Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-30
WASHINGTON.
THE SIGNIFICANCE IN THE AP-
POINTMENT OF EVANS.
Arthur Wishes to Control the Kentucky
Delegation in the Next National Conven-
tion-Gresham Going Back on Malone
The Lstter's Influence Wanting-The
Hill Investigation, etc.
Especial Correspondence Of the Globe.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-The smooth and |
easy manner in which President Arthur has |
administered the executive Office, but for |
one single incident, gives denial to the
rumors often repeated, that he has hopes |
of the Republican nomination a year
hence. This one single exception is the
appointment of Walter Evans, of Ken
lucky, to be commissioner of internal rev.
enue. Evans, SO far as is known, while
man of excellent character, is not calcula-
ted to bring to the administration any force
it does not now possess. For this reason
there is reasonable cause to suppose that
in his selection the president may haYe
had futurity in his mind, and the ability of
Mr.. Evans to control the Kentucky delega-
ton which will be sent to the next national
Republican convention. The ability of
Evans to bunch this vote for any candidate
he might select seems natural. Mr.. Evans
was president of the recent Republican
convention in Kentucky, and opened the
exercises with Nearer my God to Thee"
One who can thus map out and execute
such an heroic overture can, no doubt,
On the rotten borough system, deliver
the Kentucky vote to President Arthur in a
national convention, or to candidate who
may be distinctly an administration man.
There are reasons, however, for believing
that in fact Arthur is tired of the presiden-
tial Office. His administration, based as it
is upon an honest desire to perpetuate the
Republican party rather than to advance
its destruction, has compelled him to reor-
ganize factions, and to deal out the pat
ronage rather even handed. This has
alieniated from him some of his best
friends, and the only conscious reward he
can have may be the popular verdict that
he has done we'll. This, it seems is all he
expects, and his desire is not to continue
in an Office where the prolongation of such
policy will only drive away from him
the ultra stalwarts, the few friends he has.
MAHoNE AND GRESHAM.
1t is growing more apparent that Ma
hone and his policy have encountered an
obstacle in the cabinet that will put an
end to the peculiar political habits of that
peculiar person. Postmaster General
Gresham signalized his first
week in Office by removing
from his comfortable position in the post
Office department one of Mahone's men
who had been slipped in as an Iowa or
Idaho man, and few days later refused to
recognize the doughty Chalmers in kis at
tempted dictation regarding Mississippi
affairs. A very significant meeting was
| held between Postmaster General Gresham
and Dezendorf, and some promises were
alleged to have been made by the former
which have the true ring of civil service
reform il them, and show that if he has
any sympathy with Mahone's methods
Gresham is not allowing the fact to come
to the surface. The meeting was long
one, and included half hour at lunch, in
which the state of affairs in Virginia was
talked over quite thoroughly. Dezendor1
told the postmaster general the history Of
Mahone's use and abuse of the postoffict
system in the late campaign, and after
summing up the situation county by
county, showed how Malone was steadily
losing ground and making the Republican
party odious by its prostitution in the olC
Dominion to his personal ends. The post
master general listened carefully and mad
inquiries as to details, and ended the con
ference by assuring Dezendorf that tn
matter should be thoroughly investigate,
and the abuses corrected, not alone il
Virginia, but elsewhere. How we'll thi
promise will be carried out remains to b
seen, but it really looks as though Gresham
had taken upon himself the attempt t
, heal the party differences, not alone in Ne,
York, but wherever the opportunity
offered.
, WASHINGTON, May 29.-No news from
General Crook at the war department
Officials are disposed to accept no news a
, good news.
The supreme court of the district ha
issued rule upon the secretary of the in
| terror to show cause why a mandarin
l should not issue compelling him to awrrt
: patent to Samuel H. Ruggles, of Circle
g vile, O., for $50 acres of land in the Vir
: gina military district of Ohio.
a Ex-Congressman Murch is making goo
: progress IN the preparation
of the case to be presented befo1
the investigating committee appointed t
examine charges against the Office Of ST
Q pervising architect of the treasury, an
= Architect Hill now thinks best to secul
council to represent him. Jno. L. Thon
: as, ex collector of Baltimore, will probabl
h be selected.
= RAILROAD GRANT DECISION.
+ The secretary of the interior decided
question which came up, on the applies
y ton of the Central Pacific Railroad con
= pany for patents to certain lands lyin
opposite to the constructed and accepte
% part of the road. AS the Central Pacif
e company has not completed its entire lir
0 within the time prescribed by the grantin
10 act, the question thus presented to tn
Y secretary is similar to that decided by til
f. United States supreme court in the case {
n Schulenberg VS.. Hartman, in which til
= court held that the provisions for IL
u completion of the road within certai
time was a condition subsequen
al that although the time fl
ID building the road had expire
y the grant remained unimpaired, and IL
a land did not and could not revert witho
m the intervention of the legislature or j
dicial action, and without such action
effect whatever could be given to the TO
fixture clause. The secretary says
:. view of this decision, which was MAJ