The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-10
HARRISON READS HISTORY.

bis HoIlcy to be Outlined to an Extr
Session of Congress-The Southern
Question Thoroughly Studied
Reduction of Tariff Taxes to
be Stoutly Opposed.
New York World.
INDIASAPOLIs, IND, Dec. 27.-Gen
Harrison has stuck: close to business t.
day, and the brief fashion in which ht
dismissed the West Virginia delegation
is plain enough proof that be does MOI
propose to let the week that he has set
aside for prayer and Cabinet medita.
tion be invaded or broken in upon by
random visitors who have this or that
political interest. The World CORES
pondent called at the Harrison house
this afternoon and found Secretary
Halford monarch of all he surveyed.
Gen. Harrison had gone out for walk
in the swapping cold weather to rest
his head after a long and hard days
work.
"What is the General doing?" was
asked Of Secretary Halford.
The conscience which the private
secretary. good Methodist that he is,
presumably possesses, must prick him
now and then. His apparent utter lack
of knowledge about the occupations of
the President-elect makes even himself
laugh. Visitors whoIhave had occasion
to interrogate him have noticed his
bland condition of non-committed
evasiveness. They say one would
suppose 'Lige and the President-elect
were busy upon matters entire separate
and remote. He has guileless, ingenu-
Gus, faraway fashion Of saying: II
really don't know, but it might be So
and-so.n
To-day, therefore, when asked how
Harrison was spending his week OF
seclusion, the secretary answered: II
really don't know; but I should" -
as it on his inaugural?"
"Well, I am not certain. know he
is reading good DEAL"
BY persistence The World correspond
ent managed to find out thing or two
about what actually had been going on
in the back library. The long and short
of it is this: Gen. Harrison is getting
up historical inaugural. He has given
the Cabinet less thought than is gene
rally believed, but has decided the
attitudes he will assume upon the great
issues. He has heard the presentation |
of all sides of the Southern question |
with which he has for years kept pace.
Upon Senatorial admission his record |
is well known. Regarding tariff revi-
sion ne is rooted and grounded in |
Protection, and is quoted as not fully !
satisfied even. with the Senate bill. The |
amendments that Senator Spooner
predicted last night will be, it is believ-
ed, the suggestions Of the President
elect. In reality, he is probably not in
favor of tariff bill at all as an econo-
mical measure, but rather is apt to
come out fiat-footed for the expendi-
ture of the surplus in internal improve
ments, which would go further than
any other step towards smashing the
solid South.
The great task which Harrison has
set before himself, the best observers
agree here is to get the tariff lost sight
OF in the ado about Southern recogni-
ton. 1t is more than likely that Gen.
harrison let fall the actual truth when
ne told the Brooklyn visitors two weeks
ago that Congress would probably be
IN session on Memorial Day. At that
session he would launch the message,
his policies, but the inaugu.
raj address will, as Secretary Halford's
scant talk this afternoon indicated, be
q historical study, written from the
centennial standpoint. It will be a
careful review of the nations develop
mcnt since the first Inauguration of
making the birth and
growth Of great movements and great
ssues. 1t will trace the influences con-
to the present status and set
.orth the"Conditions thatsconfront us,n
bus leaving the field ready for the pro-
ection of the Pesldent-elect's solutions
Il his message to Congress in its extra
session.
"You hnow,' said Mr.. Halford to-day I
the year 1889 is the hundredth ami
'ersary of the Washington inaugural $
ION, and in view Of that General J
7arrison's reading is in that line"
"What does that reading consist Of"
To-day he has been reading Wash {
ngton Irving's Life of Washington
nd one or two other books treating of +
he same era"
The way he has begun at the begin 7
ing speaks we'll for the thoroughness I
With which the job is to be done.
TIRED OF BENG FED on HUsKS. :