Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-04-20
WASHINGTON.

"Sunset" Cox, the ever-smiling
Representative from New York,
was met coming out of the White
House by your correspondent, and
asked what in the deuce he was
doing in that gang of pace-hunters.
ooh, | simply called to say good bye
to my old friend Benjamin Harrison,
as / am afraid these fellows may
worry him to death in their mad
hunt for Office before | return to
Washington" Then as Mr.. Cox
was leaving he added: 81 feel well;
very much better than little while
ago. have been through the val
ley of the shadow of political death
with the rest of the Democrats, and
now | am off on a lecturing tour
through Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,
Missouri and Kansas. Something to
make the folks smile, you know,
while gather in a little money. /
trust that l shall get no more eggs
than l pay for"
Mr.. Cannaday, the Sergeant-at-
Arms of the United States Senate,
and good John Sherman Republi-
can, is charged by Senator Jones, of
Nevada, ex-senator Malone and
Warner Miller, and Representative
West, Of New York, with swindIing
and forgery in connection with his
management of the North Carolina
Oil and Creosote Company, located
at Wilmington, n. c. 1t is also
stated that Cannaday is indebted to
| other Senators to the amount Of $30,-
OO0 or more for borrowed money.
With the usual audacity Of men of
his kind Cannaday says that when
the case is settled it will have no
effect upon his personal integrity.
The Republicans have always been
notorious for their willingness to
make suse at all times of United
States vessels for private pleasure
parties, and being out Of power for
four years and without a precedent
for that length of time has not
changed them particle in this re.
spect. On Saturday afternoon
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
TichenOr took a party of friends from
here to Baltimore, where they got
aboard of the U. S. Revenue cutter
McLane and started on a trip to
Chesapeake Bay, which lasted from
Sunday morning to Monday morning
Another Govern ment vessel, the
lighthouse tender, Holly, has been
lying at the wharf here, waiting fol
three days to carry President Harri
son on a pleasure trip down the
Potomac. This looks like a rather
early revival of the old abuses. By
summer half q dozen vessels will bC
needed for the various members O
the administration, for their families
and friends. And the people vii
foot the bills.
Senator John Sherman has jus
proved himself to be "bigger" MAJ
with the administration than Rep
resentatiyes Mckinley and Benja
min Butterworth combined. Ohio
!. had two candidates for the position 0
Sixth Auditor of the Treasury. One
was backed by Senator Sherman anC
, the other by Messrs Mckinley anC
} Butterworth. The Sherman man
Mr.. Coulter, has just been appointed
Land Commissioner Stockslage
fears there will be trouble in Okla
homa. He says that only abou
10000 homesteads can be entered
under the Presidents proclamation
and he has every reason to believ
, that at least 100000 persons will en-
ter the country within thirty days
| from its opening next Monday. =,
The new administration is makiny
record for itself on the pension
question, 1t going faster than tn
most radical had any idea that
would short time ago, and no maj
can at this time foresee the end
Assistant Secretary Bussey, of tn
: Interior department, before whom
appeals from the decisions of tn
Commissioner of Pensions are heard
seems to Guido the Corporal" il
his construction of the law as appliet
to pensions. 1t is estimated that til
decisions of the late Commissioner
Gen. Black-which Bussey has al
: ready reversed, will cost the Govern
| ment more than S1,O00,0OO. II
: should change his name to Buster
! The Corporal" not to be outdon
y by his superior tofiicer, made a
/. order last week that will cost NOR
, | thon c50 000 q ynor Tho fnllnu,in