The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-04-17
wushiEg'on Letter.


WAslIISGroN, d. c, April 10, 1S91.-
Mr.. Harrison's new chum and most po-
tential adviser is Representative Nc
Kinley, who bids fair to become
a monomaniac on the tariff bill
Congress, and which bears his name.
Mr.. Mckinley, who knows that reci-
proeitv, even of the limited kind
proposed by Mr.. Blaine, would eventu-
ally result in the death of the doctrine of
a high protected tariff, by causing its alb
sIrdities 10 shine even more conspiC-
uously than they do at the present time,
has been working on Mr.. Harrison for
quite while 10 convince him that he
must stop Mr.. Blaine, even if it was
necessary TO force him out of the cabin
et. Nothing would have suited Mr.
Harrison better, but he was afraid of
Blaine, and having obtained his prom
ise 10 stand off and let him get renom-
mated. if he could, he did not care to
anger him, but the indications now are
I that Mckinley has fully succeeded, for
no cabinet officer ever got a more direct
snubbing from the President than Mr.
Blaine did when Mr.. Harrison positively
forbid his receiving any propositions in
/
Commissioners who had been invited
here by Mr. Blaine.
1t would not have injured Mr.. Harri-
son in the slightest or have helped Can
adian reciprocity for Mr.. Blaine to have
| kept his engagement with the Canadians
and learn their informal propositions,
but Mr.. Harrison was determined to
snub the Canadians as well as Mr.
L ,T -
/ smiles with which the Canadians receiv-
/ ed Mr.. Blaine's little fib, manufactured
/ for the occasion, about the President
wishing to be present when their propo-
sition was submitted, they knew that
! reciprocity with us was as dead as door
nail as long as Mr.. Harrison is President,
and that they would never be sent for TO
i submit their propositions TO him.
He who thinks that Mr.. Blaine will
tamely submit to being insulted does not
/ know the man. One of his close person
al friends said to me: "Owing to the
incompleted condition of number of
most important diplomatic negotiations
Mr.. Blaine'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
.
before then have made his peace, and if
Bill Mckinley isn't careful he viii dis
| cover that Mr.. Blaine wields considera-
! bic influence in Ohio"
! In resigning from the Senate Mr..
Edmunds did not forget his lifelong
| thrifty habits. He makes il take effect
next November, which gives him an op-
| portunity to continue drawing the sala-
J ry 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 Vermont viii just before
! Congress meets, appoint Secretary Proc
! tor to fill Mr.. Edmunds unexpired term
! in the Senate.
| Secretary Foster has selected ex-Repre-
! sentative Crounse, of Nebraska, to be
! Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and
/ he is now wrestling with the friends of
| several candidates 10 determine who shall
be Supervising Architect of the Treasury
in place of Mr.. Windrim, who resigned
to accept a better place in Philadelphia
Added to this task is the arduOus duty
Mr.. Foster has taken upon himself of
compelling the Republican machine in
New York, through the Federal offices,
to favor Harrison for Il renomination
IAlNtHlOIS Dig anu lllle, IlCn anu
poor, have been honored guests
for three days while the one
hundredth anniversary of the United
States Patent system is being celebrated.
There have been meetings addressed bv
eminent gentlemen, banquets have been
eaten, Mount Vernon has been visited
and after seeing a military review this
afternoon our visitors viii return TO their
usual ayOcationS.
Col. l.. L. Polk, president of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, made speech here last night at
a public meeting held by the local citi-
zens Alliance that is said TO have been
one of the strongest presentations OF
Alliance principles ever made here.
There is nothing bashful about Secre-
Rusk, who has cody appropriated to
himself all the credit for getting the
German embargo on American meat re-
moved, or rather the promise that it will
be soon removed.
The trial OF c. A. Kincaid for the
murder of feN-RepresentaTive Taulbee re-
suited in a verdict of mot guilty" NJ.