Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24
TANDARD- MEANWHILE TENNESSEE SATURDAYAU a. 1885,
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, August 10, 1885,
President Harrison fitted into town
Friday and out again Saturday
afternoon. The horde of pop-hunters
scented the game from afar and made
a charge on the White House. There
was weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth when the hungry crowd
was informed that the President could
not be seen, and the agony was piled
on when they discovered that this
was probably the last time President
Harrison would come to Washington
before October. Saturday afternoon
about the time that President and
Mrs. Harrison and private Secretary
Halford were starting for Deer Park
in the private car of President Meyer
of the B. q o. r. r., half a dozed in
significant appointments were an
nounced.
The President and wife 90 to In
dianapolis this week for the first time
since the head of the house became
our chief magistrate. | don't know
how the old man feels about the trip,
but it is no violation of confidence tC
say that Mrs. Harrison is delighted
and she would be still more delighted
if she was returning to stay, for she
has never ceased to be homesick anC
to pine for her quiet house in Indian
apolis.
The commission appointed to nego
tate for the purchase of the Cherokee
strip in Indian Territory has notified
the Interior department that nothing
else can be done until their offer o
$l.25 per acre is submitted to thu
Cherokee annual council which meet
in November.
am informed by one who thinl
knows, that the extra session of Con
gress will be called for October 81 ant
%. 1t is likely to be memorable SEES
sion. Already the prophecy has beer
made by a well known democrat tina
if the republicans of the House al
tempt to change the rules so they ca
admit all the contestants belonging
to their party it will cause a cOntinu
GUS session to the 4th of March, 1891
when the Fifty-frst Congress expire
by limitation. That is probably a
extreme view, but all the signs ind
cate a very bitter political wrangl
over the rules of the House.
Commissioner Tanner reiteratt
that the personal relations betwee
himself and Secretary Noble are tn
pleasantest. He admits that thel
are official differences. 1t would /
useless to deny it when hardly ola
passes that the Secretary does not j
: some manner override or chang
some decision of the COMMISSIONS
> Just previous to the first of July NJ
Tanner decided that Pension agen
might make needed increases in the
= clerical force in excess of the none
appropriated for that purpose ar
: that he would ask Congress for an a
y preparation covering the deficienc
J AS soon as the Secretary's attentiC
!. was called to this he notified the Pc
u sion agents that their clerical fore
must be reduced to correspond to Il
70 appropriation by Congress and tn
he did not consider it lawful to NAL
IS a deficiency by employing addition
" clerks. The next move by the Seer
4 tary that seems to reflect upon DO
2 the Commissioner of Pensions al
70 the Commission now engaged in j
. vestigating the re-rating Of pensio
% was to order all the evidences in t
l5 re-rating of Senator Manderson'S pc
20 sion brought to his Office when
% could make personal examinati
80 of it. 1t seems very certain that u
less the official relations of these t'
men are soon changed that one or t
- other will have to retire to privs
life. AS it is now their opinions {
~ too wide apart for anything approat
&c. ing harmony.
If the democrats throughout t
state are as enthusiastic over the til
ct renominated at Richmond !
lie week as are the Virginia demOcr
M who frequent Washington, victC
RS. is certain this fall,
Big Tom Reed is booming for
Speakership of the House, and if i
\ true as claimed now that he is to
- backed by the republican natiO
ne committee and the administration
can be put down as a certain vim
+ts If the democratic members had