| Show washington WHISPERS from the heralds special correspondent though very indignant at the albany etory story which represented re dented him himas as authorizing the offe rm of an all office for a vote against it conkling tho the president said aid on afan saturday that iio lie did not believe pitch reports would disbelieved do liim him an any harm barm they would be disbelieved the president does not assume too much in this I find no ono one here who believes that jolin john I davenport Daveni Daven wrt had any ally authority to offer tho the of the state to any one for any uch consideration though many ivany believe lie made the offer as testified to even in his own party the reputation of davenport is not high alie dent went to long branch on satur day the absurd story that ho he went ti there 01 re domeet gen grant for the purpose of talking over party affairs is of course laughed at it is noticed that all the government supplies so far bid for this year will cost less than at any previous time in the matter of stamps envelopes etc for iho postoffice Post office department tho the reduction Is great this is due partly to improvement in machinery and in competition bi but it in part also ulso to a conviction that the department is to be run on business principle i aci nci p I les aad sand that no unreasonable aid d would w ul d be accepted the methods of tho the postmaster general may well bo be imitated in this respect rc t by all other cabinet officials th tho retiring commissioner of pensions is trying to create an impression assion absurd to every every ono one familiar fir a r with the work of his office that he was removed because ho lie stood in the way of the passage of fraudulent claims pushed by claim claira agents that this is untrue is shown by the fact that half the pension claims in the united states arc are represented by less than half a dozen whom the cornin commission assion has ab solute power to suspend from practice and und that in the six years of his service he found no lio occasion to suspect ono one of these agents it t is is popularly supposed that the claimant almant who lias has a fictitious claim secures the best assi assistance in trying to secure its allowance and this may bo be true but the commissioner with connected an am ample I 18 force of detectives has not connected one of tho the prominent agents wi with any fraud the pension business is getting jo to be a serious one the near future willero will pro probably biilly cost the government much more even than if now docs but it will not help the matter to malco make reckless charges against ayel st soldiers sol diera as a body or ag against dinst r attorneys tho the work of cleaning out inefficient clerks in in the departments will bo be well under way before july 1st ast it ia is believed that these changes now will be greater than in lit any other year r since 1860 and that unlike the aaa ordinary n process those who go out because of inefficiency or other othe r fault fau t will ill go to stay KNOX washington june |
