Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-23
IT'S TOO SILLY TO Be FUNNY.
Tanner on the Exhaustion of the
Pension Fund.
HAS NO QUARREL WITH HARRISON
Quay and the President Are Not Out
More Floating Rumors of Cab
met Changes-Wash-
ington News.
WASHINGTON BUREAU, THE OMAHA BEE,
Ol3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
WAsuINGToN ID q Nav 2,

5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
WASHINGTON, ID. C., May %. J
A good deal of cheap capital has been made
by democratic newspapers out of the an
nouncement that all pensions had been
drawn from the treasury and that there is
no more money to pay pensions. Commits
sioner Tanner to-day took the trouble to ex-
plode this announcement, and to make it
ridiculous.
He said "Certaiuly, there is no more
money in the treasury department for the
payment of pensions now, and the appropria-
tion is exhausted 80 far as the vaults of the
treasury are concerned. But this is true
only of the appropriation for the fiscal year
ending June Both next. 1t is true also that
the money is now resting quietly in the de-
positories of the United States, subject TO
the requistion of pension agents. What was
the money appropriated for If it was not to
pay pensionsi Is not the appropriation for
pensions or anything else always exhausted
at the end of the fiscal years The
law coutempates that it shall be
exhausted We took the money
out of the treasury the other day
and put it in the United States repositories
so that it could be Ieached easily by pension
agents. So you see, the idea that the last
appropriation for pensions has already been
exhausted by that reckless spendthrift, Tan
ner,' is too SILLY to be funny, and the demo-
cratic newspapers have wasted their thunder.
| But l intend to call attention to the fact that
| General Black refused to ask the last con-
gress for more than $50, 900, 900 for the fiscal
year, although the secretary of the interior
| told HIM that Sl0,000,000 or Sl5,0 900 more
would be required to meet the demand. If
| there was deficiency in the last appropra
| tion for pensions it would be the fault of the
| man who failed to ask congress to give him
| sufficient money"
| THERE is NO QUARREL.
An intimate personal friend of Senator
| Quay who dined with that gentleman the
| other night and has been in his company
almost constantly for several days, made
| this remarkable statement to your cores
| pondent this afternoon:
"There has been no quarrel between Sena-
tor Quay and the president. No harsh words
have passed between them. The senator,
however, has been greatly pleased to see the
reports in the newspapers throughout the
country that there was a difference between
him and the president and that he would
ask no more favors at the white house. He
has encouraged, by his refusal to talk and
his peculiar actions, the circulation of these
reports. His object in desiring the impress
sion to gain currency that he was out with
the president ana the administration was
to rid himself of officeseekers He believed
| that If the people thought he had no favors
l to" ask at the hands of the president and
had ceased to- visit the executive depart
ments he would be rid of the army of Office
seekers which surrounds him almost con
stantly. Although Senator Quay has been
in Washington several days his most init
mate friends cannot find him. He is in con
| stant hiding and when he goes about the
streets it is in closed carriage. When he
goes TO his lodging at night it is by back
way, from which he emerges IN the morning
as mysteriously as barn burner. If Sena
tor Quay did not do this he could not eat OF
l oil Ac 1pnf 10 rnoi1 lrpn
| he was beseiged continually from early
morning till after midnight by Office seekers .
| FLOATING GOSSIP
| Another interesting bit of gossip was float
ing around the hotels and departments, to-
day, in connection with the alleged changes
which are soon to take place in the cabinet
| consequent upon the filing the vacancy on
| the bench of the supreme court of the United
| States. 1t was stated that when Attorney.
| General Miller is appointed to the bench OF
the supreme court General Goff, of Yves,
| Virginia, will become attorney general; that
| General Goff expects to be counted out of the
governorship of West Virginia by the com
mission which is now in session for the pur
pose of determining whether the democrat
| or republican is entitled to the office. AS 9
| kind of dustin the furrow" to the report, II
was rumored that Judge Woods, of the fed
eral court of Indiana, would be appointed tc
| the Matthews vacancy, and that Attorney
| General Miller would retain the position he
now occupies.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
This evenings Star says: "Mr. Russell
| Harrison is considering an offer of w. j.
| Arkell to take an active part IN the editoria
direction of Frank Leslie's Weekly. Tht
climate of Montana does not agree with Mrs
| Harrison, and she is anxious to move Il
| New York"
The commissioner of pensions, to day, ap
| pointed the following to compose the boarC
medical pension examiners at Guthrie Cen
ter, Ia: Drs. j. X. Dosh, Il. L. Bowen ant
| Oscar Fordyce.
The comptroller of the currency has au
thorized the organization of the Firs
National bank, of Shelton, Neb., capita
$50, 900; George Melsner, president; Mark G.
Lee, cashier.
G. w. Burnett and wife, of Lincoln, arc
at the St. James. PERRY S. HEATH.