The times., 1898-01-04

! have all the facilities of large office.
! These carriers receive only $500 year
and in order to help them out the de-
! partment permits them to cary small
| packages, kilograms, etc, for which
| they are permitted TO charge a small
! fee.
The Appropriations Committee also
| expects to see the service improved in
| another way. With the authority above
indicated given, the department can,
without legislation, extend the duties
of the carriers of mail on star routes.
This will be done by abolishing some
of the offices along the routes where
they are thick and making the men who
cover these star routes rural carriers
for the patrons of the offices abolished.
This will be not only saving of ex-
pense but an Improvement to the SER
vice. First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Heath stated before the committee
that he expected to see the rural service
self-sustaining within the next two
years
Judge Henry w. McCorry, of Tennes-
see, who has just returned from that
State, says that Representative Me
Millin has won his fight for the Senate
and needs only to wait the action of
the Legislature. Judge McCorry is
politician of note in the State. He is the
man who issued the manifesto calling
attention to the Republican frauds in
the eastern part of the State which
turned the result so that Evans failed
to land in the gubernatorial chair. He
has a good knowledge of the general
situation, and when he says that Mr..
McMillin will win the statement bears
some weight. Judge McCorry says that
McMillin has 80 votes pledged to him
While all he needs to control the caucus
is 46.
The liveliest kind of interest was
manifested in the hotel lobbies last
night over the Ohio situation. 1t is safe
to say that not more than one Repub-
lican in five in this city regrets the
probable defeat of Mr., Hanna. There
is little of personal magnetism in the
man and his methods of DoSSiSm have
so offended the members of his own
party that if he is defeated there will
be little regret in this city. Demo-
Gratis. of course, are quite jubilant over
the first rout on the organization
fight.
They look upon it as big victory.
There was much at stake in this con-
test. With Hanna man in the Speak
er's chair the various committees would
nave been appointed so as to form /
Hanna machine and he would have
dominated the legislation of the next
session. All this is changed and the /
anu-Hanna influences will control the 7
House as it will the Senate.
Colonel Ike Hill was one of the hap
piest Democrats in town last night and /
before he went to bed he put on the I
wires long message of congratula- /
ton to the Ohio Democrats which he (
forwarded in the name of the Demo- /
cratic members of Congress now in the 4.
city.
Il am more than pleased that the /
Democrats presented united front and [
voted as a unit" said Colonel Hill.
ed to man on a single proposition and /
we won out. The Hanna crowd was
Knocked out in the first round 1t was
a great victory
WIFI the Democrats join with the
anti-Hanna Republicans in electing a
Republican Senator other than Han
ma ?" Colonel Hill was asked
That is a question that can best be
answered when the time comes he re-
piled, evading direct reply 1.-The
Democrats have decided to vote as a
unit on all questions and they will act
on that particular matter as the best
interests of the State demand"
republicans are naturally averse to
talking for publication. Several SEN
ators OF that persuasion simply smiled
when they discussed the possibility of
Hanna's defeat. Not until the action of
the Legislature was known did Repub-
licans of prominence admit there was
a possible doubt as to the election of
Mr.. Hanna, but last night they were
quite willing to concede that some 9TH
er man might be sent back as one of
their associates. Some Democrats who
We're seen were pleased with the out
ook. but refrained from discussing Mr..
Hanna or his chances on the ground
that IL would be unwise until the result
was known. 1t was evidently in the
mind OF some of these gentlemen that
ME Hanna I,ai.rkt l. L..