Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-01-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
from the Nations Capital.

w dSHluSlOu is extremely Interest,"
ing just now to those who look be-
low surface indications. Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bris-
tow resigned because recently ap-
pointed protemi Postmaster General
Wynne took from him that power
ful corps of several hundred post
office inspectors with which he has
made such a brilliant record and
done the country such incalculable
service. What else could Wynne
90 than take inspectors, which he
says are the eyes and ears of the
Postmaster General and what else
could Brlstow do than resign? This
is all plain enough. Meanwhile the
real coming Postmaster General
Mr.. Cortelyou is seeking IN Europe
relief from such racking burdens as
have seldom been borne by one man
in America. Hes.will find in that
dolce far niente of Italy with it's
strange language and ruins the
antithesis of thefUnited States, and
he will find perfect rest-let us
hope recreation. When he returns
Mr.. Wynne, the Postmaster General
protein will be promoted to the
best paying oficesin Great Britain,
the London consulship, and Mr..
Cortelyou will inherit the Post
office Department. and will be not
only it's nominal, but it's real head.
Mr.. Bristow as Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General, having charge
of affairs relating ito rural free de-
livery, of thel inspectors and the
majority of the postmasters of the
United States, oneshundred and fif-
ty thousand people, had become a
more important officer than the
Postmaster General. Many thought
he deserved promotion to that
office, but has been cut out for Mr..
COrtelyou. Mr.. Bristow, although
he resigned after he was stripped
of the power he has so effectively
used, is in no sense disgraced; and
was Immediately appointed to a
high and responsible office where
he will receive double the salary he
has drawn as Assistant Postmaster
General. But it was much more
correct to have the protein P. M.
Gen. strip Mr.. Bristow Of his power
full force than to have Mr.. Cortel-
you do it. How decently all things
work together when there is head
| at the head of affairs?
The cashier of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition who handled
sum of money amounting to $780,
100000 reed salary of $75
month and his accounts at the
close of the Exposition balanced.
Enterprises encouraged to make
similar experiments may not be so
fortunate.
Professor Wiley who conducts a
side show at Washington called the
Bureau of Chemistry says that
whiskeys is a food. The country
awaits his report on wood alcohol.
Speaker Cannon made out list
of stand patters ''for reference" he
said. Every man who signed it
hopes the Speaker will consult it
when that little bill for river and
harbor and post Office appropria-
ton comes up.
Hawaii wants more Chinese.
Wouldn't some of our Africans do
as well?
President Roosevelt has consent
ed to head the effort to excavate
Herculaneum. But hasn't this
country an excavating job some
where of it's own?
Lo, the poor Indian is notso back
ward in commercial enterprise. A
New Jersey hrm manufactures
Navajo rugs exclusively for an In
dian tribe that sells them as the
real thing to enthusiastic collectors.
Humane persons will eagerly
adopt the suggestion Of the Wash
ingtOn humane society to send
letters to their Representatives and
Senators urging favorable vote on
the bill to prevent the cutting off
of horses tails, docking as it is
called. The bill applies only to the
District of Columbia but it will be
a precedent that state legislatures
will probably follow.
Two girls in Northern New York
brought two young men to the
point of proposal by killing, scald-
ing, cleaning and hanging two
three hundred pound hogs without
masculine assistance" We shouldn't
have the problem of the wife beaten