Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-08-29
WASHINGTON.

If Secretary Noble hasn't got tired of
saying that he has not resigned and
does not intend to resign, the people
are tired of hearing it. Just to show
how public opinion regards the mat
ter it may be mentioned that sport
ing man stood in the lobby of hO-
tel, which was crowded with people,
and offered to wager any amount
from $50 to 81 900 that Noble was out
of the Cabinet before the first of JAM
uary, and there were no takers.
Senator Carlisle is here looking
splendidly after his long rest. He
says that all the newspaper inter-
views with him concerning demo-
cratic, candidates next year, which
from time to time appeared this
Summer, have been entirely false, as
he has expressed no opinions on the
subject.
Senator Chandler, chairman of the
Senate committee on immigration,
has fired the first gun in what may
be very serious fight in Congress,
by writing a letter to the Secretary
of the Treasury setting forth his
views as to the legality of that Of
ficial's action in accepting bonds, in-
surfing that they should not become
a public charge, and permitting the
landing of any prohibited class (the
Russian Jews recently permitted to
land, upon the Jews in this country
giving a bond to the Treasury de-
partment that they should not be-
come charge upon the public, are
the targets aimed at.) Mr.. Chandler
says that Congress never intended
when the prohibitory laws were
enacted to authorize any such sys'
tenn, and it is fair to assume that hi
proposes that the matter shall bt
brought to the attention of Congress
Treasury officials say that writer
opinions have been furnished tina
department by Attorney-Genera
Garland under the Cleveland admin
istration and by Attorney-Genera
Miller under the present administra
ton to the effect that such bond
may be taken in the discretion of thu
Secretary of the Treasury.
The cattle on the Cherokee stril
may be the cause of quite an admin
, istration row when Mr.. Harrison
comes back. 1t is said that the pro
posed scheme to have them remain
} there by transferring temperate,
the titles to them to individual In
dians was first suggested to the cattl
barons by prominent official of tn
} Interior department, and now Assis
tant Secretary Chandler, of the sam
{ department, says that the ruse is en-
tirely too thin, and that it will nc
be allowed. Well, we shall see VIII
will win it. 1t may be Islander
; but it has been said over and owe
again, that these cattle men woul
Z not be put off the strip, because the
:. had a good friend who was yer
near, in more than one respect, I
Mr.. Harrison, who would put thel
"onto" some way to stay.
n When the Weather Bureau passe
5 under the control Of the Agriculture
Q department the statement was mac
that Francis e. Nipher, of st Loui
2 would have been placed in charge
3 it had he not declined to state h
0 politics. This was vehemently d.
: MED at the time by Secretary Rusl
2 but it was nevertheless true. Profe
y sor Nipher, who is now here in a
8 tendance upon the meetings OF Il
j American Association for the Az
= vancement of Science, says that aft
= six months persuasion he had agree
to accept the position, but when
received a telegram from memb
l. of the cabinet signed officially, al
Is reading "What are your politics
= Answer by telegraph" he conclude
that he did not care for the positi,
and wired as follows: "Replying
W your telegram as requested, I
oI specially state that / am not a. pc
le tician and do not intend to engage
l. politics."