The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-08
| mendation that the land DO sold to the bona

mendation that the land DO sold to the bona
fide settlers.
Frank K. Ward who has gained considerable
notoriety here in Washington in the past few
years, starting the first dairy lunch-rooms and
afterward killing Q man. is again before the
people. new evening paper is about to be
started, and they have rented tho building
erected by Ward for his dairy. He is not now
the owner of the property, but claims to have
an interest in it. When he learned that the
building had been rented for newspaper pur-
poses he went to the building and took posses
sion. and had to be removed by due process OF
law. Ward is an old soldier and very enter
prisng man, and, being generous to fault, he
was for years very popular with all classes.
He came near losing his life when he killed his
man, however, and many people who were
| former friends now shun him.
M. T. Davidson and Chas A. Moore, the we'll
known Brooklyn builders of machinery for
ships and public buildings, were in Washing
ton last week, and held consultation with MIR.
Scott, of the Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco, with regard to the proposals for building
of the new warships which will be opened at
the Navy Department. on the 18th of December
| 1t is generally understood that the competition
for the work will be much sharper and more gen.
eral than ever before in the history of naval con-
! tracts. Since the last contracts were made the
! shipbuilding industry has greatly increased by
| the establishment of new shipyards in various
parts of the country. 1t will be the policy OF
the Navy Department to encourage the new
concerns in awarding contracts and it is UNDER
stood that special schedules will be arranged to
assist them as far as possible
| So
Already the Treasury Department is flooded
with correspondence from every part Of the
United States. and from all kinds of people,
asking that souvenir Worlds Fair coins be Sc.
cured for them. This would make it appear
I that the people are hungry for them. This
correspondence has increased to such a volume
| that it has become task to answer It, Secre-
| tary Charles Foster said last week that he
had nothing to do with the coins. except to have
them struck of at the Philadelphia Mint and to
turn them over to the Worlds Fair Commission
| when the Commission certified to him that they
had properly expended SO much money. For
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pay out $3.50 in souvenir coin to them, and 30
Oh up to the S2,5o0000 appropriated by Con-
gress for the Worlds Fair expenses. The mat
ter of disposing OF the coins was under the sole
control of the Commission.
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Senator Redfeld Proctor, of Vermont, ex.
Secretary of War, is the next in public
life who is to build magnificent Washington
residence. Senator Proctor has purchased the
lot at the corner of Vermont avenue and K
street northwest, and it is said will soon begin
| the erection Of magnificent establishment.
The lot fronts 72 feet on K street aud 100 feet
Oh Vermont avenue, and both fronts of the
house are to be of Vermont marble. The grand
staircase and the finishings Of the hall are also
to he of marble. In the dining-room the wains-
coating is to be of white marble, while the
wall above will be finished in onyx. There is
to be gallery for an orchestra of deliberately
carved marble. The style of the architecture
| will be an irregular Romanesque. 1t is said
that the Senator paid $4,000 for the lot, and
the cost of the mansion will be 100000 The
plans have already been drawn by Architec.
Schneider, who is just completing q white
stone mansion for Senator John Sherman, oil
Ohio. There will be no finer residence in the
city, when completed, than the one proposed
by Senator Proctor.
The fact that Government clerks are fright
ened by the impending change in the Admin
istration no matter whether they are within
the pale of the Civil Service law not, is evil
denced by the fact that the appointment Clerks
Of the several Executive Departments are lit
orally overwhelmed with applications from
clerks of various grades for the withdrawal oil
their papers from the files. These papers show
upon whose recommendation they were origi.
nally appointed and at whose request they have
been advanced in the different grades. Some
times this promotion has been made because
the clerk has rendered some signal party serv-
ice, and these particular clerks are not anxious
for the Democrats to know this fact Among
the clerks who entered the service through the
Civil Service Commission, this state OF facts
does not so fully apply. but even these have in
most instances invoked the political aid Of
some member of Congress or Senator, or other
persons welding influence with the party in
power in the hope that it would advance their
interests. Most of these clerks are not aware
that their requests cannot be granted, as it il
contrary to law to withdraw papers from the
files, as they are Government records.
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meeting OF the Cabinet took place at the
State Department on Wednesday, Nov. 30
This was somewhat unusual, but the fact thai
the Presidents father-in-law lay dead ut the
White House necesstated such action, and the
near approach Of the session of Congress mad,
it imperative that action regarding the public
! business should be had. At the meeting Presi
dent Harrison explained that because of til.
funeral services On Thursday and his subse
quent absence to attend the interment of tn,
body of DR.. Scott at Washington, Pa, it be
came necessary to hold the meeting, as i
would be the last opportunity the Cabne
would have to consider his message before Con
gress assembled. The President also stated
the exigences Of the public business required
that he should disregard his personal Affections
and that he would devote all his spare time t.
the preparation of his message that he possibl,
could with view to having it ready for trans
:. mission to Congress by Tuesday. Dec 6. It
understood that Gen. Harrison had iutende.
8 to elaborate several important topics In hi
a message only briefly touched upon in tn
3 original draft, but that this idea has been aban