, 1889-09-12
The Commissioner of Pensions
Receives Considerable
Notice.
Opinions Pro and Con are Adj
vanced and the Public is
Still in Doubt.
The Affair Has Developed the Fact
That an Officer 10 Drawing
Two Salaries.

htNuiu NVNiu llo hJIbN' w iNN'Hillhtu ny
the secretary, whois now In close CON
ference with Senator tliscock who Is
understood 10 be pushing Mayor Peol of
Syracuse for tho comnissionership
General Brown of Ohio IS being urged
for the place and probably will get it.
WAsmINGToN, Sept. li.--Secretury No.
bic, Commissioners Tannpf aud Marshal
Ransdell are now In consultation with
the president, presumably IN rolasion
to the case of Tanner.
Nrw YoRR, Sept. ll.-~A Washington
special states that Tanner bid good bye
tonll the men in his uilice last night,
and was not ut his Desk to-day. A
special to u morning paper states that
President Harrison said TO n friend that
Corporal Tanner would have to 20 out
of the pension Office. lie said he was
reluctant 10 part with hsm ON account
of the embarrassment u would place
him in, considering the endorse
mCnt given the romiuissioner ut the
Milwaukee oncampmenb but added il
WHs altogether out OF tire question TO
keep him, The president said he re.
poatcdly talked to Commissouer Tanner,
and urged him W give his
tongue less exercise, but that
everywhere he went ndi.pon the slight
est provocation lac put liis foot Into It,.
II Is understood that the commission
cr's resignation Is in tge hands of the
president aud his serS ces will be dis
posed of within very taW days. IT has
Tor ten days Dir morp simtly been qucs-
tion OF how to drop Tat Der without of
Tending the old soldiers. The state.
mont made in he disp,echcs from this
city to the effect tliaV Tanner WAS to
take the place of Conceal 'kOscCrans as
register Of the treasury iaw,thout ioun.
dation. Rosccrans will Ntire from his
position II il true, but h was not ten.
dered to Corporal Tanner. Tho com.
missioner WAS absent rom his post of
duty this morning. Deputy Commis-
siOnGr Smith Is acting as commissioner.
Tanner was expected at the office,
it was said, at noon, but at I o'clock he
had not returned. IL " believed by
some that he is removed, by others
that he has been temporarily suspended
until the result of investigations OF
commission to examine into the affairs
of the pension office is announced, 1t
is impossible TO find out exactly the
state of The case. That mis- resignation
has been requested or rendered Is, how
ever, positively denied. Secretary Mo-
bic declined to say any thing ON the sub
jcCt.
The crisis in the relatlona between
Secretary Noble and Pension Commits.
sioner Tanner, which, nccoriing to
former reports, llas been ItSiched to-day,
Continues without seti sssnt at IA hate
hour tonight. Upon the hest authority
II may be said that the commissioner
has not been removed, nor has his res
lgnation been requested by the president.
The same authority says, which hus been
patent for sometime, that serious differ
ences have arisen between Secretary
Noble and Commissioner Tanner over
questions concerning the administration
of the pension bureau, but not in any
wise Affecting the commissioners per
sonul character. In no sense was ANY
corruption charged in his acts. This
SAME authority comedies that these mat
ters related principally to the rerating of
pensions, employees and officials of the
bureau and others and to statements
credited to the commissioner in inter
views and speeches That is the condi-
tion of affairs Tonight, but when the
authority quoted was asked II IL would
probably remain 50, lie declined to conf
init himself, saying he had no entering
field of prophecy. The air has been full
of surmises and rumors all day respect
ing the casc of Commissioner Tanner,
and the unanimous opinion is change
Is imminent. The commissioner has not
of the afternoon ut the White house in
consultation with the president and Sec
rotary Noble. The secretary is reported
to have said 1.-THE president must decide
which one OF the two he will retain in
his present position--the commissioner
or himself, but he will not talk OF the
matter to newspaper people, and the
commissioner at this time Is equally
non-cOnlmunicativC. Since yesterday
a as.N lsR. t.a4 taN.
der advisement at the white house.
Secretary Noble has had several confer
ences with the president and Secretary
Tracy, who is generally accepted as the
commissioner friend and adyocate, has
bad many hearings, but what result of
them all has not been declared,
The really believed principal topic of
discussion at the conference was what to
do with Tanner i'm case u change shah
he made in the Office of commissioner of
pensions. Two appointments have been
discussed in this connection outside of
the official circle, the United States
marshal for the southern district of New
Y ork and the register OF the treasury
feast IL Is said Commissioner Tanner can
have il ho leaves the pension bureau,
without any doubt. As 10 other officers
the president Is quoted as saying
he lad no intention of removing
's'tNNh'AANs
day, however that the president was
Ignorant until yesterday of the fact that
R0socrans is drawing two salaries from
the government, one us register OF the
treasury and one as retired brigadler
general. The gentleman who mentioned
this to him says the president was much
surprised ut nearing il. Tanner is re-
ported as being very anxious to return
TO Brooklyn. With rumors of Il change
huQ epne n lfapttegtnn af Thp nnssiblp
successor TO Congressman Tanner. SEN
ator Iliscock IL crditcd with pushing the
claims of extension Agent Pool of Syra-
cuse for the place. Ex-Govcrnor Foster,
OF Ohio, who was alleged 10 have orig
mated the scheme to provide for Commis-
sioncr Tanner by making him register
of the treasury, Is said TO be supporting
General Chures Brown, of Cincinnati,
who was n prominent candidate Tor ap-
eral impression New York Will not again
he favored IL change is made.
One report tonight was that Prcsi-
dent Harrison had advised Commits
sioner Tanner to resign. Gen. Al
ger, commander-in-cliiel OF the q, A. r.,
Governor Foraker of Ohio and Com
mandcr Wilson of Kansas are all said To
have telographed Tanner urging him not
TO resign. These messages, together
with the influence of his wiic, are said
to have been Instrumental IN holding
the comm,ssioncr from following the ad-
vice from the president Tonight a
committee of the q. "A. Il. of the district,
headed by General Burdctte, cx-coin-
chief, called at the White
lousc to see the president in behalf of
the pension commissioner, but il was
after he had retired. Several q. A. II.
friends spent the evening With the COM