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Show UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT THIEVES. Washington, 19. A leading Republican Repub-lican member of Congress, who is a frequent visitor to the While House, s-tated this morning as a broad guess, that tiov. Shepherd and Frederick A. !Sawver, hue Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury, would be two of the persons whom tiie President would appoint as eommitseioncrs to govern the District uf Columbia ad interim. Tho President, Presi-dent, it is said, within a day or two, has expressed intenso aeltuiration for Shepherd, who had grown in his estimation esti-mation during the investigation. On the other hand, the friends of the Governor says he w ill not accept the place on a commission which would only be a teniorary appointment at least a big elrop from the dictatorship dictator-ship which lie had established over the District. Sawyer, since being 1 turned out of the Treasury Department, Depart-ment, has spent the most of his time on Lhe lloor of the Senate. The Balary of the commissioners will be ?-3,OO0 each. Tho investigation by tho Joint Select Committee of the Harrington j bogus safe burglarv, is stid in pro-jgress. pro-jgress. The developments thus far are sufficient to damn tho whole detective de-tective system, especially of the So- ciet Service Bureau of the Treasury I Department. There is no longer any I reason to doubt that tho conspnaey lo ruiu lhe character of Columbus Alex ander, one ul lue leading memorialists memorial-ists before lhe late District investigation, investiga-tion, wh. put up by Col. Whitley, Chief of tiic Secret Service Bureau, and that he was induced to enter upon up-on the infamuuc job by some persona eonneeteel with the ring. |