St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-05
Reported to Be Receiving Republican
Heads at the Cheering Rate Of
Five a Minute.
cleveland Continues to Have Faith in
Garland--St. Paups Steamboat
District Safe.
The Discovery Made That Dement,
Said Teller sold Out TO the Nor
mons for So 700.
4 Little Partisan Caloric Developed
In the Senate Over Affairs or
the Navy.
Heads Speedily Falling.

Bpeclal to the GlODe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-f the present
administration continues as faithfully In
the work of official changes during ltS
entire rerm as it has been done in the hrst
year there will be very few RepupIcan
officeholders left to tell the tale at the eud
of the four years OF Grover Cleveland S
administration. There has been great
deal OF grooming because the admlnlstra-
ton did not turn everybody out the nrst
month of its term: bat when you stop and
think about it you will see that Its hrst year
has been a pretty busy one. The president
has appointed 800 men to important
places. These men have from TO l,OO0
persons employed under them. In vast
majority of cases they have the right OF re-
lnoval and appointment, and In large pro-
portion OF cases they have promptly used 1t.
Take the Office of the supervising inspector
of steam vessels for the Louisville and Menu
phis district, for instance. Inspector Du-
gan has under him probably eight men. de
has already changed half of these, putting
in Democrats. and he will, of course, change
the remainder soon. Take the collectors OF
internal revenue all over the country. They
are
CONSTANTLY EXCHANGING REPUBLICAN
for Democratic rekeepers-sometimes at
the rate of forty or fifty day. So it Is
easy to see that the l. 500 or so OF President
Cleveland's appointments have produced
already 5000 changes in Office. Then the
assistant postmaster general, Stevenson,
that great headsman, has a record" or
Is. 600 fourth-class postmaSters to be added
TO the list. A few of these have assistants
under them. and, of course, they put Dem
ocrats in the places at once. so 1t Is easy
to see that there have been in the eleven
months of the administration considerably
over 20, 900 offices filled with Democrats.
and that the first years work Will
show up round 20, 600 heads in the official
basket. Putting the length of working
day at the official rate of eight hours day,
this shows that the removals have come
along at an average rate Of twelve per hour,
or one eacn five minutes during the whole
first year. If the administration keeps at
the rate of the first year during the re-
mainder of the term there will not be Re-
publican officer left TO tell the tale at the
end of Mr.. Cleveland's four years in office
Retains Faith i'm Garland.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-President Cleve-
land has not had any talk with his attorney
general upon the subject of the recent
developments in the telephone scandal He
does not intend to talk with him upon the
subject. He regards Mr.. Garland's ex-
PLANTATION last fall as perfectly satisfactory.
He has perfect confidence in Mr.. Garland's
integrity. A friend of the president said
this evening:
Mr.. Garland does not appear to be affected
by recent publications. 1t would be better
for him If he could get rid Of mis- Pan Elec-
trio stock, but l don't see how he can do IL.
He couldn't sell it, and he couldn't give 1t
away without mourning the suspicion that
the transaction was not bona tide one.
The same gentleman said MIR. Garland
was probably not the only member of the
cabinet who is the owner of telephone
stock. He said it was very probable that
some of the members of the cabinet who
had money TO invest were holders of
Bell telephone stock, but he didn't Intimate
that they had acquired this stock in the
same manner as had Mr.. Garland. A friend
suggested this evening that Mr.. Garland
might assemble mass meeting and burn
this stock in the public square as good
way of getting rid of it. The president
does not seem to understand or appreciate
the fact that the stock held by Mr.. Garland
was given him by DR.. j. W. Rogers for TIE
use of his name. and that his holding it
cannot therefore be considered in the light
of an ordinary business transaction.