Show the setting toed ABOUT THE COMING ELECTION in the dakotas washington and montana correspondence of the mr harrison arid nearly every prominent member of his administration greatly to the chargin of the office seekers celebrated the glorious yourth by taking a short vacation the president and secretaries noble and tracy went to woodstock conn and are not expected to return before monday secretary blaine went to bar harbor and the date of his return is doubtful secretary proctor went to vermont and postmaster general wanamaker to philadelphia the republican leaders seem to have quite a scare about the coming elections in tho four new states senators allison chandler and cullom have spent the week in consultation sul tation with the big guns of their party in figuring out a gramme pro that would give them all the membris of the house as well as the senators from those states they are to remain hero until next week so ay to get senator quays opinion democrats jhc aro well informed believe that the party is almost certain to carry montana and that it has a good fighting chance fo ono of the dakotas the republicans here it is said decided upon nn extra session of congress to be called about november first they wanted october hostead of november but owing to their very slim majority in the house they concluded to tako no chances but to wait for reinforcements from the new baates before leaving washington the president made a larga batch of appointments point ments mostly diplomatic and consular con bular ono of them eugene schuyler of new york tob consul general at cairo egypt has caused a great deal of talk and ahen the senate meets it will causa much more and it would not beat all surprising if his nomination should bo rejected mr schuyler is a warm friend of secretary blaine by whom he waa selected to be first assistant secretary of state in the early days of the administration but when his nime went to the senate then in session it was soon apparent to the friends of the administration that it would be rejected if voted upon aa soon as mr harrison was made acquainted with the state of affairs he withdrew the nomination at the cabled request of schuylor was in europe where ho spends the greater portion of his time but his friends availed themselves of the cable to keep him posted tho enmity to schuylor is on account of a book he published some years ago called american diplomacy in which he ridiculed the senate to anch ao extent as to gain him the ill will of many senators the whito house looks almost de ser tec mrs harrison her father and the mckee children having gone to deer park maryland and the officio seekers to the lord only guowa where sir julian Pounee forte the british minister was aked to accompany the presidential party to the fourth of july celebration at woodstock connecticut and a rumor was generally circulated that he but as a matter of fact he declined the invitation he think it juat the proper sort of an entertainment for a that big discharge of democrats that was expected to take place at at the printing office july 1 did not materialize public printer palmer seems to have adopted mr harrisons tactic and is taking hia own time in making changes secretary noble may or may not have been affected by the charge recently made in the newspapers against pension commissioner tanner of allowing favoritism to be shown in the taking up of application for pensions at any rate he has sent the commissioner the following attention is required to the following regulations applicable to i the bureau of pension order no january 23 IB owing to the pressure brought to bear from all quarters to take canes out regular order and as at this late date poverty and hardship from further delay can be alleged of almost every applicant alike therefore casol will bo taken out of their order only when such cause therefore is shown to the commissioner in writing as would satisfy the other worthy claimants whose claims precede it should they know the facts that such action is proper hereafter no case will bo advanced that is not clearly within this rule it is hereby further ordered that this rulo be extended so ay to embrace cases only where the applicant is in very great destitution or at the point of death this regulation will not only be strictly enforced but attorneys agents or others persisting in applications contrary to its language and spirit will be disbarred dis barred from practice before tha department you will have this made public A frield of secretary blain tolls me that there would bo no moro consular appointments made before fall if this is true theio is disappointments in store for lots of folks washington D C july |