Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-22
TANNERS UNRULY MEMBER.
His Friends Would Suggest That
Silence Is Golden.
WYooMlco's SHINY psNlzENs.
Myriads OF Eels clog the Mil Wheels
Everyone Busy With Annual
Reports-Tbe President
Mt HIS Message.
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
WAsuINGTON ID q Oct 81

NAohiNnlONs ~. ", SCt, Sts
Naturally there was good deal of talk
around the city to-day, and especially in off,
cial circles, about the controversy between
Secretary Noble and Assistant Secretary
Bussey on the one side, and Corporal Tanner
on the other, over the latter's management
Of the pension office. 1t is understood that
more letters and further correspondence will
be published, and that the subject is likely to
occupy considerable public attention during
the week More feeling is evidently enter
tanned by the parties irectly inter
ested than on the part of the public, for
so far as the body of the people is concerned,
very little feeling is expressed. There is re-
gret among his friends that Commissioner
Tanner has said so much on the subject as
his admirers have very materially decreased
in number. The only result so far as public
opinion is concerned is belief entertained
by good many people that Assistant Secre-
tary Bussey has shown more personal IN
terest than he should have exercised and
some people go 30 far as to say
that his personal interest was based
at the outset upon desire to become COM
missioner of pensions. The most in teresting
part of the correspondence has already been
published and very few persons, if in fact
any one, seriously believes that the Tanner
approaching elections.
LEARNING THE ROPES.
General Raum was occupied to-day in ac-
qu3inting himself with those who have busi-
ness at the pension office and its employees.
He Will adapt himself to the circumstances
and surroundings very rapidly, being familiar
with the routine work of the government
service and with the pension laws. AS soon
as 'he gets the hang of the barn. the work
of the pension Office will go ahead the same
thn,, ,,r1, nNt,a1 bad tn1r al,
intends to enforce the laws upon business
principles, and will be quite as liberal and
fair with the soldiers, their widows and or
phans, as was Commissioner Tanner, yet at
the same time he will not exceed the laws.
MISS TANNER STILL THERE.
Miss Tanner, the daughter of the late COM
missioner, who holds the position of con.
fidential clerk to the commissioner of pen
sions, is at her desk still, although Mr.. w.
H. Scudder, who has long been private
secretary to the commissioner, is now
principal examiner. There will be some new
officers Immediately about the commissioner
and general readjustment of the officers in
the bureau.
FISH STORIES.
Western sportsmen, who delight to handle
the rod and reel, and search for the tinny
tribe should come to Washington. The
water mains hereabouts are filling up with
eels. In some places along the Chesapeake
& Ohio canal, In the district, there are so
many ees that they interfere with the work
iugs of the locks, and the wheels in some of
the old fashioned water mills in streams
hereabouts are reported to be clogged up,
now and then, by this long, slippery and
Shiny species of fish. AT the last session of
the Maryland legislature, a bill was passed
providing for the determination of the cells
in the WycomCo river. and the sum of Sc, 900
was appropriated for the purpose. The state
fish commissioners were instructed to ex-
pond this sum and report the result of their
l,tNl tNl,ntt, hno
they say the nuisance has not been abated.
The money was expended in bounties, 2
cents being paid for each eel delivered to any
of the six inspectors distributed along the
river. The enormous number of 70,0 900 cells
was captured and paid for and Mr.. Toad.
vine, one of the commissioners, says there
are more eels in the Wycomico river to-day
than when he began his work of extermma-
tion. They were any ways from two feet to
an inch in length.
PREPARING THE MESSAGE
There was dead silence around the white
house to-day. Only one caller on public busi-
ness saw the president. The message to
| congress- is being prepared, and not only is
the president denying himself to the public
but nearly every one of his cabinet officers
are also at work upon his annual report.
Secretary Window will be at the treasury
department Tomorrow. He has been work.
ing at his home. Secretary Noble was at
the interior department most of the day, but
he refused to receive callers except upon the
most important business. He is at
the department tonight. When he
can snatch some time from those
who make inquiries about the pension office
and ask for appointments he labors with his
report. The officers In the various terrific
ries and lot of bureau officials have sub
mitted their reports to him, all of which
have to be gone through carefully, and from
them his annual report is compiled.
THE SECRETARY GAINING STRENGTH.
IO..,, unIf fn,l to 11,,
improving IN health. 1t will be some days
yet before he is at his desk in, the whits
house, but he hopes then to have much better
health than heretofore. He and Mrs. Hal
ford intend going to Fortress Monroe to re-
main a week or two.
FOR SERGEANT AT ARMS.
Colonel Swords, of Iowa, now a special
agent of the treasury department, Is candl-
date for sergeant alarms of the lower house
of congress, and republicans dropping in
here from various parts of the country pre-
dict his election. Colonel SWORDS was men
toned for the position of sergeant-at-arms of
the senate but it is conceded by his friends
that he would be stronger in the house.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The time schedule for the Scar mail route
between Oxford and Nyra, Ia, has been
changed as follows: Leave Oxford Tuesdays.
Thursdays and Saturdays at S35 q. M;
arrive at Holbrook by p. m. Leave Hol-
brook Tuesdays, Thursdays and SATURDAYS
at As p. m. arrive at Nyra by 6:35 p. m.
Leave Nyra Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days at a. m. arrive at Holbrook by IL :15
a. IN. Leave Holbrook Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays oy IL noon; arrive at Ok
ford by 5 p. m.
o. b. Courtright was to-day appointed
postmaster at Parkersburg, Butler county,
Iowa.
J. l.. Carney, of Mashalltown, Ia, and
James G. Davis, of Keokuk, Ia, have been
admitted to practice IN the supreme court.
PERRY S. HEATH.