Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-11-01
WASHINGTON.

Attorney General Miller mas eXpe-
rienced a change of heart since U. S.
Treasurer Huston wrote sneeringly
of him that he took no interest in
practical politics." or else he was
acting under the direct orders Of his
officer, Mr.. Benjamin Harri~
son, who is an adept in the peculiar
shade of practical politics" that has
given the Indiana republicans their
great "blOcks of five" reputation
when he revoked an order issued by
Attorney General Garland prohibi>
ting the employment of deputy U. s.
Marshals to act In connection with
elections for a longer period than five
days. Mr.. Garland issued the order
to prevent the notorious John 1. Da>
venport bankrupting theU. S. Treas
ury by hiring for weeks before the
elections in New York thousands of
deputy marshals at IS a day, whose
only business was to work for the re-
publican party, and for the present
Attorney General TO revoke that or
der at this time is as arrant bit, of
partisanship as was ever exhibited by
amember Of any administration. +
Under the law these deputy mar
shals can only be employed in towns
Of more than 10000 inhabitants and
it is now certain that swarms ofthem
are to be employed in every town
above that population in the country,
in fact they have been employed and
under pay at the rate of SIS day for
some days past, and everyone of
these men are republican workers,
mostly of the sort that have no scru>
Piles when political advantage can
be gained. 1t will now be in order
for Messrs. Quay, Dudley, Huston &
Co. to take the Attorney General to
their hearts, and-here's the milk in
the cocoanut-induce the republi-
cans of Indiana to withdraw their
opposition to his being nominated by
Mr.. Harrison as successor to the late
Justice Miller. Ye gods! how this
little Miller will rattle around in the
chair of the dead Miller.
Ex-President Cleveland has been
here for several days in attendance
upon the Supreme Court, where a
case in which he is counsel is being
heard. He is receiving great SdeaI
of attention, and if he would accept
invitations he would be made socia
lion of, but he says this is strictly 6
business trip, and that he will come
again and bring Mrs. Cleveland
whom all Washington loves, will
him.
The question of the validity of thu
new tariff law having been raised
by the New York importers, ant
such able lawyers as Senators Carlisle
and Mcpherson having expressed
the opinion that the omission o
the paragraph reducing the taxation
on tobacco from the copy of the bill
signed by Mr.. Harrison made tn
entire law void, it has greatly dis
turbed the administration. MI
Harrison was aware of this erro
soon after Congress adjourned, and t
Z have it corrected was one of the rea
sons he was so anxious to have al
extra session. How the Saprem
Court would decide this question
should the importers determine t
) carry it into the Courts, is, of course
( problematical, but the chances ar
, that the republicans on the benc
would take the same view of it tina
prominent members of their part
have already expressed-that tn
commission of q clause in the bill onl
affects the clause so omitted. Repre-
s sentative Bayne, one of the republi
b can conferees, made a bad break in h
s effort to explain the omission by say
l ing that it was intentional on tn
e part of the conferees. Senator Cal
e Isle, also one of the conferees prove
s the contrary to have been the case.
0 Civil Service Commissioner RoosC
u welt can be very, very funny fello
i when he tries. He has issued mar
ifesto which deserves a high place j
the humorous literature of the ola.
With the agents of the various repul
lican State associations bull-dozin
y and threatening to blacklist Il
a. Government employees if they do ne
y contribute, right under his nose, M
=" Roosevelt writes to the presidents
10 these associations warning them ths
members Of their associations in Il
Government service will be pros
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