The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-06
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pecial Herald Correspondent:

| Special Herald Correspondents:
WAsHINGroN, d. G. Feb. 2, 1891. Mr..
Harrison has had as hard task before
him in the selection of a successor to
the late Secretary of the Treasury as
his worst enemy could possibly have
set for him; it is task too in which the
country at large is more directly inter-
ested in than anything he has yet I'M
dertaken. 1t will be very difficult to
find man willing to accept the place
who possesses the ability combined
with the conservatism of the dead Sec
rotary; and what WI add no little to
Mr.. Harrison's trouble is the fact that
all the prominent republicans in both
House and Senate who have been re =
Gently reduced by their constituent 8
VIII be, in fact are already clam bring
for the place for themselves. WhOever
he selects he is bound to make new
enemies in his party, and being can
didate for a denomination that is just
what he cannot afford to do. Besides
this, the man selected will have to be
satisfactory to the business men of the
country, or a financial panic may be
precipitated.
SO far the men who are mentioned
for the vacancy are Just those who
should not be selected. Representative
Mckinley can, it is thought, have the
place if he wants it, but he has high
protection on the brain to so great an
extent that his appointment would be a
very great mistake, and one that would
Spooner is talked of, but he is lawyer
and lacks the financial experience and
executive ability which is absolutely
necessary. The others may be punched
in one bad, very bad lot, which includes
Senator ingalls,, eX-GoV. ("Calico Char
ley'D Foster, Representative Cannon
and that eX-bOss, particularly known
for ways tat are devious, stephen b.
Elkins.
It has been long time dying and
numerous false reports of its death have
been given out, but this time the Force
bill really is dead, dead beyond all
hopes of even partial resurrection,
owing to the action of twelve republic
can Senators in deciding that they will
not vote for it. il is hard for such radi-
Gals as Senator Ii oar, Aldrich, Edmunds
and Spooner TO give up the idea of in
timidating the South, but even they ac-
knowledge that the thing is dead and
that no further attempt will be made to
revive it,. In consequence, the legiti-
mate business of the session-the an
nual appropriation blllS-iS fairly hum
ming in both the House and Senate.
The Senate by a party vote refused to
amend the appOrtiOnment bill, Granting
what was so clearly the right of Arkan-
sas, Minnesota and New York-One aG-
ditiOnal member to each, and passed
the bill just as it left the House. Sena-
tors Davis and Washburn, of Mime
sofa voted with the democrats for the
amendment, and strange as il may seem
York voted against it,
Brother Johnny Wanamaker will
have to get himself a new hobby. His
postal telegraph scheme, in spite of the
amount of Government money he spent
in the publication of his views thereon.
is as dead as door nail. The Hous 8
committee on Post offices will not even
report it.
Representative McCreary, who is re-
garded as one of the most conservative
men in the House, paid his respects to
Car Reed on Saturday in manner
that was quiet but severe. His COM
mittee- Foreign Affairs-having been
refused day for the consideration of
its bills, he said: "Never before in my
experience on the committee on Foreign
Affairs, has that committee been re-
fused day for the consideration of bills
reported by it. The refusal to give this
committee day is but another error In
the comedy of errors which has marked
the Fifty-first Congress.
Secretary Windows funeral occurred
here Monday. All of the Government
departments, the local orhces and the
public schools were closed. There was
considerable growing among that large
class who makes it point to attend
every prominent funeral they possibly
can, because admission to the Church
was by ticket, and the tickets were only
furnished to prominent people. The re-