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asd1fiice seekers were to be frozen out.
Many of them have already become
chilled, and have left Washington for
home. Those VINO remain look glum
and sour. Even the Missourians and
Ilinoisians arc less clipper than they
were at the beginning. Twenty-four
more hours have passed, and no more
nominations have gone to the Senate.
The painful story is passed around that
the President and his Cabinet intend to
make the fewest possible appointments
until they have carefully looked over
the ground, and that they intend to
make changes only for the sake of i'm
proving the public service, and not to
make room for politicians who will not
take hold Of the work of reform. 1t is
said that all petitions for offices are
filed away to be studied at leisure, and
that personal importantly goes for
little. 1t is even whispered that places
have been offered to men who have
not asked for them, and, furthermore,
that some of the offices that have been
asked for are to be abolished.
The work of retrenchment has been
begun very properly at the White
House as hint TO other departments.
Col. Lamont has notified one-haif Of
the clerks there that their services will
not be required after the 9Th of this
month. He finds that by simplifying
the way of keeping the records, and by
requiring earlier and prompter atten-
ton to daily duties on the part of EN-
ployees, the work of the Executive De-
partment can be done with advantage
to the public service. Less red tape
and more work is Col. Lamont's mot
to. The work Of the Office IS now be-
gun promptly at 9 O'Clock in the morn
ing, an unprecedentedly early hour for
the White House.
Secretary Manning is the earliest
bird among the members of the Cabl-
net. He is at his Office in the morning
at half past 8. Secretary Whitney is
on hand at 10, and the others at about
the same hour.
The first Cabinet meeting of the
new administration was held at exactly
IL O'Clock on Tuesday with a full
Cabinet. The first to arrive was Secre-
tary Lamar, who came in the Interior
Department carriage about a quarter
of IL O'Clock. He was met at the
White House door by Attorney Gen
eral Garland, and they proceeded up
STAIRS together. a few minutes after
ward Postmaster-G General Villas arrived
in the Postoffice Department carriage,
and about the same time Secretary
Whitney walked over from the Navy
Department. The other Cabinet off
GERS were not slow in putting in an APP
pearance. Secretary Endicott was the
last to arrive. The meeting lasted two
hours, and there was general discus
sion of the whole situation.
Some of the appointment clerks of
the departments were kept up all last
night indexing applications, which
came in by the thousand. Some of the
applications are prepared in very elabo-
rate style. One man, who wants
place under the Department of JUS
tee, had two ledgers of about $50
pages each, bound in antique style, and
filled with endorsements and all sorts
Of recommendations. Others presented
their credentials printed in pamphlet
form, and some handsomely bound,
with the name of the applicant and
place wanted in gilt letters on the
back.
The National Republican contains
an interview with Postmaster General
Villas on the subject OF appointments in
the departments, in which that gentle
man is quoted as saying: The prog
ramme of the whole Cabinet is to Sc
lect officials for their worth and value
to the Government" and, further,
that ''the policy of the Administration
is to bear out the civil service rules to
the full extent in the management of
the various departments. | shall en-
force the rules here.
President Cleveland has repeatedly
declared that he will have nothing to
do with the appointment of subordi-
mates in the departments. No Presi-
dent, except Tyler, ever attempted to
control these clerical appointments.
Shortly after Tyler became Presrihnt,
through the death Of President Harrl-
son, he ordered the removal of II
clerks in the Treasury Department and
the appointment of successors named
by him. Secretary of the Treasury
Ewing made such row about tbs iii,
reference with his prerosative that it
preciptated Cabinet breakup that
became historical. Ewing went out,
followed by Secretary of War John Bell
and all the other members, except
Daniel Webster, who was severely crit
cised for sticking to Tyler. 1t is hardly