The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-10-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

with Natehez and thirteen of his
male adult companions. The wo-
men and children and two scouts
go to Fort Marion. The President,
Secretaries Endieott and Lamar,
Attorney General Garland and
General Sheridan gave the matter
careful consideration, decided that
as the nisereants had surrendered
as pris eners of war they could not
be turned over to the -civil author
tiles and that there was no warrant
for their trial by military com
mission. But their punishment is
pretty severe after all. Close con-
finment in an isolated fort, far
from their wives and children, and
in a country where they will have
to take their chances with yellow
fever, is regarded by military
officials treatment that the bucks
will feel terribly. Their family
affections are very strong.
Once more all Of Mr.. Cleveland 5
official family may be seen at their
desks. Secretary Manning goes to
the Treasury Department every
day. He is really looking better
now than when he first came to
Washington, for then he had not
recovered from the exhaustion of
the campaign, 1t is his hope to be
able to remain in the Cabinet
throughout President Cleveland's
term. He is anxious, of course, to
carry out his financial policy. Mr..
Manning has many of the traits Of
Secretary Whitney. Besides be-
ing a steady, methodical worker,
he has great capacityfor work and
he is always pleasant to those
about him. He sits at his desk
now with black scull cap ON the
back of his head.
H on. Samuel Randall called on
Mr.. Manning at the Department
yesterday and as they sat talking
Mr., Randall would have been called
the sicker looking man Of the two.
He looks as il he had suffered a
great deal physically, and his usu-
ally pale face is paler than ever.
He now uses pair of crutches.
He would not talk politics when
approached on the subject. He
came to Washington this time
only on domestic business; that
waste place his daughter i'll the
Academy Of Visitation in George
to wn.'
A number Of corpulentstatesm
and stoat men in public life who
live in fear of apopleXy, paralysis
and other troubles, are thinking
Of adopting some means of reluc-
ing their flesh, 1t is SAID the
President is a convert to message
through Secretary Mannings i'm
proved condition, and that he has
decided to take d fall course of the
treatment when he can find the
time to begin He will not be
likely to find time, however, dur
ing his Presidential term.
Secl etary Lamar recently gave
evidence of very strict construc-
ton of the Presidents order. An
officer in his department who is
going home to vote in November
asked him if it would be improper
for him to make political address
to the people of his home on the
eve of the election. 1t would, re-
piled lie. You should keep entirely
aloJf from politics with the ex-
ception Of casting your vote.
While the PRECEDENT was the
guest of the Old Dominion for a
few hours on Thursday, there was
considerable comment in political
and social circles as to the cause
of change of program which ex-
cluded Mrs. Cleveland nd the
ladies' of the cabinet who had in
tended to go to Richmond. To
some extent the impression pre-
vailed that the daughter of Jeffer-
son Davis, who was to have assist
ell in receiving the Presidential
party, was the. trouble in the way
the President and his wife put
politics and society together and
concluded If was n political and