The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-11-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our regular correspondent

tFrom our regular correspondent
Washington, Oct. 28, 1889.
Secretary Noble seems to be able to
get into more trouble than all the rest
of the administration together. The
idea seems to be getting into peoples
heads that he is a good deal like the
man on the jury who got mad because
the other eleven obstinate fellows kept
him away from his wife all night.
Another idea that is making friends
among the working republicans, is to
bring about state of things that will
enable Mr.. Noble to appreciate the
feelings of man who receives a kick
from the Presidential boot. In plain
words, a movement has started among
republicans, TO drive Noble out Of the
Cabinet, and from certain things, / am
inclined to believe that it will eventu
ally succeed, but not without desper-
ate fight on the part of the Secretary.
Here's an extract from letter received
by NJ. Noble from a New York re-
publican, who in Iesigning the Office of
Special Examiner Of the pension Office,
used language that caused Mr.. Noble
to refuse to accept the resignation and
to reno We the writer:
81 am free to say, personally you are
puppet, officially sycophant, and
individually a coward and craven. ]
simply desire to say that l will place
my letter and all my relations with
you before the President. If he aus.
tains you, as l suppose he will, l shall
be only confirmed in the general con-
clusion that he has selected you, and
some others of your caliber, TO misrep-
resent the men who made it possible
for Benjamin Harrison to insult the
nation by putting you 10 place which
neither your services nor character
could justify, and which your whole
personality is proof positive that a
violence to every sense of decency and
proprlety, was attended by your selec.
tiou.'
Representative Joe Cannon has vir-
tually thrown up the sponge in th4
Speakership fight, by announcing his
intention of going h. me this week TO
remain until the middle Of November
This action is surprising, in view of tn"
fact that Mr. Cannon has been actively
engaged in canvassing for votes almost
ever since Congress adjourned. l
have never seen a man except Mr.
Cannon himself, who thought th4
Cannon had the slightest chance of
ever becoming Speaker, and now this
one man has lost hope
Representative Mil whose name
became q household word through it,
connection with lh4 democratic tariff
bill during the last Congress, has
taken quarters here for the season.
He has entirely + covered his health
which came near breaking down; from
overwoik last winter. Mr.. Mills will
not have tariff bill during the Fifty
first Congress, but he proposes to see
that the republicans do not pass one
with obnoxious features.
All of the immense power welded
by the administration is to be brought
to bear upon Congress this winter for
the purpose of getting rid of the sur
plus. One of the first schemes to be
pushed is that of Government aid for
several lines of steamships which are
to run to South and Central Ameri-
can ports, and which, in return
for a liberal subsidy, are to re.
alize Secretary Blaine's Utopian idel4
regarding the commerce of those count
ries. This idea of Government sub
sides to private individ uals or corpor-
ations, has always been anita agonized by
the democratic party, and l see no
reason for supposing that the
democratic leaders will allow any such
measure to pass the House.
Swell society circles are all torn up
because the new Chinese minister has
announced that he will take no part in
the winters entertainments. This il
all the more disappointing because the
former minister made the old Stewart
castle" centre fol all that numerous
class of diplomat-worship Was hington-
ians. The new minister has his wife
with him, and as she is the first high
caste Chinese woman ever to visit this
country, he probably fears to turn her
loose in Washington society.
The last meeting of the cabinet was
very long and stormy. The President
submitted a rough draft of his first
message to Congress, and the members
of his official family took turns in
jumping on it with both feet. The
thing has of course been kept very
quiet, but such matters always get out
in some way or other. According to
the informant of your correspondent,
Secretaries Blaine and Window were
the principal "kickers." Mr.. Window
objected to the financial part of the
message as outlined, and Mr.. Blaine
had decided objections to the stand
taken on certain matters within the
province of the State department. The
arguments were long and somewhat
heated, and finally when it was agreed
TO submit the matter to vote of the
Cabinet, the President was defeated, the
only votes he received being those of
Attorney General Miller, Postmaster
General Wanamaker, and Secretary
Noble. The President then expressed
his willingness to change the disputed
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