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Show IlNGTON LETTER , gFirCorretpopdeat. 7 Washington. July, 6, tS9i. 1 ' 1 u'anaiaaker knows a good dea more than he did and his increase of knowledge h isn't added any to his opinion opin-ion of huuscil. He has been humiliated by linding out that he was aler all a clerk for Air. Harrison. The long del iy in giving out the list of steamship companies com-panies whicn have been selected under the mail subsidy law, passed bv the billion bill-ion dollar Congress to carrv out foreign mails, is at last explained. Some weeks ,.go Mr. Wanainaker stated that he had completed the list and would in a few days make it public. Mr. Harrison t once sent for Mr. Wanamaker and told him not to make the list public before Cringing it to him for revision. Mr. W. kicked, hut he ha J to give up the list and Mr Hariisou carried it with h:m when he went to the summer capital at (Jape May Point. At the Postotftce de-pailment de-pailment they expect that Mr. Wanamaker, Wana-maker, who spent the Fourth and Sunday Sun-day at Cape May Feint, will bring the re Vise ! list back tomorrow, and it will at once be made public. Jt is learned from a source that is authentic au-thentic teat no lines running out of southern sou-thern ports south of Norfolk, except Tampa FJa, Galveston Tex., and New Orleans, will get any of the subsidy mon cy, which is to be put wheie it will do Ihe most good to-the republican party. And that isu t the only time Mr. Wana maker has been recently humilated by the gentleman who is now so industriously industri-ously at work to secure a renomination to the Presidency. Tlie last Congress, among us other el'jrts to dissipate the 2 reusuiysurplus c.eaitd an entirely new office, that ol F'ouiltr Assistant Postmaster Postmas-ter General, aud the salary for the new officer became avai'able ou tlie first of the present month. Mr. Wanamaker supposed, ol course, that lie would be .allowed to select the man to Till the office, but he was quickly undeceived by Mr. Harrison, who uot only selected the man, but also ordered tne P. M, G- to turn over to him as a pan ot his duties .the supetvision of the fouith-class post-cflices. post-cflices. This necessiated an entire reergauiza-liou reergauiza-liou of the entire department, as the fourth class postmaster had be-u for years under the direct control ot the first assistant. Well, that reorgauiz.tliou is now going ou. Mai. Rathooue, the JUew Fourth Assistant Postmaster Genai-mI, Genai-mI, is a practical politician of the Ohio .School, and what tie doesn't know about the methods used bv bv the re -....-.Ipuclicaiis during the last three national " campaigns would hardly be worth kiiow lug. He is replied upon to swing the army ol small postmasters into line for Harrison, aud instead of the notorious dispatch "How are the departments do ing?1 which, Garfield vvheu a candidate, lent to brady, ol Star route lame ftsr. Haxnsou wnl be telegraphing to Rath-bone, Rath-bone, "riow are the postotiices doing?" Meanwhile Mr Wanamaker is, to use a bit of slang, not "in it." The Pei.sion Otfice is going to be the cause of some very live y times iu the next Congress, between tti investigations investiga-tions that are to be made into its workings work-ings and the renewal of the fight tor its .transfer to the War department, which it now seems will certainly be made, and there is reason to believe that the movement will be more popular than ever boloie, and that it will go through T he Washington people are as much puzzled about the real condition of Mr iilaiue's health as they can possibly be. Cue telegram will sav that he is perfectly perfect-ly well and the next that he is dangerously danger-ously ill, one persou will inform you that he is in daily comunicatio.i w ith his as sistants at tne Department of State, and another that he has had no communication communica-tion with that department since he left Washington. You can take your choice but it would be safe to charge nine-tenths of the statement exaggerating Mr Blaines physical and mental condition to auti-filaine auti-filaine republicans who fear that he may accept the nomsnation of his party next year. Nothing but good news comes to the headqarters of the Nalionla Association .of Democratic Clubs in this citv. The as sociaiu n now has branches in eveiy .State, and the work of 'thoroughly organizing or-ganizing the voters in each State is going on, more energetically in some States than iu others, but moving a ong everywhere. every-where. . The question of whare will the next national convention be held is beginning to be asked ol prominent membeis ot the party who come heie. Washington wants it, and as it will shortly have a grand hall which will seal 7,000 people, it sees no good reason why it shouldn't have it. Some imaginative newspaper writer sent out from heie a story that Mr. Mills had decided to withdraw from lhe Speak-I Speak-I rship contest. Needless to say it was a fake without the slightest foundation Mr. Mills has never had an idea of with- drawing, and as sure as the democratic i caucus meets his name will not be withdrawn with-drawn until be or some other good democrat dem-ocrat has been nomuuteu tui Speaker. |