The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-09-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFcon Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. @ September II, 1897

WASHINGTON, D. @ September II, 1897.
President Mckinley has done big |
weeks work since his return to Wash.
ington. In addition to clearing his desk |
of the routine business that accumulated |
during his absense, he has, with the
assistance OF his Cabinet, settled mum
ber of more or less important questions
and made number of appointments.
And he has accomplished all this when
his time was largely taken up with con.
sultations with prominent republicans,
the largest delegations being from the
South, about the Federal patronage in a
number of States. He also had an ex.
tended conference with Consul General
Lee and talked over everything that
gentleman learned during his stay in
Cuba, but notwithstanding publications
to the contrary, he has not been making
any preparation for war with Spain,
simply because he has no idea that any
such preparations are or will become
necessary.
The heads of the executive depart
ments of the government have the legal
right to remove their subordinates at
will for any cause, or for no cause, except
that they cannot legally remove a man
for refusing to make political contribu.
ton. That is the sum and substance of
the decision of Judge Cox, of the Su.
preme Court of the District of Columbia,
in an injunction suit brought by an
official of the Louisville, Kentucky, post
office, against the Postmaster General,
to prevent his removal from office.
Senator Wellington disappointed many
of his friends and well wishers when he
made that odd speech in the Senate
shortly before the adjournment of Con
gress, and this week he disappointed
them again by making another odd
speech when he resigned the Chairman.
ship of the State Republican Committee
of Maryland. All republicans who are
familiar with the circumstances connec
ted with the republican triumphs in
Maryland last year and the year before
know what excellent work Senator
Wellington did for the party in both
contests, and that knowledge adds t.
their regret at the peculiar position thai
Mr.. Wellington has placed himself in
His health has been bad for some time
and that may have something to do witt
his recent acts.
Secretary Bliss would probably rather
be the first mayor of greater New Yorl
than to be Secretary of the Interior, bu
it by no means follows that he will re
sign and accept the republican nomina
ton for Mayor that it is we'll understood
} he can have if he desires it. He nigh
J have done 80 had not the men who ar
managing the campaign of Hon Setl
Low mixed matters so by their efforts t.
secure republican endorsement for MI
Lows candidacy. Senator Platt was il
! Washington this week and he had tai
with President Mckinley, Secretar
Bliss and other prominent republicans
3 and the existing situation in New Yor
!. was no doubt gone carefully over. 1t
perfectly we'll understood that the move
ment to make Low, Mayor, is but th
, first step in a movement to try to max
t him President, although it is difficult
S decide which national party he woul
p appeal to for a nomination. He say
e that he is republican, but he supporte
i Cleveland when Mr. Blaine was cand
date against him and again supporte
Cleveland when Gen. Harrison defeate
: him. A man who refused to vote fc
r either James G. Blaine or for Benjami
e Harrison may succeed in getting repu'
n lican support when running as mol
i partisan candidate for Mayor of Ne
York City, but he could never get enoug
votes in republican national CONVEX
:, ton to be nominated for President.
+ No man in this or any other countl
i has bigger heart than Secretary Ru
t sell A. A)ger. When the President an
r Cabinet were discussing the undoubte
h necessity of sending large quantities
= provisions intv the Alaska gold regioI
= to prevent starvation among the thou
q ands of Americans who will be thel
is this winter, and regretting that thel
e was no public fund which could
It drawn upon for such a purpose, Seer
t, tary Alger solved the problem by al
5 nouncing that he would send provision
, and pay all expenses olt of his ow
II pocket, trusting to Congress to see tn
'e he was repaid, He believes it possib
n to keep the trail into the Klonkike ope
rs all winter, and he purposes to endeav'
y to have his ideas carried out. The Ca
IS met decided to send 100 u S soldiers,
a Alaska, to help perserve order.
Is Free Coinage as Chapman Understan'
80 1t.