Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-12
WILMINGTON GOSSIP.
wAsurYoTox BUREAU OF Tas BsH,

WAsHtSGroN, d.. g., Nov. IL.
This is developing into the most wonderful
record breaking administration in tho history
Of the country. Not only have the Pension
ONCE and Postonice departments beaten all
previous records In the disposition Of pend.
ing cases, but Attorney General Miller has
before tho supreme court moro than dis
counted the record made by his department
under any predecessor. During the last term
of tho supreme court 100 government cases
were disposed OF against eighty-six cases in
the year 1881, which was the best previous
record. At the last term ninety-three gov
ernment cases were decided while elghty-one
was tho largest number decided at any pre-
vlous term. AT the last term the govern
ment won sixty cases or two out OF
every three decided, which was nearly twice
as many as were ever won at any other term.
When an attorney general can make such
progress as this with so delibera-
tive a body as the supreme court
of the United States, which is
several years behind with its worh, he de-
serves the thanks of the country.
Last week the general land Office issued
2,7l3 cash patents, 229 homestead patents,
255 timber culture patents, two script pat
ents and seventy-nine surveyor general
patents, a total of 5,21S patents during n
single week, q record never reached before.
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A dispatch from Guthrie announces that
eX-Congressman Struble of Iowa will likely
be appointed governor OF Oklahoma, An
other newspaper telegram says that exec n
gresham Gear of the Hawkeye state is to
be one of the interstate commits
sioners. Credence is not hero given to
either of these statements il for no other
reason than because federal recognition of
late members of congress has taken as wide
a range as is deemed wise. Already two
Iowa members of the late congress have been
given prominent appointments under the
present administration and this is re-
garded as sufficient for this class.
One readily recalls the name of twenty
six ex-representativeS and eX-senators
who are holding government positions under
favor of President Harrison, and it is said
that upwards of forty have been recognized
in one way or another.
Following is a partial list Of ex-
representatives and ex-senators who
have been appointed during the past
two years: Ex-laepresentative Conger
of Iowa, minister to Brazil; Hepburn of Iowa,
solicitor general of the Treasury department;
Owen of Indiana, superintendent OF immigra-
ton; Weber of New York, chief Of immigra-
ton of New York City; Stockbridge of Mary
more; Steele of indiana. governor of Okla
homa; William Walter Phelps of New Jersey,
minister to Germany. Ryan of Kan
sas, minister to Mexico; Anderson
OF hanSdS, CONSUL BeneTdi W CPNUJ,
Guenther of Wisconsin, consul general
ETC., to Mexico; Carter OF Montana, commits
sioner Of the general land office; Simonds of
Connecticut, commissioner of the patent
office; Nichols of North Carolina, chief of
division Treasury Department; Lacey
of Michigan, comptroller OF the cur
rencv: Cutcheon of Michigan, ordinance
board; Lynch of Mississippi, fourth auditor
of tie Treasury department; Parker of New
York, assistant attorney general; 1yner of
Indiana, assistant attorney general; Butter
worth of Ohio, Worlds fair; Raum Of illinois,
commissioner OF pensiops; Crounse of Ne
braska, assistant secretary OF the treasury;
ex-Senators Blair of New Hampshire, minis
ter to China; Palmer of Michigan, minister
to Spain; Saunders of Nebraska, Utah COM
mission; Bruce of Mississippi, recorder of
deeds, District Of Columbia.
The commissionersuip of pensions was ten
dered to eX-CoDgressman Warner of Mis-
souri, before the appointment of General
Raum, and it is said that a place has been
unof1icialiy rendered to Mr.. McComas of
Maryland, a member of the last house, but
he declined. The men who battling for
a return TO congress fell without the breast
work, have no cause for complaint as
to post-mortem recognition on the part of
this administrator.
Hon. f. r. Hutchins of Iowa is at the
Willard, among the delegates to the National
Fraternal congress. MIR. Hutchins is well
known in the west and northwest as one of
u DoDulht lSpubliSdu othIhp opShhOi III
that section.
Hon. G. H. Catch of Des Moiues, Ia, an
ex-state senator and prominent lawyer of
that place, is III the city on business before
the supreme court. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Catch and they are the guests of their
old Iowa friend and near relative, Mrs.
Colonel Stewart of Capitol Hill.
Judge L. Martindalo, 6 well known lawyer
of Des Moines, Is in the city on business in
the supreme court, and says: 'There is no
cause for alarm as to Iowa on the part of
republicans. In the national contest next
year she will be found as usual casting an
overwhelming vote for the republican nomi-
nees. The election of Boies is due purely to
causes OF a local character that have been
explained time and again. 1t is a blessing
though that the democrats didn't carry the
legislature, else they would have proceeded
to follow the Michigan plan OF providing for
the election of presidential electors by con-
gresslonal districts with the usual gerry
Wandering"
The presumption cash entry contest of Eli
w. Miner against Mary Bowling, from the
Chadron district, has been, by Assistant Sec
Rotary Chandler, ordered dismissed. He af-
firmed the decision of the general land office
in the application to perfect the homestead
entry by John MacCormack from Mitchell,
S. D., thus rejecting the application.
While Commissioners of Patents Simonds is
undoubtedly correct in stating that no new
patent has recently been issued to the Bell
Telephone compaIy winch secures them the
continued contract of tho telephone business,
it is learned from an authoritive source that
there is now pending in the patent office an
application for one or more patents, the
granting OF which it is expected will enable
the Bell Telephone company to defy all com
petitors and crush any projected opposition.
p. 5. III.
How They Did lie.
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., Nov. 11.-Senator
Henderson is one of the late commissioners