The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rom orr Regular Correspondent.

| GSiIlnGttn, september IotD. 1894.
! Activity at the headquarters of the
! Republican National Committee is 4
/ new thing in connection with state cam
| pagn but it is expected that the results
/ in several states this fall Will show that
| it is a good thing ami that it Will here
after continue right along. 1t is certain
that the documents now being circulated
| bv the National Committee can be ham
died with more advantage In Washing
! ton than anywhere else, and it is need
/ less to say that the machinery of the
] National Committee makes their dis
! tribution easier and more thorough than
: it would otherwise be. The National
/ Committee is not having anything to do
with managing the state campaigns; it
/ is merely looking after the proper dis
/ trlbution of literature bearing upon the
national policy of the republican party,
| leaving the management exclusively to
/ the state committees.
President Mckinley is back in Wash
ington, but will only stay few days.
/ There are several more or less pressing
matters which he wished discussed by
/ the cabinet and disposed of, and he also
wished to have :. talk with Consul Gen
eral Lee, who is also in Washington,
about matters in Cuba. As soon as these
things are done, he will 90 away again
for short time. While it has not been
definitely settled where he Will go, 1t
/ is probable that he will 90 to New Eng
land and that he will stay about two
! weeks. He is looking very well, but he
| laughingly remarked that he had not
succeeded i'll getting much rest while
away from Washington. He is too good
natured to refuse to see people who call
on him or to refuse well-meant courte-
sizes extended to him. That's why he
finds it so difficult to get rest, either in
or out of Washington,
The business of the post office depart
| ment is an infaliible Indicator Of the
business of the country. The business
of thirty of the largest post Offices of the
. country has been found by long exper-
fence to fairly represent the business of
the entire department, and TIE bust
ness of those thirty post offices was
eight per cent greater IN August of this
year than III August of last year, and
five per cent greater than in July. The
post office officials are all ready to tes-
tify that prosperity is right here.
Secretary Wilson having become sat
isfied from the success of experiments
made that the camphor tree will thrive
! III Florida, and that we can grow enough
to supply all the camphOr we use, has
arranged to have the tree thoroughly
Introduced III that state, through the
department of agriculture. lie also in
tends to specially encourage the growth
of the English walnut tree, which he
thinks Will do well anywhere south of
the Potomac river. There is no longer
any doubt about the success of Sccrc-
tary Wilson IN making the department
of Agriculture practically assist the far
mers Of the country, by pointing out to
them feasible means Of increasing their
incomes.
Secretary Gage has gone as far as he
has authority to 90 in his efforts to save
those who are rash!y trying to push into
the gold regions of Alaska from the
starvation he has become satisfied, from
reports sent him, awaits them when
they reach there. Agents of the treas
ury department have been instructed
to stretch every law and regulation to
its extreme limit to keep men away
from the klOndike until next spring;
also To use their powers of persuasion
upon the gold hunters and to show
them official communications showing
the utter inadequacy of the supply OF
food on hand to feed those who are al
ready in the Klondike regions during
the coming long and hard winter.
Although this country has no reason
to expect trouble with Spain, or with
any other power, il is not unlikely that
the unsettled condition of affairs in
Cuba had something 10 do with the de-
cision OF the navy department to keep
the North Atlantic Squadron, which
has recently been through very sue
cess.ul sea drill, target practice, etc,
together all the winter and to keep the
vessels composing the squadron in the
best sea going condition. The squad
ron viii this week rendezvous at Fort
Monroe, and will later 90 to New York
The fact that tins government has this
strong squadron of fighting ships ready
to proceed to sea at a DAVIS notice, will,
OF Itself, have a good effect upon our
foreign relations with al! countries, and
the men and the ships Will get better
practice together than they could get
with each ship going it alone.