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Show ever accused Tanner of being dishonest, The Raums have certainly tried to make hay while the official sun shines. The old gentleman as soon as he became Commissioner began to look out for the rest of the family. Green B. jr., was made assistant chief clerk two daughters daught-ers were given clerkships, aud John, another Sun, who does business as a pension attorney, was given a chance to copy the names ot all pension applicants who had not employed attorneys, w hi n chance has probably been worth big money to him, as he proceeded to get out a circular setting forth his facilities lor putting claims through in a hurry and mentioning incidentally his relationship relation-ship to t le Commissioner. The kaum will b a heay load lor Mr Harris, nvo carry next year, and it will not be strange if he jhould to a them aU'overboaid. A determined attempt was made to get up an organized reception to welcome wel-come Mr. Harrison back to Washington from his long free trip, but it was a dismal dis-mal failure. Nobody would have anything any-thing to do with it except a half dozen of his personal friends, not even the members of the republican state associa tious, all of which are office holders would lake hold of it, so it had to be ab audoned, and then the statement was unblushingly made that Mr, Harrison d'd not wish to be met by a crowd. I d 1 not wish to imply by the above th, t Mr. Harrison is disliked here, because tie) isn't The people are simply indifferent indif-ferent towards him, and I believe that feeling is more marked among members of his own party than with democrats. The impression among those familiar with the inside woi king of the administration admini-stration is that Mr Blaine is engaged in "playing possum"on Mr Harrison just at this time tor reasons of his own Mr Blaine may have been ill, but these people peo-ple refuse to believe it, and they stated when Mr Blaine left here that he wou Id not return ui.til afier Mr Harrison got back and that he had gone away in a "hull". Circumstances seem to favor this view lithe case. xRepuqlicans who have talked with Mr Harr.suu since his return says that he ha about as weil developed a case ol the "big head" as they ever saw. Representative Cram, of Texas, here seeing that the boom of Representative Mills lor the Speakership of the House does not get neglected, Ex-Kcpieseniative Yodor.of Ohio, says ol politics in that Stale: "It looks to me as it the demuciats would unite and renominate re-nominate Gov Campbell. One thing I am confident oi. we will elect the man we nominate. No man can be elected in Ohio 011 the high tariff issue McKin-lev McKin-lev makes that ttia issue, and be will be deleaved. The farmera aia ot hitch taxes and caniiut understand why others necessaries nec-essaries of life cannot be cheapened by being put on the free list as sugar has beeii." WASHINGTON LETTER. Foots Our Regular Cirrespendent, Washington, May 19. 1891. Mr. Harrison fjund a nasty mess waiting wait-ing for him in that nest of crookedness, the Pension bureau, when inclination he had kept C m nis;ioner Ram in office in the face of the crookedness in his business methods, so effectually shown up by Representative Cooper, of Indiana and he had a right to expect that no futher crookedness would be indulged in. Therefore he must have been terribly terri-bly shucked when informed that Green B Raum Jr., assistant cheif cleik, of the Pension buieau, and so on of Coninns-isoner Coninns-isoner Raum,, was the head ol an oftice-brokerage oftice-brokerage concern which had been sailing sail-ing not original appointments below the classified service, but promotions undei the Civil service examinations. A more disgraceful situation has not confronted a Pies dent since Gen. Grant kicked Belknap out of the War Department 011 account of his wife's engaging 111 selling Indian post tiadeiships. And the most remarkable part of the whole business in the leniency with which Raum junior has been treated Three other government employes implicated im-plicated in the swindle wer at once dismissed, dis-missed, but this piecious jewel of a republican re-publican administration, was allowed to res gn and that wasn't all, the resignation resigna-tion was accepted to take effect thirty da lruxnLte ane be was given leave ! of absence until that time, which was a neat way of presenting mm with a months salary. It is stated here that Secrelaiy Noble is responsible for the leniency extended ex-tended to this criminal, although he was out of to .vn w lien the resignation was accepted. What puzzles honest people-is people-is why all of the parties concerned in this sital court to answer for their misdeeds. mis-deeds. Mr Harrison, when he thinks abtui this y u g man's peculiar transactions, us well as those his lather probably wishes heliaei not b;en so precipitate in kicking "Corporal" Tanner out no one |