The Red Cloud chief., 1897-04-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.

hcDTeScututiNt July oiuiPcVu uiu
not succeed in making Speaker Reed
appoint the house committees so that
the general legislation could proceed
while the house is waiting for the sen
ate to act on the tariff bill, but by his
continued protests he forced out the
announcements from Representative
Dingley, the floor leader Of the repub.
licans, that in not appointing the com
mittees, Speaker Reed was following u
program adopted by him and his party
leaders, and a virtual endorsement of
that program from Representative
Bailey of Texas, the democratic floor
leader, who said that the democrats
preferred no legislation On the part of
the republicans to bad legislation
which they could not prevent II the
republicans chose to put IL through.
These statements resulted in clearing
the atmosphere very much, so far as
the house is concerned.
Unless . Postmaster General Gary
changes his mind, there will be no
changes made among the postmasters
whose income does not exceed 800 q
year, no matter how long the Office
has been held by the same person, u.
cept in cases where a majority Of the
patrons OF the Office ask for q change.
Mr.. Gray has notified n number of
representatives this policy will be
strictly adhered to. The result will be
that the pOstmasters embraced In this
classification will always be In politi-
cal sympathy with q majority Of their
Offices. That policy IL fair enough and
good enough to be made into q binding
law.
The fact that seine OF those who were
prominently Unidentified with the
Cleveland ADMINISTRATION have picked
up some nice plums under this ad.
m,nistratiOn is not altogether pleasing
to the politicians who have failed to
pick up anything for themselves. Elk.
Assistant Secretary OF Agriculture
Dabaey has been made chief Stats.
tician of the department of agricul.
ture at the salary of 94,50O a year,
and Ex-Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury Hamlin has been given a legal
Job In connection with the seal fish
cries, for an indefinite period, at q
compensation Of about Sl5 a day.
Secretary Long has rejected the only
bid-that Of the Illinois Steel company
to furnish armor for S26e q ton, II they
were given contracts for all the armOI
plate used by the government for the
next twenty years--submitted under
the act of the last congress, limiting
the price to be paid Tor armOr plate
for naval vessels to $500 a ton, because
he had no authority to make a condi'
tional contract, and the whole matter
has been referred back to congress and
result in the establishment of n gov,
eminent armor making plant, unles,
the Carnegie and Bethlehem com
maniac ,annIa f.nn thair ncncant pnsi
ton or can persuade congress to raise
the limit in the price to be paid fol
armor.
II begins to look as though the
vacancies in the senate COMMITTEE,
would be filed. The new senators
who have no committee assignments
made so much fuss about IL that some
thing had to be- done. II Is not proba
BILE that either Of the parties can hav,
their way about these committee places
In fact, there has been a combination
agreed to by committees representing
the populists, democrats and silver re
pub!icans under which the republican,
are allowed three.tenths OF the vacau
cies and the combination retains tn,
rest. but this agreement has yet to b.
ratified.
II Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, whs ha
been appointed assistant secretary o
the navy, doesn't kick up the bigges
sort of a shindig in that department, h
will disappoint all the Washington
prophets. Said one of these prophets
~ cannot conceive Roosevelt as a sub
ordinate anywhere. He Is an able man
although some consider him i'm
practicable, and 1t he cannot have hi
own way. or q way that he regards a
good as his own, there Is bound to b
trouble. I expect the trouble will be
gin with some of the officers Of tn
navy, who feel pretty sure Of themselve
aud will not like to see a civilian
carving q chip on his shoulder in tn
department aud at the same time In
terfering with their plans" Notwith
standing this sort of talk, which is gen
eral in Washington, 1t would be a goo,
thing for the public service !
n Roosevelt could be made ms
sistant to the head of every one of tn
government departments. There
not a single one of them that n stir "a
would not benefit. although IL nigh