The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-11-12
THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Messrs. Edgerton, of Indiana, and Tren-
holm, of South Carolina, Appointed
Commissioners - Commissioner Eaton
Decides to Remain at the Presidents
Request-Sketches of the Appointees.
THE NEW COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-The President
has appointed A. II. Edgerton, of Indiana.
and William l. Trenholm, of South Caro-
lima, to be members of the new Civil-Serv-
ice Commission. 1t is said that Dorman B.
Eaton will be named to-day as the
Republican member of the board. His
connection with the commission will,
consented at the Presidents re-
qnest to serve long enough to inform the
commissioners in regard to their duties and
will probably remain on the commission
about six months. Mr.. Eaton is very much
pleased with the new commissioners, who
are both civil-service reformerS, heartily in
sympathy with the President. Mr.. Tren-
holm was here several days ago, represent
ing the ricc-growers of South Carolina be-
fore the Secretary of the Treasury, but has
gone home. Mr.. Edgerton is at Wizards,
the resort of Western politicians.
Mr.. Edgerton was in early life Il clerk in a
mercantile house in New York City, but while
still young man removed to Northern Ohio
and became the agent of the Northern Land
v
gress as Democrat, and was the financial
agent of the State of Ohio. with an office in
New York City. In 1858 he moved TO Indiana,
and in 1868 was the Democratic candidate for
Lieutenant Governor Vice-President Hem
dricks being the candidate for Governor.
They were both defeated. As Democrat
Mr.. Edgerton refused to support Greeley in
1S72, and came within six votes of being NOM
mated for Vice-President on the OConor
ticket over John Quincy Adams, Jr. He was
then nominated as the straight-Out Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Indiana,
but declined in q letter which urged all
Democrats to support Mr.. Hendricks, and
the latter was elected. For fifteen years
he has been unanimously elected by the Com
mon Council of Fort Wayne as the President
of the Board of Education of that city, and
by appointment of Ex-Governor Porter, is q
director of Purdue University. He has been
engaged in many successful business enter
priscs, is in easy circumstances, and is prac
tical student of public affairs. He was fol
many years an intimate friend and associate OF
Chief Justice Waite, who, together with Sen
ator ii. Is. Payne, Governor Gray, of Indiana
Fice-President Hendricks and many leading
citizens of Ohio and Indiana, warmly Endorsed
him as possessing qualities peculiarly fitting
sion, with which he is in full sympathy.
Mr.. Trenholm is a commission merchant
about fifty years of age and was warmly in
dorsed for the appointment by leading friends
of the civil-serv.ce reform movement Nortt
and South. He is q son of the late Secretary
of the Treasury of the Southern Confederacy
and has been brought into prominence lately
by his address before numerous bankers
conventions on the silver question, and hi
writings ON the same subject, which have at
tracted wide attention.
MINOR APPOINTMENTS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Captaln W. p
Mccain, of the navy, has been appointed
President of the Naval Advisory Board, Il
succeed Admiral Simpson, and is ordered Il
duty Immediately. Henry B. Martin, o
Indiana, has been appointed a special agen
of the Land Office