Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-04-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
President Mckinley Returns from
an Outing.

to he Observation-Disclosures Agencies
Not to Be Reduced, Etc.
(From Our Regular Correspondent)
Washington, April l2.-President
Mckinley returned from his little
outing much improved. The wealth
er was more or less disagreeablt
during the entire time he spent OF
the Dolphin, but he got what hC
went after and what he needed most
rest. He was at his desk to day
looking fresher than for several
weeks.
Jerry Simpson made an attempt
t. prove that he was a bigger man
than the entire House, but he only
proved himself n monkey. He
thought, or rather he thought that
he thought, that he could compel
Speaker Reed to appoint the Com
mittees and the House to 90 ahead
with miscellaneous business, al
though majority had decided that
the legislation of the extra session
should be confined to passing the
leftover appropriation bills and the
tariff bill, both of which the House
has done. Jerry made the point of
mo quorum to prevent the House
adiourning from Saturday to We'd
nesday, but Speaker Reed had no
difficulty in counting quorum, and
Jerry found himself down while
the House adjourned. Whether he
intends to get himself knocked down
every time the House meets just for
the notoriety there is in it, is yet to
be seen. 1t is evident that Speaker
Reed regards Jerry merely as an
"amusing little cuss.
Secretary Alger, under whose di.
rection the 5000, 900 appropriated
last week by Congress for the relief
of sufferers by the floods in the
Mississippi valley will be spent lost
no time in putting the machinery of
the War Department to work in or
der that prompt relief might be ex-
tended, wherever needed. 1t may
be a hard thing to say, but it is
strictly true that the Cleveland adj
ministration was responsible for
much of the damage done by the
Mississippi river floods, by its policy
of delay in spending money appro-
priated by Congress to strengthen
and raise up the levees along the
Mississippi river at those points
where United States Engineer Off
GERS had reported the necessity of
such work. Reports are on file in
the War Department from Engineer
officers, made after Congress had
appropriated the money, urging that
contracts be made AID the work
pushed Gu these levees, but it was
the Cleveland-C Carlisle policy to hold
back appropriations as long as possi-
BILE, and these floods came before the
levees had been completed A num-
Der of the breaks are at the points
reported weak by the Engineers and
ordered to be strengthened by Con-
gress. For all the damage done by
these particular breaks, the Cleve-
land administration is Clearly re-
sponsible.
President McKi nley's announced
policy of reinstating all ex-Union
soldiers who were dismissed from
Office by the Democrats for no other
reason than their politics, is being
carried out in all of the government
departments as fast as the heads of
the departments can get around to
the cases. In the cases of the chiefs
of divisions, the Democrats are being
given better treatment than they
gave Republicans. They are allowed
to remain in office, in a lower posi-
ton, instead of being dismissed, as
so many Republicans were under
the last administration.
A Republican Senator speaking OF
the talk in regard to the appoint
ment of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt
TO be Assistant Secretary of the
Navy being likely to make trouble
said: Roosevelt may make trouble
in the Navy Department, but if he
does it will be in the interests of
better administration of its affairs
lust as he has made trouble for the
law breakers of New York city who
had long enjoyed police protection
1 notice that in all the trouble
stirred up by Roosevelt, he has al
had the support of those who be
lieved in showing mp and reforming
wrong doing wherever found, and
am willing to stand behind all thu
trouble he makes in the Navy De
partment.
Mr. Cleveland's order reducing
the number of Pension agencies
which was to go into effect on th'
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