Show omy mim mig washington june 18 1881 edit editor or deseret jews hot weather the hot the very hot night fight h at albany and delegations of marylanders at the white house are the three things which have agitated washington during the past week the interest felt in the albany struggle is very great among all classes here while leMr mr conkling Con bling has perhaps as few intimates among the plain P eople people here bere cereas as any public man who ever ived it is un unquestionably a fact that this very class elass furnishes a large proportion of men denho ni bo sympathize sampati ize with him in the fight of the merits of the th contest or of the therea reasonableness son of the sympathy felt for the ex senator I 1 have nothing to say but the fact is one of every day observation here yesterday the president talked to a delegation of virginia republicans and the tenor of his advice was such as to confirm them in the determination to nominate and vote for a straight party ticket to a of men from north carolina on the day before he gave his big accustomed advice that they educate themselves and their children the president takes a practical mans rather than a politician politicians view of the gine line negro que question stion evidently the secretary of the treasury is receiving undeserved censure for withholding from publication a re port just made by an investigating committee whim which is said to have found round serious frauds ina lna in a bureau of his department depart menti nothing ia Is clearer th than a n the right of the public to a full knowledge of the results of all such investigations investigation but the report in question is only onty a preliminary one specially caled called for by the secretary ond and touching but a few of the point a inquired into the secretary is the last moan roan in the world to suppress anything of the thu kind hind soldiers generally will be glad to know that one of their number has been ap pointed appointed commissioner of pensions the president has been flooded with petitions on this subject lct lot ever since his inauguration the 0 objections to nir mr air bentley who retires were perhaps in a great degree based on events over which he had no control but the desire of an applicant for pension that his papers should be considered by men under the control of one who had himself been a deserving soldier is very n natural a and I 1 think the president has acted wisely in gratifying it col dudley of indiana the new commissioner lost a leg in the service he Is spoken of as a man of great executive ability all of which lie will have a chance to exhibit in managing effectively the force of nearly men now under his control ex commissioner of pensions bentley was tendered and declined a foreign appointment it is not improbable that he will be given a judicial position in one of the territories LEM CAMP hams fork june 1881 F editor d i t 0 r D deseret me r e I 1 mews news s we have been on this river somewhere near five weeks and d during aring that time we have had considerable sickness men who have had a great deal of experience say fay it is mountain fever there haa has been several cases of it in our camp and samuel cazier cazl er of nephi lins lias had a severe attack of the disease se there is a great deal of talk here about the utah and wyoming R BR ra and the U P going to law in order to nind find out which of the two companies really has the right t of way there is a company or corps of en eni engineers l cam camped ped now about ten m miles fleg from granger makine making their way as fast as possible possible with their line I 1 had quite a conversation with one of the engineers last sunday and he gave me to understand that they were IT W engineers and that the company intended running the road from coast to coast he said they had been here ever since march and they had buffered suffered stifle red a great deal with the cold since that time mr smith the foreman or chief engineer of this divi digman clan of ime iho road says that the U P company intend to have the track laid up to the tunnel by the first of august which is about 50 miles from granger bro samuel cazier our contractor from Neph nephi ihas has completed two miles of the grade which is about ten miles from Gran granger gerand gerund and he has now taken another contract about 25 miles up the river crismon weiler weller have taken another contract of 70 mile miles Q that is from the tunnel to soda springs there are now seven corl cori corps s of engi engl news nees on the other side of the tunnel and yet there area are a great many teams from utah waiting walting for work I 1 remain yours etc CHARLES HAYNES |