The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1903-10-03
v WASHINGTON LETTER.
tfrom our Regular Correspondent
Washington, Sept. %, 1908.


fronts the President, who returned TO
the White House today, and who will
Immediately take up the case of Will
liam Miller ana the whole question of
reforms In the Government Printing
Office. No official statement has
been made thus far, but the situation
may be summarized as follows, with
reasonable accuracy. The discharge
of Miller, followed by his reinstate-
ment by the President, has already
been told in these letters, out OF that
incident grew the investigation re-
Gently completed. Miller sent a long
letter to the President in which he
made various charges as to the dom
ination of the Printing office by the
unions, the extravagant methods en-
ployed, etc. These charges caused
the President to ask Secretary Cortel.
you to investigate the entire Printing
Office and Mr.. Cortelyou assigned the
task to Commissioner General Of I'm
migration Sargent, and Chief OF Cor
porations Garfield. Their report,
which is now in the hands OF the
President, substantiates many of Mil
lers charges and points the way to re-
forms which promise to save the gov
eminent thousands of dollars a year.
Meanwhile, the Bookbinders' Union
has secured the past record of Miller
and has filed many charges against
his private life. Sargant and Garfield
also found that Miller WAS of quar-
reIsome disposition, dictatorial and
arbitrary, and man who, ia the po-
sition of foreman, caused friction and
dissatisfaction. In a word, in a word,
he is a man i'll fitted to manage men,
quite irrespective Of the union factor
in the situation. There il little doubt
that under ordinary circumstances,
Miller would be promptly discharged
On the other hand, there are likely to
ensue extensive and radical reforms
~ result of Miller's having brought
the matter TO the attention of the
President, and his interest in his work
and in economical administration will
secure for him more than ordinary
consideration by the President. Again
the charges preferred by the union
are so serious that it will be almost
impossible for the President to ignore
them. in fact it is generally believed
that they will compel the President To
discharge Miller tor the good Of the
public service, but from whatever
stand point he looks at ii MIR. Roose
welt is bound To find the situation
perplexing.
Senator Foraker and Representa-
tive Dick Of Ohio have been in Wash
Ington during part OF the past week
and brought news Of the Ohio cam
paign. They say that Senator Hanna,
Notwithstanding his indisposition, will
speak in fourteen towns during the
last ten days of the campaign, which,
1t must be admitted, il a pretty siren
uous undertaking There is not the
slightest douht in the mind of either
Senator Foraker or Representative
Dick us to the final outcome of the
campaign. In fact, they place the
majority for Hanna in the next legis,
lature at from 80 to 10 votes on Joint
ballot. As TO the challenge of John
IL. Clark, issued TO Senator Hanna to
meet him in Joint debate Represent
alive Dick SAID he had not received
the challenge before leaving Ohio and
that he could not discuss it until he
had done so, but Senator Foraker
said frankly that, were he in Senator
lianna's place he would decline IL and
1t may be pretty confidently predicted
that will bee Mr., Ianna's course.
There have been no startling devel-
opments in the Postotlice iuvestiga-
ton during the past week, although
some important indictments are ex.
pected in the near future, one of
them to involve State Senator Green
again for completely with Beavers in
inducing the government TO purchase
stamp cancelling machines from the
Doremus yelling Machine Company
of whice Green is an officer. Green
has been making violent resistance to
the efforts of the government to place
him under bail to appear in Washing
ton for trial and il is possible thai tie
government viii have to resort TO the
same, or similar tactics, 10 those en-
ployed IN the case of Beavers. Inc
lnP@' GATES Commissioners, Hall,
who ls an appointee of JUdge Ray, is
inclined to release Green unless the
United States presents It's entire case
in the Biughampton court. In that
event the Department of Justice will
probably permit Green to be set free
but will hold the Indictment over his
head and arrest him the first time he
sets foot outside Of the Binghampton
Jurisdiction.
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