Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-25
HATTON ON The WAR PATH.
He Charges Commissioner Lyman
With Nepotism.
MAKES A SLASH AT ROOSEVELT
The Ex-Postmaster General Still As
serting That the Civil service
Law Is Rotten and Its
Priests Corrupi.
wAsurxerox BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,

WASHINGTON, ~. u, sept. ~.
This mornings Post had another caustic
editorial from the pen of ex-Postmaster
General Frank Hatton on civil service
reform.
IT followed the same general line of criti-
cism, charging Commissioner Lyman with
appointing and promoting a brother-in-law to
place under the commission while he QLy-
many was the only commissioner, and doing
it without an examination. 1t is also init
mated that the commissioner was in the
habit OF violating both the letter and the
spirit of the law IN making his own appoint
ments. The article was very cleverly writ
ten and, like others on the SAME subject
attracted much attention.
Commissioner Roosevelt was algo severely
flaggeated in the article. Commenting on
these criticisms this afternoon, Mr.. Roose-
welt said:
"They come from three classes of men,
those who cannot get office aud so comfort
themselves by attacking civil service reform.
Those whose political power depends on
nothing but their capacity for peddling poll
tical patronage are, of course, opposed to IT,
The other class Is composed of duiards de-
luded by the other two."
"Do you think there is any danger of
repeal of the lawln
"No, for if nothing else stood in the way
the presidents veto would prevent it, The
president would certainly veto any act re
pealng the law, and by no possibility could
the opposition get strength to pass it over
his veto.n
"May congress not fail to make an appro-
priationP'
~ have too much faith in the majority of
the members of congress 10 believe that such
a thing will happen"
The republican party is strongly in favor
of the law, he added, land every republican
who acts against it is a bolter."
Are not the democrats pledged to its sup
portl'
"I am republican," was the reply, land
cannot speak for the democratic party at
all. The repeal of the law or a failure to
appropriate for its enforcement twice the
amount of money so far appropriated would
be an immense evil For any
congressman to attack civil service
reform would be an evil act for a republi-
can to do so would be party treachery-a
| base breach of faith'
ARMY NEWS,
| Interest in the near approaching vacancies
| in the subsistence and quartermaster depart
| ments of the army have caused Secretary
| Proctor to begin to-day looking up the sub
| iect of appointments, Colonel Amos Beck
| with, subsistence department, and Captain
| Charles A. Hoyt, quartermaster's depart
| ment, are to be retired. the former October
| duu buc ldUIeI oSplculDGT OU DcSlucS
| these there is also another vacancy
| that has been left untitled since the retire
| ment of Colonel William Burns, subsistence
| department, September /, because it was
| then thought best to wait and fill all three at
| once. These three retirements necessitate
| the appointment of three commsSares of
| subsistence with the rank of captain and one
| assistant quartermaster with the same rank.
1t is ordinarily ,presupposed that such vacan-
| ces shall be filled by promotion from the
| line of the army, and of course service men
declare that they should be so filled There
IS belief, growing that Secretary
| Proctor and the president intend
to take advantage OF a law passed during
tho Arthur administration which provides
| that such appointments might be made from
| civil life. 1t is regarded quite likely that
| if the new appointees are civilians they will
| come from the ranks of the Grand Army
| Republic
| The retirement of Colonel Beckwith
will cause the promotion of Lieutenant
| Colonel George Bell to be a colonel,
| Major Small to be a lieutenant colonel and
Captain Charles b. Penrose to be major.
| BY direction of the secretary of war Cap
| tain Chas. A. Alligood, military storekeeper,
will be relieved from duty at Ogden, Utah.
! by a lieutenant to be detailed as acting
assistant as auartermaster by the commanding
| general, department of the Platte, and will
then repair to New York city and report to
Lieutenant Colonel Richard N. Batchelder,
| deputy quartermaster general in charge of
| the general depot, for duty in his office.
The resignation of Second Lieutenant Ed.
| V. Stockham, Seventeenth infantry, has
been accepted by the president to take effect
| Septembe er 30, 1889.
The ordinary leave of absence granted
Captain Thomas Sharp, Seventeenth lnfan-
try, is extended ten days
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The Western National bank, of New York,
and the Continental National bank, of st.
Louis, were to-day designated as reserve
agents for the American National bank, of
| Omaha.
John Grinstead, of Iowa, was to-day ap-
pointed q clerk in the pension Office at 81, 900
a year, aud Edwin Wlggenhorn and Evarard
B. Brown, Of Nebraska, copyists at 5000.
The secretary of the treasury has accepted
the resignation of James p. Kimball as di-
rector of the mint, to take effect October
l5 Edward o. Leech, computer in the Of
flee, is now acting as director with the un-
derstanding that he will be appointed to
the dictatorship as soon as the office becomes
vacant.
The government printing Office has just
completed the immense work of printing the
testimony in the contested election cases
which will come up for settlement before the
Fifty-first congress. The total number OF
| pages in the entire work is l5, ,554, which
amounts TO 46, 652, 900 ems.
PERRY S. HEATH.
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