Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-27
BLACK HAD A LITTLE LIST,
Five Hundred Republicans We're
. Down for Dismissal,
IF CLEVELAND WAS ELECTED.
But the Election OF Harrison Will
Defer Such Civil Service lie
form For "A Long
Time Now.
WAsutyGToS BUREAU THE OMAHA BE,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
no -. AA

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Jan. 70.
A gentleman who has the inside run OF
affairs at the pension Office states that Gen.
eral Black, the commissioner of pensions,
Just before the election made out a list Of all
the republican employees in his bureau, and
that from them all he selected upwards OF
five hundred republicans whom he intended
to dismiss from the service If President
Cleveland was reelected. The election of
General Harrison made the Wholesale dis
missal unnecessary, and General Black does
not intend to execute his designs. 1t is
stated that the name of the son of ex-Sena-
tor Wiley, of West Virginia, a particular
friend of General Con, the successful repub-
lican candidate for governor in that state,
headed the list of republicans whom General
Black intended to dismiss.
IN THE HANDS OF ITS
In the house to-day the senate tariff bill
was referred to the committee on ways and
means. There were a number of brilliant
short speeches made by republican and lem
ocratic members of the committee before
Speaker Carlisle ruled that the measure
could, under the oldest standing rules of the
house, have but one reference. The republi,
cans contendcd that the bill should either be
sent to a conference committee at once or re-
tanned in the comm it tee of the whole house
on the state of the union. Messrs. Reed and
Mckinley held with eloquence that to send
the bill to the committee on ways and means
meant an end to all chance for revenue re-
duction this year, and that inaSmuch as a
majority of the house favored a revision of
the tariff at this time and as the country had
with a loud voice recently expressed its
views on the subject, it was the duty of the
representatives of the people to take the bill
up and give 1t a far opportunity to be
considered upon its merits. Chairman Mills,
followed by Mr.. breckenridge, of Kentucky,
and Mr.. Mcmillan, of Tennessee, evaded the
real question at issue, that of giving the
house an opportunity to adopt some kind of
tariff revision, and held that the senate bill
was an entirely new measure, and that,
therefore, under the rules, it had no right to
either be sent to a conference committee or
retained in the house for immediate consid-
Grafton, as the action which the
on ways and means would take upon it could
not fairly be anticipated. After the speaker
had ruled that the bill must go to the com
mittee on ways and means Mr.. Mckinley at
tempted to have adopted a resolution set
ting apart Tuesday, February s.. as a
day upon which the bill should be
considered, and that it should be IA pending
order until completed. This was in the ma
ture of an instruction to the ommitte on
ways and means, and before its contents had
been read by the clerk, the speaker an
nouuced that it must go to the committee on
ways and means. The speaker in rendering
his decision held that the senate tariff bill in
Its present form was not a privileged mat
ter, merely because it was a revenue meas
ure or because the senate had requested a
conference. He said that measures were
only privileged when they came from COM
mittees to whom were given special privi-
leges. 1t was reported just before the bill
came up for reference, that the Randall men
Were determined to take an appeal from the
speaker when he should decide that the bill
should be referred to the COM
mlttp9 on WAYS and means. and
that they would go with the republicans
in demanding a conference on the retention
of the measure in the of the whole
house, While the debate was in progress it
was stated that the Randall men had secured
a pledge from the democratic members of
the committee ON ways and means that the
bill should be reported back within ten days.
Whether this is true cannot be definately as
certained, but it is undoubtedly true that the
bill will be reported back before the end of
the session, but it will not be finally consid-
cred. The action of the house to-day is re-
garded as a death blow to tariff revision so far
as this congress is concerned. The republicans
would have appealed from the char and
fought bitterly for a conference on this bull
or its retention to the committee of the
whole house had 1t not been that TO have sue
ceeded they would have had to overthrow
one of the Oldest and most sacred rules of
the house. Then if they should have made
the effort and failed, they would have been
placed in the attitude of being defeated revo-
lutionists. Several well known tariff fighters
were present during the discussion of the
bill, as to its reference, among them Senator
Hisocck, on the republican side, and ex-Rep-
resentative William X. Morrison and j. Ran
dolph Tucker of Virginia, on the democratic
side. The galleries were well filed and it
was expected by the visitors that a sharp
fight was about to take place.
A REAL SENSATION,
Steps are being taken to explode q real
sensation in the house of representatives
next week. AS stated in these dispatches
some days ago, there is a strong lobby here
working for the passage OF the Oklahoma
bill and as one of the friends of the measure
expressed it to-day: "They have boobies of
DOODLE" Representative Payson, of Illinois, \
says that beside the railroad companies be.
hind this lobby, there is a gigantic townsite
corporation. 1t is ascertained that a large
number of real estate spectators have
plated over one hundred towns in the Okla
hOma country, and have issued scriUt repre-. |
senting the stock ofthe company. This script
is being handed out literally, it is stated, to
procure the passage of the Oklahoma bill in
congress. 1t is believed that arrangements
have been made to get hold of some of this
paper and this is to be the final proof of the
corruption fund at the back of the Oklahoma
scheme.
CABINET TALK.
There were q great many callers to-day at
the committee room of Senator Allison. All
of the Iowa republicans who are now in the
city had talks with this distinguished repub- |
lican, and it was generally rumored around
inc CiplLOl luat ne Ndu ueCIueu 10 nc
cept the treasury portofoiio, which has
beyond question been again thrust upon him,
General GARRISON, OF Iowa, left the city day
before yesterday, and it is stated that he
took with him some important information
from Senator Allison. If he is not in In
dianapolis tonight he will be there very |
shortly, and there is no doubt that
the senator's acceptance of the treasury
portfolio will be made known. This will
create q vacancy in the senate, which may be
filled by the appointment or election of Gen
eral Henderson,, who is now a member of the
house, or General Clarkson, or Governor
Larrabee. Senator Allison has very obsti-
nately refused to leave the senate, but his
friends have presented the situation TO him
In a light very different from that in which
he has ever viewed IL before. They have
held that unless he accepts the treasuryship
the great northwest, which has backed hun
up IN nl Of his positions and ambitions, viii
not be- represented in the administration and
that therefore he owes II to that section TO
make some sacrifice AT this time. The Iowa
delegation in congress-, while acknowledging
that II will be a sacrifice in one sense
to their state for the senator
TO go into the cabinet, say IL will be an honor
to Iowa and her people, and the surrounding
country, which cannot be secured in any
other way. They hold that it is not an al |
together personal matter, but one intended
to strengthen the administrator and 10 recog- |
nize the great northwest.
There is no doubt, either, that Mr., Blaine
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