Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-07-20
WARRINGTON LETTER
Sensational Reports Sent Out From Washington Corporal Tanner Still Holds the Pension Fort--A Batch of Interesting News.
CFrom Our Regular Correspondent.)

WAsHINGToN, D. C., July ,, 1889. The President left this afternoon for
 Deer Park to join his family. For the
 remainder of the waIm weather he does
 not expect 10 spend more than two days
 week in Washington, devoting the
 rest to recreation and the preparation of
 his first message to Congress, the extra
 session making it necessary to prepare
 the message month earlier than usual Walker Blaine has returned to Wash
 ington and says he will remain during
 the entire summer. He does not say so
 in so many words but he intimates that
 his father, the Secretary, will not return
 before September unless something very | important shall occur to make his pres ence here necessary.
 The sensation-loving newspaper cor
 respondents had bad attack of summer madness this week, just because com missioner of pensions Tanner, the day after his return from the West, had conference with Secretary Noble and as- | sistant Secretary Bussey of the Interior | Department. It was announced in all
 the glory of double leaded type and
 score heads that Tanner had been | "bounced." The only foundation in | the world for the announcement being | the conference between the three gen | tlemen named. Commissioner Tanner
 and Assistant Secretary Bussey both as | sured your correspondent that there was | not, nor had there had been at any time the slightest trouble between the Secre- tary and the Commissioner, and that | the conference mentioned was held at
 Mir. Tanners request in order to consid- CT certain departmental matters con
 nected with the opening of the fiscal year upon which there IS slightfdiffer- | ence in opinion. The correspondents
 that sent out the sensational matter was doubtless enyious of the notoriety of l'the Sullivan -Kilrain prize fight.
 Public Printer Palmer has appointed A. A. Collins, of the District of Colum-
 bia, Chief clerk of the Government print
 ing office. MT. Collins has beer an em- ployee of the office since his oyh :od and
 will it is generally concedeu, make a a first class chief clerk.
 Secretary Rusk wishes it distinctly | understood that he did not accept a | blooded horse from a prominent citizen | of Maryland, as was reported. Of course i this denial was entirely unnecessary as | far as the people of Wisconsin and the other Northwestern states are concern ed. Those who know Uncle Jerry" best
 say they would not like to stand in the
 shoes of man who attempted to make him present while he was holding an official position.
 An attempt was made this week to get the President to change the pres | ent practice of keeping secret charges | that may be made against an applicant | for office. It was stated to. the Presi- dent that under this rule an applicant for office is deprived of what is granted
 to the meanest criminal; the right of | facing his accuSers and of trying to prove himself innocent. A man may
 not even know that any charges have been filed against him, while some So cret enemy may go to the President with every charge that malice can sug- gest. The President acknowledged that the present rule doubtless bore down pretty hard on many innocent men, but he did not think it advisable to change 1t, because in that case bad cases would slip through because people would ob- lcCI IO J6illuS NndL lIlcy hQeW.
 Mir. Howard A. Taylor, editor and pro
 prietor of the Hudson, Wisconsin, Star
 and Times has been appointed to sue ceed Gen. Jos. E. Johnson whose resig-
 nation has been accepted to take effect the 16th inst. MT. Taylor was sstrongly
 backed for the place by Senators Spoon
 CT and Lawyer and Secretary Rusk
 A good many changes are quietly talk ing place in the departments here. The wedding is being very carefully done. but it is only question of time when it will be thorough and complete.
 Secretary Tracy has issued orders to have the famous old battle ship Con stitution" brought from Portsmouth N. H., to this city, where she will be used as receiving ship. This old vessel has history sufficient to stir the patriotic blood in the veins of the most phleg- matic.
 Among the few appointments this week were the following; U. s. Consuls: | Ex-Congressman Roswell G. Horr of Mi l chigan, at Valparaiso; Emmons Clark, | Colonel of New York's Seventh Regiment l at Havre, and A. J. Sampson, of Colorado | at Acapulco.
 The official announcement is made | that no more appointments are to be | made in the Census bureau until after September 1st.
 Hon. Thomas V. Cooper has been ap- pointed Collector of Customs for the port of Philadelphia.