Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-17
From Our Regular Correspondent.

ioih cui AeSSuioi correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10th, 1897.
Firealarm Foraker and John rSher-
man comforting together reminds one
of the saying about politics making
strange bedfellows. Although these
two men have not always been close
friends, they are now in the same
boat - both are compelled by cir
cumstances to seem to desire the cleo
ton of Boss Hanna to the Senate and
to seem to be working towards that
result, when neither of them want
Hanna in the Senate. Boss Hanna
would doubtless have been edited, if
not pleased, if he could have beard the
conversation of Foraker and Sherman
at their long conference, in the Sec
retary's Office at the State Depart
ment.
Consul General Lee is in Washing
ton, but State Department officials de-
clare that his visit has no official
Significance, and that he will return
to-: Cuba about the first of October.
That is more, however, than Gen. Lee
has said.
e Senator German was at the Treasury
Department this week and called upon
Secretary Gage for the first time.
The newspaper men who tried to in
terview Mr.. German on politics met
with the usual result-he interviewed
them and found out what they knew,
but didn't tell them what he knew.
Whether Senator German intends to
retire from public life at the expira-
ton of his present term is question
that is still being discussed both by
his friends and his enemies, but what
ever may be his intentions about re-
firing, there is no doubt about his in
tention to regain Maryland for the
Democratic party, nor of his con-
fidence in his ability to accomplish
that result. His expansive smile when
existing Republican discussions in the
State are mentioned shows his satisfac-
ton with the situation.
Rev. Sam Small left Washington
this week for Kentucky and Ohio.
He will take an active part in the
campaign in both States, making Dem
ocratic speeches. He has few equals
as an effective stump orator. He
recently had conference with Mr..
Bryan, and he will probably tell the
Kentucky and Ohio voters some of
the things they talked about.
Officials of the Marine Hospital
Service have taken steps which they
believe will prevent the spread of the
yellow fever, which is now at Ocean
Springs, Mass, and statement has
been issued CHASING the yellow fever
at that place as a mild form of the
disease, which is proven by the small
mortality SO far less than two per
cent-and by the fact that many of
those attacked have only been slightly
Inconvenience thereby for several
days. There is no occasion for any
yellow fever scare anywhere.
While it is generally known in
Washington that Pension Commits
sioner Evans has had several wrangles
with the Civil Service Commission,
because of his violations of the civil
service law and rules, and that Sec
rotary Bliss has made him feel his
authority in a more or less humiliating
way, upon several occasions, the rumor
that he has become sufficiently dis
gruntled to contemplate resigning
finds few believers. Mr.. Evans says
he doesn't intend to resign, but they
always talk that way. Of the nineteen
divisions in the Pension Bureau there
is only one that has the same chief it
had when Mr.. Evans took charge OF
the Office; the other eighteen have
either been reduced or removed.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, was in
Washington this week. He thus sized
up the condition of the people of his
State and section: off you put a
man in the wilderness he will ultimate
ly get out of it some of the comforts
of life, and SO did our people. They
are now making little money; not
much, but they are growing stronger
and steadily improving. Not q bit OF
it is due to tariff legislation. Things
had to get better, for nothing could
get worse with them. They had no
credit and were compelled to raise
what they consumed. Out of this
adversely they are emerging and will
in due time become the people they
were before they sank almost into the
depths of despair. There has been
some talk in the North about the in.
crease in price of cotton. There is
no increase that we know of. Cotton
still remains at the same figure. II
the increase in the price of our crops
would correspond with the increase
in the price of wheat, the cotton
growers of the South would be delight
ed, but there is as yet no indication
that there be any rise in the staple
which. the Southern country pro-
duces.p Dem.
Conference Appointments.
Following is list of appointments