St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-14
PRESIDENTIAL POLICY.
Cleveland and Bayard Give Further
Notice That no Changes Will Be
Made for Political Reasons.
The Anxious Crowd That Infpsts the
Senate Chamber When the NOm-
nations Come in.
Manning With One Swoop Cuts Off Forty
Heads, Reducing Governmental Ex-
penses $4,000 Year.
another Oklahoma Proclamation-Serious
Charges Against Lincoln-Sherman
Spunky.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-It is now appar-
ent that the policy of the administration is to
be one of great deliberation. Neither the
president nor his cabinet will be in hurry to
make official changes. They find,
week after their ind lction into Office that all
the public departments are heavily crowded
with useless officials. Before making ap-
pointments to Office it is the intention to lop
off the useless branches To-day Secretary
Manning made a wholesale decapitation.
This is a decided reduction of the force III the
special agents. division of the customs ser
vice. 1t is Appropriated that $4,000 an
nually can be saved. The services of forty
persons in all have been dispensed with.
To allay apprehensions which have hereto
fore existed among the clerks employed in
the state department Secretary Bayard has
given through the heads Of divisions, official
notice that no one will be turned out for po-
litical reasons. 1t is likewise reported that
with the exception of
FEW CHANGES
IN the diplomatic service the consular branch
will not be chan. ID for six months or more.
It is now the belief that Gov. Robert McLane
of Maryland is to have the French mission.
The president is anxious to give ex-senator
Thurman the English mission, and if it is
thought he would accept it would doubtless be
rendered al an early day.
The nominations sent to the senate TO-DAY
being in the army line were OF no interest
TO the crowd who lnger here waiting for
recognition. The senate having adjourned
until Monday, Of course no appointments
will be known until then.
Members Of the senate think the special
session will adjourn by the end Of
NEXT WEEK.
Meanwhile it is rumored that a number of
bureau officers for the departments here will
have been selected. The Mugwump in
fuence has organized raid upon
Eugene Higgins, whom Senator Cor
man succeeded in having designated
as appointment clerk Of the treasury
department. 1t is charged that he is ma
chine politician and has no reverence for the
civil service law. The Baltimore civil ser
vice clubs Of the city from which Mr.. Hig-
gins halls are to meet tomorrow and resolve
that
HIGGINS Is POLITICIAN.
No new applicants have arrived for positions
in the departments here 1t looks as if all
the ex-members of congress who wanted to
have all the good places viii get nothing.
Numerous applicants for appointments con-
gregate in the senate each day and watch
eagerly for the nominations. Many of them
have high hopes of seeing their names figure
on a list sent u the senate. Every dav this
week there has been disappointment among
these men over the non-arrival of nomina-
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impetuous words Of impatience. When the
nominations reached the senate there was
rush for the list which goes to the secretary's
office, aud the discovery that it consisted
only of a few army promotions created in
tense DISGUST