Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-20
MEANWHILE TENNESSEE SATURDAY. DEC 1890
WASHINGTON.

to percolate through the brains of
the other Presidential candidates,
and the result is a decided. GOODNESS
towards that measure on the part of
a number Of leading republicans. 1t
is believed that Mr.. Harrison is figu-
ring that the thousands of supervis-
ors and deputy supervisors who
would be appointed under this bill,
should ii become a law, might be
utilized to form the basis of a Harri-
son machine that might control
enough of the state delegations to the
next republican national convention
to insure his nomination.
There is very strong probability
that the Force bill will be shelved
for good this week. The administra-
tion and the republican Senators of
the Hoar stripe have heard from the
people, and are in almost a panic in
their anxiety to do something to sat-
isfy the public demand for money;
and yet they are MORALLY afraid that
when once a financial bill of any
kind gets before the Senate a substi>
tute providing for free coinage will
be adopted. 1t was this fear which
caused certain Senators to attempt to
get democratic Senators to promise
that if bill was introduced author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury
to purchase anywhere from twenty
to thirty millions of dollars worth of
silver bullion they would not offer
free coinage as substitute for it. 1t
is needless to say that no democrats
made any promise {; it is the policy of
the democratic Senators to keep clear
of all entanglements, in order to be
prepared to take advantage of any
circumstances that may occur to Sc
cure legislation in behalf of the peo-
pie.
Mr.. Harrison has, l am credibly
informed, made up his mind to send
a special message to Congress intima.
ting what kind of a financial bill he
would sign. He has so little influ-
ence in Congress that it matters little
what he recommends.
No nomination for the vacancy on
the bench of the Supreme Court has
been sent to the Senate, and / am
told by a republican Senator that it j;
doubtful whether it will go in unit
the Force bill is disposed of, because
Mr.. Harrison has rendered the ap
poinmtent to Senator Spooner, ant
he is afraid to have him leave the
Senate before the vote is taken OF
the Force bill-the margin is too
small to loose a vote.
The farce called an investigation o
the Pension Office has been resumed
by the House committee. The com
mittee shows a great deal more anx
iety not to find croOkedness than i
does to find it. An attempt will b.
made to get the committee to lOol
into the methods by which a son o
Commissioner Raum became Attor
ney for large number of applicants
whose claims had been PRACTICAL,
pigeon-holed in this Office before h
took charge of them.
The bill reducing the fee for OBJ
tanning an increase in pension to So
has been favorably reported to tn
House. This is a hard blow to tn
} pension sharks, but Secretary Nobl
! is trying to strike them still harde
.. by getting all the States to adopt tn
system now in vogue in Massachu
' sets, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, c
having the Attorney General of tn
State look after applications for per
q sions free of charge.
The re-apportionment bill provit
ing for a membership of 1856 to tn
House of Representatives has bee
reported to the House, and the n
i publicans having tacitly agreed thu
t New York should have whatevt
y additional representation it is ent
: tied to should there be a recount i
, New York city and Brooklyn, it
S not thought that the democrats wi
= oppose its passage.
y Senator Vest has presented to IL
d Senate a memorial from the Nations
d Bankruptcy Convention urging II
i immediate passage of the Tore
u bankruptcy bill, which passed til
i House at the last session. A numb
t. of petitions against its passage ha'
2. been received from the northwestel
u states.
&c The notorious ship subsidy bill
which passed the Senate at the la
DO session were too much for the repu