The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-19
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'ALL HANDS ON DECK" FOR POSI-
TI0Ns, OF C0URsE.
The Newly Crowned Heads Besissed b!
| their subjects.
The Custom. House Was alive on Monday morn
ing with the Commission, the newly appointed
heads OF departments, and last but not least iii
numbers) the
| APPLICANTS FOR POSITIONS.
Among the latter q few dozen besieged th,
Collectors Office, few more paid their respect.
to the Collector, and the corridor leading TO th,
Marshals office was almost filled, but none O
them seemed 10 be happy.
The Marshal has already on file about four hun
dred applications for positions, from which he il
to, or may, select three, % that will be the number
which he will have in his business Office, and i
may be possible, too, that he will make M
changes further than . reduction in the force.
Lewis, the coming Naval Officer, was about the
| building also. and has made up his mind not Il
assume his naval functions until the end
or THE FISCAL YEAR,
which is the last Of the month. Kenner has re.
turned from his Northern trip, and is, it is said
to be taken care of in the Naval Office, but
stamps has not yet been provided for.
Cassnsve will be taken care OF, OF course, as II
is part OF the Returning Board Hayes policy that
none of the members shall be left out n the GOLD,
and most likely he, too, will get slice out OF the
Naval Office with Lewis. Then there are coolies
OF their friends TO be looked after, but like the
leading Radicals, Kellogg ct ais, they will let the
lesser lights look out for themselves. Ladd, one
Of those flights" has followed the example set
by Peter Joseph. one Of the Hayes electors, but,
instead OF taking up trowel, he has taken unto
himself
A JAoE-PLAEE AND RIP SAW,
and while he blasts Hayes for his infidelity, he
swears that he can do better at the carpenter r. q
bench than he can as one Of Kellogg's jury COM
nissioners or quasi court clerks, especially when
there is q salary "divvy" to be considered.
Lewis will forward his bond in time TO have II
approved and returned before the first proximo,
and says there is any number OF 'securities'
ready to sign for him. Not only have Republicans
proposed to indorse him, but one or two promi-
nent Democrats have sgnifed their willingness
TO
BECOME HIS SECURITIES,
even without solicitation. which some of the
hsbitues OF the Granite Building seem TO think is
for the purpose OF securing patronage.
Lewis has on file already two or three hundred
applications for positions. and has patronage
which includes seven clerkships only. This may
be reduced to four by the Recommendation Of
the Custom. House Commission. and in that case
two hundred and ninety.seven aspirsnts must be
disappointed.
tronage. and will so he says, select one Oouser-
vssve for position, believing, in doing go, that
he will carry ont Hayes policy TO the letter OF
the law. 1t is not known who the Conservative
is, or whether one has been selected, but he has
applications enough, and can select without
much trouble.
No efforts have yet been made to provide for
the ex-Metropolitans, and some of them begin TO
think that they are to be left out in the cold.
1t is not surprising that they don't relish this but
lions share OF the pap.
Dunont has returned, but, as he stuck TO
Ptkin, there's no telling whether he will be taken
care Of or not
late) Washington delegation as to his prospects
for the Shreveport Postofice. and found that it
was very slim, Notwithstanding the fact that he
paid board and transportation bills for half OF the
st. Charles Thestre delegates under promises
from Kellogg that sit would all come back to
him."
Il il not known positively, but II is said that
Brown Ia trying to beat Chester out of
THAT LIBERIA MISSION,
which the Oh. State. House pie snatcher IL banker
ing after, and Brown is looking up all the ''in-
fuencs" he can to secure the position.
Some of the oolored "outs" who think they
have been treated "wusser nor hog" in the
distribution OF the Federal sugar-plums, feel very
much like indignating. They want to s.spress
demselves," as it were. and are making efforts
now to get up private indignation caucus. at
which resolutions are to be adopted which will
smack of intimidation and threats to 30 over TO
the Democratic party; eaid caucus to be held
at Kenners within three days, and particular
care to be taken that the DEMOCRAT reporter is
not secreted in chimney fue.
The Pension Office has moi been farmed out vet,
and az that Office transacts business in some ak
or more Southern States besides this, the Repub-
lican (colored) Senators OK those Btates-Bruce
of Mississippi for example-will have something
to say
UPON THAT POINT.
Consequently something else bf sides Louisiana
influence must be had to secure that Office, which
some ssy is worth $4,000 year land no ques-
tions asked.)
II is pretty certain now that the present roe
in the Custom House will not he reduced before
the 1st proximo, by which time the Gus om-
House Commission will be ready to make its re-
port, and about that time 1t is expected that the
printed
TICKETS OF LEAVE
UNLIMITED leaves Of abseDce) will be dealt cut to
about seventy or eighty in the building.
Rumor had it yesterday that Stamps was IT,
ing low for the apprs iser's Office FIR friend Of
his, but II the assertion be true that the Presi-
dent recently stated that Ringgold would bs re-
tanned. Stamps and his friend will be disap-
pointed.
In short, all the changes have been made in the
heads Of bureaus that are to be made for the
present and although ex-aov. Hahn now in the
CITY, is strongly Endorsed for Collector Of Inter-
nal Revenue, Cockrem's course in taking an Ohio
wife, and one, by the way, related to Stanley
Matthews, precludes the possibility of change
in that Office.
LOWER GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL,