Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-11
WASHINGTON 1HrrnR.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 8, 1891.

WASHINGTON, June D, 1OSl-
1t requires no extraordinary per-
ceptive powers to see that the
present is period of great uncer-
tainty with the politicians. When
they drop INTO Washington they are
as eager as newspaper men to gather
each others views. They will talk to
you for half an hour, and tell you
things that would make a stir, if prin-
ted in connection with their names,
but they never fail to conclude like
this, snow, my boy, this is strictly
CONFIDENTIAL" every thing is to mixed
for me to father this sort of thing ct
this time. All of which is conclusive
to my mind that the politician Is care
fully feeling the public pulse, and
when he learns what the public wish
es, he will not be backward about
adopting that as his views. The aver
age politician follows but never leads
publicopinion, unless he happens to
make a mistake, as he sometimes
does.
The Postofice Department is very
busy place these days. The needs of
the service are, owing to its extrem-
ly rapid growth, always a long way
ahead of the appropriations made by
Congress. Here is an instance; Bos-
ton, Chicago, and other cities are ask
ing for an addition of letter carriers
which in the aggregate amounts to
more than 1000. Now Congress has
only appropriated for the employment
of $50 additional letter carriers, and
at least 300 of them will go to small
places shown by the census to be en-
titled to the free delivery service, leav-
ing only $50 to be divided among the
big cities which ask for 1000. The
Postmaster General hopes by the
adoption of letter box for every
household, if suitable one can be
found among the eight hundred sam
pies submitted to the department, to
greatly increase the efficiency of the
present force of letter carriers in the
large cities.
Another problem, in connection
with the lottery business, is being
worked upon by the Postofic depart
ment. Shortly after the law shutting
lottery matter out of the mails went
into effect, the Presidents of the two
largest express companies issued an
order instructing their agents to re-
fuse all lottery business rendered
them. Now the agents of the de,
partment have secured proof that the
agents of the express companies are
ignoring these orders, presumably
with the knowledge and consent of
the men who issued them, and are do
ing a heavy lottery business. How
to stop this is the question that the
legal advisers of the Postmaster Gen
eral are now studying, and it is prob
able that if they can see any reason
able prospect of success that an at
tempt Will be made through the
courts to compel the Express compan-
les to refuse lottery business.
The Secretary of the National As
ISOLATION of Democratic Clubs denies
that his organization is engaged in
booming Senator German or any
other man for the Democratic Presi-
Dental nomination, as has been char
ged by a New York paper. The Sec
rotary is an honorable business man
of this town, and, IN this community,
his word will go a good deal farther
than any statement made by the SEN
sational paper which originated this
charge.
Mr.. Columbus Delano. who was
some years ago a member of Presi-
dent Grants cabinet, Is here. He is
responsible for the statement that
the Republican farmers of Ohio will
unanimously support Mckinley.
Other Ohio republicans are far from
being as confident as Mr.. Delano is,
and apparently their source OF
knowledge of the situation are quite
good as his.
It is said that Hon. John W. Foster
who in Secretary Blaines absence is
in charge of the reciprocity pro-
CRANE, has almost concluded the ne
gotiations for reciprocity with an.
other nation, but he declines to make
theLname of the country public yet
Some think that it is Mexico.
In spite of the fact that it il
thought to be to late to accomplish
the desired purpose the administra.
ton is well pleased that England
agreed to its proposition for closed
season in Behring's Sea. The pub
LEGATION of the correspondence re-
fleets credit on DTr. Blaine and shows
the falsity of the charge that he was
acting in the interest of the lesseec
of the American sealing privilege
When the arbitration which wat
months ago agreed upon Is to take
place Will not be determined until
the details OF the arbitration are set
tied.
Real Estate Transfers.
In Phillips county, Kansas, for The week endin,