The Springdale news., 1889-10-04
TANNER TALKS.
A CONFIDENTIAL LETTER TO DAL. FELL ON THEPENSION MUDDLE.
A Dead Give Away on Harrison and NOble-The La atter Forced Tanner Out-The COrpOraTs Fault
 Vas Ills "Liberality."
Special to The Republic.

Special to The Republic.
 CALDWELL, O., Sept. 25.-Privatt DalzJll to-day eopfded To your cor respondent what IS doubtless the most important letter that et Com missioner Tanner has written since his retirement The letter is strict ly private and confidential one, but Private Dalzell feels justified in using 1t to justify himself to h,s friends and to expose the hollow " humbuggery Of administration promises. He said in explanation of Tanners letter.
 eJohn Sherman and Congress- nan Taylor told me Gin writing) that the President said that he left my aPpointm ent solely with Tan ner last May. The President also said the same in writing to me. Tanner wrote me he WAS willing This makes this letter clear. The other letters are ali resoy for the press In their call. My letter-box never misses fire or fails to come to time.
 "It seems to me that I owe it to myself, after nay shameful betrayal, to let the public kno W how the mat ter stands, and to expose to the world the real reason why the promise to make mo deputy com missioner was broken. It will prob ably throw light on other matters, too. One thing is certain; it will solve the pension muddle quickly and sharply.
 "The authenticity of Corporal Tanners letter is uEdoGbtcd. The original IS ln my hands and is for warded to The Republic bv mail to- night in order that there may be no room for question on the point. 1t is as follows"
 The Letter.
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
 OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER WAsn;SGroS, D C., Sept. l9. 1889
 CONFIDENTIAL
 HoS. J. Nj. DALzELL, Caldwell, O,--MY DEAR DALzELk i have yours of the l6th. 1 think 1 have read all that has been printed @as coming from your lips OF pes. For your great warmth of good feeling thank you from the bottom of my heart.
 And now, once and for all, about the dcputyship. l want to say to yoa that the President never a2id one word a1odu yoH. cannot come out and say that publicly; you must not quote il; but it IS Gods ruth. The one appointed first deputy was from Noble's State, and had lost two limbs. Of course, I could rot kick.
 imagine that your keen eye has caused you 10 discern, and that you are contemplating tho effect in Ohio, of two things recently done in the pension office. When l say recently, 1 mean since I practically went out, for, while am Comm1s- sioner. and will be until my success sor is appointed and qualities, l am taking no part in the duties of the office, holding myself on leave, While Commissio Ter I issued two orders which I thought, and still think, were mighty good ones, first, that the 33,000 men on the pension roll at less than S4 month should all, unless they had had me dical examination within ayear, be or dered for examination before their home board, with view to putting them up to at least S4 per month penslon or drop them off the roll; for it was and IS my opinion that for man who is worthy of any pension ct all dollar week is small enough 10 consider pension.
 My second order was that there after, in the settlement oi pension claim, the word of pr,vate. if he was man of good character and standing, should amount to as much ', thn oattian apf nf ina claim as