Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-09-17
WASHINGTON LETTER


WASHINGTON, ID. e.. Sept. IL, 81.
The President, said member Of the
administration. who has been Mr.
Harrison's guest at Cape May Point
within week, has not, except In
general way, yet given any consider
alton TO the selection of successor to
Secretary Proctor. nor Is IL probable,
that he will for several weeks to come.
There are other things occupying his
attention at present, and there Is no
good reason for his being in hurry
to pick out a new Secretary of War.
My own impression is that two new
members of the cabinet will be appoin-
ted at the same time, and that the
appointments will not be made until
late in October. possibly not until
November. The gentleman declined
to name the other member of the
Cabinet, who he believes will resign,
but there are reasons for believing,
that it il Attorney General Miller. who
Is thought, to be booked for one Of
the new Circuit Court judgeships,
although he refuses to discuss the
subject.
Secretary Blaine will return to his
duties at the State department not
later than the 1st of October. Word
was received at his Washington resi-
dence this week to get it ready for the
family at once. This will be very nm
pleasant news for the ghouls who
have labored so industriously through
the summer just passed to kill him,
but to the thousands of patriotic
Americans whoadmire his manly way
of conducting our foreign affairs 1t will
be most welcome news.
The board of managers of the Ma
tional Homes for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers is holding a meeting here this
week. The board is composed of the
following gentlemen: Gen. w. b..
Franklin, of Connecticut, president,
Gen. Martin f. Mcmahon. OF New
York. secretary. Gen. w. J. Seweil,
New Jersey; Gen. John G.. Black,
Illinois Tex COMMISSIONS of Pensions) 1;
Gen. Alfred L. Pearson, of Pennsyl-
wants; Gen. James Barnett. of Ohio
G~n. Francis Fessenaea, of Maine
Col. John l.. Mitchell. Wisconsin;
Maj. Il. N. Morrill,, of Kansas; Mai.
George II. Boonebrake, of California,
and Mai. George w. Steele, of lndi-
ana.
Representative Mills seems to be
getting alarmed ut his Speakership
prospects and his friends in their eff
rorts to secure eastern support for him
have been giving it out that his idens
about the free coinage of silver have
lately undergone change and that
he may in the near future write let
ter defining his position on the subject.
And they hint that In that letter he
will take a position verv near To- tiut
occupied by Mr.. Cleveland on the
same question.
The question of the seizure of the
CHILEAN steamer Itsta, which n.any
people feared might become a serious
as well as an expensive one, has been
happily settled, at a conference held
here, with Secretary Foster and At
torney General Miller representing this
Government. and ex-Major Grace, of
New York, and Messrs MONT, Fos-
ter and Trumbull the new CHILEAN
government. Under the agreement
reached the Itata is to be turned over
to the Gillian government and the
case against her for violating our
neutrality laws nolle pressed in the
courts, and the CHILEAN government is
to pay to the United States sum
equal to hessxpepses Of tha- -aruiasr.
Charleston ia making the chase after
the Itata. This is very satisfactory
ending of the matter. much more so
than if the CHILEAN government had
made demand for heavy damages on
account of the seizure.
The State department has been Of
ficially notified that Denmark, which
followed Germany in excluding Amer
lean pork, has followed the same ex-
ample In removing restrictions upon
It's importations, and is now prepared
to admit all that may be shipped there
accompanied by the United States
certificate of inspection. Secretary
Rusk is not doing much talking about
his triumphs. but his friends are shout
ing as they have right to do, for to
him more than any other one man Is
due the credit for the meat inspection
law, without which the restrictions
upon the importation of American
pork would have been removed by
Germany or by Denmark. Sec. Rusk
il hopeful that France will follow suit
and remove the restrictions upon the
importation before the close of this
year.
There is to be another vacancy on
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Michi-
gan, having resigned on account of
continued bad health. He was APP
pointed by Mr.. Cleveland when the
commission was first organized, and