The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-17
WASHINGTON NEWS,
A Lot of Stuff about Harrison Snub'
bling Blaine.

SnecIal Correspondence COLUMBIA HERALD.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Mr. Harri-
sons new chum and most potential ad-
wiser is eX-Representative Mckinley,
who bids fair to become a monomanlac
on the tariff bill enacted by the Bill
lion dollar Congress, and which bears
his name. Mr.. Mckinley who knows
that reciprocity, even of the limited
kind proposed by Mr.. Blaine,
would eventually result IN the
tive tariff, by causing its absurditles to
shine even more cOnSpicuOuSly than
they do at the present time, has been
working on MIR. Harrison for quite a
while to convince him that ne must
stop Mr.. Blaine, even If 1t was
necessary to force him out OF the caDi-
net. Nothing would have suited Mr..
Harrison better, but he was afraid OF
Blaine, and having obtained his promise
to stand Oft and let him get renOmlna-
ted, il 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 a more dlrect
snubbing from the President than Mr..
Blaine did when Mr.. Harrison positive
ly forbid his receiving any propositions
informally or otherwise from the Cana
dian commissioners who had been IN
vited here by Mr.. Blaine.
1t would not have I'M ured Mr.. Harrl-
son in the slightest or have helped
Canadian reciprocity Cor Mr.. Blaine to
have kept his engagement with the
Canadians and heard their informal
propositions, but Mr.. Harrison was de,
termined to snub the Canadians as well
as Mr.. Blaine, and in spite of the di-
plomatic smiles with which the Cana
dams received Mr.. Blaine's little tb,
manufactured for the occasion, about the
President wishing to be present when
their proposition was submitted, they
knew 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
propositions to him.
He who thinks that Mr.. Blaine will
| tamely submit to being insulted does
| not know the man. one OF MS close
personal friends said to me: lowing To
| the incOmpleted condition OF NUMBER
of most impOItan diplomatic negotia-
| lions 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 reputa-
| ton, woe be unto Benjamin Harrison,
| if he shall not before then have made
his peace, and if Bill Mckinley isn't
careful he will discover that Mr.. Blaine
| yields considerable influence in Ohio"
In resigning from the Senate Mr.
Edmunds did not forget his lifelong
thrifty habits. He makes it take effect
next November, which gives him an
| opportunity to continue drawing the
salary during the recess, without doing
/ anX work. In6T6 Is uO
| the whole thing is cut and dried and
| that the governor of Vermont will, jus!
| before Congress meets, appoint Secre-
| tary Proctor to fill Mr.. Edmunds' un-
| expired 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 candidates to deter
mine who shall be Supervising Arcnl-
| tect of the Treasury in place OF Mr.
! Windrim, who resigned to accept bet
| ter 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 a denomination.
| Inventors big and little, rich and
| poor, have been our honored guests iol
| Three DAYS while the one hundredtL
anniversary of the United Patent sys'
! tenn is being celebrated. There have
! been meetings addressed by eminent
gentlemen, banquets have been eaten
! Mount Vernon has been visited and
| after seeing a military review this after
noon our visitors Will return to thelI
usual aVOcations.
| National Farmers Alliance and Indus
! trial Union, made speech here last
night at a public meeting held by the
! local Citizens Alliance that Is said tC
have been one of the strongest presen
tations of Alliance principles ever made
! here.
| There is nothing bashful about
| Secretary RuSk, who has coolly appro
priated to himself all the credit for get
ting the German embargo on American
meat removed, or rather the promise
that it will be soon removed.
| The trial of G. A. Kincaid for the
murder of eX-RepreSentatiVe TanlbeC
resulted in a verdict of mot guilty"