Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, July 20. 1889.


complete as it did Several of tin
anti-Mahone people have been her,
kicking" us hard as ever and inli
mating that it will be necessary T.,
give them something nice in tn,
shape of un Office in order to max,
them as harmonious as MIR. Brad,
who got $! 800 position. IL is alst
said that Imngston, the negro who i.
now contestant for scat in Con
greSs from the Fourth district
(''black belt'O thl eatens TO make
trouble unless he is well taken care
OF. On the whole the Democrats
here do not think there will be much
trouble in their carrying the State as
usual
This is n free county, and yet every
now aud then the law steps in. II,
some shape OF other us TO give for
elSncrs somewhat queer idea of
freedom. One of those cases lns
Just been brought to light by IL de.
cision of the Treasury department.
that book-keeper brought from
England by an English firm with
branch house in New York city must
be sent back to England, Us his be.
ing brought over her under contract
was Il violation Of The alien labor law
1t was Gen. Grant, [ believe, who
sad The quickest way TO get an OBJ
noS'ous law repealed WAS to strictly
enforce .,
All eorIs OF rul- "'o oo'icut -
regard TO the startling u-. @coVerios
being made by the commission 10" ,
investigating The rorntiugof pensions
10y tue pension Office. The most Of
these rumors are undoubtedly based
'ou The frightened talk of the iInpli
Gated employees of the pension Office,
for the members of the commission
are not likely to do any talking until
their official report has been handed
in to Secretary Noble. 1t is gener-
ally believed that there has been II
good deal OF crool;edness in this bus
iness, and that quite IL large number
of the employees OF the Office have
been engaged in il. but whether they
can be punished further than to be
made to disgorge the money Illegally
obtained is question. The report
OF The commission is anXiouslv look
ed for, The people want to know
whether tho facts arc to shown up or
the white wash brush applied.
John Wanainakcr, merchant, does
not seem to have much influence
with the officials OF The Treasury dc.
psrtment, who have just rejected an
appeal that he took from the dcci.
sion OF the Collector OF Customs nj
Philadelphia rs to the rate of duty
to be paid on certain imported ner.
chandiso.
Commissioner Tanner now denies
that he ever said he was opposed to
the policy of paying 81 aud SO and
81 per mouth pensions, and has or
dered big pension firm of New
York and Chicago to stop sending
out circular winch quotes news.
paper interview wherein the commits.
sioner is made to express these sen
timents. The Same thing was pub.
lished here when Mr.. Tanner first
took The office.
The civil service law is getting
some very hard knocks around Wash.
ington just now Ex-Postnaste,
General Frank Hattop. who is now
the editor of The Washington Post, is
leading the opposition, and the State
Republican Associations arc doing
all they can to assist him. Hatton
charges that the law always has been
and is now being iuggled with bv
the appointing powers. He wants
the law repealed bat pending that he
would like to see it strictly enforced.
The administration is having q
lively time with the patronage in the
South. Every appointment made
raises lot of ''kickers." The fight
for the control of the patronage in
Louisiana, is red hot between Repre-.
sentative elect Coleman and Hcrwio,
the Louisiana lottery man. IT is 10
be settled at the convention which Is
to nominate a candidate candidate
Tor Congress to run ill the district OF
the late Representative Gay Her
wig and Coleman both have been
candidates and The w;nno,. 80