Show the vacancy in the supine WHO IS GOING TO FILL IT Secretary Noble denies that he will go on the bench correspondence of the assistant postmaster general dark sons friends havo never forgotten bis aspirations to be secretary of the interior in the present cabinet the story that if lust now interesting everybody in washington is believed to have org mated with tho aforementioned friends of mr clarkson it tells in elaborate details that mr harrison having become convinced that it would never do to appoint attorney geneall miller to the vacant of the supreme court and his being a new york man having settled secretary tracys chances had decided to appoint sec i detary oble to the vacancy that would make a vacancy inthe in the cabinet which the story goes on to say the president lias not yet decided whether he will fill with postmaster general and make mr clarkson postmaster general appoint or mr clarkson secretary of the interior A very pretty story and one that will have the intended effect of reminding President Harrison that mr clarkson expects to go in eclie cabinet if a vac cany occurs secretary noble denies that he is to be appointed to the supreme court he ought to know it about as soon as any body else no bills will be paid the telegraph companies for carrying government messages until it is decided at what rate they shall be paid for the postmaster general insists that one mill per word is enough this the telegraph deny the treasury department has received by mail from the commander of the revenue cutter rush full particulars tic ulars of the seizure of the canadian sealing vessel black diamond in behring sea but declines to make it public until it is seen by secretary windom who is at present out of town next winter it is probable that about acres of land in the great sioux indian reservation in southern dakota will be thrown open to settlement it only requires that congress shall approve the agreement which ex gov foster chairman of the commission telegraphed the interior department wednesday had been made with the indians under this agreement the indians will receive per acre for all land sold during the first three years 75 cents per acre for the next two years following and 50 cents per acre for all that remains unsold after the commission which was composed of ex gov foster of ohio gea crook TJ S A and hon win wamer of missouri have been about a month in getting the ite number of indians two thirds of the males over eighteen years old to sign the agreement the indians refused to sign a similar agreement last year representative alien is in town speaking of tho next house he said the republican pro gramme will presumably be the revision of the rules and an attempt I 1 to seat republican contestants I 1 am not a democratic leader but I 1 believe that the crimes they have taught ua we should practice if the republicans are allowed their way they will quickly produce a working majority but remember how they nod the election case in the last congress the felton sullivan contest for instance they would not allow to be considered at all I 1 for one have no fear of the extra session the burden of its mistakes will be on republican shoulders j it has been decided that when the civil service C emission certify three names for appointment and ono of them is a discharged soldier or sailor he must be selected by the appointing power from the place the employees of the government printing office are working night and day to get the great mass of testimony in the contested election cases in print before congress meets there is an unusual number of such cases and a vast mass of evidence in each case one of the cases just completed makes a book of nearly pages only one member of the administration ia at present in washington secretary noble is the man he is carrying the responsibility of the whole machine but it does not seem to worry him much it any president harrison glad the heart of many waiting and hungry brethren by making a large number of appointments point ments before leaving for bar harbor still the number ed was much the greatest attorney general miller has gone to indianapolis where he will remain until joined by the president on the dinst at the laying of the corner stone of the soldiers monument after which they will return to washington together washington D baug |