Show HARRISONS FUTURE government CLERKS FORBIDDEN TO TALK POLITICS president Clev elands last message eagerly looked for correspondence of the mr Clev elands last annual message to congress is looked forward to with much interest here I 1 am informed by a gentleman who knows that it will be a very short document and that it will reiterate the main points of his celebrated tariff message of last december secretary fairchild has found it necessary owing to the impudence of the jubilant holdover hold over republican clerks m the treasury department to issue an order forbidding the clerks in that department talking politics I 1 have been hunting ever since harrison was known to be elected for a washington republican who does not expect to hold office under the next administration he has not yet been found and it seems unlikely that he ever will be if the local republicans of this city are to get all of them what is to become of the fellows who did tho voting in the states the republicans in the departments hero who have been the loudest shouters for a nonpartisan non partisan civil service under the present administration are now vigorously clamoring for a clean sweep after the ath of march such is the price of keeping these fellows in office years after they should have been discharged when the democratic party gets control of the government again it will know better A fact has just leaked out here that if known before election would probably have elected reelected re cleveland 1 allude to an expected addition to the cleveland family some time in next may every lady who hears this news at once exclaims too bad andS just after they leave the white house it a shame dudley and quay have come to washington in order that they may manipulate the scheme whereby they hope to secure control of the next house of representatives for the republicans public ans notwithstanding the fact that the returns show a democratic majority of two the democratic managers are fully alive to the situation and are fully confident of their ability to thwart the republican schemes and to organize the next house the treasury has been robbed was the startling announcement a few mornings ago imagination ran riot for awhile with the amount stolen but ita was soon ascertained to be only 1500 silver dollars which has been removed by some means from two boxes containing 2000 each somewhere between the U S mint at new orleans and the treasury in this city lead was substituted for the stolen silver when or where the theft was made is still a mystery the U y supreme court rendered an important decision this week in regard to life insurance policies the court holds that a policy made payable to a mans wife or children can under no circumstances be attached by the creditors of the deceased senator kenna of west virginia has telegraphed tele here that the legislature of tant state is certainly demo batic which insures a democratic senator members of congress are arriving slowly for the coming session it is not thought that the republicans public ans of the senate will try to pass their tariff bill this winter owing to the large number of candidates who expect to go into the cabinet it is thought mr harrison will have no end of trouble in making it up and that whoever he may select he is certain to make many enemies harrisons southern policy is also likely to give him trouble if he follows his own inclinations it will be very conservative but there are quite a number of influential republicans that favor a radical policy many think harrison has back bone enough to shape things to suit himself and that ho will endeavor to win friends in the south by gord appointments to abo federal offices there A good deal will depend on the men be selects for postmaster general and secretary of the treasury those two officials controlling the most of the appointments in the south one thing seems to bo pretty certain no attempt will be made to put the negroes in the front to tell the truth most of the republicans seem to be disgusted with the negro anyway it would be a happy thing if he could be eliminated entirely from politics secretary endicotte Endi cotts daughter was married yesterday to mr joseph chamberlain a member of the english parliament he was also the english commissioner who negotiated the fisheries treaty last spring NOV 16 1888 |