The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09
Correspondence Baltimore County Union
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
Employees Getting a Little Shakv-A
Good Many Removals-Maryland-
ers Being Provided For, &c.
WAsH1NeroN. d. G.. Nav 9Th. 1,ss

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 9Th, 1885.
Mesws. Editors "A slight tremor of fear and
dread ran through the frames of some of thu en-
ployees of the Treasury Department, and their
blood coursed faster in their veins as some Of the
long anticipated changes in that Department be-
gan to be made the past week. The Chief Clerk
of the Bureau of Statistics was removed, which
has caused considerable complaining among the
Civil-Service Reformers. Also, on last Thursday
eight messengers of the Sixth Auditors Office
and on last Saturday two chiefs of divisions, one
of them VIM II. Gunnison, Of Maryland, were dis
charged the dismissals of the latter to take effect
respectively on the 18th and goth insts. 1t lis
rumored this afternoon that Mr.. Whitney, the late
Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Statistics, who was
a gallant Union soldier, and under fire for long
time at Charleston, S. c., and also in a Southern
prison during the war, will be renstated immedi-
ately, and the Chief of the Bureau, Mr.. Nimmo,
dismissed instead, there having been mistake in
the discharge Of Mr.. Whitney.
So far there have been no discharges in Il
classified grades of the service, are there any
indications that there will be. The heaviest dis
charges made since the administration came in
have been among internal revenue collectors,
special agents of the Treasury and postof6ce in
spectors. When these officials have been asked
to resign their positions and failed to do it with
in the time that would have been allowed them
before being forced out of the service, they have
been summarily removed or suspended. But
notable exception to this rule was Miss Sweet, of
Chicago, who refused to resign the pension agency
at that place at the request of Commissioner
Black. But, however, her commission had not
expired.
Maryland men have suffered as much as any
others by removals so far under the adminstra-
ton, but they have also to like or even perhaps
greater extent been removed as compared with
other States of the Uuion as witness the appoint
ment of Ex-Governor McLane to the mission of
France A. Leo. Knott, as Second Assistant Post
master General, place next to Cabinet posi-
ton Col. Fred. Raine, to the Berlin mission !;
Mr. Eugene Higgins, appointment clerk Of the
Treasury Department, and latterly, Judge Wu.
M. Merrick, who was last week placed upon the
Superior Bench of the District here, position he
once before held, and took the oath of Office yes
terday. Judge Merrick's appointment is spoken
of in the highest terms here, and fully sustains
the high standard of superior excellence of the
appointments that have been made from Mary
land so far
1 have also heard of another appointment from
Maryland in the person of the son of Mr.. Robert
Rennert, the popular restaurateur of Baltimore,
to messengership in the place of one of the dis
charged messengers spoken of above. Maryland
might also claim as one of her own DR.. Mere, of
Colorado, who was yesterday appointed to con-
sulship to Japan. DR.. Mere married daughter
of Commodore Buchanan, and his wife has rela
tives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with
whom she is now stopping. Thus hath it been
done to Maryland men.
The excursionists who went from this city to
Gettysburg yesterday to attend the reunion of the
first army corps of the Army of the Potomac,
speak in the brightest terms of the pleasures of
the trip. The President, Vice President, Post
master General Villas, General Black, Pension
Commissioner, and other prominent officials and
persons accompanied the excursion which return
ed in the evening AS the train had to pass
through your county, inquired of some of the
excursionists since their return what they thought
of the country through there, and they compli-
mented it most highly, saying that all the way
from Baltimore to Gettysburg it was as excellent
a country as they would wish TO live in. Anon.