Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1891-04-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The HeUs From the National Capital as il
Effects the Interests of the West
ern Farmers.
Our Correspondent Tells What Our Of
fciais are Doing in the Capital
City.

City.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-Specaal Cor
Mr.. Harrison is apparently
not at all put out by the Italian war
rumors which are again flying thick and
fast. If he knows anything about the
italian government having notified Mr..
Blaine that If he did not Immediately
satisfactorily answer it's last dispatch it
would break off all diplomatic relations
and summarily dismiss our minister from
Rome as the cable says the Italian news
papers have positively stated for several
days past he keeps it we'll hid from those
who see him.
He is devoting his time to putting
things in shape for his four or five weeks
absence, which will begin tomorrow, and
which, of course, would not begin at all
if he had any idea of any new or serious
rupture with Italy. 1t is thought the
long pending and more or less trouble
some question of a successor to the Unit
ed States Treasurer Huston has been at
last solved by Mr.. E. n. Nedecker, Of
Indiana, having agreed to accept the Of
flee, and the official announcement is eX-
pected today or tomorrow. ...
Mr.. Blaine seems inclined to lose his
temper because of the manner in which
the press has discussed and disposed of
the Italian matter. When asked for in
formation as to whether his answer to
the last dispatch had been sent he petul-
antly replied: 1.-The newspapers have
from the beginning known more about
this affair than have and have long ago
settled it to suit them, what is the sense
of coming to me forzinformation? 2" That
the answer to that last dispatch was
written and read to the cabinet
last week is certain, but whether it
has yet been sent only the president and
members of the cabinet know, and they
will not tell .o.
1t is believed by unprejudiced obser-
hat oil ,;,,ic ~ p,I 1,f
Canadian authorities are both using the
reciprocity question for political advan-
tages in the respective countries, and it
would be difficult to find a man here,
who has given the present condition of
things any serious study, who believes
that any Canadian reciprocity treaty will
be negotiated by the present administra,
tion, Notwithstanding the appointment
by Mr.. Blaine of the 18th of next October
as the time to hear the Canadian PROPOSE,
tions. The Mckinley tariff law hits
Canadian interests hard, and it was in.
tended to do that very thing. There is a
we'll defined movement, although not yet
an open one, to compel Canada to ask fol
annexation, or take the commercial con.
sequences. Trade reciprocity would in.
terfere with this scheme, therefore there
| will 10 M raciprocit,-
So great an impression did Col. L. L.
Polk, president Of the National Farmers
Alliance by Il speech delivered here las
week, defining the objects and aims o
the former organization, that it has beer
determined to print a million copies of i
for general distribution. Although Col
Polk has spent a great deal of time il
Washington for several years past, thi.
was the first time he had made a public
speech here, and many people We're sur
priscd to discover that he was an orato
of no mean ability.
Senator Edmunds denies most indig
nantly that his resignation was the resul
of bargain to transfer Secretary Procro
to the senate. He says that Secretary
Proctor did not know of the RESIGNATION
until it was made public. All Of whicl
is doubtless strictly true. and yet it i
generally believed here that ;!la name O
the next senator from Vermont will b,
Proctor.
Some surprise was created here by tn,
stand that Secretary Tracy has taken i,
regard to taking partisan politics out o
the navy yards of the country. There is
no doubt about that being the proper
thing to do, but judging from past ex.