The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-19

President is evidently beginning to see that his
Cabinet is not as homogeneous as it at first ap-
peared. and with the exhibitions already made OF
that fact in the mere details of administrative
duty the indications now are that when the great
financial and economic questions come up the
conflict of views will force a reorganization or
result In q collapse
Not many days ago Mr.. Whteley, of Della
ware, one of Secretary Bayards most earnest
admirers and supporters, came to this city with
few friends and protested against the policy
pursued by the secretary, declaring that if he
continued in that way the Democrats would lose
the State. The Salisbury element are making
the most of their opportunities against the Sec
retary, and his friends and politicians here are
watching with considerable interest the progress
OF political developments within the jurisdiction
OF the political patrimony of the Bayards
and Saulsburys as small though significant
straw.
The Northern Democrats who have been as
prants for diplomatic and consular places com.
plain that the South and services in the con-
federate army are getting too much recogni-
ton, aud are already intriguing with Republican
and Northern Democratic senator's to secure 8,
rejection of large share of those who have
been appointed. In the meantime the President
says himself that he does not interfere in the
details of the different departments. but will
hold his chiefs responsible for results It is
therefore not just to charge him with the mass
of appointments. number of protests have
also been received against the appointment of so
many men who by previous business training
and commercial experience are so totally devoid
of the very elementary requisites of an efficient
minister or consul. Republican senator of
great prominence said that the present consuls
as rule. were men OF decided efficiency, as
shown by the valuable consular reports now
published monthly for general information and
the new appointees would be scrutinized by the
Senate from very high standard This senator
said, from what he had seen and heard, about
one half OF those appointed would be rejected
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done in no disrespect to the President nor desire
20 embarrass him, but in full accord with his
views This, he claimed, was very satisfacto-
rily shown in the dealings the Senate had with
him during tho brief term of the special session
In the treatment of his dsreputable Or unit APP
pointees by his Cabinet ministers
In the Interior Department very unsatis-
factory condition of things exists, and the Presi
dent is credited with great annoyance over the
outcome there. After the first squirt of energy
displayed by the chief of that great and labori-
Gus department. there appears to haze come n
relapse into habits of ease and abstraction,
superlnduced by past methods of life and occu-
patton. Since the sale of the department
equipages the Secretary has spent much of his
official hours cavorting about the city
fine charger, and like the novelists solitary
horseman." is often seen finding his way back
from some sequestered byway whittier he had
wandered during one Of his periods of alb
stracton. Meanwhile, the corridors and ante
rooms of his department are thronged with an
impatient and murmuring crowd, congre-
gated through a multiplicity of interests The
monotony of official stagnation is sometimes
varied by bureau official mopping up
the floor with an impatient sub. official or
the appointment Of some unheard-of individual.
few days ago the Secretary found time
to appoint his brother IN law. a man Of over
seventy years of age, to a eierkship in one of
the departments. As the law prescribes rules as
to age an! qualification sooner was the ap-
pointment made than the fact was brought to
the attention of the civil service commissioners.
Those three worthless at once went for the scalp
OF the aged brother r-inlaw and Mississippian.
They pointed out the provisions of the law, and
the Secretary found himself without q brother
in law pensioned on the government.
Secretary Manning, who is man of methods
is finding his place more OF an undertaking than
he had expected. The Democrats complain of
him that he is throwing too many Of the crumbs
of Office to his New York friends, and ignores
the rest of the country, which NAV be impor-
tant in the next election the Empire State.
The emergencies of the case may be the expa-
nation of this Since the Secretary's last visit
to New York he has had a carte blanche and has
been using it where it will do the most good
By the time Congress meets, when the real tug
of will begin, the President will have his
Cabinet very well sized up lie can, and doubt
less WILL make such changes and rearrangements
as will be forced upon him by necessity rather
than choice