Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Senate Committee on Printing, by a vote of two to one, has decided to report adversely the nomination of I'ublic Printer Benedict, ami lie will probably to rejected. Tho fight against him. biivh a Washington special, has been mailo by tho Typographical Union through its local representatives, and /the objections advanced hav-o been many. Mr. Henedict is not a practical printer in tho moon? ing of lhe law. which requires that the num at the head of this great institution shall be one, He has been the publisher of a country newspaper, but never learned tho trade and never worked at it, although in his IniHineas he lias picked up a general knowledge of tho art. lie is not a member of the union. Ho boa not recognized the union in the mana,-ement of the office, and hits got the whole labor element down on him because of some petty indiscretions. Ho bus appointed -to positions under him as inanv ns thirty persons from the town whore he lived w hen he ro| this office, a little village in New York, und hns dismissed old and influential members of the union to give thorn places. Ho hns bad the lijg-heod to mi unlimited extent, and, coming from a little country weekly newspaper office to bo the manager of the biggest printing institution in tiro world, he has.an idea that he is as great a man as tho President <it the United States. Ho has treated the Seuutort like ordinary applicants for office, and they do not relish such conduct after the deferential luunners of Rounds and his staff. Another mistake Benedict has made is to attribute all the bait management at tho printing office to tho condition in which things wore left by his predecessor. It could not bo expected that a new mon would come in and get on without friction, and complaint was natural, but Jienedict tells everyone, and wrote a letter w Congress, charging all the blame to Rounds, and tho latter has a good many friends in the Senate, who have resented this sort of scapegoat business, and they axe for rejection.

Captain Greely, the Arctic explorer, has been appointed Chief of th# Signal Service, with the rank of Brigadier General. .. .The Attorney General has decided that the fencing of contiguous corners of sections of railroad hinds in such . way as to prevent tue passage between of settlers Upon the Government sectionsis unlawful. .... Land Commissioner Sparks will recommemlto the Secretary pf the Interior, at an early* date, the restoration to settlement entry, under the public land laws, of the 2(1,61'0 acres of land formerly patented to the State of lowa for the Sioux City A' St. Paul Railroad Company, and recently reconveyed by the State to the United States. The President and Mrs. Cleveland gAve a stat# dinner last week in honor of the Supreme Court. 'The guests were the Chief Justice and Mrs. Watte, Justice and Mrs. Miller, Justice and Mrs. Field, Justice and Mrs. Bradley, Justice and Mis. Harlan, Justice and Airs. Matthews. Justice Gtray. Justice and. Mrs. Blatchford, Senator and Mrs. Edmunds, Senator and Mrs. A’-est, Senator and Mrs. Evarts, Senator and Ali«. McAiillan, Air. and Mis. Patrick A. Collins, John E. Develtn and wife of New York. ex-Alayor Grace and wife of New York, the Hon. Francis Lynde .Stetson and wife of New York. Actino-Sevretary Fatbcheld has issued a circular inviting suggestions as to the best means of heating railway cars and steamboats so as to prevent loss of life and property by tine.... Five thousand ladies stood in line Saturday at the President's house 10-shake hands with All's. Cleveland, it being her closing reception for the season.