The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-07-12
(From Our Regular correspondent.)
WASHINGTON LETTER,

/ W AsHlN6ION, ~. ", July ., VI
Even Senator "Billy" Mason,
must be convinced by this time iha,
Comptroller Dawes is not only the
administration candidate for a seal
in the Senate, but is being coached
by that very shrewd politician, Mr..
William Mckinley. 1t was by Mr.,
McKinley's advice that Dawes ten.
dered his resignation as comptroller
to take effect Oct. 1. The advice
was given in order that Mr.. Dawes
might escape the criticism as well
as the defeat that met Mr.. Meikle.
john, for continuing to draw sa'ary
as Assistant Secretary of War, while
he was for months in Nebraska,
prosecuting his canvass for senator
If it be in the power of the admin
istration to put Dawes in the seat
now occupied by Senator Mason, il
will be done. That has been known
to many persons in Washington fol-
months, Notwithstanding Senator
Mason's claim that he had Mr.. Nc
Kinley's positive promise to keep
his hands off the Illinois senator
ship fight, and it is now plain to ev-
erybody
: Mr.. Mckinley tried to satisfy the
influences which have been trying
to get him to help postpone free
trade with Porto Rico, by telling
them, before he left Washington, to
help look after republican interests
in Ohio, that he had discovered
that the Foraker law made it obliga-
tory upon him to issue the procla-
nation declaring free trade as soon
as he received an official copy of the
resolution adopted by the Legislature
Of Porto Rico, asking that it be
done. He will probably get that
some time during the present week
There are some queer stories in
Washington, concerning the en-
p'oyment Of Gen. Maxine Gomez,
the former Cuban insurgent COM
mander, who was entertained at the
White House last week by the ad
ministration, to aid in carrying out
certain plans in Cuba. II true, it
would be interesting to know from
what fund Gen. Gomez is paid.
4 Commissioner Evans isn't doing
any more talking for publication
about the attempt to push him out
OF the pension bureau, but since he
had a little talk with Mr.. McKin-
ley, just before that gentleman left
Washington to take a little squint
on the ground at republican pros
poets in Ohio, he has acted as
though as though be were firm be-
lever in the adage: He who
laughs last laughs best" ard that
he was doing the last Laughing.
Letters received in Washington,
show that many supposed the sus-
pension Of hearing in appeal cases
before the commissioner and assist
ant commissioner Of patents, dur
ing July and August, to mean that
all business before the patent Office
would be suspended during that Pc
riod. That was bad case Of mis-
understanding There are one hun
dred aud forty examiners working
every week day in the patent Office,
and they decide a vast majority Of
the cases without an appeal to tn.
commissioner. e. A. Snow & Co ;,
Patent Lawyers, than whom there
is no better authority on patent
business, say that very few applica-
tons for patents prob bly, not more
than one in hundred, will be de-
layed by the fact that the commits
sioner and assistant commissioner.
are taking it easy this summer and
hearing no appeals.
The administration has announced
its purpose to back the post Office
in a crusade that il
70 be at once inaugurated for the re-
form OF the notorious abuses OF the
law regulating the carrying Of sec
Dnd class mail matter. II it lives
up to the announcement it will de-
,erve credit, as tie abuses have
piled up in the carrying Of second
lass mail until the government is
paying $50, ,O0O, 900 year for what
I is getting less than "a, 900, 900,
Ind ex perts declare that fully one
,alf of the matter carried as second
lass would, il the law was rightly
construed and enforced, be made to
Jay third-class postage. Will the
,ost Office department have the
,erve to rightly construs and 10 en-
orce the law, so as to shut out
very publication-most OF them of
he fake order, that makes q nomi .
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'ffers as premiu Ds articles worth
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