The Week.

The article focuses on several political developments in the U.S., as of October 10, 1889. The two days' meeting of the Civil-Service Reform League last week in Philadelphia was from every point of view a striking evidence of the growing interest in the subject. The U.S. secretary of state James G. Blaine's speech to the Pan-American Conference was a sonorous evasion of the chief ostensible object for which the Conference was drawn together, namely to encourage such reciprocal commercial relations as will be beneficial to all and secure more extensive markets for products of each of said countries.