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Special - tAs rxLsssAs-HEsAIs.
LANSING, Jan. 6.--Stzte Treasurer
Breasted, owing 10 the peculiar char
aeter of the daties Of his Office, the
small number OF clerks employed and
the further fxet that his Detroit bonds
men insist upon having voice IN the
matter, has not been able 20 place any
of his relatives in Office. He has been
Obliged 10 retain Mr.. DAVIS, the old
deputy, who remains - cashier; also
the old book kkeeper, Mr.. Moore. This
action is not prompted BY any regard for
the gentlemen retained, but solely be-
cause their services cou.a not be dis-
pensed with. Mr.. BREASTED, however,
Is IN entire sympathy with his brother
officials, respecting the doctrine that
public oitlee Is . private snap" and III
spite OF the fact that he has said that
he should not deposit any State monies
IN country banks, has Just sent $l25, eco
OF the state tlnds 10 his own bank at
lshpeming. III vieW OF the fact that
BFaasted did not take possession of the
Office until Friday night, the 2nd inst,
~ Will tA4at lt lpot nO t4tttt.
Some or the inqulsstlve ones ara asking
what security the Treasurer has for
such "a large deposit with bank of the
size OF the tayc<ite institution at
Isnpeming.
Being ignorant rs to the policy here
tofore pursued by former State Treas
urers, | made inquiry today and found
that 1t has always been the practice,
IN so far as was consistent with public
interest, TO distribute the State funds
among different banks in the State. /
also asked my informant If political
considerations ever governed III the
selection of banks as State repositories
and was told that il never had so far as
was known, that the only considerations
governing were locality and condition
of the banks. In towns where there
are public or State institutions, banks
have no. been allowed 4 State deposit
because large balance is generally
kept on deposit there by the treasurer
OF such institutions.
Now that the new administration has
been fairly inaugurated, SO far as the
State officials are concerned, attention
is drawn away from the crowd of
hungry applicants for places, to the
convening of the Legislature and the
strife now going on for the positions OF
the House and other minor places. The
candidates for the Speakership are
Wachtel, Of Petoskey, Cook, of Muske-
gon, and Richardson of Ottawa county.
The two former are full-pledged
Democrats, while Richardson, who
is, l am told, of Republican
antecedents was elected in opposition
to Republican, as Patron of Indus
try. The contest between Wachtel and
Cook is growing animated, and poor
Richardson getting no recognition frCm
his Democrat friends, is last in the shuf-
fle. said to Democrat last evening,
for the purpose of drawing him out,
that l supposed Richardson would
develop some strength in the Demo-
cratic caucus. The reply came back
quck and emphatic: ell, no; We want
q Democrat for Speaker, we want no
crank" This reply very well illustrates
the situation In respect of the attitude
of the Democrats to the Patrons of
Industry. In all the talk about the
capitol and at the hotels the Democrats
assume that they have absorbed the
entire organization of the Patrons, and
the list OF the Senate and House, as
made up today by the Democrats,
shows on Its face In the Senate, four
teen Republicans, eighteen Democrats;
in the House, thirty-four Republicans,
sixty-six Democrats. Where, Oh. where,
Is the independent Patron? Can 1t be
that he has so soon been swallowed by
the Democratic whale? ANY way the
whale insists that it has managed to get
outside the poor Patrons, and having
done SO the show will begin Wednesday
next under Democratic management
exclusively. The state Will be gerry
nladered strictly on the "Ohio ideap
ard whatever other legislation the
Democrats wants will be put through
quickly, then it is thought that Dickin-
son, Csmpau ct al, who are the real
proprietors of the show, will tell the
members, after patting them all on the
head, to paek up and 20 home early in
order to claim the credit of q short ses-
sion of the legislature. 1t is to be hoped,
in the interest of the people generally
that the session may be short one, no
matter what the moving influence for
an early adjournment may be, for, If
the elements entering into the make
up of this Legislature ever break loose,
II will be distinguished in way quite
different from any that have preceded
1t. Among the amusing contests going
on here among the Democrats for
Estate pap" IS that between the editor
of the Lansing Journal, who is best
known IA Bub Rowley, and Col. George
Poindexter Sanford, editor of the Lsn-
sing Democrat. Rowley came here IN
1882 and bought the Lansing Journal
OF Sanford. Owing to various causes,
bad blood was engendered, which cul-
minated in RowIey's publishing some
scathing Articles affecting Sanford as
citizen and Democrat. Sanford sued
Rowley SIX or seven times for
libel. A change of venue was
had to the Eaton circuit, and last
summer one of the cases was tired,
resulting in a verdict for Rovley. San
ford promptly appealed to the supreme
court anst II vlll DC argued soon. Since
the trial both OF these Democratic apos-
ties have been banging away at eacn
other in their respective papers. Row
ley is now an applicant for the position
of deputy secretary of state, but SAN
ford says Nay Pauline, not 80. and
serves notice upon Dan Soper taat If be
appoints "Nendiesnt Bub Rowiey." as
Sanford duss him, shat the black flag
viii De naIled To the mast head sBd
that It viii be 6giaf % the finish from