The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-05-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Harrison Will be Given the Empty
Honor.
MeMlIIIn,s Canvass for the Speaker


MeMiIlIn's Canvass for the Speaker.
ship.
Special Correspondence COLUMBIA HERALD:
WASHINGTON, May 4.-Mr. Blaine
will, am informed, shortly remove
himself from the danger of being struck
be Presidential hghtning by writing "A
letter declining to allow his name to be
considered in connection with the
nomination next year, and announcing |
his fealty to Mr.. Harrison and his desire |
to see him nominated; but there is
another danger that he either lacks the |
courage or inclination to remove him. |
self from, and which may prove as dis
astrous to him as the anchors he once
cast to windward by the advice of
| 'burn this letter. Fisher.
! This danger arises from his desire to
protect the financial interests of his
| friend Stephen b. Elkins, who is lead
ing member of the syndicate that now
has the government sealing privilege in
| Behring sea. But for this desire all the
trouble might have been avoided for the
coming season in Alaskan waters, as it
is known that the British Minister was
ready To pledge his government to stop
all British vessels from capturing seals
for one year if Mr.. Blaine would
make the same pledge for American
came interested in the sealing i'll
dustry, that was what Mr.. Blame was
asking for, but now he doesn't wish
to stop the sealing, because his friend
hopes his season TO take an enormous
r number-a courageous Treasury agent
( blocked the game last season by stop
ping the catch, but more accommodate
, ing agent in the person of j. Stanley
? brown, once the private secretary of
President Garfield, and now the nus
hand of Mollie Garfield, has been
/ selected for duty with the SealerS this
q season, and Mr. EIkins and his part
o ners anticipate no trouble in taking all
| the seals they can catch, if Mr.. Blaine
a can only maintain the status quo until
the fall.
what the boys call '.Fattled" oyer the
y aondttiQn of'the Treasury, TO quiet the
g alarm created by the ANNOUNCEMENT
a that he Intended to extend the out
= standing az per cent bonds at 2 pei
IL they mature September the first, next
= he had his Director of the Mint fur
S. nish a statement to the press whigf
a. made j. tG sBHeear tegt r. F93flAoAs sun
re- debts or approximations. This was s.
absurd that Mr.; Foster had himself in
"a terviewed in order that he might say
III that he did not altogether endorse tina
He then gFoe9fodS d to Fl fg Gnc
gy 900 and to naively inform the countr.
that he also considers the $l00,OO0,0J
ne In gold, WIich has always been re
garded as a reserve held against tn
"a $3.50, 600, 0l9 gFeenbacks in circulation, I
- he available cash aud that he viii nC
= hesitate TO use it if it comes to pincI
'r- Notwithstanding these statements tn
Oy daily balance sheet of the Treasury IL
DIS yesterday shows surplus of less tina
3d. OO,0 900.
in has set in among the big republicans
lIto servers. Even Quay, ClarksOn an
ny Dudley have announced their all
ITO glance to "Little Benny" and their d
lin termiL ation to see him nominate
las The only reason that I Gan see for i
les chat no other man wants The duliol
honor of leading the republican torloI
nd hope next year.
uu Representative McMillin, of Tenne
S.GGI soc, who is 2 candidate for Speaker Oft
III House, aud several OF his iriUn ds held
40 conference this week. Mr.. Nc iii
we has been travelling in the Easter
ALL States and the presumption is that
has been doing little quiet misSlonai
work for himself He declines TO ia
Id, about his prospects further than To 81
It that he is in the fight until the Speak
M is elected.
'rit ex-Senatgr HlaiF, who the Chine
her. Emperor declines to recsiYe as y.
ye- Minister. Sohre other diplomatic
IAN tidh is to be found for Mr.. Blair VI
SEES, has been ordered to report to. the l.
nd Eartment Of State,
r The joint eqnmIttee Of Senate a
60 House that has been trying to locate t
SI waste of money in the printing and u
est. igqrned until June Its members ha
found out enough to make it certt
that from Is to 3 per cent OF the mon
now paid out may easily be saved.
same thing could be done in eve
7ith branch of the Government if the
bile tempt was made by men unhampel
men ana ND IN earnest; AZ, iuos.iootio,, M.
be Inc t , % M Of tha T,aiis
DIG lynched at Now Orleans by the U.
VINO District Attorney OF that place has be
,du- received by the Attorney General a
ling turned over to Mr.. Blaine who v
the decide whether it shall be made pat