Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.



President Harrison fitted into
town Friday and out again Saturday
afternoon. The horde of pop-hunters
scented the game from afar and mndo
n charge on the White House. There
WIS weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth when the hungry crowd
was informed that the President
could not be seen, and the AGONY
was piled on wien they discovered
that this was probably the last time
President Harrison would come to
Washington before October. Satur-
day afternoon about the time that
President and Mrs. Harrison and
private Secretary Hnlford were start
ing for Deer Park in the private car
of President Meyer, of the b. e. o.
r. r., half dozen insignificant ap
pointments were announced.
The President and wife go to In
dianapo!is this week for the first
time since the head of tho house be-
came our chief magistrate. / don't
know how the old man is feeling
about the trip, but it is no violation
of confidence to say that Mrs. Harli-
son is delighted and she would be
still moro delighted if she was return
ing to stay, for she has never ceased
to be homosick and to Pine for her
quiet house i'll Indianapolis.
The commission appointed to ne.
gotiatc for the purchase of the Cher
okcc strip i'll Indian Territory has
notified the Interior Dopal tmcnt
chat nothing else can be done until
their offer of 81 25 por aero is sub
mitted TO tho Cherokee annual coun-
Gil which meets in November.
am informed by one who l think
knows, that the extra session of Con-
gross will be called for October 81 OF
rs. 1t is likely to be memorable
session. Already tho prophecy has
been made by a well known Demo
crat that if the Republicans of the
House attempt to change tho rules
so they can admit I'LL the contestants
belonging to their party it will cause
continuous session TO the 18th of
March, 1891, when the Fifty-first
Congress expires 10y limitation. That
is probably an extreme view, but all
the signs Indicate very bitter polit-
ical wrangle over The rules of the
House
Commissioner Tanner reiteratcs
that tho personal relations between
himself and Secretary Noble are the
pleasantest. He admits that there
are official differences. 1t would be
useless to deny it when hardly day
passes that the Secretary does not in
some manner override or change
some decision of tho Commissioner.
Just previous to the first of July Mr..
Tanner decided that pension agents
might make needed increases in their
clerical force i'll excess of the money
appropriated for that purpose and
that he would ask Congress for an
appropriation covering the deficiency.
As soon as the Secretary's attention
was called to this he notified the pen.
sion agents that their clerical forces
must be reduced to correspond to
the appropriation by Congress and
that ho did not consider it lawful to
make deficiency by employing ad-
ditional clerks. Tho next move by
the Secretary that seems to reflect
upon both the Commissioner of Pen.
sions and tho commission now en-.
gagged in investigating the re.rating
of pensions was to order all the evil
dcnce in the rcrating of Senator
Nlandcrson's pension brought to his
office when he could make personal
examination of it. 1t seems very
certain that unless the official rela-
tons of these two mon are soon
changed that one or tho other will
have to retire to private life. AS it
! is now their opinions are too wide