Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-14
THE PENSION OFFICE.
Democrats and MugyuInps Seeking The Removal Of Commissioner Tan ner.--Ihe Charleston--Eailw Mail Service.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 6, 1889.

 Secretary Noble is understood to b'
 engaged in considering the report of th'
 Commission which recently investigated
 the Pension office. and many rumors art
 flying around as to what his action vii ! be. Democrats insist that the Secreta- | rv will ask for Commissioner Tanners
 resignation, and so persistent are they that many republicans hay been convinc ed that Tanner will go. l have spent
 much time in Investigating this rumor and have no hesitation in saying that
 there is not the slightest foundation for it. Ever since the first day that Mr. Tanner took charge cf the Pension of | flee there has been a systematic and per
 sistent fight made against him by the
 democratic and mugwump press, and for Ho known reason n the world except his veil known friendship and sympathy for the ex-unicn soldier, and ! am per fectly satisfied that the President will never allow himself to be influenced by such opposition. Unless something more than in nov shall transpire Com missioner Tanner will remain in charge of the Pension office during the present
 administration.
 It is likely that the contractors who built the crusier Charleston will have to
 pay penalty of S30,000 on account of a deficiency in the horse power contracted for In view of the vessel being in other
 respects satisfactory 1t is probable that the contractors will ask Congress to re- lieve them of penalty.
 Mr. A. F. Childs, of Ohio, was prom inent candidate for Public Printer, has been appointed chief clerk of the Census bureau. Mr. Childs was formerly chief clerk of the government printing office, where he made an excellent record.
 4 general conference of the superin
 tendents of the railway mail service has been in session at the post office depart ment this week The conference Is at tended by peTintendents from all over the country, and is held to promote the efficiency of the railway mail service. Speeches have been made by Postmas- ter-General Wannamaker. his assistants and General Superintendent Bell. A similar conference was held eight years ago and great benefits were derived therefrom. It is impossible to improve this service too much.
 Ex-Congressmau Little of Ohio, who has just been appointed to represent the United States on the Venezuela claims commission. Is here. In reply to ques- tion as to the outlook of Ohio, he said: II think Governor FCraker will be re- elected and If l am not mistaken the State will witness one Cf the heaviest democratic defeats on record. The re- publicans will force the fighting on the tariff issue. It is difficult fer an outsider to realize to what an extent Ohio has become a manufacturing state. She stands next as producer of iron to Penn sylvauia. and m one year exceeding her"
 Hon. Thomas II. NOrwood, of Georgia, eX-senatOr and representative, made q statement here this week in a news paper interview in regard to Southern politics. which if made by republican would have raised a general howl from the Potomac to the Rio Grand. He said: "Ninety-nine out Q every hun dred of the intelligent people of the south are tariff reformers. The great mass of the people don't know what tariff is. They follow the ninety-nine."
 W ldJ dH GOullSSlOn JO lldkS. NJOUlO furnish stronger proof of the fact that has often before been stated, but always denied by Southern rews- papers, that the great mass of the south ern people get their opinions ready made from few of Mir. Norwood' d's'intelligent people" And could any statement more fully demonstrate the wisdom of the leaders of the republican party in de- termining to teach the masses of the south what the tariff is. When the next Presidential election comes along Mr. Norwood will discover that ''the great mass of the people in the South have found out what the tariff is, and like the people in other sections of the country have opinions of their own thereon.
 The southern republican members of the House will vote for no candidate | for speaker that will not pledge himself l to ondeavor to secure the passage of a bill repeating the tobacco tax law.
 The democrats have been badly dis | appointed by John NJ Lanston, the col | bred man upon whom they relied to keep ] the colored vote of the fourth district of | Virginia (black belt away from Mahone l Langston is out in a letter saying that | he is a republican and will support the | nominees of his party.