Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-03-13
POLITICAL.

First Assistant Postmaster General
Crosby has resigned, and his resigna-
ton has been accepted.
Governor Moody has appointed Loyal
B. Stcarns as the additional circuit
judge provided for in the fourth judi.
cial district.
General E. c. Waltham has been ap-
pointed by Governor Lowrey United
States senator to succeed Lamar. Wal
than was former law partner of
Lamar.
The nomination of Charles S. Fair.
child Of New York as assistant secre-
tary Of the treasury, and John c. Black
of Illinois as commissioner of pensions
have been made.
Governor Moody has issued commits
sions to J. B. Putnam as state librar-
ian; j. A. Brown, Allen Noyes and
Lewis Wilson, pilot commissioners; D.
B. Reese, register of the state land Of
fee at La Grsnde.
Mr.. Sperry, private secretary of the
| treasury, resigned, to make room for
Valentine p. Snyder of New York,
who will fill that post for Manning
Bryan, who has been Senator Bayard' s
private secretary in the senate for many
years, will occupy the same post at the
state department.
Postmaster General Villas, is quoted
as having said: ''The programme OF
the whole cabinet is to select officials
for their worth and value to the govern
ment. The policy of the administra-
tiun is to bear cut the civil service rules
to the full extent in the management Of
the various departments. l shall en-
force the rules here.
Secretary McCulloch is quoted as say
ing that there are to be Il few change;
in the treasury department and these
will be in important positions. AT thu
state department it is reported that Sec
retary Bayard has said there will b.
very few changes.
1t is understood that it is the inten
tion OF he President to reduce the cler
: lcal force of the White House and to d
away with the system of keeping a
. elaborate record of all business brougf
there. In accordance with this pre-
1 posed curtailment of the force four en-
a ployes of the executive mansion wei
c notified Wednesday that after the l5t
t inst. their services would not be II
quired. These are Henry G. Morton
3 Ohio, J. S. Bolway OF Ohio and W. +
e Duke Of West Virginia, clerks at SlS0
IS $1,000 and $lze0 per annum respectiv
,r ly, and .. I. Judd, telegraph operate
= who receives $l400 per anpum.
'r 1t is plain that Cleveland intends til
Il his cabinet shall relieve him of as mu'
II of the routine and drudgery of Office
e. possible. 70 this end his first rule tn
m applications fer Office shall come throus
le the department to which the Office
IN longs is aimed. The President will
lie eide disputed question affecting patro
In age himself, but he will be guided III {
le binary cases by the advice of membe
w of his cabinet. Friends Of civil serrl
~ reform have no reason to be displeas
y with the expressions of the Preside
OF during his first few days in the VIII
'd House. He has repeatedly called the
e. tention of anxious claimants to the {
+. istence of the tenure Of Office act, a
ne the binding force of the civil service la
The democratic senators have CO
plcted their arrangement OF comnntte
ny Senators Vest, Coke and Harris are
art succeed Garland, Bayard and Lamar
nd the Judiciary COMMITTEES; Senator Val
no. will 90 on the finance committee,
ION place Of Bayard; Senator Ransom v
ho' succeed Bayard as chairman Of the CT
IN mittee on private land claims, and S
ad- ator German will take Ransom's
ha- place as chairman of the coDmittee
i"- the Potomac river front; Senator Kel
pa will GO on the commerce committees.
A resolution offered Wednesday
Hoar, that Blair be sworn in as Sc
=, tor to fill the vacancy, was taken
.: and very long argument ensued.
Legislature which is to elect Sen;
'''' frorl New Hampshire will net n
=, until next June, and the debate
49,. upon the point whether in this ell
:. gency the governor had right to
point Blair to fill the vacancy,
,, whether vacancy had really occu
' which the executive could provide
" ~ Nothing of particular interest wa'
p W veloped in the debate, except I
49,, made by Ingalls, that the question
issue had ST., liticant bearing upol
''7"' senatorial vacancies i'll Illinois aud
,J. gon.
ia ~ After further debate the resol1
G US vas agreed to; yeas 36. nays 20.
bC'
ell" Notice 10 Teac.lers.
with Notice is hereby given that All e
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