The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-14
THE CAPITOL.
LETTER FROM OUR REGULAR
CORRESPONDENT

LETTER FROM OUR REGULAR
CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, j. c., Aug,1O, 1889.
Secretary Noble is just now hold
ing the fort all alone, he being the
only member of the cabinet in the
city. The rest Of them are scatter.
ed around about as follows: Secre-
taries Blaine and Tracy are with
the President at Bar Harbor; Sec
rotary Window is in Boston look.
ing after some complicated custom
matters; Secretary Proctor is at
his Vermont home; Secretary Rusk
is in New York city endeavoring to
make arrangements with the rail-
road managers that will facilitate
the Government inspection Of all
shipments of live cattle; Postmas.
ter General Wanamaker is at his
country residence in Pennsylvania,
and Attorney General Miller is in
Indianapolis, where he will meet
the President on the % d inst, and
return with him to Washington
after the laying of the cornerstone
Of the soldiers new monument In
that city.
All payments Of bills against the
Government for work done by the
telegraph companies have been
suspended until some agreement
shall be reached as to the price to
be paid. Mr.. Wanamaker still
sticks to his first opinion that one
mill per word is enough, while the
telegraph companies insist that
they lose money at the present rate
of one cent per word.
A very interesting story has been
floating around Washington for q
day or two, which belongs to the
important, if true" class. 1t states,
on seemingly good authority, that
the President has decided to ap-
point Secretary Noble to the vacan-
cy on the bench of the Supreme
Court, and that the vacancy in the
Cabinet will be filed by either
making Assistant Postmaster
Clarkson Secretary of the Interior,
or by transferring Mr.. Wanamaker
to that position and making Mr..
Clarkson Postmaster General. Sec
rotary Noble says he heard this
news first from a newspaper man.
That gives it very black eye to
start with. The President like all
other sensible public men Is very
friendly towards the newspaper
men, but he is hardly friendly
enough towards them to have told
one of them of such an important
appointment before informing the
man to be appointed. So much for
the first part of the story. As
neither Mr.. Wanamaker nor Mr.
Clarkson are lawyers it is certain
that neither of them will ever be
made Secretary of the Interior by
President Harrison, for he long aye
put himself on record as believing
that only lawyer should be at the
head of that department. Tha
disposes of the last part of the yarn
Secretary Noble on Wednesday
received the following telegram
from Ex-Governor Foster, chair
man of the commission which ha
been negotiating for the purchase
of portion of the great Sioux In
dian reservation in Southern DakO
ia: ave have won the fight. W.
leave tomorrow for Chicago. Will
write you fully from Chicago"
The dispatch was forwarded t
the President at Bar Harbor. Gov
ernor Fosters colleague on tn
commission are Maj. Gen. Crook
U. s. A., and Hon. William Warne
of Missouri. When the agreemen
just arranged by this commission i.
approved by Congress, which it i
certain TO be, about 100000 acre
of land will be opened to settlement,
The Government is TO pay the In
dams $1.25 per acre for all land
sold to homestead settlers for tn
first three years after the act goe
into effect, % cents per acre for al
disposed of in the next two year
following, and so cents per acre 70
what remains undisposed of at tn
end of that time.
Assistant Attorney Gen eral Ty
ner, in response to a letter of il
quiry for the Chief Clerk of tn
Postofiice department, has write
that when three names are certifie
by the Civil Service Commissio
for appointment, and one of ther
is a discharged sailor or soldier h