Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-06-12
Our Washington Letter.

NEW Ork very SICK IIlau.
The facts about Mr.. Blaine's
condition have not been told.
On the contrary, they have
been persistently concealed
The plain truth is he is a con-
firmed invalid, and his family
and intimate friends fear a
physical and mental collapse.
Nobody expects to see him in
Washington this summer, and
many people believe that if he
is taken from New York to his
home in Maine that he will
never return to Washington.
M. Blaine's absence just at this
juncture is very unfortunate
for the president and his cab
met, and has left them in the
lurch with the Behring Sea
trouble on their hands and
without Blaine to help settle
it.
A splendid portrait and ex-
cellent likeness of Ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland has just arriv-
ed at the White House, and
will soon be hung up with the
White House collection of ex-
presidents. 1t is the work of
Eastman johnson, a noted por-
trait painter, and cost $4,000,
the amount appropriated by
congress for the artist.
Ex-Governor Waller of Con-
necticut, Carl Shurz, Elk SEN
ator Eustis of Louisiana, Ex-
Congressman Benjamin Butter
worth, of Ohio, and Major
Handy, chief of the bureau of
promotion, have been appoint
ed a commission to visit Eu-
rope in the interest of the for
eign exhibit at the worlds
fair.
DR.. Geddings, of the marine
hospital service, has just COM
pleted his official report on the
government tests of Koch's
lymph. Experiments were
made with a score or more of
patients. He thinks Koch's
remedy for tuberculosis is a
potent remedy. and one which
ought to be administered with
caution and under close and
careful observation. The re-
suits Of the lymph, he says, are
variable, and in some cases IL
able to produce the most
alarming and distressing symp-
toms. He reaches the conclu-
sion that the remedy is of linn
tied applicability, and while
the future may have for it an
important sphere, its general
results are disappointing to
both physicians and patients.
The growing probability
that Secretary Proctor will be
elected to the senate to take
Edmunds place, gives rise to
rumors of. other cabinet
changes. 1t is said that if
President Harrison should find
himself obliged to part with
Secretary Proctor, because of
his election to the senate, and
with Mr.. Blaine, because Of his
sudden break down, mentally
and physically, he would trans
fer General Tracy, now at the
head of the navy department,
in place of Mr.. Blaine.
The treasury department
has sat down upon polyga-
mists. They may come to this
country, but they cannot stay
here. Assistant Secretary Net
Teton has decided that Holl-
yer Pettison and wife of Swe-
den, who were recently de-
tanned at New York as polyg-
amists, fall within the prohibi,
ted class of immigrants under
the new immigration law, and
ordered their return to Sweden
at the expense of the steam.
ship company which brought
them over. This is the frs,
time that polygamists have
been debarred from entering
and staying in this country.
The census brings out some
curious facts. The smallest
county in the United States is
Bristol, in Rhode Island. II
contains tWentv-fiva souare