The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-10

wanted OF Coutu udy IoV. ootie VI tHe
best letter carriers In the service were
either dismissed Of suspended for the
above named offensc during Mr.. Bis
sells administration. His exit from the
postOffice department has not changed
matters in this respect. HIS successor.
the Hon. William l.. Wilson, II seems.
is more particular than the Bufyalonian.
He has just issued orders to the erect
that any postmaster or employe Of the
postal department who. in any way.
manner or form. whether on duty or on
kaave Of alb. nee. who takes any active
part I'm the passage Of legislation relat-
ing to the service or the betterment OF
their individual or collective conditions,
will be dismissed instantly. This order
Is directly aimed at the letter carriers
association, which has been working for
several years to better the condition Of
spy" system cost Uncle Sam $S6.000 for
the quarter ended September 80 last.
The Mckinley BoOm
The launching of the Mckinley presi-
Dental boom at the meeting of the Ma
tlonal Committee in this city is consio-
cred mighty poor politics. Whether or
not Governor Mckinley authorizes his
Ohio friends to come here and shout for
him at this time IL not known. but his
presidential stock has undoubtedly fall
len several points all the same. The ma
tional committee has little If anything
to do with nominating a candidate, and
II 1t had It is doubtful If the committee,
as it stands today, would favor the
Ill <nvS
Governor McKinley's friends see the
mistake they have made. but = is too
late. The mischief has been done. The
friends of Reed, Allison and other can
didates are chuckling in their sleeves
over the awkward position in which the
author of the Mckinley bill has placed
himself.
Senator Hill has returned from his
Inflated lecturing tour through the
West He doesn't like to discuss his
late trip. He attributes his failure to
draw crowded houses to the hard times.
Senator Hill, for the first time since his
arrival in Washington, has taken a
house for the winter. 1t Is located on
Lafayette square and was formerly oc-
cupied by Senator Dolph, whose Oregon
constituents loved him so dearly that
they voted to keep him at home with
them, While Senator Hill Is con-
firmed bachelor and is said to hate
women on general principles. rumor
has It that he will shortly marry.
think he realizes the fact that the
American people do not want any more
bachelor presidents, even if they do ger
| married after they have served por-
ton of their term. Senator Hill can
see the White house by sticking his
head out Of a front window In his resi-
dence and looking south.
Captain Basseti'> Condition.
Captain Bassett. the venerable assist
ant doorkeeper of the senate. Is lying al
| deaths door. Captain bassett ~ nearly
! eighty years Of age. He has spent over
sixty years of his life In the senate. He
was appointed a page by Henry Clay,
and has served continuously IN one or
another capacity ever since. Everybody
| who has visited the senate doubtless mas
seen Captain Bassett. He wore long
white beard, which gave him patri-
archal appearance. He usually occu-
| pied a seat on the left Of the vice.
president. His principal duties during
the past ten or fifteen years have been
to turn back the hands on the senate
clock when that body had not finished
its business before the hour Of IL m. or
the day of adjournment-March A.
every second year. Captain Bassett Is
the only man who knows the desks oc-
cupied by such noted statesmen as
Clay, Webster, Calhoun. Sumner and
others. He refuses to point them out tc
anybody for fear they will be mutilated
by relic hunters. The secret will die
| with him. w. II. B.