Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1899.

iieb coming ONT Oh the White I1OuSt
e by your correspondent, and asked
\ what i'll the deuce he WAS doing in
4 lhat gang of place hunters. sob, l
simply called To say good bye to my
old friend Benjamin Harrison, as /
!. am afraid these fellows will worry
him 10 death in their mad hu,.r for
| office before return to Iya,bing.
ton Then rs Mr.. Cox was ler,iug
; hn added ''''i feel well; very IN ecu
t be tier than II little while ago. !
have been through the valley of She
sho COW of political death with he
ress oil the Democrats, and now III
otf or Il lncturing tour through In
dinna- Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and
hanst s.. Something to make the
folks mile, you know, while ga, her
i'll IL Little money. trust tina l
shall get no moro eggs than pay
| for
Mr.. Ca nnady, the scrgcant.nt arms
of the u;ted States Senate. M Il Il
good Jc hn Sherman Republican, is
charged - Senator Jones, of Neya 81,
cz Senate : Dlahnnc, Warner Nj ...r
aud Rep ,escntative West, of New
York, WIZ swindling and forgcr, III
connection with his management OF
the Nor.h Carolina Oil aud Creos O &c
Compar COATED at Wilmington, u.
q. Ii IL $50 stated that Gamma lly
is indebted to other Senators to t,le
amount ri 100000 or moro for Dor
rowcd IN onny. With tho usunl ai-
dacity OF men of his kind Cams d,ly
says that W ucn the case il settle Il it
will have no effect upon his ''pers ,na,l
integrity
The ~ p''blicans have always hecn
notorious .or their Willingness to
nuke MS at all times of Tn i1ed
States vci sells for private plea SIRE
parties ~ d being out OF power f:r
four year, aud without II prece lie at
tor that l' Myth OF limo has 1ot
changed th EN- particle in tn $ 70.
spcct. On Saturday Afternoon AS.
s.stant ) 20 .etury OF the Urea ST. ~
llchcnor to- TX IL party Of friends IL, I'm
here to .i'ai timora, where they ;,ot
aboard th 9 J. 5. revenue cuttel a..
Lame, and ST urted on IL tsip to c il, ISL,
pcakc bay Which lasted from Su n. lay
morning 90 Monday morning. Al
other &c vei'nmcnt vessel. tho Ii 1ht
house tor ,de., Holly, bus been !, ipg
Mt the wi ari here, Whiting for IT, rec
days to AIRY President Harris Oh on
u plcasu re trip down tho Pot ii aac.
This loo Ia like rather early ,ivnl
oil the Ia abuses. by summe hall
n dozer vessels will be needle Il for
the VA ic'is members of the nd m mis-.
tratio' !, Tor their families and Fl i, nds.
And ts,e people will foot the b lla.
sc GATOR John Sherman he IS lust
prov c.i himself bigger" MAJ with
mo administration than RepI es enta-
tiv s Mckinley and Benjaln IN But
te' worth combined. Ohio .iad two
co ndidntos for the position d Sixth
p .nditor OF the Treasury. Clne was
sacked Ivy Senator Sherman an i the
other by Messrs. Mckinley Il Id But
tArworih. The Sherman M II, Mr..
Coulter. has just been appoin.sd-
Land Commissioner Stoc ks lager
fears there will be trouble in Okla
homa lie says that only bout
10000 homesteads can be ell, cred
under the Presidents proclnma ton,
aud ne has every reason to bt lieve
that at least 100000 persons vii eli
ter the country within thirty days
from its opening next Monday.
The new administration is q aking
II record for itself Oh tho s., ilsion
question. 1t is going faster tin All the
most radical had amy idea that ii
would Il short tiino ago, and no man
can ut this time foresee the Al. AS
sisiant Secretary Bussey, of the In
terror Department, before hom ap.
peais from the the decisions OF the
Commissioner OF Pensions - heard,
seems to Guido the Corpora i'll his
construction OF the laws app III ed to
pensions. Ii is estimated Il at the
decisions of the late Commission err
Gen. Black-which Bussey LA al
ready reversed, will cost the gov ern.
ment more than &1,000,000. He
should change his name to Bus .er
Tic "Corporal,' not to DO Out dc me
by his superior officer, made an or, lct
last week that will cost moro til az
'"''oOo II ' vail L hS 1pilO"IbS IL He
order: when pensioncr is di a
bled in n hand or foot i'll deyr ee
, emitting him to S24 month u1id ell
/ the act of March 5, 1883, such pc II
, sioner shall by reason OF that fact ,e
$ entitled to the rate OF $50 mon; h
+ under the ect of August 4, 1885,
S Nearly 500 pensioners get an increa c
of S72 year by this order. and a,..
rears from August i, 1886.
} "Tho noblest Roman OF them all, -
: Allen &. Thurman, late Democr lti c
candidate for Vice President, was n
Washington last week on legal b isl.
e ness. The old gentleman was look
: ing well and feeling well with the
h exception of slight rheumatism in his
Il legs. In conversation with Il friend