Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-24
WASHINGTON news.
From our Regular Correspondent
Washington. March q. 1892.

Senator Hill returned from his
Southern trip yesterday, and whatev-
er effect it may have had upon his
Presidential prospects, one cannot
doubt after hearing his enthusiastic
description of the hospitable reception
he met with everywhere he went that
it was one of the most enjoyable trips
he ever made. The Senator says that
the sensational stories about his hav-
/ ing attempted to dictate To the demo
cratic members of the House Commit
tee on Elections how they should vote
! in the New York contested election
case of Noyes VS. Rockwell, which has
been reported in favor of Noyes, the
republican contestant, are absurd.
Personally ee would like TO see Mr..
Rockwell keep hi seat, but he has no
! doubt that the committee acted on the
evidsnce produced before it in deciding
against him, and he has no criticism
to make This knocks u big hole in
| one of the most sensational stories of
the session.
The free wool bill will be laid aside
in the House until after the free coin
age bill is disposed of, which will be
this week, according to the original
1 resolution. There was considerable
talk several days ago of an extension
by agreement OF the silver Debate, but
nothing came OF it, because a maiori-
ty seemed TO think such an extension
en- irely unnecessary, as it is not prob
able that any amount of debate would
result in the change of one single vote.
There is another clash between Sec
retary Nob.e and Commissioner of
Pensions Raum. and report is cur
rent that Mr. Noble informed Mr.. Har-
aison that he must choose between h IS
resignation and the removal OF Raum,
and that NJ Harrison told the Secre-
tary that he would have asked for
Raum s re hgnation long ago were it
not for the Congress ,ional investigation
now being made OF the Pension Office.
and requested him to b. patient. Ia
Immediate cause for the Secretary 5
anger was rec ommendation made by
Raum, which he found On his desk
when he returned to Washington last
week, for the appointment of his
daughter to be his private secretary.
MI. Noble metmes uses 'cuss words,
and it is said that lie said of Raum
wheo he read that recommendation
almost identicAlly what the late Wm.
II. Vanderbilt said upon u certain oc-
casion of one of his sons-in-law, Col
Elliott +. Shepard. Commissioner
Raum had a humiliating time bef) g
the Investigating committee, Saturday
lie was compelled to acknowledge that
Secretary Noble had turned his at
tempt to make his daughter his pri-
vate secretary. rs we'll rs that his son.
the young nan who made such {. gor-
gsous failure as. an ofiic -br ler, had
been refused permission to practice be-
fore the Interior -partmsnt, ,snoLwith-
standing Eis wersonal appeal in his be-
half to Mr.. Harrison,
The river ana harbor bill, which
was reported to the House today, CON
tains a number of and impori ant
projects, among which are the Hudson
RIVER Improvement. the ship channel
connecting the great laSss. the i'm
provement of Mobila harbor and OF ths
Savannah river. carries in round
figures twenty and half million'.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, at present
here, has 4ddsd his quota to the usual
war scare which is always produced
when the appropriations for the Army
and Navy are being.considered by Con-
gress, by newspaper interview in
which he enlarges upon ''our defence
less condition and the danger of war.
Treasury offieia s-minor snes-for
the first time aclnow ledgs that the de-
partment fiji ds it difficult to meet cur
rent payments. and othe s say that it
does not meet them. but postpones
thsm from day to day by every means
in its power.
Secretary Foster returns to his de-
par sment just in TINA to find nice lit
tie family row on between Assistant
Secretary Nettleton and the Immigra-
tion Commissioner, over the question
allowing paupsr immigrants to land
upon the guarantee OF some society or
associate n that they shall not become
Il public charge, Assistant Secretary
Ncttleton, while acting Secretary,
wrote the New York Superint ndent
Iof Immigration a very sharpa&etter
asking why he had followed dch q
practice. to which that official replied
BY quoting from a letter from the Com
missioner of-Immigration authosiz ng
him to dor so. Then Mr.. Nottsoton
wrote another, statiog that the Con-
III ssicnes hal exceed "a hts authority,