West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-01

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house in New York City must be
sent back to England, as his being
brought over here under contract
was violation of the alien labor
law. 1t was Gen. Grant, / believe,
who said that the quickest way TO
get an obnoxious law repealed was
to strictly enforce it.
w. o. Elan, was editor Of the
Richmond, Virginia, Wig, as long
as General Malone put up the mon
ey to keep that paper going has
been appointed Chief of a division
in the Interior department.
A committee from st. Joseph,
Missouri, brought Secretary Rusk
gorgeous invitation to attend the
"New Era Exposition" to be held
in that city during portion of Sep
TENDER and October. AS the Expo
sition is to be held in honor Of the
establishment of the department of
Agriculture, the Secretary told the
committee he would attend if posi-
Bile.
All sorts ofrumors are current in
regard to the startling dircoveries
being made by the Commissioner
now investigating the rerating of
pensions by the pension office. The
most OF these runiors are undoubted-
ly based on the freightenedtalk ofthe
implicated employees of the Pension
Office, for the members Of the COM
mission are not likely TO do any
talking until their official report
has been handed in to Secretary
Noble. 1t is generally believed that
there has been good deal of crook
edness in this business and that
quite n large number of the employ
es of the Office have been engaged
in it, but whether they can be pun
ished further than to be made to
disgorgo the money illegally obtain
ed is question. The report of the
Commissioner is anxiously looked
for here. The people want to know
whether the facts are to be shown
up or the white wash brush applied.
John Wanamaker, merchant,
does not seem to have much influ-
ence with the officials of the Treas
ury department, who have just
rejected an appeal that he took from
the decision of the Collector of Gus
toms at Philadelphia as to the rate
of duty to be paid on certain i'm
ported merchandise.
Commissioner Tanner now denies
that he ever said he was opposed to
the policy of paying 50 So and 81
per month pensions, and has order
ed a big pension firm of New York
and Chicago to stop sending out a
circular which quotes a newspaper
interview wherein the Commissioner
is made to express those sentiments.
The same thing was published here
when Mr.. Tanner first took office.
The Civil Service law is getting
some very hard knocks around
Washington just now. Ex-post-
master General Frank Hatton who
is now the editor of the Washing
ton Post is leading the opposition,
and the State Republican associa-
atoms arc doing all they can to
assist him. Hatton charges that
the law always has been and is now
being juggled with by the appointing
powers. lie wants the law repealed
but pending that he would like to
see it strictly enforced.
The administration is having a
lively time with the patronage in
the South. Every appointment
made raises a lot of CHECKERS" The
fight for the control of the patron
age in Louisiana is red hot between
Representative-elect Coleman and
Herwig, the louisiana lottery man.
1t is to be settled at the convention
which is to nominate candidate
for Congress to run in the district
Of the late Representative Gray.
Herwig and Coleman both have been
candidates, and the winner is to be
regarded by the administration as
the party boss in the State.
The papers have been signed
awarding the contract for the con-
struction Of coast defence vessel 4,
to cost 500, 900 to the Union Iron
WOrkg. of San Erauoisoo