Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1889 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Harrison and family Thursday again took up their quartersat Washington. . -* _ ... : Several members of the Cabinet attended the wedding of Emmons Blaine and Miss McCormick, the Chicago heiress, at "Richfield Springs, N. Y., on Thursday. Colonel Switzler, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, at the request of Secretary Windom/ has tendered his resignation to effect October 15. Colonel Switzler. Was appointed from Missouri, in 1885, by President Cleveland.

Congressman Samuel J. Randall, with fiis family, is now, and has been nearly all summer, at Wallingford, Pa. Mr. Randall is suffering again from his old enemy, the gout. He will, however, be on hand at the convening of the House. The Chicago Herald’s Washington correspondent says it is definitely settled that Attorney-General Miller is to go upon the Supreme Bench. The appointment, it is thought, will be one of the first announced upon the assembling of Congress. It was said Monday that Representative Nutting, of New York, whose condition has been such for some months as to cause grave apprehensions of the issue, had stated to a friend that if he did not soon recover he would resign, so that the election of a successor could be had before Congress meets. Mr. Nutting represents the Oswego District, and his plurality in 1888 was about 10,000 over his Democratic opponent.

A special from Caldwell, 0., gives what purports to be an authentic copy of a letter written from the Pension Office, September 19, to J. M. Dalzell, of Caidwell. The letter is marked “Confidential,” and goes into Tanner’s course as Commissioner with a defense of his course as to reratings, etc., as before published. It was a matter of Secretary Noble’s resignation or his own retirement, Tanner writes, and he thought it best to save the President embarrassment. The letter closes with the postscript: “I have written you With great freedom; don’t give me any cause to regret it by saying anything about th letter. It is to you solely.”