The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1889-04-25
WAsHiNGToN LETTER


ftENrtHtaANff tANNE .hHH Hi Hs p or ..ttH
coming ont 81 the White HoH-e l
yonr correspondents and asked wla
Tie douee BE- wa- doing in chat ep
Of place huntcr-. ~Oh, I simply cal-
ed to say good bye 10 my old friena
Benjamin Harrison. as ana anuid
these Fellows may worry him e. death
+ 50 their mad hunt for Office before
return to Washington Then q Mr
Cox was leaving, Dee added II fel
wells very much better than a litlc
while ago. Ihayc been through tile
I valley oil the shadow of political death
with tllc rest Of the Democrats. and
now I ann olf on a leeturing tour
through Indiana. Ohio. Illinois. Mis-
souri, aud Kansas. Something %
make ilc folks smile, you know.while
/ I gather in q little money. I trust
that / shall eetno more eggs than ]
fpsy for.
/ MrCannaday The Sereeaut-at-Arms
lof the L. S. senate, and a good John
sherman Republican, IS charged By
senator Jones, Of Nevada, ex-senator
4 Mahoue aud Warner Miller and Re
preventative West, Of New York,wiih
swindliug and forgery in connection
with his management Of the North
I Carolina Oil and Creosote Company.
located at Wilmington, NC. il is
stated that Cannaday is indebted to
i other Senators to the amount OF $780,
900 or more for borrowed money.
With the usual audacity Of men Of
this kind Camaday says that when
the case is settled it viii have no effect
upon his personal integrity
The Republicans have always been
notorious for their willingness to make
use at an times of United States yes
sells for private pleasure parties and
being out OF power for four years and
without a precedent for that length Of
time has not changed them a particle
in this respect. On Saturday after
noon Assistant Secretary of the Trea-
sury Tichenor took a party of friends
from here to Baltimore, where they
got aboard of the IS. Revenue cutter
McLane. and started on trip to Chcs-
apcake Ray, which lasted from Sum
day morning to Monday morning
Another government vessel, the light
house tender Holly, has been laying
at the wharf here for three days,wait.
ing to carry President Harrison on
pleasure trip down the Potomac. Thii
. looks like rather early revival Of tn,
old abuses BY summer half-a-dozel
3 vessels viii be needed for the various
: members Of the administration, fol
u their families and friends And tn,
# people win foot the bills.
1 Senator John sherman has jus
+ proved himself to be bigger" ma.
a with the administration than Repre-
J. sentatives Mckinley and Benjamin
IL Butterworth combined. Ohio ha,
.e two candidates for the position o
J. Sixth Auditor Of the Treasury. On
if was backed by Senator Sherman an,
s the other by Messrs. Mckinley an,
fe Butterworth The Sherman man, Nh
m Coulter, has just been appointed.
IA Land Commissioner Stockslage
"a fears there will be trouble in Okla
,e homa. lie says that only about 10
ic 600 homestcads can be entered unde
n the Presidents proclamation, and h
A. has every reason to believe that a
ID least 100000 persons will enter tn
m country within 30 days from its open
as ing next Monday.
g The new administration is MAXIM
" a record for itself on the pension que.
he ton. 1t is going faster than the mo,
r. radical had any idea it would a shol
TO time ago, and no man can at this tim
- foresec the end. Assistant-Secretar
of Bussey, Of the interior department. Be
ID fore whom appeals from the decision
o. ofthe Commissioner of Pensions al
n heard, seems 70 Guido the Corporal
~ in his construction of the law as al
Is. piled to pensions. It is estimate
NJ that the decisions Of the late Commi
IA sioner-Gen. Black which Bussey III
he already reversed will cost the govern
nd ment more than 100000. L
IN should change his name TO Buste
nj The Corporal, not to be outdoue I
his superior officer made an ord
,p- lastweek that win cost more than $50
X 900 year. The following IS tile o
en- der Whenever a pensioncr is d
he ahled in hand or foot in a degree ei
Of titling him to S2f a month under Il
ed act Of March Bird, 1883, such pension
~ shall by reason ofthat fact be entitlt