The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
MORE APPOINTMENTS,
Accompanied by Reasons for suspending
Number of Postmasters.

Accompanied by Reasons for Suspending
Number of Postmasters.
WAsHINGToN, June 6.-The President today
appointed Ernest Pillow to be United States
attorney for the Middle district of Tennessee.
James H. Freeman, to be United States marshal
for the Western district OF Tennessee; Americus
Warden to be supervising inspector of steam
vessels for the Seventh district.
Ernst Pillow, appointed district attorney for
the Middle district of Tennessee, Is % resident OF
Connersville, Marshall county. He served two
terms in the House of Representatives from
Tennessee, and was one of the State electors at
the last Presidential election. Mr. Jas. Free
man, the new marshal for the Western district
of Tennessee, is brother of Hon. Thos. j.
Freeman, of Nashville, and is himself q business
man of Trenton, Gibson county, Tennessee
Americus Warden, who to day appointed
by the President to be supervising inspector of
steam vessels for the Seventh district, with head
quarters at Cincinnati, is a steam engine and
steamboat builder of long experience in the
West. He has been twice superintendent of the
water-works in Cincinnati, and planned and
built one or more of the great steam engines
now running in those works He was recon-
mended by the president and members of the
Cincinnati Board of Public Works, by the pres
dent and members of the Board of Trade by
resolution of the Steam Engineers Association
and it's individual members, and by prominent
citizens. who in a body, sign and describe them
selves as members Of the Republican party
Mr. Warden is a brother Of Judge II. b.
Warden, of this city.
The President to day appointed the following
named presidential postmasters:
w. III. II. McIlyear at Cambridge, o., vice d.
D. Taylor, suspended; VIM. j. Whipple, at
Winona MINI, vice Daniel Sinclair, suspended;
j. w. Sherman, at Osceola, Ia, vice W, J. Ag-
new, suspended Charles o. McCreedy, at Balls
ton, n Y, vice Z. T. Grose, suspended; Daniel
W. Krisher, at North Manchester, Ind, vice
Shelby Sexton suspended; Kerr Boyce, at Au
gusta, Ga. vice w. L. Holden, suspended; Rob
ert p. Menefee, at Bozeman, NJ T.. vice Il. G.
Anderson, suspended; Buren, s. Wasson, at La
Porte, Ia, vice j. X. Stehbens. suspended, w.
e. Lawrence at Sing Sing n Y; VIM Fl.
Swami, at Mt Morris, n. Y: Henry Eldridge nc
Union Springs, N. Y; EfiEgham L. Brown. at
| Aurora N Y.
| The postmaster at Bozeman was snsp ended
upon the report of the inspector showing gross
carelessness in the management OF his office,
| failure to collect and account for oxrents, ard,
esp pecially, failure TO make reports Of deposits
and quarterly accounts, required by the
! Third Assistant Postmaster general ard Sixth
Auditor, after notice. The department desires
! the announcement to come to the knowledge of
| all postmasters in the service that the failure Of
! postmasters to make reports of deposits or ac
/ counts, after notice, will be ground for removal
/ without further inquiry.
The postmasters at Winona. Mimi; Osceola,
Ia: LaPorte City, Ia; North Manchester,
Ind; Cambridge. o.; Augusta, Ga; Baston.
| N. Y, were suspended upon proof Of acts OF
partisanship while in office. These acts were
! OF vaI'ions kinds-some We're editors as we'll as
! postmasters and their newspapers in
some cases since, as we'll as before the
/ election, have contained scurrous and
indecent attacks upon officers Of the government,
4 as well as exhibitions of malignant political feel
| ing towards their adyersaries generally. In
some cases il has also been established that the
postmasters kept hanging in the postofhces the
| political placards of one party and refused TO
permit those of the other party to be there dis
played, these placards being sometimes indecent
| pictures or cartoons, unfit for the eyes OF re-
| spectable persons. In other cases the post-
masters were shown to have been efficient politi-
| cal agents of their party, members of the work.
| ing committees of its organization, we'll known
In ia "a such. and taking particular part In tho