The National tribune., 1901-11-07
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

TIE old house at lT23 q street north
west. which was the residence of Jriter-
a1n navis while hc was Secretary of War,
is aE3ut to bc removed, in order to give
place To Il modern structure.
The Rural Free Delivery Service will
he placed under the classified service as
soon as practicable. probably some time
during the coming Winter This was de-
tCimncd upon by the President soon after
he succeeded to the Presidency and after
ne had talked with Postmaster-Ge General
smith and others. He has since talked
with members of the Civil Service Com
mission as to his intentions.
Last week Admiral Dewey said: when
Secretary Long asked me to go on the
Court | told him that | had rather go
through Il fight in Manila Bay again. We
have been at work many weeks now, and
the Court is coming to the hardest part
of its work. that of deciding upon the
testimony and reaching conclusions on the
various questions. l have able asso-
ciates, however. and realize that we are
on trial before the country as well as Ad-
miral Schley. Two ADLER, better or more
honest men could not have been secured
than Admirals Benham and Ramsey"
Admiral Dewey said that the Court
would probably take up each charge in
the preCept, review the testimony on that
charge and then express an opinion. He
did not know certainly that this would
he done, as he had not discussed the case
with his associates, but it had occurred
to him as a good plan. Furthermore,
he knew that the American people would
want the Courts reasons in detail and
were entitled to know them. lie did not
know who would write these things. The
Court had given no thought to that.
The forced resignation of Third Assist
ant Secretary of State, Thos. w. Cridler,
of West Virginia, is provoking good
deal of feeling, and the West Virginia
delegation has tried hard to save him. 1t
adds TO the friction that his SUCCESSOR
H. d. Peirce, of Massachusetts, a
cousin of Senator Lodge and Democrat.
The decision to ask for Mr.. Cridler's
resignation was reached at the time Of
the Morocco claims incident, some months
ago, but no summary action was taken
because OF his long connection with the
State Department. The Secretary, on Mr..
Cridler's recommendation, had obtained
an order for warship to go to Tangiers
to enforce the payment of these claims,
when further investigation disclosed
retary Hay felt deeply chagrined at the
awkward position in which his Depart
ment was thus placed, and he was all the
more displeaSed with Mr. Cridler's course
when it was shown that the solicitor for
the Department had previously made an
adverse memorandum on the claims.
Mr.. Cridler says that he courts the
fullest investigation of his actions. He
has decided to accept the position of
European Commissioner of the st. Louis
Fair, which was offered him if he would
resign.
Mr.. Peirce was appointed by President
Cleveland Assistant Secretary to the Le-
there ever since. He is now on his way
home.
A suspicion has of late crept into the
minds of a great many scientific men OF
this city that gold exists in large quanti
ties in North Greenland, and that the
trouble between Explorers Peary and Deid
rich was not the outcome of jealousy or
fear that one would claim the discovery of
the North Pole before the other, but that
a gold mine is at the bottom of it all, and
that DR.. Diedrich, far from being insane,
has a very sane and substantial motive
FOR spending the approaching winter with
the Cape York Eskimo.
The estimates for the expenditures of
the Interior Department during the fiscal
year beginning next July, to be sent to
Congress this session, aggregate $1I0,000,-
600. OF this amount a total of $142.-
161 200 is asked for pensions and the ad-
ministrative work of the Pension Bureau,
which includes 81 1854, 720 for salaries of
the Bureau personnel and S350,000 for the
Investigations by. Special Examiners of
pension cases.