Wichita eagle., 1888-12-18
INDIANAPOLIS BUDGET.
Many Distinguished Visitors Booked for
This Week-Political Items.

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This Week-Political Items.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 1.-THE president
elect had goodly number of out of tow
callers today, among them ex-Governo
Rood, of Florida, James Rooney, of Brook
Ign, and Colonel Geo. w. Friedly, O
Lafayette.
A committee representing the Crane
Army posts of Kings county, New York
composed of Colonel VIM. II. Barker
Colonel Geo. A. Pierce and w. H. Knight
of Brooklyn, called this afternoon anc
presented to him petition signed by the
commanders of all the Grand Army post:
of Kings county, asking him to review
the parade of the Grand Army veterans
on Memorial day next May and accom-
pany the procession to the tomb of Gen.
eral Grant at Riverside. General Har.
rison informed the committee that
while he would be glad to participate
with his comrades on the occasion
it was impossible for him, at this early
day, to make an engagement six months in
advance. The committre then asked him
to regard the invitation as standing one
| and requested him to keep it in kindly re-
membrance and expressed the hope at a
later period he could be prevailed upon to
accept.
A gift that reached the president-elect
today was live sheep which came by ex-
press in store box. No letter has been
received yet, telling the name of the donor
who thus thoughtfully provides the gen.
eral with his Christmas mutton.
General Harrison took his usual spin
down town and back Immediately after
lunch.
The weather was quite wintry during
the afternoon, moderating at shutdown.
Mrs. Bergland, wife Of Captain Eric
Bergland, Of the Z. S. A. engineers corps,
and cousin to Mrs. Harrison, who has
been a guest of the Harrison household
for three weeks past, returned to her
home i'll Lexington, KY, this evening.
Mrs. Harrison accompanied her cousin to
the depot and saw her off. Colonel James
Atkins, of Savannah, Ga, arrived in the
city this evening and will call upon Gen.
eral Harrison tomorrow Mr. Atkins was
collector of the port Of Savannah for eight
years under Grant and was afterwards
nominated by President Hayes to be fed
eral district judge, but the senate failed
to confirm him. 1t is asserted that he is
here to suggest the name of a southern
Republican for cabinet portfolio.
A delegation will arrive tomorrow from
birmingham, Ala, representing the manu-
facturers of that section, for the purpose
of presenting to the president elect, con-
grrtulatOry memorial They are said to
represent a combined capital of O0,OOO,
600 invested entirely in the south. Several
of the delegation and many of the signers
to the memorial are reported to be Demo
Gratis who voted the Republican ticket on
account of the advocacy of protection. In
the memorial they will congratulate the
president-elect upon "the success of those
principles which caused his election, be-
cause We believe that protective tariff
will promote and aid the development of
our natural resources and become an issue
free from sectional feelings and prejudice,
upon which the people of the south can di-
vide according to the dictates of reason and
conviction. We know there are
large numbers in this section who
think as we do and are
only restrained from public expression and
advocacy of Their opinions by feeling of
uncertainty as to what will be the policy
adopted In the treatment of the southern
problem, and apprehension that any
chane in our local government will be det-
to our best interests"
Ex-Presioent Hays will arrive at 1890
o'clock tomorrow night. A committee of
veterans and citizens will meet the dis
visitor at the union depot and
escort him to the New Denison The
meeting of the Loyal Legion bids fair to
be one of the largest in the history of that
ocleCt Military CIutI. OoIuo UuTce uuQ-
dred invitations have thus far been &C
copied.
News of nomination or Assistant United
States District Attorney Leon A Bailey
to succeed District Attorney Sellers who
resigned, oceasioned considerable sur
prise this afternoon and evening
and the nomination was the sub
iect of discussion in the Hobbies
and among petitioners everywhere. The
claim without hesitation that
Mr.. Bailey's nomination is obnoxious to |
General Harrison and his friends, because
Of the course he pursued during the cam
paign in speaking personally and accord |
ing to Senator Mcdonald, enormously of |
General Harrison. The prediction is freely !
made that the nomination will not be con-
firmed. This is the fourth nomination |
that President Cleveland has made for this |
office. The first incumbent appointed by |
the president was Hon. John +. Lamb, of |
Terre Haute, who was succeeded by Hon. |
David Turpie. who resigned to accept the |
United States senatorship and was sue
ceeded by Mr.. Emory B. Sellers, of Month
cello, Ind.
The federal grand jury reconvened this
after weeks recess. There are understood |
to be several election fraud indictments |
ready for action. A curious case that has
gone to the grand jury is understood to be !
IN election suit for Hendricks county. 1t |
is related that the Individual most con-
,erned entered a suit for the recovery of |
$50 promised as the price for his VOTE He |
proved a case but in SO doing necessarily |
involved himself in skullduggery and |
brought himself disastrously to the atten-
5lop of the grand jnry.