Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-06-08
DR.. Porter Home Again-Retains In
terests in Bismarck - Will
Practice Here.
A Little Inside History Regarding
the Delay in Confirming the
Surveyor General.
Major Buttz Claims a Scarcity o
Coin With Which to Inau-
enc Any Vote

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arrived in this country in good health
and happy spirits. They will, however
be sorry to learn that the doctor intends
to remain in this city at present and will
engage in the practice of his profession.
He did the Old World thoroughly and
the tale of his travels is a mighty inter
esting M His son Halle, now with
Mr.. H. F. Douglass in Minneapolis, will
soon join his father in this city. This,
however, is but temporary. The doctor
will still maintain his home in Bismarck
and his interests there will be continued.
He says he has been on the frontier a
long time and wants a little diversion.
I fancy his practice here will be only for
the purpose of dissipating idleness.
I. K. Long is also here. He says he
can't stay away from this beautiful city
and DR.. Porter confirmed his impress.
sions when he declared that no city on
earth that he had visited was as beauti-
full as the capital city Of the United
States. Paris, Berlin and Vienna we're
grand but there we're miles and miles Of
dirty streets, narrow, irregular and unin-
viting in those cities. Not so in Wash
ington, Here every street is lined with
trees, and nearly every street is paved to
the boundary. It is the forest city of
the world. The reason Warrington
eclipses them all is because it is the best
governed city in the world. The gov
ernment is entrusted to three commits
sioners by congress. These men agree
upon uniformity and the property owner
cannot obstruct improvements for the
benefit of the whole community. Con-
gress is the common council, and while
it may be slow to act at times it is the
best council III the land. The govern
ment pays half the taxes and owns wei
half of the property. The tax rate here
is about eighteen mills and I find con-
siderable kicking on this rate. To one
accustomed to western rates, the taxes
here seem insignificant. Water rates
and gas and all other public commodities
are equally cheap here. Living ex-
penses are regulated entirely according
to le purse and desire of the liver. It
is possible to live extremely economical
or e~xtravagantly expensive. Both ex-
tremes prevail. There is one thing that
keeps Washington up during the gener-
al depression all over The country and
that will always maintain the city.
There is just as much paid out by Uncle
Sam now as ever and the amount will
never be any less. The pay of fifty or
sixty thousands clerks finds it's way
every week into the channels Of trade.
Andy Blewitt was confirmed all right.
and without very much delay. I had
heard that Maj. McGinnis' continued
stay ir Washington had something to do
with keeping Blewitt off the pay roll,
and among other things an investigs ton
of some hasty words with Governor
Shortridge at a Jamestown hotel might
have to be explained before the sailing
would be clear. I guess McGinnis SIM
ply wanted to delay the matter of con-
frmation to satisfy in a measure his de-
sire for revenge, or something of that
sort. It was noticed that McGinnis did
not bid Senator Roach an afectionate
farewell when he left for his home in
Jamestown last week. He doesn't make
any bones about declaring that the SEN
ator misrepresented matters to him. He
says the senator claimed he was not
committed on the surveyor generalship,
and that he would go with him INC
Ginnis) to Hoke Smith and introduce
him, but the following day" never came
or at least until it was too late, and
Blewitt was appointed. Nc Ginnis is
awful mad. Roach says he had intended
to have a place fixed for Mac in the in
terror department here, but is glad he
found the major out before it was "too
Late"
Maj. Buttz comes around every day tc
read the North Dakota papers and di.
gest what is being said about him. He
says he finds that the only influences
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