Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The English and American Governments have resulted in an understanding which will avert any colJifiion in Behring Bea daring the seal fisfling season. Secretary Rusk, Wednesday appointed to a clerkship in the Agricultural Department, Mrs. Mary Ann Dougherty, the woman whose pension bill President Cleveland vetoed. . At a conference held at Washington Wednesday by the President, the members of his Cabinet and several United States Senators, a decision to call a special session of Congress to meet November 1, is said to have been reached. The Persian Minister to Washington has resigned. He says he has been driven out of the country by the unkind and ungenerous things which have been written about him and his sovereign in tfcef American newspapers. He added: “1 usll you I cannot bear these things to be said about my king, who in his heart has the kindness to favor the American minister and all the American citizens in Persia. When I arrived in this country I came by way of New York. I saw there the Btatue of Liberty Enlightening the World. I was glad, and I thought here one can live always without trouble or annoyance. Now, after being here nine months. I go away as fast as I can, like a prisoner escaping horn his prison. I resign my position as minister from Persia and speak a 3 a private citizen of that country. As a Persian minister I could not say this.”

The office of Commissioner of Railroads, ever since it was created, three or four years ago, has been held by General Joseph E. Johnston, the real hero and military leader of the Confederacy, and General Sherman’s opponent in his march to the sea. Commissioner Johnston, like all other prominent officials of the old administration, sent a formal letter of resignation to President Harrison on the 4th of March, for it was the custom to do so. But he was extremely anxious to retain the office, even though he was a Democrat, and he got all his friends to use their influence to prevent its acceptance. Among others who interested themselves in his behalf was General William T. Sherman, who came to Washington, dined at the White House, and made a special request of the President to retain General Johnston in his office. General Sherman said this was all he would ask of the administration, and he begged very hsr2C*”Tihe President did not make any promises, and General Johnston’s resignation was accepted, Saturday, to take effect on the 18th of Jnlv, when it is understood Mr. Taylor, of Wisconsin wiilsuccfeed him.