Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-04-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 10, 1891
Secretary Rusk is the recipient OF many
congratulations on his success in getting
Germany to rescind it's prohibition OF Amer
ican meats and meat products, and he is
proud. as he has right to be, OF what he
has accomplished, but he is still hard at
work, through the state department, trying
to convince the government of France that
It will be wisdom for it to follow the exam
pie set by Germany and open it's markets
to our meats, and he believes that he will
eventually succeed.
Every republican sincerely regrets that
the state Of Senator Edmund's health has
caused him to tender his resignation to the
governor of his state, and not even the be-
lief that he will be succeeded by SO able a
man and SO good a republican as Secretary
Proctor reconciles them to the loss OF Mr..
Edmunds. who had been member OF the
senate twenty five years on the fifth OF the
present month. 1t lie believed, although
neither OF the gentlemen concerned will talk
about it. that it was to enable Secretary
Proctor to close up some matters in his de-
partment in which he is greatly interested.
before leaving the cabinet in order to enter
the senate, that Senator Edmunds made
his resignation to take effect on the first OF
November next. Some people think that
for either Secretary Proctor or Senator
Edmunds to confirm this would be to i'm
ply that an understanding ha d been reached
with the governor of Vermont before it was
known that there would bea vacancy in the
senate.
The three days celebration of the centen-
nial OF the United States patent system, be-
gan on Wednesday with public meeting
presided over by the president t and addressed
by Secretary Noble, Commissioner OF Pat
ents Mitchell, Labor Commissioner Wright,
Hon. Robt. 5. Taylor OF Indiana, Justice
Blatckford, of the U. S. supreme court, and
Senator Platt, and closed this afternoon
with "a military review, participated in by
regular troops and militia. The celebra-
| tiou has been "a success, although the atten-
dance OF strangers has been much smaller
than was expected by some OF its over san
guine projectors.
The question among Democrats is, did
| Governor Senator Hill Intentionally throw
a tariff firebrand into the speakership fight?
| Intentionally or not, his recent letter an
nouncing that he had no sympathy with
free trade, has created stampede among
the supporters OF Mills, who is an avowed
free trader and it now locks as If there
would be regular monkey and parrot time
in the Fifty-second congress on account OF
this question having been precipitated into
the arena by Hill Mr.. Cleveland is under.
stood to he for Mills and free trade.
The war department is still receiving nu'
merous offers OF volunteers in case of war
with Italy, but if these would-be soldiers
do not smell powder before Italy declares
war against the United States they will
have to wait some time for that pleasure
There are several applicants for the va,
cancy made by the resignation OF Mr.. Win
drim, supervising architect OF the treasury,
and as Secretary Foster is now consider.
ing the matter. the appointment is looked
for daily