The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-05-24

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Saus lie Is FoIlotcina.

Such 70 the Programme Corporal Tanner
Says He Is Folio,cina.
! Washington special to the Omaha Bee:
"Every appointment | make and every
discharge I make is for reason" said
Pension Commissioner Tanner, to-day.
He was talking about the charges that
he was a political spokesman and was
sacrificing good men in the service that
partisan republicans might be given
places. The commissioner continued:
"Heavens and eartE, / can almost
count on the fingers OF one hand the
discharges / have made on account Of
the change of administration. For those
fifty special examiners discharged 1 have
not appointed a single soul to take their
places. 1 simply cut down the force to
get within the appropriation. There is
lots of work to do il we only had the
money to pay them. I suppose a great
many changes will be made in the med
ical boards throughout the country.
The boys want it done and have a right
to have it done. That is to he expected.
SIbISCo l. cOihD hiaNtO hh i 10
made more or less everywhere, but there
is nothing unusual about that. 1t is al
ways to be expected, but as to the
| changes in the office, you see, [ can't do
anything. All the clerks have to come
from the civil service commission. I
can't appoint any one, except those who
pass the examination, to a clerkship.
You have three or four names sent you
to select from, [ know, but L don't know
anything about any of them. l have the
appointment of twelve chiefs of divisions
and some medical experts, and a lot of
messengers and boys, and to these posi-
tions [ can appoint whoever L choose,
but they don't amount to much, yet they
go right on abusing me Just the same.
"Now, when / came here [ found
three old soldiers who were democrats
at the head of divisions. Instead of
putting them out entirely, [ went to
| Secretary Noble and got him to have a
| special examination for these three men,
as he has a right to. and [ gave them
Notwithstanding positions, of
| course-but better than nothing. They
couldn't expect to retain their places
as chiefs, and [ gave them these posi-
tons for no other reason in the world
than because they were old soldiers.
but for those discharged they abused
me all over the country"
LOVES LABOR WINS.
Although this was cabinet day, and
| there are not many visitors in Washing
ton, President Harrison's private room
was almost crowded full at noon. They
began to pour in shortly after 10 o'clock,
and kept up the inflow until the door
keeper announced that the president
could no more than get through with
those already in before the cabinet
would assemble. During the time the
president was taking his visitors by ro-
tation, receiving their verbal and writ
ten statements and sending them away
more or less happy, he observed q
bright-eyed, f~air-haired young man
who kept moving nervously about in
the crowd and pushing himself to the
front. He ever and anon looked with
great eagerness at the president, and
was trying to catch his eye. Almost m
hour elapsed after the president first
discovered this young man, and his ner-
vousness and eagerness to get an audi
ence began to wear upon the president g
nerves. Finally the visitor boldly
walked out from the crowd. When the
president was released he presented his
card and began to address himself to
the chief executive. He said:
"Somer time ago [ made application
for an appointment. [ want it awfully
bad. don't care for it myself, but the
fact is, Mr.. President" and the young
man blushed to the tips of his hair, 81
am engaged to be married, and unless [
get this appointment the engagement
wont stand. There you have it and now
you know why [ am SC anxious" The
president was taken aback, and although
amused for the instant, the statement
went to his heart. He at first was a
little out of patience, but the evident
%painfulness of the situation elected his
sympathy, and the card with the name
of the office desired was laid in q promi-
nent position on the desk.
COMPLAINTS AGAINST AGENT wARNER.
Complaints are filed with Secretary
| Noble against the alleged arbitrary &C
ton of Agent Warner of the Winnebago
and Omaha tribes, toward the white
men, leasing lands of the Indians on
| that reservation, and an investigation is
likely to follow. The lands embraced
in the strip ceded to Nebraska in 1882
by the government, north of and on the
| Niobrara river, are rich and much COW
eted, but If the Nebraska legislature has
accepted the session, the presidents
proclamation must issue ere these lands
can be thrown open, and the Indians
have the first right to select lands in
| s~everalty.
TURN OVER THE ARCHIVES.
The abolition of the office of surveyor
general of Nebraska and Iowa, during
the last congress, gave the commissioner
of the general land Office power under
the revised statutes, to control the sur
veys. ETC., of the public domain in those
states, subject to the power of the legis-
latures of those states to pass an act
turning over the maps, plats, etc, TO
such state officers as the legislatures
might designate, whereupon the power
of the commissioner classed under the
law. The Nebraska legislature passed
an act last winter turning over the
aforesaid archives to the commissioner
| of public lands, and Senator Henderson
has asked Commissioner Stockslager to
issue the necessary order.