The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-03-26


all along the lines these great interests
will march on to higher development.
THE POLITICAL CIRCUS.
APPOINTMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. GOSSIP
OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The President sent the following NOM
nations to the Senate March Is: Milton
j. Durham, of Kentucky, to be First
Comptroller Of the Treasury; Wm. Gar
rard, of Nevada. to be Superintendent of
the Mintat Carson City, Nevada ; Joseph
r. Ryan, of Nevada, to be Conner Of the
Mint at Carson City; Malcolm Hay, OF
Pennsylvania, to be First Assistant Post
master General Martin Y. Montgomery,
OF Michigan, to he Commissioner of Pat
ents David S. Baker, Jr, of Rhode Is
land, to be United States Attorney for
Rhode Island Benz. II. Hill, Jr., of
Georgia, to be United States Attorney for
Georgia. These nominations were con-
tirmed Thursday
The President sent the following nom
nations to the Senate March 10: John
ID. c. Atkins, of Tennessee. to be Com
missioner of Indian Affairs Orrin ID.
Myrick, of Massachusetts, to be Second
Lieutenant of the Revenue Marine Jane 5
ID. Parker, of Tennessee, to be an Assist
ant Secretary Of State.
The President sent to the Senate March
%, the following nominations To be
ENJOYS Extraordinary and Ministers
Plenipoten>iary of the United States:
Edwin j. Phelps. of Vermont, to Great
Britain Robert H. McLane, of Maryland,
to France; George II, PeDdleton, OF Ohio,
to Germany; Henry X. Jackson. of
Georgia, to Mexico. They were confirm
ed the same day.
THE MAINE OFFICES.
The Maine democrats who want office
are frantic, because they have an jdea
that Senators Frye and Hale will prevent
their confirmation, provided they are
nominated. Among those who are es-
pecially troubled on This score are W. a.
Cromwell, who wants to be fourth audit
OF ; +. T. Pillsbury, candidate for internal
revenue collector at Boston; Charles
Roberts, DESTROYS to be collector at Ban
gor: c. b. Morton, aspirant for the Au-
gusta post office; and Edmund Wilson.
who desires to be internal revenue col
lectoT in Maine. Their friends are irving
to find out what the position of the two
senators is, having sort OF idea that, for
various reasons, they will prevent their
confirmation. This is probably not true,
as, except in special eases, the senators
will vote To confirm those who are nomi-
mated, provided their moral character is
good. The row is chiefly between the
Maine men, who are already fighting each
other with a bitterness that is suggestive
or trouble before long. Washington
Special to Boston Advertiser
A NICE MAN-TIGGINS.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Press gives part Of the re-
cord OF Higgins, who has been made
Chief of the Appointment Division in the
Treasury Department. During the war
he was in Richmond and became depu-
ty in the prison pens under Winder,
where his cruelty to Union prisoners is a
matter of history. He returned to Balti-
more after the war and became prominent
in the corrupt ring which has robbed that
city He was also interested in gambling
places. In 1853 he was sued to recover
certain sums lost at faro in his place ana
it is also alleged that his interest in a
VIGOROUSLY low concert saloon has pro-
tected 1t from the police. 1t is aIso
alleged that III 1876 he led the Baltimore
gang which went to Indianapolis to stuff
ballot boxes. These are samples OF the
charges made against the man.
FISIIY STORIES.
The story that Mr. Blaine had made a
special request that Mi. Morton be not
appointed postmaster at Augusta is doubt
less an invention. So is the story that
Senator Frye has promised the Hon.
Eben +. Plllsbuly to vote for his contr-
nation for internal revenue collector at
Boston. In regard to Mr.. Morton there
are certainly strong reasons why the Sen
ate should refuse to confirm his nominal
ton if he is appointed. 1t will be recol-
lected that Mort u last summer used in
formation which he alleged came to him
while one of the employees Of an express
company, and which was confidential. in
his paper, the New Age, to make a point
against Mr. Blaine. A man who will
abuse confidence in this way is not good
man to run an office whose business re-
lates almost entirely to the condolences
of other people. Portland Press.
THE MEXICAN TREATY.
The Senate Thursday ratified the ad-
ditional article OF the Mexican treaty, eX-
tending, till May Goth, 1856, the time fol
approval of laws necessary to carry into
operation the commercial convention be
tween the two governments, concluded
at Washington January 18th, 1883, and
removed the injunction Of secresy there
from. The Senate also removed secresy
from the treaty relating to the boundary
line between the United States and Mex
ice, along the ella River, which was
ratified recently.
CHIT CHAT.
1t is reported that President Cleveland
is DESTROYS of extending the operations of
the Civil Service law, including chiefs of
divisions in its scope.
Secretary Endcott does not believe it
just to permit a few young army officers
to monopolize all the soft places, and
hereafter there will be a more equitable
distribution of desirable posts Of duty.
DIR. Francis Wharton, of Philadelphia,
has been appointed Examiner of Claims
in the State Department to succeed
Judge O'Conner. DR.. Wharton resigns
the chair of International Law in Boston
University TO accept this position.
a delegation of Tammany braves visit
ed President Cleveland the other day.
After they had come away from the IN
terveW, one of them remarked. "Cleve-
land must fish or cut bait we do not in
tend to have any nonsense about this
thing"
The President is getting praise enough
for little reforms indeed, the disposition
to praise him is somewhat ridiculous
Let us hope that his ardent admirers
will not exhaust themselves before he
comes to the larger reforms which the
people expect. n. Y. Graphic, Dem
The slowness of President Cleveland in
doing out bread and butter, is exceed
ngly trying to the hungry and thirsty
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