Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-07
TANNERS DAYS FEW.
THB commissioner Is MARKED FOR THB
HBADSMAN.
he CsntS Sand The Fight on Hin Much LOngsr-Ihs
Grsa. Surplus Soai!srsr Grows Proisne
and FrOthy While Discussing
The Newspapers.

WASHINGTON, September Cit is IN
usual for a Wellington paper to pyi1t
anything rejecting upon the Administra-
tiOn or any part of it, but the Star this
evening says:
There is a very general belief now that
Pension Commissioner Tanner will have
to retire from the Pension Office; his most
objectionable sin, it is said, is talkative-
ness, and for this, it is believed, be will
have to 90 The Presidents sympathy
with the soldiers inclines him to approve
/ liberality to yards them, and it is be-
lieved that even if point were
strained in that direction he would
be slow to condemn. 1t is
not thought that any charge Of dishonesty
OF perversity Of motive could hold for d
moment against the Commissioner; and
there is no idea that he will be removed
under any such implication, nor Is tat all
likely that a charge Of too great liberality
on the part of Mr. Tanner would influence
the President against him-unless it should
be something really gross. Tbs thing it
I is said, the Administration has to complain
/ of is that he talks much and without suffi-
cient discretion and is controlled by senti-
ment and impulse rather than by calm
reason.
A member of Congress, speaking with a
Star reporter to-day, said that he did
not think they could afford to remove
Tanner before the elections. Secretary
Noble returned to the city this mOrninC
from Ricbfeld Springs, where he has been
for three weeks. Il is stated with some
/ degree of positiveness that the Secretary
will take up the Tanner investigation in
decisive way before the end of the week,
the Investigating Committee having learn
I ed enough to warrant decisive action.
DEFIANT AND PROFANE.
Tanner was shown the editorial in the
Philadelphia Press, criticisiDg him, to day
He said:
1.-THE Philadelphia Press fellows are q
/ set of -- lisrs and fools" He the pro
ceeded:
"What are they giving US about q quail
/ lied endorsement at Milwaukee, Why, l
| had to beg Peters to withdraw his original
resolution, and if had just given a wink
they would have passed it as be presented
it. Newspapers are s lot Of liars. IdOn't
see what they are down on me for. l
never did anything to them. 1t is said
that Sherman was cheered by the boys at
/ Milwaukee, but that was received in
silence when 1 went along the procession.
That is an internal lie. l was cheered
along the whole line and every old
veteran at the Grand Army encampment
wanted to shake hands with me.
''What do you think Of Congressman
Floods threat to resign his seat II You are
not removed from the pension bureau?"
"Oh, well, Flood is - fool. II a
fellow with head like his has influence
enough to have me turned out of office -
- 1 want to go.'
How is this Investigation panniDg
out?"
'I don't know anything about it. They
have a room upstairs here somewhere, and
Bussey snd bis snbordinstes are over here
every day sending for papers and wit
nesses"
A STAB AT BUSSEY.
do you think Bussey is taking per
sonal interest 10 the natter"
"Well, I shOuld smile that he was. 1t
was Bussey who appointed the committee.
They are his men, and while he is in the
city be is here with them sll the time. /
don't know when they are gOiBg to report
and I don't much care. l want every
body in this country to know just exactly
what l have done since 1 came here. /
am not Gfcaid of Bassey, and 1 am not
afrsid of any investigation"
Here the CorpOral's confidential clerk
raised his right finger in a warning way
and the Corporal, to use his own suggestive