Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-03-14

don, OF Indianapolis, be nominated (,
the court Of claims. They request alst
that the Hon. J. B. Kenner, of Hunting
ton, be named as an auditor OF the treas
ury, and that Messrs. Tyner and Brad,
be retained at the postoffice depart
tment.
A new applicant for the position Of
first assistant postmaster general turns
up in the person of James Mcdowell, oi
Illinois.
Among the nominations which failed
in the senate of the last congress are the
following: A. NJ. Bryson. OF Iowa, to be
district attorney for Idaho; A. w. Ten
ney and Elliott +. Shepard, to be United
States district attorneys for Idaho; G.
W. Atkinson and John w. Jacobus, for
United States marshals for West Vir-
ginia and southern New York; Lewis
Richmond for consul general at Rome;
z. M. Elder, Emilio Comtade, Edward
Backus, Albert Rhodes, Abbot L. Dow,
Arthur B. Wood, John F. Jennie, and
John Z. Frisbie. for consuls, respective
", at Guayaquil La Union, Para, Rouen,
Aleppy, Indleys, Belfast, Neuvo Laredo
and Rheims; Henry Esperson, for sur
yeyor General of Dakota; H. w. Dwight,
,I,. Mm. n. Kelly, Henry Cousins, and
sil Smith, for registers Of the
land office at LaGrande, Oregon; Pres
cott and Florence, Arizona, and Vancou-
yer; ", I. Receivers of public moneys
nC. @. Goodenow, Tracy, Mimi; VIM.
a; Somers, Beatrice, Neb.; Edwin s.
Bane, Salt Lake City; Henry H. Griffith,
Des Moines, Iowa; Henry Il, Pease, Wa.
tertown. d. r.; Hiram Barber, Jr., Mitch.
ell, ID. T.; Robert L. Muslin, Jr., Helena,
Montana. Indian agents-Samuel Ma
than, LaPointe, Wis. Navy-George w,
Jones. jr., for assistant postmaster; Com
modore Marston, to be rear admiral on
the retired list; Captain Richard l.. Law,
to be commander, and Captain Milton
Haxtun to be captain for promotion, by
date OF rank. Marine corps promotions
Captain George p. Houston to be ma
jor; First Lieutenant William S. Muse
for captain, and Second Lieutenant Louis
J. Gulick, for first lieutenant. Army
Emo +. Wenckebach, appointed second
lieutenant; Lieutenants J. Walker Benet
and Charles H. Hunter, for transfer from
tho fifteenth and nineteenth infantry to
the fifth and first artillery, respectively.
Promotlons-First Lieutenant Henry M.
Kendall for captain; Second Lieutenants
William Baird, George L. E. Harrison,
George E. Sage, and John G. Ballan for
flrst lleutenants; Assistant Surgeon Har.
yey E. Brown to be surgeon; Arthur NJ.
Deveareaux for removal to third lieuten-
ant in the revenue service.
AS general rule, the delegations and
influences that secured these nominations
IN the first instance are vigorously
beseiging the President now for their
reappointment. Meanwhile other candi-
dates. having got wind of the vacancies,
are after the places, aud go to swell the
list OF applicants for places generally
that now swarm the lobbies of the hotels
and corridors of the department
Commissioner LIE Due was asked by
your correspondent tonight what he
thought OF the probabilities of success
sor. to himself in the department Of
agriculture. to which he cheerfully re-
piled that he did not intend to resign
and did not believe Garfield would
remove him. The correspondent asked
him when his time expired, and LIE Due
replied, "My appointment is like that Of
the commissioner of education. who has
held his place twelve or fifteen years
and IS continued upon the favor Of the
president" "Do you not upon the COM
ing OF new administration tender your
resignation as the Cabinet officers do. as q
matter of courtesy?" asked the CORES.
pondent. Certainly not" said the
Commissioner, "that rule only applies to
the Presidents immediate advisers. II
the Department of Agriculture were a
Cabinet position, it would follow that 1
should tender my resignation" But the
Commissioner very significantly added
that he had no notion OF resigning a
position for which he believed himself
fitted. and for which Garfield knew he
was qualified.