Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-29

| $4,000 u Year-LOoks as IL Alger VIII
Have to Get Out of the Cabinet-Texas
Visitor Says the Lone Star State Is o. X.
Washington, d. c., June 81, 1899.
If there isn't a job concealed in the
erection by private party Of build
| ing for the use of the census bureau,
the signs are all deceptive. From the
day of his appointment, Director Mer-
riam insisted that only a building large
enough to put practically all OF the
employees of the bureau on one floor
would answer. That shut out every
existing building in Washington. Then
there was talk of the bureau erecting a
temporary building upon government
property, but the accounting officers Of
the treasury ended that by deciding
that no part of the appropriation for
the bureau could be used for such a
purpose. Then the shadow OF the job
became visible. Offers were asked from
owners of lots large enough to erect the
sort of building required. The only
one that suited Director Merriam was
submitted by man who became rich as
well as familiar with jobsHwhile holding
Office under the old government OF the
District of Columbia. 1t was accepted,
and lease made for five years, which
is likely to be extended to seven or
eight before the census work is com
pleted, at an annual rental Of 1925, 900.
The ground upon which this building
is to be erected has been used as coal
yard for years, the rental hardly being
enough to pay the taxes.
t / t
Unless some of the shrewdest polti-
clans in Washington are much mis-
taken, the death-knell of Algerism was
sounded when Governor Pingree an
nounced his deal with Alger to try to
put the latter into Senator McMillan's
seat. Secretary Alger, who has just
returned to Washington, is said to be as
mad as hornet because Pingree gave
out the deal before he was ready to have
it made public. He wished to remain in
the cabinet and to make as much use as
possible of the many plums at the dis
posal OF the war department, before the
deal got out. Now, friends of Senators
Mcmillan and Burrows say that il
Alger doesn't resign voluntarily, they
have the means to compel Mr.. Mckinley
to ask for his resignation. At any rate,
everybody is again hoping that the end
of AlgeriSm in the war department is
near.
| Hon. r. M. Finley, the popular con-
troler of the state OF Texas, is enjoying
visit to Washington. Asked how
said: "TeXas is enjoying a fair share
of prosperity. The crop prospects are
fine, and there is greater demand for
our unimproved land than there has
been for long time. The next census
will show that we have population
largely in excess of three million, which
in intelligence. morality and thrift will
vie with the citizenship of any state in
the Union. There is bat little going on
politically, and we will not have any
excitement in that line until next year.
The state is overwhelmingly for w. j.
Bryan for president, and solid deiaga-
tion pledged to him will be sent to the
next Democratic national convention. p"
Judge Nash and Boss Hanna's man
Dick were hobnobbing in Washington
when news of Governor Bushnell's open
attack upon Hanna, Nash and Dick,
and his incidental attack upon Nc
Kinley, reached them. They had in
tended to remain in Washington until
Mr.. Mckinley returned, but all plaI $
were at once abandoned, and they rush
ed back to Ohio, to ascertain the extent
of Bushnell's following in his open revolt
against the Hanna machine. Private
advises indicate that the revolt willabe
strong enough to give the state to the
Democrats, unless they put up a weak
ticket, which is not likely.
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Not little surprise was expressed in
Washington whom it was learned that
General Wood had for the time, If not
absolutely and finally, declined the
offer of $4,000 year made him by the
Street Railway and Electric Light
Trust to become its president, and an
nouncod his early resumption of his
| duties as military governor of Santiago.
| Inasmuch as General Wood was fresh
from a conference with Mr.. Mckinley
when he made that announcement, it is
| inferred that he has received some de-
finite promise of further preferment of
some sort, If he will remain in the
army. He is now brigadier general
of volunteers, but that pays less than
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