecting the men,
but the sentiment among the leaders OF
his party is overwhelmingly in favor OF
immediate appointments.
Postmaster General Wanamaker is in
need of the services of shrewd detective
He is anxious to find the name and address
of the female Government clerk who,
rumor says has, been boasting of having
been a lobbyist during the recent session
of Congress, and of having been the PIN
cipal instrument used by Jay Gould 10
''hang up' in the House Committee or
Postoffices Mr.. Wanamaker's postal-tele-
egraph scheme. 1t will be remembered
that the committee, by vote of six to
five, decided against reporting the bill to
the House. II Mr.. Wanamaker discovers
this mysterious female there is certain to
be one vacancy ia the Government service.
The usual scare, incidental to the close
of the long session of Congress, is now
on in the Government printing office.
Every few days big batch of employees is
| for several weeks before the force is re
duccd sufficiently, every employe in the
big printing shop is on the ragged edge
so to speak, daily expecting to receive the
| dreaded yellow envelope, containing the
formal printed no.ice, reading Your ser
| vices will not be required after this date,
and yet men and women will persist i'll
| hankeripg after Government work.
The presence of Senator PETER and the
Kansas Farmers Alliance Representative,
in this city has had good effect. The
Alliance is no longer looked upon as al
| organization to be dreaded by eyerybod!
| not farmers. These men have convinced
the people that they do not wish to revo.
| lutionizs things except SO far as it ma!
be necessary to right certain wrongs uudrl
which they suffer. To put it in Senator
| PETERS own words: "We are not danger
Gus in any direction; we do not wish to de
stroy. but to build up, to preserve, to fos
ter, and especially to protect all men's
rights" That cert t,inly isn't the language
|
man VIII" is asking for himself aud associ
ates only the same rights that are eujoytc
| by others.
| The Brigadier General of the District OF
| against Presidential veto. He issued AL
order d;sbanding the two eolored battal
| ions, because Congress did not appropri
ate money enough to pay the armory rents
| tor all the organizations, and Mr.. Ilarri-
son has countermanded the order, taking
| the ground that the general had no liglt
| t. draw the color line in reducing the num-
Der of organizations.
Its bee coming apparent that neither MI
| Blaine or any other member OF the cabinet
will allow their names 20 be used IN the
Republican national convention in autag-
onism to that of Mr.. Harrison. who can,
unless some of the longest-he headed polili-
clans are at fault, if he wishes it (and he
undoubtedly does) again become the nom
inee of his party.
Mr.. Blaine and Sir Julian Pauncefote,
JIG Diitish pithIotei, dic udiiJ cloSt Ltu lo-
g ther arranging the details for the arbi
tration of the Behring's Sea dispute, which
has been agreed to by the British govern
ment. Mr. Blaine declines to make pub
lie anything until the preliminaries have
been all settled.
Secretary Foster is expected to return to
Washington this week, aud good many
treasury officials are in stat OF fear and
trepidatio1. OF course he will make somt
changes new Secretary dots-but /
| don't think he will make the clean
| sweep" that some over nervous people arr
| predicting. Il might be good politics, -
but 1t would hardly be what one would
expect from SO good business man as Mr.
| Foster has proven himself to be. WESTON.
Another Water Scheme.
| Water schemes follow each other in ra
pid succession The latest is one headtG