San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-12
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent
WA5HINGTON, April 9, 1859

WASHINGTON, April 9, 1859.
Daily LIGHT:
The American commissioners TO the
! Samoan conference at Berlin are in
daily consultation with secretary
Blaine. They will sail from New
York on the 18th inst
\ good part of last week was given
| by the president to the selection OF
the federal officials for New York
city. Only two of them have yet
been decided upon-Erhard, to be col
lector of customs and VanCott, to be
postmaster, but the general satisfac-
ton with which these two appoint
ments have been received by New
| York republicans here proves that
General Harrison still preserves the
happy faculty of being able to select
men to fill the offices that are accept
able to all branches of the party. 1t
is this faculty that has up to the
! present time silenced all criticism in
the party.
The members of the cabinet have
| found it necessary, in order TO get any
| time to devote to the affairs of their
departments, to adopt the following
rules as to the reception of visitors:
Senators and representatives are to be
received every day from 10 to -
o'clock. Private citizens will be re-
ceived daily at II o'clock, except
| Tuesdays and Fridays, which are the
days for the regular cabinet meetings.
Ex-Governor Alger, of Michigan, is
here for few days. In response to
an inquiry he said: II am not here
to discuss politics. Up in Michigan
the people are letting the administra-
ton alone. The logs are coming
down the streams, navigation is open
on the lakes, the ice is out of the
straits, the wheat is looking finely and
business is booming. WhatmOre can
you ask? l was over in New York
and felt lonely. so | came down here
to see some friends.
Although the senate adjourned last
Tuesday most of the republican MEM
bers are still here trying to get some
thing for their constituents.
Somebody asked Representative
Cannon, of Illinois, when he was 90.
ing home? His reply was. as soon as
every postoffice in my district is pre-
sided over by good republican.
tired OF waiting for their share of of
fees. So far that state has only re-
ceived the second assistant pOstmas-
ter general and a division superin-
tendent of the railway mail service.
Representative Butterworth, who has
visited the white house almost every
day since the 4th of March, says the
reason Ohio has gotten so few APP
inf r1ant fc, &c oh
good men that the president is unable
to decide between them, and there
fore he has passed the appointments
on to some other state that has not
quite so many prominent men of equal
merit.
Said Republican Senator yester-
day: "When you hear anybody tell
ing about what Harrison's policy will
be, on any subject, put him down for
either fraud or an ignOramOus. Har-
riOn has no policy. He decides every
thing just as it comes up, on its mer-
its, and that is why he makes no mis-
takes. 1t is only narrow minded
man who sets up a policy and then
tries to make everything dovetail into
it. The brOadgauged man like Har-
risOn takes everything separately and
IS governed IN the settlement OF each
case by the particular circumstances
surrounding It,"
"Resigned to enter private bust
ness, ".is the chorus of the democratic
chiefs of divisions in the departments
here as they are daily stepping out to
make room for republicans. 1t is of
course supertluOus to inform the pub
lie that this sudden desire to enter
private business usually follows a con-
fidentiaI talk with the head of the de-
partment. Resigned" sounds better
than "discharged," you know, and Of
course when a man resigns Office to
enter private business his resignation
is entirely voluntary.