Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Hundreds of office-seekers still haunt the Washington hotels. Complaint has been made to the .President that the South and Southwest are getting more than their share of Federal patronage. Secretary of the Interior Smith, Wednesday, signed the contract for the cession of the Cherokee Strip, which includes over six million acres. The Secretary of State has received official information of the purpose of the government of Siam to establish a legation in Washington. The Chinese minister at Wash ington has assured Secretary Gresham that his Government will not resort to retaliatory measures In reference to the Geary Chinese exclusion act. James N. Tyner, formerly of Peru, Ind., assistant attorney-general for the Postoffice Department, was superseded. Thursday, by John L. Thomas, of Missouri. General Tyner will not return to Indiana. Delegate Rawlins, of Utah, who sent in his resignation as a Congressman because the President would not let him control the patronage of the Territory, had “a string tied to it,” for he has withdrawn R. The files have just disclosed the fact that Representative Holman, of Indiana, has indorsed three men from his own district for the same office—medical referee of the Pension Office. He has indorsed Drs. Henry and Brant, of Dearborn, and Dr. Worlen, of Switzerland, for the place The rumors which have been in circulation in the Interior Department during the last several weeks, which bring in serious question the official Integrity of W. E. Simmonds, the late Commissioner of Patepts, took tangible form Wednesday by the filing of formal charges against Mr. Simmonds and Foster & Freeman, the attorneys for the Bell telephone company. alleging improper Inspection of the secret files In the celebrated Draughbaugh telephone cases and the unlawful taking of copies thereof for the private use of Mr. Simmonds and the Bell telephone company. Mr. Simmonds denies having done anything improper. “