The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-05-07
SPAULDING ISPOPULAR.
Experience Makes Him Familiar
with His Work.
SOMETHING ABOUT MR.. THURBER.

wishes and Respect OF All Who Became
Acquainted with Him-Professor Har-
ringtOn an Applicant for Reinstatement
Jobs for Michigan People.
Washington, May 4.-General o. L.
Spaulding. assistant secretary of the
treasury, is one of the most popular
Wolverines in the national capital. Dur
ing the past week, while the secretary
of the treasury was in New York, Gen.
eral S~paulding has been acting secre-
tary of the treasury. His experience In
the position of assistant secretary dur
ing the Harrison administration made
him perfectly familiar with the depart
mental work. He is as competent to act
as secretary Of the treasury as the man
upon whom has been conferred the cab
iEet position. Secretary Gage has wealth
and a political pull, but General Spauld-
ing was appointed primarily because of
his ability and experience.
John Addison Porter, secretary to the
president, although a new man in the
business Of dealing with public men and
affairs, is filling his high Office in a cred
liable manner. Because he is a news
paper man, he has been very well
treated by the newspaper men of Wash
ington. He Is doing no better, however,
than Henry T. Thurber did at the be-
ginning Of the second Cleveland admin
istration.
Country Boy from Michigan.
Mr.. Thurber was raised in the little
town of Monroe, and, barring his few
years experience at Detroit, was pro-
vincial in his political knowledge. He
came to Washington, practically, as a
country boy from michigan. Several
smart newspaper correspondents pro-
ceeded to make fun of him. He en-
dured their gibes and quips without a
tremor. When he left Washington last
March he carried with him the good
wishes n respect of all who had be-
come acquainted with him; because they
had learned to appreciate the high pur-
pose n noble qualities of the Michi-
gan mar who had successfully and hon.
orably filled a confidential position close
to the president of the United States
for four years without making a single
mistake of moment. and without be-
traying a single trust. This little trib-
ute to Thurber, who is a Democrat,
comes from a writer who, for several
years, represented the Detroit Tribune
In Washington, before that paper be-
came a political traitor to the party
which created and nurtured it.
Applicant for Reinstatement.
Professor Mark w. Harrington, a
good man who was dismissed from the
chiefship of the weather bureau twenty
months ago because he was charged
with having failed to discharge his du-
ties nrOnprlV iS an annlirant for rain-
statement. After being removed from
the weather bureau Professor H%arring-
ton was appointed professor in charge |
Of the University of Washington at Sc
attic. Two weeks ago he resigned that
position and is now in Washington to
maxi an effort to succeed Professor
Willis l.. Moore, the present chief of the
weather bureau.
Harrington's friends are on the ground |
and are quietly working in his interest.
Mrs. Harrington arrived in Washington
two weeks ago, n has been an active
worker in her husbands behalf. She |
has, it is said, seen various senator's and
representatives, and has also paid a per-
sonal visit to Secretary Wilson of the |
agricultural department, with whom
she earnestly pleaded in her husbands |
behalf. Secretary Wilson is favorable |
to the retention of Professor Willis
Moore.
Thomas L.. Wallin, of the WaIiin
Leather company, and wife are here On
their return from ThomasviIle, Ga, and
Fla.
VIII Please ~CigarInakers.
The cigarmakers and manufacturers
of Michigan who have been petitioning
the senator's to nave Havana filters and
Sumatra wrappers placed upon the free
list in the pending tariff bill will be l
pleased to learn that Senator Burrows
has become a warm champion of their
He has already appeared be-
fore the senate committee on finance
and made an argument in behalf of this
large class of union workmen in the
The Michigan representatives in cOn-
gress are being floode with requests
for sugar beet seed. A gentleman from
the southern portion Of the stat writes
his representative that he has found at
forty farmers thai are anxious to
experiment with sugar beet, and has
requested the congressman to send him
seed enough from the agricultural de-
partment to plant at least one acre of
ground for each farmer. The agricul-
tural department a exhausted it's
small supply, and the members Of the
Michigan delegation are obliged to in
form their constituents that they can
not meet their requests.
A new document h been published
by the agricultural department known
as the Farmers Bulletin No. SO. 1t
gives facts and figures concerning the
culture, seed development, manufacture
and statistics of the sugar beet. This
can be had on application to any men,
Der of congress from Michigan.
Secretary of Wal and Mrs. Alger,
Senator Burrows, and Congressman
and wife were among the Mich
iean people who went to New York to
attend the Grant dedication exercises.
Senator Burrows was a member of the
senate committee Of fifteen appointed
by that body to represent the legislative
branch Of the government in the cere-
Good Things for Michigan People.
Some Of the good things that have
fallen to Michigan people during the
past week are the following: Burton
of Monroe has been named for
his old position as special agent for the