The Sauk Centre herald., 1903-09-10
The National Ca pital,
,ial Correspondence to the HERALD

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! WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. Z
The political atmosphere in Wash
ington still remains stagnant. From
the president down every official is
doing his level best to recuperate
from the hard work of the past year
and gather strength for the political
struggle to come with the session of
the new Congress. There is feel
ing of unrest among the departments,
however, which may be attributed
to the Post Office scandals and vari
Gus acusatlons made against Secre-
tary Hitchcock, the Dawse Commits
sion, and other heads of depart
ments. While it is true that the
charge of graft, when first made
against Post Office officials, were
received with derision and later
compelled people to revise their
opinions, it is equally true that the
wholesale charges made against 9th
er departments and officials are
mostly air and may be attributed to
feeling of spite and resentment of
disappointed Office seekers and con-
tractors.
Tsms Bixby, of Minneapolis, a
member of the Dawse Commission,
fatty denies the truth of the charges
made against them and asks for a
thorough investigation. Secretary
Hitchcock intends to have these
charges looked into. 1t is the gen.
eral opinion among Washington Of
fcials that there are no further
scandals to be unearthed, and that
all these accusations are the result of
a dull newspaper season.
T1Honorable Halvor Steenerson,
Congressman-elect of the ninth dis
trict, was in the city last week and
enjoyed the chaaming summer resort
weather of the National Capital.
Mr.. Steenerson was induced to give
his views on the senatorial situation
in Minnesota. He stated that in
his opinion there is not the slight
est doubt that the Honorable Moses
E. Clapp would succeed himself as
U. S. senator from Minnesota. He
declares that of his own knowledge !
every state senator in his congress
sional district would be for Mr.. |
Clapp, and predicted sure majority |
of the district for the Legislature. |
He conceded that Minneapolis might !
desire to send the Hon. Thomas
Lowry to Washington, and that be |
would be strongly backed; that even |
MS handicap as railroad president
would not offend the farming class, |
since the 500 line which he repre-
'ented gave the people of Minnesota
competing road with the merger
inc, but on the whole Mr.. Steener-
on thought that the people would
prefer Senator Clapp, owing to his
satisfactory record since he had rep
esented the Gopher State. Mr..
'teenerson is another stand patter
n the money question. He had
his to say to your correspondent
egarding financial legislation: "In
ur part of the Union there isn't the
lightest clamor for financial legis- {
alton such as the east appears to
'ant so frantically. We have all
he money we desire, and if the east
asn't money enough to pay for the
rops produced in the northwest,
III bankers will advance the money.
he crops must be moved, and the
est has the necessary cash. The
ry for Legislation falls on deaf ears
, far as our part of the country is
oncerned. We think we have &
cry good system of currency, one
lat is not apt to be improved by
congressional action. On theImon-
= question we are quite willing to
and pat" I.
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