The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-16
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
resiasnt Hnrrfsenss New Chum and Most Potential Adviser Canadian
 Reciprocity.
Secretary Blaine win Not ramely submit to Beipg Insnlfed-senator Ed-
 mnnd's Resignation.

nuFtHCF ID C&-hcbiucGukaAfS 4hSlAth ley, who bids fair to become 6 1 monomaniac on the tariff bill enacted by the billion dollar congress, and which bears his name. Mir. McKin- ley, who knows that reciprocity, even of the limited kind proposed by Mir, Blaine, would eventually result in the death of the doctrine of high protective tariff, by causing it's ab- l surdities to shine even more con l spicuously than they do at the pres eat time, has been working on Mir. Harrison for quite awhile to convinse him that he must stop MT. Blaine, even if it was necessary to force him out of the cabinet. Nothing would have suited Mir. Harrison better, but he was afraid of Blaine, and having 1 obtained his promise to stand off and let him get renominated, if he could, he did not care to anger him, but the indications now are that Mckinley has fully succeeded, for no cabinet officer ever got more direct sDub- ping from the president than Mir. i Blaine did when Mir. Harrison posi- 1 lively forbid his receiving any propo- sitions, informally or otherwise, from the Canadian commissioners who had been invited here by MT. Blaine. It would not have injured Mir. Harrison in the slightest or have helped Canadian reciprocity for Mir. Blaine to have kept his engagement with the Canadians and heard their informal propositions, but Mir. Harri- son was determined to snub the Canadians as well as Mir. Blaine, and I in spite of the diplomatic smiles with which the Canadians received MT. Blaine's little fib, manufactured for the occasion, about the president wishing to be present when their proposition was submitted, they l knew that reciprocity with us was as dead as door nail, as long as Mir. Harrison is president, and that they would never be sent for to submit their propositions to him.
 He who thinks that MT. Blaine will tameIy submit to being insulted does not know the man. One of his close personal freends said to me: lowing to the incompleted condition of number of most important diplo- mstic negotiations Mir. Blsine's hands are, for the present, tied, but when he gets things in such shape that he can leave them without endangering his own reputation, woe be unto Benjamin Harrison if he shall not be fore then have made his peace, and if Bill Mckinley isn't careful he will discover that Mir. Blaine wields con siderable influence in Ohio.
 In resigning from the senate Mir. Edmunds did not forget his lifelong thrifty habits. He makes it take ef- feet next November, which gives him an opportunity to continue drawing the salary during the recess without doing any work. There is no doubt here that the whole thing is cut and dried and that the governor of Yer mont will, just before congress meets, appoint Secretary Proctor to fill MT. Edmunds' unexpired term in the senate.
 Secretary Foster has selected ex- Representative Crounse, of Nebraska, to be assistant secretary of the treas ury, and he is now wrestling with the friends of several candidate to determine who shall be supervising architect of the treasury in place of MT. Windrim, who resigned to ac- cept better place in Philadelphia. Added to this task is the arduous duty Mir. Foster has taken upon him. self of compelling the Republican machine in Nsw York, through the federal offices, to favor Harrison for renomination.
 Inventors, big and little, rich and poor, have been our honored guests for three days while the Tooth an. niversary of the United States patent system is being celebrated. There have been meetings addressed by eminent gentlemen, banquets have been eaten, Mount Vernon has been visited, and after seeing military review this afternoon our visitors will return to their usual avocations. 1 Col. l., L. Polk, president of the National Farmers Alliance and In. dustrisl Union, made a speech here last night at public meeting held | by the local Citizens Alliance that is said to be one of the strongest pre- sentations of Alliance principles ever made here.
 There is nothing bashful about Secretary Rusk, who has coolly ap. propriated to himself all the credit for getting the German embargo on American meat removed, or rather the promise that it will be soon re- moved.
 [ The trial of c. A. Kincaid for the murder of ex- Representative Taulbee resulted in verdict of "not guilty" /"
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