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Washington August IS. lS91.-IS
John Sherman losing his mind? IL GER
tainly begins to- look that way. He has
had conversations one dsy with well
known gentlemen, aud the next day de
MED every word that he said to them
Mr.. Mckinley must have his doubts, as
he has issued orders tn state department
officials to see that Mr.. Sherman does
not get the country into some new for
eign entsnglement. and especially To
keep him from meddling with the Gu
ban question which Mr.. Day has from
the first had exclusive charge of. Mr..
Sherman isn't such an old man-his
next birthday, if he lives, will be his
seventy fifth and if his mind has really
broken down it is probably becsuse of
the humiliation heaped upon him by the
Hanna Nc McKinley Day combine.
The absurdity of allowing the Spanish
minister to send officials of the customs
service off on all sorts of wild 60 Sc fill
hustering chsses was acentuated this
week when he had customs officers seize
a steamer at Bridgeport, Conn, that had
on board a lot of ammunition belongir z
to the u government, which was be
ing moved under orders from the war
matter wasn't too serious to be joked
about.
A system of spying on the clerks in
the treasury department has been put in
force that is causing much dissatisfac-
ton among those who believe that men
and women do not become slaves when
they enter government employ.
Mr.. Benjamin Butterworth, commits
,,% - han
any of his predecessors have dared to go
in regulating the practice before the U.
5. patent office, in the new regulations
he has issued providing the qualifica-
tions of patent solicitors. The evidence
in the hearings in the case of John Wed
derburn & CO, who are under charges
and are trying to show cause why they
should not be disbarred, shows that Mr.
Butterworth has not gone too far in
those regulations. 1t has been shown
by that evidence that of the more than
300 applications filed for patents by
Wedderburn & Co, during the last two
years, more than l 800 have been re-
jected as containing nothing patentable
and of the remainder only few, prot a
bly, not 2Oh. have sufficient value to JUS
tify q exp 'nse of a patent. Notwith-
standing luese facts, the deluded appli-
cants have In many instances been per
suaded to apply for European patents,
paying the attorneys fee in advance,
and to p,y John Wedderburn 4 Co for
advertising for sale worthless and fully
anticipated inventions
1t is learned that Minister Woodford
has been instructed to take his time in
| travelling to Madrid to an even greater
| extent than was contemplated when he
| left Washington 1t is stated that the
administration prefers in the unse tiled
condition of IF ,irs in Spain. since the
assassination of the Spanish Prime Min
lister, that Mr.. Taylor, our old Spanish
| Minister, who is presumed tn be better
posted on the condition of affairs than a
new man would be, should continue for
while to represent the United States al
Madrid. The fact is, the administra-
ton wants to see which way the Span.
Ish cat Is going to jump before showing
its Cuban policy to the government OF
Spain.
Boss Hanna's fight for election to the
senate lis being aided by the administers
ttlon wherever possible. Mr.. George p.
Hamlet, of Ohio, who was recently
made chief of post Office inspectors, was
gwen that place as a reward for what he
is expected to do for Hanna. There are
nearly 100 pOstoffice inspectors, and the
chief can order as many of them into
one particular state as he may be pleased
tn have there. The programme is for
MIR. Hamlet to keep enough inspector.
IN Ohio to see that all the postmaster.
IN that state give Hanna all the hell
they can and any nna nf tha,n ..ho g.. 4.
20 meet expectations in that line will he
likely to find that the inspectors will dis
cover something wrong in the way he
conducts nis office. Oh yes, Of course
this Is civil service reform administra
tion-between campaigns in which it ii
interested.