Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-10
the OFFICESEEKERS
At Washington in Droyes and
N. FlOeks.
they WANT OFFICE AND wANTTT BAD
Ssme of the Offices and Those Who
Hanker After
Them.
AM INTERESTING SITUATION.

office seekers are seen everywhere, buzzing
in groups at Willard's and the Arlington
hurryipg about in carriages, or climbing
stairs for secret conferences. 1t would moi
be fair to say it is the greatest and maddest
rush for Office ever seen here. Veterans in
the business say it was worse at Lincoln
6rstinauguration, and that both the Grant
and Garfield beginnings equalled it, while
the incoming of Andrew johnson wa:
marked by an onslaught of Office seeker
that completely throws the present situa
ton in the shade.
Some OF the old heads say the trouble has
not really begun yet, and that the shrewdest
politicians have been waiting for the depar
ture of the inauguration crowd before com
ing. Next week, it is predicted, there will
be new lot Of visitors here, who will not
simply tarry for day, but will sit down
and wait all summer if necessary.
The situation is peculiarly interesting,
The holders Of Cabinet portfolios are likely
to be subjected TO even harder pressure than
the President. Mr.. Clevelands civil SER
vice letter was successful n one respect at
least. 1t discouraged great many people
who had prepared to visit him. At the last
conference in New York he poured ice
wather down the necks of whole delega.
ton of Hoosiers By intimating plainly that
good Republicans might not all 60. Then
before he came here he announced that ap,
plications for Office must be made to the
heads of departments. He adheres to that
determination.
The Colored Brother.
The colored applicants for the position Of
Register of the Treasury outnumber the
white ones, there being eight or nine Of the
former and only five or six of the latter.
Mr. Clark, of Ohio, and Mr.. Matthews OF
New York, both colQred, are among promi'
nent applicants.
The friends of Mr.. A. B. Mullett are the
authority for the report that he expects to
succeed Mr.. Bell as Supervising Architect
Of the Treasury. Ex-Congressman Cassidy,
ofNevada, has the support Of great many
of his party friends in the late Congress for
Railroad Commissioner. Ex.Representa
tive Rogers, of New York, wants to be Pub
lie Printer. f. a. Butler, of Buffalo, the
newspaper publisher, also wants to be
Public Printer.
Ex-Delegate 0uray is understood to want
the Governorship of Arizona, and eX-Dele
gate Maginnis, who has represented Mon
tana for so many years in Congress, is be-
ing urged for Governor of that Territory
1t is said among Democrats who have inter
ested themselves in Territorial matters that
President Cleveland will adopt the policy
of appointing bona fide citizens to office in
the Territories. Ex-senator Ross, who has
been resident of New Mexico for several
wears, is being urged by prominent citizen:
of the Territory and of the West generally
for the office of Governor Of that Territory
Barkis' Is Willin'.
There are sixty eight Democratic mem
bers of the Forty-eighth Congress who were
not returned to the Forty-ninth. Some o.
them refused the nomination on account o
private business, but most Of them will be
Candidates for positions under the new ad
ministrstion. Some are after foreign mis-
siors, and others will be satisfied with AS
sis,ant Secretaryships, Commisslonerships
or leading bureau Offices. Ex-Representa
tive Hopkins of Pennsylvania will have the
unanimous support of the Democrats in the
House for Minister to Rome, ex-Representa
tive Deuster of Wisconsin is candidate FOL
the Mexican mission, ex-Representatlvt
PaiUe of Cleveland, Ohio, wants to be In
dian Commissioner, and ex Representative
J.. l. C. Atkins OF Tennessee, who used tc
be chairman of the House Appropriation
Con mittee, is strongly backed for the same
pls e. -,
McDonald's friends say they will not per
init him to accept foreign mission. Ex
Representative Julian and Col Ban'ster
both of Indiana, are after the Commissioner
ship Of the Land Office.
The Tenure of ONCE Act.
No applications for office are considered
by President Cleveland. When they are re
ce,yed they are at once referred to the heads
of departments to which they belong, and
the applicant is informed of such action &C
cording to a regular form prepared: Al
vet there is no record kept at the White
House of the applications for office. Thi;
fact will interest those Congressman who
| Degan 10 Call upou III. Sie'o4U -
tons this morning and to assure him tina
they had reached a harmonious understand
ing as to how they would divide the patron
age among themselves.
One pretty loud hint that the President
dropped today has reached the outside
world, and has added volume to the genera
undertone of dissent that is heard Whereve
Democrats meet The remark is reported
to have been made to an Alabama delegs
ton that handed to Mr. Cleveland list o
names they had selected for the Offices IL
that Stale.
81 trust, gentlemen, you have not forgot
ten that there is Tenure Of Office act,
said the President, significantly, as he laid
the document on the table.
Ii is such incidents as this that have KEEP
everything waiting for the members OF tn