Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21
The Late Appointments.

IHc bdtC appointments.
The president has gone slow in making
appointments to his cabinet and to the
place on the b, noh of the supreme court
made vacant by the death of Judge Cliff
ford. Meantime correspondents and re-
liable gentlemen who were lust from an
interview with President Arthur have
made appointments enough 10 make three
whole cabinets and I'LL all the supreme
court vacancies that will come in the nexl
half dozen years.
The nomination of ex Senator Frederick
T. Ftelinghuysen OF New Jersey to succeed
Mr.. Blaine AS secretary of state, has met
with deserved approval. The new secre
tary is not as brilliant a man as his pre-
decessor. who has spread the wings of the
Amellc an eagle from the Andes to the
Brush Isles; but he will conduct the bust
nrss of the state department for the inter-
esls of the country with g cd practical
sense and without buncombe. Mr. Frel
inghuysen is rather a conservative gentle
man. and is = nephew of the candid tie for
vic -presId'nt on the CLAY and Frellng-
huysen" tirke- OF 1884.
BE, iamin Harris Brewster, well known
Phindcll hn LAWYER, succeeds Mr.. Mac
Veagh ~ altorney-genpral. He is OF about
The same aye AS the new secretary OF stale
aud has for many years siood in the very
front rank of his profession. PennsylVan-
ians of MI shades'of political thought con
ctdp that MIR. Brewster is an excellent
man Tor the place he has accepted.
Mr.. Jomes. to The regret of the country,
determined to accept the presidency If the
Lincoln bank in New York and retire iron
the b,net. Since his determination WA
known the wise and knowing ones have
had Mr.. FllleS, Mr.. Sargent, and some
Others as Q, cd as running the post ofire
department; and The president has been
condcmnrd one day for having made up
his mind to appoint the rabld st, LOUIS
pollution, Fllley, to so important q place.
ami The next day for being about to sent
in the name of Mr. Sargent of California,
who isn't MS much of a man as Filley. Bhi
Yesterday OK Senator Timothy .. Howe OF
Wisconsin was nominated rs postmaster
general Judge Howe is 4 native OF Maine,
is 6j years old and has resided in W'scon
sin about 50 years. He was United States
senator from 1861 to 1879, The Judge is
something old fashioned it is true, an
sometime when be gets on his feet makes
long speeches that are accused OF being
proSv. But he is man of good ability
and of honest and pure life We notice
that the Free Press was a little exercised
over his prospective appointment, ou'
venture the prediction that 1t Will &c
aver thai when il finds out, as it will. that
jade Howe makes a first rate o1ncer.
when this nomination is confirmed bu'
three Of President Gtrtield's cabinet re-
main. secretaries Lincoln, Hunt and XIX
wood. Preside Mt Arthur has thus made
more man ItlI us CiDlHtl. anu tilO
Of the four new secretaries, Folger, Frcl'
inghuS sen. Brewster and Howe are guar
antec OF his good sense in picking men.
Horace Gray, chief justice OF the Massa'
chusett> supreme court, has been nominal
ed and conf med associate justice of thu
United States supreme court. Judge Gray
was born IN 1928; is Il Harvard man; WA
for some years reporter OF decisions; Wa
appointed to the Massachusetts supreme
cour in 1864 by Gov. Andrew, and was
made chicf justice in 1873 Hi principal
coupe titors were Chief Justice De OF Ne"
II mushWe, an able hnt somewhat ecceh-
ric Judge, and George S. Bout veil OF Mas
sachusots, who hau the support OF Gen
Grant. The event shows that the presI
dent is better Judge of good judge timber
than the ex president.