| Show judge as a ango writer in which the president is told some facts if a friends dill is to iam alien graur has a cowl nf AI 1 in contempt ala inn Alloi iti for the I 1 till war important laoj by watern amod ire to ue the classia at the hesI Jent ail arriens ilia feb 18 judge Elger toti who was recently removed roni the ollice of civil servie commissioner has written an open letter to alie president lie v ill say among other bilings ti lings 1 I was indebted pd to you for the only appointive office I 1 over held you now declare by our 1 action that you regret the appoint anent I 1 with equal right can say I 1 regret my acceptance your leeret was never made known to me ly you in auy word or utterance or action until now at the close of our administration and on the day before roy removal I 1 presume there were prudential reasons athy you did not make the removal until after the election elet tion in this regard it would almost seem as if you were willm to play false with ali to enable you to win with the democrats the result of the election placed you in a dilemma from few people would have known liow to themselves you found a man on your hands whom the liaa declared war upon and an enemy to their civil service reform theone sand your plan of becoming representative in the future be weakened if from the assurance 0 aati your fidelity to their cause could not be secured accordingly it appears you decided upon the removal if the head of the commission and deeming thompson a good enough for them you therefore demanded rny resignation that you might appoint him apparently parent ly as an atonement for bour previous inaction mr president due courtesy to office you hold allow me to aay you are a iery peculiar man a man positively wrong or positively and therefore an un afe fafe f maa to trust and that element in your character I 1 believe led to your defeat iopa says the most positive men are alio most credulous they most believe themselves and advise most with their fellow flatterers flatter ers enemies being one of that kind of positive men yourself you hau some men of like character around you who are only in their malice and conceit juvenal saya there is nothing a binau will not belieka in his own favor yon v ere credulous enough to believe you were elected president by the and therefore you permitted them to malign your real friends and to flitter you into a policy which led to your defeat you are a man v ho w not permit your real friends to ud moniah you with freedom and confidence and the result is you have eull ered from taft want of friends and your wrecked and wretched greatness has discovered that abero is no true success in life without the power and blessings of friendship you be lieveld your will and power to enforce it was above all the lint alie will of the people expressed in the way lias taught you that was wiser cmil dav ahan that chonen by you you will be censured ami con leniner because you put no trust in row own party but believed 0 be better than your own and greater ban all parties you leave ascertained that the many were not made tor the one you can fand aa many reasons or removing me as the democratic party through an indifference which was simply retaliatory had or removing you I 1 be quite wiling to remain with you in the gloom of defeat the judge proceeds to give his understanding of tha civil service law and continues 1 I do not ask oa to give any reason or my removal I 1 know and so do rou that the only one ou could give noila be that it was your will lor 11 you attempted to give any oilier conr own previous worda would prove it untrue in my interview with you before my removal yon expressly disclaimed having any reason or it except my refusal to resign to enable you to make air thompsons Thomp sons nomination lle moved is a word of far reaching potency especially when tle record does not explain it I 1 am conscious 0 this and deeply pained by the consciousness alie people have the right to know the truth ia all matters of kind and for tins reason only do 1 you I 1 cannot like you make a prayer for relief to hie public anch as the article seemed to bo in the more A of the instant tina is the first time in the history of the government aliat aa president has found it necessary to adverl isu tho his purlieu ur work ho term bis claim open lia party and for approval between the can bo radd a special plea lor re I 1 can point to another removal than mine beyond parallel ti t i go dunn liitt tory tt lien I 1 bu tui gotten 1 BO let me reter as ot your ignorance of opinion and not of your deronce to it to ahat yen bay in the sun article of mr of atlo as ona not of the annoyance to which you were by the country members of congress intro bacine to you their constituents constituent a ho cauce lie always presented liia con nt t he public receptions if mr vi ag living he could tell another reason which he often boj told to others that he had been rudely treated by you and had na lor atu personally and ascribed the defeat of the party to your ignorance of it it wag aliat you should make boire such explanation fur your attack upon tho way bark members in lie aalee hut you kere unfortunate tion of your witness one of the ablest and noblest i congress I 1 was on atio elior of alio house of inep tho litno the ot the electoral collea etero counted and heard the of be result that ll arrison was duly elected president of the united states eliut the words that burned deep through the empty boxes ot the administration could not lie added though known to lie true in 0 brover cleveland removed isy whom and for aliat cause removed the answer ia now bei rip made in every home in every busi nefi hausa io the land and history will inscribe it apon all its records judge edgerton nd gerton attribute a cleve lands defeat to his disregard of the and advice of the most eminent men of his party and to his political and continues as follow a in the statement cf your public acts as printed in the an article referred to i this declaration when air cleveland cama into office he found the tilled with in who had found permanent lodgment there through favoritism etc how can you say you found the departments tilled with and et retained all in office during your administration is a mistake somewhere did you not know mr president that nearly three fourths of all the persons now in office in the departmental bervice vero there in you v ill soon leavo no power of removal and the places they hold ill not be subject to your clearing out et forts you have slat your ayea to the tint that uese clerks have been active and successful in aisling in our own clearing out and the poor civil service eligi blea baill have the have secured for bliem on the sule while the incompetents are rejoicing within you do not understand the civil service law mr is ifs examinations are not made for eliose inside but for elioso outside your theory f inaction would defeat the law you have net dared to weed out alie concludes with a criticism of alie conduct of one of the other without mentioning liis bame aral Pai masten feb 18 cullom in produced trod an amendment to dav to the army b 11 providing that hereafter the number of paymasters in alie army with alie rank ol 01 major eliell be 40 and that the at my be paid monthly unless circumstances ahall render such payment impracticable eleax WANTS TO feb 13 mr klein the american newspaper mad adventure iu samoa has been the subject ot comment will not appear before tho senate committee on relations at leant for the present lie secretary elayard upon his arrival in san francisco and suggested that he bo summoned U concerning matters in hut the secretary was od viewed that the committee did not deem it politic or polite to take any further steps in tho matter pending the result of tha conference to bo bield in berlin STATUE UNVEIL the statue of lev is caba presented to the people of the united hoites by michigan for in statuary liall at the capit il was unveiled today to day there were formal in tl o hall CONFEREES this afternoon alie conter on lie omnibus territorial bill were in session two hours without coming to any conclusion cl they exchanged views at leneth and separated to consider them over night and meet again tomorrow to morrow iati alie secretary of the interior today to day rendered a decision in alie case of JOB W alien et etalon alof glendive montana against lewla merrill et al involving alie important question of the validity of locations of alie indian halfbreed scrip tho defendants in this case located sioux scrip upon the no surveyed public land as attorneys la falt for the indians and under tha game powers of attorney made alie improvements prove ments required by law the protestants maintained that the locations so made were invalid and illegal on the ground that it was not shown that tle were made for the benefit of indians as required by law tho in hid becis ton sustains alie protestants aej holds alis locations as made were io effect the of eek bale and transfer of scrip which sa a direct violation of law it is said at the interior department that the de casion hilll affect the titles to larae of land if log immediately adjacent to alie towns on the northern la montana minnesota and dakota upon which scrip of the character described has been lo 10 buted and the lamia sold aa loan iota A largo number of cases ara now pending in the general land office aill albo be by these decisions jor CLAIMS DECISIONS alie court 0 claims lias ghan judgment for in liver of alie central ay company in ita bint against the U H or withheld dividends Ju diment has also acen awarded to buas A perry and J 0 co for and tely on claims arising out of to utah under command of general albert S johnston A IN feb 18 ine of the senate committee on public ami grounds was held today to consider the cago of w atness thoman filter chief clerk of the aup art ollace of the treas nary department who list week refused to answer certain questions regarding ana collection or receipt of political from alie employees in the allica blieu asked by be subcommittee sub committee at the meeting today to day the was opportunity to the question but again refused the committee thereupon went into secret but just what has been determined upon lioa not yet developed it is that the matter will probably ba bottled iu t lio senate some time today to day it ia ho impression that okill be aud brought before the bar af alio for contempt there was presented to the committee today to day a latter of jno A dix secretary of the treasury in to speaker one of the en which was hla famous order containing tho worda it any man baula down the american hit shoot him on the spot another enclosure of the game letter referred to the voluntary burvender Bur render of he revenue cutter hobt mcclellan by tha refractory then thos I 1 fiaher of alie revenue cutter to the detate ot for which act from tle service lie ferval with alie confederacy throughout alie trauls feb 18 the aw tn will say ohio will boon introduce a resolution cledt to inala the the the dominion of canada abul the premier and cabinet and loading men in the provinces of alie dominion to hit the united states about the lint of may nest and le the guests of alio people of the united matei the resu luton mill ask for an appropriation of to defray he expenses of vianit and provides for tho appointment of a krand committee of seventy five members of the house of representatives and a suitable number of senators to receive and entertain the nations guests it also authorizes the various railroad rail rond companies to melce rates for alie transportation of the dis guests regardless of the interstate inter state commerce act alie purpose of resolution is to a more friendly feeling and encourage closer business relations between alie people of the two countries four women W va feb 17 news has reached here from in wirt county that a moa humble crime was committed near there friday john dismer a ous farmer and formerly a local preacher went home drunk and heat his vnye because supper was not ready lie then worked himself into a frenzy of rage and seizing a heavy poker brained his wife and ano daughters ased respectively 12 and 17 and alo billed a hired hami o ami burned alia bodies lie is in axil at wirt court house and alie lias a guard to prevent lunching lynching lyn ching if possible lasnier lt claims that thieves did the terrible ork fell 17 V poi correspondent tron wheeling W va telegraphs that alie account of the murder by a preacher bent out from is alie imaginary production of H sensational and ha correspondent 1 pitie tf laif penic feb IS there as a vigorous debate in the house of commons today to day on resolution eliat canada should have the right of negotiating her own treaties sir luchard caran right made a vigorous aich annoyed the conservatives serva tives exceedingly he said canada was driven into a dangerous position in the spring aita the american people indignant st the treatment accorded american fishermen by alie dominion authorities the canadian government ho said taken carnini and treated them better ince tiia question was detill a issue and canadian inte resla cannot bo trusted in english ambassadors bands minister dorater contended that canada has all the she requires the resolution was defeated dollt stairs blan ST louis feb 17 advises advices from indian territory say tho journal or diary ol 01 bella starr alie noted female bandit has been obtained from I 1 he blarr ranch belle starr intended to publish it as an the matter contained therein is replete with thrilling incidents ot personal adventures but the most remarkable features of all are certain disclosures concerning crimes in texas and indian territory which aull tend to prove that men have been sentenced on various occasions it is also a matter of curiosity that the names of prominent persona are connected with certain crimea eliat have been committed in recent years some sketches in the journal are lively and humorous philadelphia pa feb 17 tuesday as one of august Penman nH children boullit some neat at the butcher shop slie vas given a piece ot halt smoked sausage of amali ahe and her atto ate quite licar tily later they became quite ill and nere removed to the hospital on thursday gertrude aged 9 and margaret aged 5 died and freida aged 8 is not expected to recover while another younger daughter and a 14 months old child who ate sparingly 0 the sausage tt ere taken n ith convulsions but fl ill recover 1 texas boil la ST louis feb 17 A dispatch from says recently jay donld filed nit in the district court of smith county the international A northern railway for 00 aej at alia ot the present of court lat monday the international A great northern company came in court and attempted to confess judgment for the amount but the missouri kansas A texas railway intervened with a suit against the I 1 G N for and baked for a receiver tle matter was argued on saturday and col T K bonner and hon N webb have finally been appointed receivers W val eb 18 in hallowing hall oling for U S senator today kenna lost 12 votes and on alie second ballot received while ioa received 40 gov U Soro erville 4 heal union labor 3 feitli others scattering A rumor la afloat tonight to night atiat alie union labor delc tate will vote tor dot for senator and alien make president carr 0 the senate governor and stop all alie contest proceedings between fleming and coir After being out tince anday alio jury in alie slon roe county white can caie announced today to day tor tie third timo eliat alie were unable to agree and wore dia charred eight 0 alie aurora were toi and four or conviction litolff rev dr uray ex warden 0 lla cloe college night of neUt iionia the death is announced 0 count clary in I 1 iria kratt henry Cli arlea bechen the german Koloi 3 ia deab agaj fco yeara the upper lionso ot ian diet unanimously alie audition to the Imie |
