The Portland daily press., 1886-08-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
No More Presidential Postma sters
To Be Appointed at Present.
Official Construction of a Recent
Executive Order.
A eumor About the President.

A Rumor About the President.
WASHINGTON, Aug 13.-It is rumored at
| Indianapolis that Senator Mcdonald has
| been offered a cabinet position. With Con-
| gressman Matson he left that city for WASH
| ington yesterday.
Construction of the Presidents
Order.
Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, is can
| didate for governor of that State. He is also
United States pension agent at Knoxville
He wanted to attend the convention, but did
not desire to violate President Cleyeland's s
order concerning Federal office-holders in
politics." So he wrote to the Commissioner
of Pensions If it would be improper for him
to go. The reply is the official construction
OF the meaning of the recent executive order.
Acting Commissioner of Pension Mclean re-
piled as follows:
In reply to your letter have the honor to in
form you, in pursuance of the instructions of the
Secretary OF the Interior that 1t is better for you
lists as to your good faith in the proposed action,
your presence at the convention will place you
and the administration, if not in false position,
in one subject to misconstruction
WILLIAM E. MCLEAN.
Nothing New in tho o~ttire oase,
,.rV 10 siro state department in
Washington that there are no new develop
ments in the Cutting business.
Wanted-The Presidents Check.
The headquarters of both Congressional
committees in this city are stagnant and life
less to an extent never before known at this
period in congressional year. Both COM
plain of want of funds. At Democratic head
quarters they are anxionsly looking for a
man Phil Thompson promised them from the
President, and fears are expressed that Mr..
Cleveland will forget to draw the check be-
fore he leaves for the Adirondacks
Thompson's ThunderboIts to Fall.
Treasury clerks are beginning to fear that
the change from Assistant Secretary Smith
to Assistant Secretary Thompson has not
improved their security of tenure as they
hoped it would. 1t is learned on the best
authority that Secretary Thompson has di-
rected the different heads of bureaus to bring
him codfdentially the names of clerks now
serving. who, in their opinion, would not
be found competent for appointment if they
were We m now to apply under civil service rules.
MI Ihompson's stenographer has been en-
gagged for several days in a private room pre-
pairing an abstract of these reports, which,
when completed, will be followed within
the next few days by the dismissal of large
number of clerks, most of whom are women
advanced in years, who have been long
time in the department.
Treasurer Jordan to Resign.
The Evening Star has the following: SIT
10 odiu tudt IIcdSuTeI JOTudu cOuI6npldCeS
sending in his resignation. 1t is also said
that he does not quite agree with Secretary
Fairchild on financial questions. He was
very much opposed to the $40, 100000 bond
call, which was issued yesterday His pol
icy, which it is believed Secretary Manning
would have carried out, was to call in no
more bonds than the law required for sink
ing fund. Mr.. Fairchild is not so radical
An Announcement About Appoint
mentS.
There will be no further appointments of
Presidential postmasters until after the re-
turn OF the President from his summer vaca-
ton.
The Bond Call.
The amount of the three per cent bonds
held to secure national bank note circula-
tion included in the 140th call issued yester-
day is $7,S5675
A Republican Appointed by the Pres
dent.
The President today appointed William III.
Webster to be chief examiner for the civil
service commission, to succeed Lyman, re-
Gently promoted to be a member of the civil
service commission. Webster is a Republi-
can and is now chief of division in the PEN
sion office. He has been president of the