St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-06
MANY UNEASY HEADS
LOchren's Probable Promo
ton the Cause of a Deal
Of Anxiety.
DREADED BLUE ENVELOPE
Likely to Be Passed Around
Among Employees Of the
Pension Office.
HALLS SPLENDID RECORD.
Fletcher on the SenatorShip
Baldwin a Leading
Hustler.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The members
of the Minnesota colony In Washington,
many of whom are officials of the peh-
sion bureau,are just now a little uneasy
over the report that Judge Lochren is to
be made additional circuit judge of the
Eighth district. OF course, this will not
mean necessarily that any of them will
lose their positions. but under his
administration of the big bureau they
know just what to expect, and if there
is anything government clerk breads
more than the actual receipt of the
"blue envelope" it is reorganization
of a bureau or a department. even if it
means no party change.
Hardly any of the clerks or employees.
however, know the actual facts in this
matter or they would really be more
alarmed. As matter of fact, Judge
Lochren has really been Informed that
he cnn have the appointment if he will
accept, and 1t is needless to remark
that there is loom for very little doubt
on this score. Judge Lochren has a Pc
culiar fitness for judicial work and
strong liking for the ermine as we'll.
The president knows all these facts,
and for this reason will pass over the
other states in the circuit and bestow
the place on the popular commissioner
of pensions. In this event, the Twin
Cities will make very good showing.
with Judge Sanborn. of st. Pau, and
Judge Lochren, of Minneapolis, holding
two of the three judgeships of the Eighth
circuit. And, incidentally, this sane
bench, completed as it will be with
Judge Caldwell, of Arkansas, will be
very able tribunal. ~
Congressman Hall.
AT the time Con gresham Hall made
his speech on the causes of the panic
and so neatly uncovered the shallow
pretenses of the Republicans, the GLOBE
made mention of the favorable notice of
the speech taken by members of the
house from all portions of the country.
The demand for copies of the speech
became so great that the Democratic
congressional committee was obliged to
call for $4,000, and the total circulation
may reach three times that number. A
times tiXed by one lucky speech, as, for
example, the tariff speech of Bryan, of
Nebraska, in the Flfty-second congress.
That speech placed the eloquent Neb-
raskan among the leaders of his party
on the floor. This. however. is not the
way Mr.. Hall has pushed his way to his
present position. He has quietly and
modestly worked away and won by
work and attention to business a place
where his utterances receive attention.
because the members know that he is
solid and all right.
Making Good Record.
When the record of the present ses-
sion of congress is made up for discuss
| sion and comparison the Republicans
are going to be confronted with a bal
ance sheet that they will find hard work
! in meeting. 1t will show reduced eX-
| penditures in every department of the
government, and that the present ad-
minstration is making an honest effort
to Tighten the expenses of the govern
ment establishment. Owing to the eX-
travagance of the Reed congress in
| starting Improvements that had to be
continued i'll order to save the money
already spent, this showing is not as
| good as it would have been had there
been Democratic congress during the
first two years of the Harrison admins
| tration. Without cutting Off the pen
| sion of a single worthy and deserving
veteran, the pension roll has been re-
| duced and the deserving old soldiers are
| feeling great deal better; for none
! have been more opposed to pension
frauds than they. In the agricultural
| department more than $500. 600 are being
saved annually by the dismissal of lot
of special agents who were doing little
| beyond drawing their salaries. And so
it has been in every department. BY
| wiping out several useless bureaus in
| the treasury department nearly 5000, 900
| year will be saved from Oct. 1. As it
will be presented to the people as soon as
congress adjourns, it will make show
Ing that will count with the people.
Uncle Loren Confident.
Until recently the friends of Senator
| Wash5urn here have been very conf
dent that the senator would have no
| difficulty in securing a reelection. This
confidence was largely inspired by Mr..
Washburn himself, but as the returns
came in showing how neatly Tams
BiXby had controlled Goodhut and Sc
cured the nomination of good fellow
eountryman, as we'll as personal friend
| of Gov. Nelson, in that county, and how
the pins are set up for jacobson in the
Lac Qul Parle, Swift and Yellow Medi-
cine districts, the Minneapolis senator
began to lose his confident tone. In
other words, be began to see things as
they are, and not as they>are painted to
him by Alvah Eastman and his other
amateurs. Through all this, however,
there has been one man here who has
never doubted or wavered. His name
is Fletcher, and this is the way he states
the case:
"They are going to have a senator
from the country,ar they?" he repeated
with curl of his lip. ''What are they
going to do about Minneapolis Leave
her out? With the govefhor from the
country and all the other state officers
from either the outside or st. Paul, as
we'll as one senator from the capital.
don't you think that we shall have
something to say about this?"
! Regarding his own prospects it is no