Show TROUBLE FOR TANNER RUMORS are flying over the country to the effect that corporal tanner the recently installed commissioner of pensions is conducting the affairs of his office with a high band and an outstretched arm if the stat statement emente made concerning him are anywhere near correct it may be reasonably anticipated that an official cyclone will strike him not later later than next winter and perhaps before the snow begins to fly the corporal korporal is a thoroughgoing thorough going there are no halfway processes in his method of doing things all he appears to see is what he wants and then he goes to work and clears the way for its attainment tain ment it seems he wanted to be in a position to grant a heap of increase pension claims the supervisory committee stood in the way this body was no more than arow a row of small potatoes in the eyes of the progressive tanner so he simply relegated it to a shelf ahelf in an obscure corner and concluded to run the machine independently this way of bf doing things may seem see M to some unthinking people to be a species of generosity justifiable because of the fact that the government has so much money on hand as to make its disposal a knotty problem to deal with but it would hardly be claimed that the solution of this national difficulty should be left to the discretion of the commissioner of pensions neither should the clearing up of so grave a financial question be brought about by emptying the national coffers into the laps of people who in all probability have no proper claim upon their contents generosity of that nature reminds one of the trite old saying lit it is easy to cut shoe alioe laces out of other people peoples s leather and it seems as if even a tanner had little or no compunctions ions about going into that kind of business one of the most prominent faults fault found with president Clev cleveland elud ba b a certain class clam of his opponents especially ally members of the 0 A R was his belil conservatism if the term be appropriate in declining to sign pension bills on the ground that many of tile the claims of those to whom awards were made in them were dishonest his vetoes in that line were cited against him in the presidential campaign and doubtless affected the vote to no small extent president harrison will see that a policy to the other extreme by the present commissioner would damage the administration and tend to sustain the position taken by mr cleveland consequently there Is probably some official trouble ahead for corporal tanner who has come to be pretty generally recognized as a hardheaded extremist |