Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.) 1885-1???, 1891-04-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, ArRL 10, 1891,

/ ASUlNG1ON, AIRlI ~. lCpIs
Mr.. Harrison's new chum and
most potential adviser is ex-Repre-
sentative Mckinley, who bids fair to
become a monomaniac on the tariff
! bill enacted by the Billion-Dollar
! Congress, and which bears his name.
Mr.. Mckinley, who knows that reel
procity, even of the limited kind pro-
posed by Mr. Blaine would result
in the death of the doctrine of a high
protective tariff, by causing its alb
surdties to shine even more conspic-
uously than they do at the present
time, has been working on Mr.. Har-
rison for quite a while to convince
him that he must stop Mr.. Blaine,
even if it was necessary to force him
out the cabinet. Nothing would have
suited Mr.. Harrison better, but he
was afraid of Blaine, and having OBJ
tanned his promise to stand off and
let him get nominated, if he could,
he did not care to anger him, but
the indications now are that Mckin-
ley has fully succeeded, for no cabi-
net officer ever got more direct
snubbing from the President than
Mr.. Blaine did when Mr.. Harrison
positively forbid his receiving any
propositions informally or otherwise
from the Canadian Commissioners
who had been invited here by Mr..
Blaine. 1t would not have injured
Mr.. Harrison in the slightest or have
helped Canadian reciprocity for Mr..
Blaine to have kept his engagement
with the Canadians and heard their
informal propositions, but Mr.. Har-
rison was determined to snub the
| Canadians as we'll as Mr.. Blaine,
and In spite of the diplomatic smiles
with which the Canadians received
/ Mr.. Blaine's little fib, manufactured
for the occasion, about the President
wishing to be present when their
proposition was submitted, they
know that reciprocity with us was as
dead as a door nail as long as Mr..
Harrison is President, and that they
would never be sent for to submit
their proposition to him. lie who
thinks that Mr.. Blaine will tamelN
submit to being insu!ted does not
know the man. One of his close
personal friends said to me: Owing
to the incompletcd condition of ;
number Of most important diplomat
ic negotiations Mr.. Blaine's hands
are for the present tied, but when he
gets things in such shape that he car
leave them without cndangering his
own reputation, woe be unto Benja
min Harrison, if he shall not before
then have made his peace, and if Bill
Mckinley isn't careful he will dis
cover that Mr.. Blaine wields consid
cradle influence in OHIO.
In 1esiguing from the Senate Mr.
! Edmunds did not forget his lifelong
thrifty habits He makes it take eff
feet next November, which gives hin
an opportunity to continue DRAWN!
the salary during the recess, withou
doing any work, There is no doub
here that the whole thing is cut an'
dried and that the governor of Yer
mont will, just before Congress
meets, appoint Secretary Proctor t
| I'll Mr.. Edmunds unexpired term il
the Senate.
Inventors big and little, rich an,
poor, have been our honored CUES
for three days while the One-hun
dredth anniversary of the Unite
States Patent system is being cele
brated. There have been meeting
addressed by eminent gentlemen
banquets have been eaten, Noun
Vernon has been visited aud afte
seeing military review this after
noon our visitors will return to thei
usual avocatious.
Col. l.. l.. Polk, president OF tn
National Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union, made a speech her
last night at public meeting, helt
by the local Citizens Alliance, tina
is said to have been one OF the strong
est presentations of Alliance princi
pies ever made here.
There is nothing hashful abou
| Secretary RuSl, who has cody ap
propriated to himself all the credi
for getting the German embargo 81
American meat removed,