The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-07-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

HAS uceH dppoluecu chiel VI Vic HAL
and files division of the Treasury
department, and will enter on his
duties today. The salary attached
to the office Is $1,000 or 50, 400, and
the position nearly ranks with that
of deputy auditor, which was, it is
sand, originally sought by Mr.. Mich
OILS.
Political sensations and very warm
weather do not usually go together
in Washington, but this week is an
exception, for although the Their.
mometer has been dancing around
IN the nineties all the week, We have
had a real genuine sensation. At
first it was given out that Secretary
Noble had peremptorily removed
Pension Commissioner Tanner on
account of the way in which he had
been running the Pension Office.
Then it was stated that Tanner had
resigned because the Secretary had
reprimanded him and Assistant
Secretary Bussey. Both of these
reports turned out to have been
wrong. Mr.. Tanner has neither
been removed, nor has he resigned.
But one or the other may yet occur.
as the relation between the Secre-
tary and the Commissioner are de-
cidedly straight. The day after
Tanners return from his western
trip he received a summons from
Secretary Noble to come at once to
his private Office. Arrived there he
found Assistant Secretary Bussey,
who has charge of the appeals from
the pension Office and who is in
sympathy with the Commissioner,
ideas, and Secretary Noble. An
animated discussion Was at once be
gun with Tanner and Bussey on one
side, and Noble on the other. IL Is
said that the Secretary gave them
both to understand in the plainest
sort Of language, that they were
subordinates of his. And right
here is, | understand, the root of the
whole trouble. The Secretary has
no serious objection to anything
that Tanner has done, but he OBJ
jects to Tanners way Of doing them
He wants the fact impressed on the
mind Of the public that the Pension
bureau is a part Of the department
of the Interior, and that he Noble
is at the head of that department
Mr.. Harrison has gone to join hi
family at Deer Park. II is given
out at the White House that he vii
spend very little time here for thu
rest of the warm weather. not ovel
two days a week at the outside
This is taken TO mean that very few
Presidential appointments will b,
made between now and September
Public Printer Palmer has taker
his cue from the President and il
going very slow in making new ap
pointments. He has just made th'
most important in his gift-ch'e,
clerk and the members Of his part,
do not like 1t, although the gentle
man appointed is arepublican. DIR
Collins, the lucky man, entered III,
office as an apprentice, served hi
time and was afterwards detailed 70
clerical work. He has been 70
several years head book-keeper an
was not an applicant for the chic
clerkship.
SIR. Harrison has positively re
! fused to give office seekers the name
Of parties that make charges agains
them. He says 10 do so would be /
brighten other people aud proven
their telling Of bad things the
might know aboutfuture applicant,
Secretary Blaine will be repre-
-ented at the State department an
Ill September by his son. Walker
who returned from Bar Harbor thi
week. ! understand that Mr.. liar
rison will visit Mr.. Blame at Ba
IIart,or ~ soon a. he can find tim
, 10 map out his first message 10 Con
gress.
4 new division has been establish
n A