Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-11-26
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent J
Washington. Nov. 20, 1891.


The President returned from the last
vacation he is likely TO have for the next
seven or eight months-a duck shooting
trip in Mary land in time to preside
over a very important Cabinet meeting
to-day, at which portions Of his annual
message to congress which will be unusu-
ally important this year, were read and
discussed. The name of the successor to
Secretary Proctor was also submitted
and there was some informal talk about
the success Of Minister Fred Grant 10
getting the government of Austria to
withdraw its prohibition of the import
alton of American pork, which IS now
regarded IS an assured fact. Secretary
Blaine had something interesting to say
about The reciprocity treaty with Next
co aud his final instructions to Minister
Ryan who left Washington for the city
of Mexico this week. The negotiation
of this treaty or agreement will probably
be officially concluded and announced
soon after Minister Ryan gets back to
his post OF duty.
The President and every member of
his Cabinet realizes that they have a
season of hard work before them, and
that, politically speaking, the coming
session Of Congress promises to be a
most important one, as the action of the
democratic House Representatives, from
its election of Speaker to its adj ourn-
ment will be pregnant with results
affecting the Presidential campaign and
the commercial and industrial prosperity
new, so general throughout the country,
and they may be relied upon in con-
junction with the republican Senate, to
be on the alert to countoract the evil of
any wild cat legislation that may be at
tempted by the democratic House.
When the statement was made by
republican speakers and newspapers
during the recent campaign in New York
that if Tammany Hall succeeded in car
rying that State it would ATTEMPT to
control the democratic national policy,
it was pooh-poohed by many people,
including some republicans Well, the
prophecy is already fulfilled, and the
agents ofTammy Hall are in Washington
demanding that Crisp shall be elected
Speaker of the House, just as next year
they will be at the democratic national
convention demanding the nomination of
some men who will promise, if elected,
to allow them to introduce into national
affairs the corrupt methods which have
made the New York city government a
stencil in the nostriles of honest men
everywhere The Speakership contest
will be test Of the strength Of Tammany
Hall in national affairs; if it can have
Caisp elected Speaker it can dictate the
democratic Presidential nomination next
year.
Secretary Foster is very much inter-
estcd in the experience or Immigration
Commissioner Schulteis, who, in order
to ascertain the bottom facts about the
immigrants from Europe, came over from
Europe in the steerage as one of them,
and made some startling discoveries con-
corning the methods of certain European
associations assisting undesirable people
to come to America, as we'll as the immor
al practices in the steerage of European
steamers. Secretary Foster says that no
amount of steamship influence will pre-
vent his getting at the bottom of this
whole business and putting a stop to it,
if it can be done under the present laws,
and he thinks it can be.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
nearly completed his annual report,
which will be a business document from
beginning to end. He will give the
results as far as they have been obtained,
of the experiment made by the depart
ment by authority Of the last Congress
in extending the free delivery of mail
to small towns snd villages, which will
show that the service has resulted in
increased business at every postoffce
where it has been introduced, to say
nothing of the convenience and saving
of time to the residents of small places
in having their mail regularly delivered
at their houses, and the report will
strongly urge an appropriation sufic-
iently large to make this service general
The report will also contain some inter-
esting matter concerning the war on the
lotteries, the new postal subsidy law, the
reports from county-seat postmasters
and a renewal of last years recommen-
dation for the establishment Of posta
telegraph.
Next Monday the Republican Nation
al Committee will meet here to determine
the time and date for holding the
National convention next year. The
city is already full of the representative.
Of cities anxious to get the convention
The New Workers claim that they have
secured promises from majority Of the
committee
Ex-senator Edmunds made his ap
pearance before the people Of Washington
in new role this presiding officer
Of the Church Congress now in session
here