Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-06-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Il. -ular Correspondence Of The -tandard.)
WA~uINGruN, June =, 1891.

" A~lIl\GluN, June -, 1871.
Another scandal has cast the shadow
4 IT. black wings over this lmmacu-
Lately ltln and honest admlnlstra-
tiuu Russell HARRISON, not satisfied
with traNthug more than nine thou .
sand miles Tree, with meals and re- +
fr,-hm,nt- included. ON the PreSI- .
dents SpecIal.' has been writing let
ter. Ia railroad managers in all sec
uou- 81 the country hcgging for Tree
passes Tor himself over their roads.
Bah It j. almost a. nau-eating a
spectacle a. that daily presented 10y
the FRINGE uf Walv, in London
court room where hc appears a. wit
ncss against one ui his friends charged
with cheating nj cards Since when
has the Presidents son given man
the night to ride free on railroads while
ordinary folks have To buy tickets
In furnishing the President with
ROYALTY equipped special tram tree,
the railroads OF course had n night to
expect IN return official iavors, but
what can Russell Harrison give them
IA return for tickets furnished him
1t was positively stated last week by
the Attorney General that the Judges
ui the new land court would bc APP
pointed tins week, hut as the week has
nearly gone without the announce
mcnt, IT looks n though there has
been hitch somewhere in the pro-
grammc.
Secretary Gardner OF the National
Association oi Democratic Clubs,
, whose word always goes" here, where
everybody knows him, says there was
not particle OF truth III the state
mtnt published that the executive
/ committee ot which he is Il member
d, had met in New York last week for
! the purpose OF booming Senator Cor
b man tor the Presidential nomination
, He SAYS have no recollection OF
that gentleman name being called
! and | know that there was nothing
: said or done that could he construed
= ~ intended to create a sentiment III
: favor Of German or any other man fol
T. the Prcsidcdcy. II is the object of the
d association Of clubs To work for the
/, men nominated 10y the party, not &c
take any part i'll their nomination
, Incorporates with the regular organiza
I iiun Of the Democratic party i'll sup
T. port of Democratic men and Demo
cratic measures. II does not pres
! crihc platforms, but ratiiies them; II
: docs not nominate candidates, but
supports them. Its national con
! vcntiuns are, in virtue OF its canstitu
p ton. held after, not before, nominal.
= ing conventions, and the attempt tC
e make it appear that this little bust
ness meeting WAS III the nature of q
'Gorman boom il unjust and without
good reason.
d Representative Wise OF Virginia, is
= the latest Southern Democrat to de-
| clare in favor of the wisdom of select
ing a Western man for Speaker OF the
House. He says, however, that he
isn't committed to anybody and that
/ he will not be until he has had an OPP
. portunity To- consult his colleagues.
lie favors Cleveland for President,
although strongly opposed to his sill
yer views.
Representative McCreary of Ken
. lucky, spent several days here this
} week He is n close political student,
and seldom makes n mistake in his
predictions. He thinks that it will
not Ice very long before United States
Senators and the President and Vice
President will he elected by direct vote
OF the people, and he is I'm favor of
both changes. Governor McCarty
says he feels certain that if Mr.. Cleve-
land has the slightest doubt of his
ability to carry New York he will not
he candidate next year
Commissioner Raum has been alb
sent from his office all this week, and
il appears to he generally understood
that he Is away arranging his private
business for the purpose of having
something to do when he retires from
the Pension Office, as it is thought he
will certainly do at or before the close
OF the present year.
Representative Bynum is here gath
ering facts for an article he proposes
writing for one of the reviews, showing
that the much talked-about reciprocity
agreement with Brazil is exactly the
reverse of beneficial to the United
States.
The committee of artists appointed
TO examine the designs and models sub
mitted to the Director of the Mint, for
our metal currency, threw them all
out-about 3C9-hecause none OF them
were any improvement on the present
designs OF the coins.
Secretary Foster is in New York
consulting his Wall street friends about
the announcement lie has made Of the
extension OF the 4-and-a-half per cent.
bonds which mature next September
at one or one-and-a-half per cent inter
est. Dem.