The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
Democratic Incompetents in the Pension and
Other Bureaus of the Interior Department
Must Seek Employment Elsewhere.
A Probability that the Three New Gum
boats Will Be Found Faulty in Plan.
Points in Which State Courts and Legislatures
Are Supreme Treasurer Huston Piles His
Bond General Washington News.
NOBLE AND TANNER.
They Are Agreed that Democratic Incompc-
tents Will Not BE Retained.

They Are Agreed that Democratic Incompc-
tents viii Not BE Retained.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April s.-"There is not the
slightest foundation for the story going the
rounds of the press that l. have found it
necessary to issue an order checking Com
missioner Tanner in his onslaught on Dem
ocratlc employees of the Pension Office"
said Secretary Noble TO your correspond
ent this afternoon, land 1 want to say.
further, and to emphasize it, that when I
issued the order requesting heads of bureaus
to first submit their demands for resigna-
tions of Offices to me, i did not have
Commissioner Tanner, or his Office, or any
of his acts in my mind. The fact is that up
to that date, Commissioner Tanner had
only requested three designations. If l
know the politics of the Commissioner of
the Pension Office, and think do" con-
tinued Secretary Noble, 'they are not one
whit more radical than my own, and are
exactly my ideas. as well as those of the
Commissioner. He is an able man, an ex-
cellent officer, and am In thorough accord
with him, even in the matter of making re-
movals of incompetent or inefficient Demo-
Gratis and the selection of Republicans.
Neither of us makes secret of the fact
that In reorganizing the Pension Office
and the entire Interior Department, Repub-
licans are to be preferred just as far as pos
sible. in order that the good of the service
is not overlooked. We want the best pos
sible service. and in getting it we intend to
favor Republicans. Since that order was
issued-which was intended TO apply to all
branches of the service which / control
Commissioner Tanner has made quite a
number of recommendations for changes IN
his bureau, and, so far as L can remember,
i have promptly respected every one OF
them. He believes In turning out the
ex-cOnfederates wherever more competent
Union soldiers can be employed, and he
wants to institute liberal policy toward
the pension applicants. Those are the
views / also entertain"
'Is it true" asked. "that at the end of
from the rolls the 80 special examiners in
the field. all of whom are understood to be
Democrats"
Eyes, and great many more Democrats
will go. The work Of turning out Demo-
Gratis will not stop there"
do you advocate the retention of a DEM
ocrat on each of the medical pension boards
throughout the countryi"
THAT will be matter of policy, left en-
tirely TO the Commissioner. and may add
that do not intend to interpose any objec-
tions. so far as / see now, to the institution
of any policy that he may desire. Surely
shall not if it is a question of being more
liberal with pensioners recognizing Repub-
llcans to the exclusion of Democrats and
perfecting better general service"
This shows that there is the very closest
and most harmonious feeling existing be-
tween the Secretary of the Interior and the
Commissioner of Pensions.