El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-23
They SAY
in WASHINGTON
The Herald's Regular Weekly Let
ter From ID. OFF,.

ell I11dSSc Iu6h " ~ pr
not on in the second act of this
ministration. Ordinarily after an in
auguration the town is full of the faith
full for week, waiting in hopes and
hotels. but it is not now. Which Is one
reason why the landlords are sorry it
wasn't Bryan-probably, it is the only
one. Most of Mr.. McKinley's previous
appointees. as he announces, are to be
allowed to hold on, and while this
statement should be taken to mean
exactly whatever it happens to mean. it
is broad enough to discourage the less
Still there are to be some
changes.
The Commissioner of Pensions =
Henry Clay Evans, he of the black
~mustachios and gOatee and the CAREFUL
ly cultivated Observation-Disclosures
the-magician air. is finally squeezed out
of the pension office That is, he says
he isn't but he is merely trying to
make tall" as the old lady averred
when she was asked the reason h
swore at her husband. On the present
program he is to resign within a few
weeks and be exiled to N~agasaki; made
consul general there or something.
Nagasaki is about as far away from
Washington as it is possible to get
without using Jules Verne's cannon
hat shot to the noon. This may be
one reason why Henry Clay is going
there. He is suffering for the sins of
the powers above him. partly, and 1t
is desirable to hav him do his medl-
tation somewhere at a distance from
reporters. He made a long fight and a
strong fight against the whole force OF
the Grand Army and came perilously
near breaking the back of the McKin-
lev ticket as a result. Had the vet
Grams not adopted the advice of one OF
their leaders to regard him as mere
" the fly in the ointment results
might have been different. o MI.
Mckinley will let him run of into the
wilderness with h sins of everybody
tied to him. X the Biblical scape-
goat and everything will presumably
be lovely.
His successor isn't selected yet. or
il he is, the fact is not allowed to leak
out. There are lots of candidates in
the field. in spite of the fact that the
pension Office is a political morgue-
No man eyer headed it without losing
himself as a result. Green b. Raum
was a good man and a big man till
he became pension commissioner; then
he was anathema, and afterwards
oblivion. General Black was a good
soldier n a prominent man. an able
politician and generally as adequate a
citizen as anyone could be and be a
democrat until he became pension COM
missioner. Now he vegetables in Chi
cagO.
CORPORAL Tanner. one of the brightest
men in Washington, was commission
Grand he vegetables also. Still as /
said, lots of men seem willing to take
their chances. The trouble with the
place is that if a man CONSTITUTES the
Ic-,- I;b1ro11xv fha n0Iificionc aud nQwS-
napers make a row.: if he doesn't the
old soldiers are naturally indignant.
And whichever way it goes. he has to
take all the blame.
Patent Office Changes.
The patent office will also change
heads soon. Commissioner lei has
turned in his resignation and the adj
ministration is going through New
York with a lantern, hunting a patent
lawyer prominent enough not to rat
tie around in the place and poor enough
to be willing to exchange his practice
for a salary. Which as a proposition
offers difficulties. Plenty of the young
er fry among the patent attorneys
would be glad of the place. because af-
ter one or two years, the incumbent
can go out into practice again with an
assured reputation. but the big men
don't want it; can't afford it. Today
it is stated that Won Briesen. a promi-
nent New York attorney. will accept.
New York's Jealousy.
The reason the place is morally
bound to be filled by a New Yorker.
Is the fracas over filling Meiklejohn's
seat as assistant secretary of war
Meiklejohn didn't really know that his
seat was vacant. but it was and the
president yielded to Roots desire to
give it to Colonel Sanger of Brooklyn
Colonel Sanger is only technically a
resident of Brooklyn. being in the ar
my. and Plat of New York protested
vigorously against his appointment
Chauncey Depew. the other senator
from the empire state. Joined in with
Platt-mostly he find that the better
policy. AS Roosevelt once said: up
in New York we're all happier when
Plat feels contented-" Nevertheless,
Sanger got the place II now the
Due1I's place will be given to New
York again rs n peace Offering
Sanger's induction into Office a day
or two g was spectacular. For the
first time in history, all army officers
in town were ordered to attend in full
uniform to welcome him.. They did
and the corridors looked like a dis
integrated aurora borealis.
The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
r The British rejection of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty was expected. Mr..
Hay certainly perpetrated a misde-
meanor when he got up that particu-
lar dicker and now hat it is dead. its
ghost will haunt us for years. III he
hadn't recognized the existence of the
odorous and equally defunct Clayton
Bulwer treaty, thereby reviving it. we
could have been doing something to-
wards the canal Now our hands are