The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 81, 1894.
"Growing better all the time," was
the CHEEKY reply of Chairman Babcock,
of the republican congressional campaign
committee, when asked how he regarded
the outlook for electing a republican
majority of the next house. And that
isn't all. In addition to having good
working majority in the next house the
members of the committee are confident
that the republicans will control not less
than twenty-six of the state delegations
in that body. The Importance of the
last can scarcely be over estimated. It
will head off an attempt which the DEM
ocrats have been calculating to make to
throw lhe election of the next president
into the house by casting the solid dem
ocratic vote in all the northwestern
'96, provided, of course, that they can
control majority of the state delega-
tions in the next house, as they do in
the present house. With a majority OF
the state delegations republican the next
president is bound to be republican,
no matter whether he be elected by the
electoral college or by the house.
The nomination of Hon. Levi P.
Morton for governor by the republicans
of New York was received with much
pleasure in Washington, where Mr..
Morton became exceedingly popular
during his term as vice president, and
tho ho1inf SO Vonoro1 hoE hn rui1l
the state by a much larger majority than
the presidential ticket of Harrison and
Morton did in 1888. 1t is thought that
this belief was shared by Governor
Flower, and that it was the cause of his
declining to be the democratic candidate
against Mr.. Morton. Whitney is the
first choice of the administration for Mr..
Morton's opponent and Dan Lamont the
second. It is thought that Senator Hill
is perfectly willing to allow either of
them to make the run to defeat.
The democratic officials of the treasury
department. have found time to get up
such big row amoug themselves that it
has eliminated in the forced resignation
of Jeremiah o O'Rourke, supervising archi-
tect, and the deposed official is making
mysterious threats about making ex-
posures which will bring out a sensa-
tional political scandal, involving sew
eral prominent members of the admins
tration. Although it is known that Mr..
O'Rourke and several of the officials
Immediately under him, particularly
chief clerk Kemper ands Mr.. Fleming,
chief of the law and contract division,
both close personal friends of Secretary
Carlisle, have been constantly at logger
heads over the administration of the
office for months past, the real cause of
the trouble is politics, and the fact that
the two senators who secured O'Rourke's 8
appointment-Smith and Mcpherson of
New Jersey-are no longer in good odor
with the administration. The two
minor officials referred to have tried to
run the architects Office solely in the in
terest of the democratic party, while Mr..
O'Rourke had sufficient pride in his
profession to wish it to cut some figure
in. the work of the Office. The final
clash came this week, and Secretary Car
Isle stood by the minor officials and de-
manded O'Rourke's immediate resigna-
ton. The position is one of the best
under the treasury department, paying
$4,000 a year, but requiring a man of
marked ability to fill it as it should be
filled and no man of that sort will