The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-05-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent)

only keep away from Inc Wnlte
House the President will have an
opportunity to look over""the papers
filed by the applicants and decide
upon::the proper men to be appoln-
ted. Among the more prominent
appointments since my last letter are
the following:
Chas. Swayne, of Florida, to be U.
S. judge for the northern district of
Florida. Cthis appointment was par
ticularly pleasing to Florida Repub-
licans here, because it had been ru-
mored that the President had decided
to give the place to man from
another Statel; w. ID. Lee, of New
Mexico, to be associate justice of the
supreme court of New Mexico; ].
M. Whitcher, of Nevada, to be U. S.
attorney for Nevada ; J. G. Murphy,
of Dakota, to be U. S. attorney for
/ Dakota; r. l.. Walker, of Kansas,
to be u. S. Marshal for Kansas Mr..
Walker was appointed to succeed
Marshal Jones, who was summarily
removed for misconduct in Office at
the time of the opening of the Okla
homa country; Jacob Yoes, of Ar
kansas, to be U. S. Marshal for the
Western district of Arkansas Amor
Smith, Jr., to be Surveyor of GUS
toms for the port of Cincinnati, Ohio,
This gentleman has a right to feel
proud of his appointment as he was
vigorously opposed); d. w. Nc
Chung, of Ohio. to be Collector of in.
ternal revenue for the First (Cincin-
nati) district of Ohio; John R,
Lynch, ex-congressman from the
"shoestring" district of Mississippi.
to be Fourth Auditor of the Treas
ury. Mr.. Lynch is the second color
ed man to be honored by Presiden-
tial appointment !; l.. w. Habercom,
of the District of Columbia, to be
Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, (Mr,
Habercom has for many years been
the Washington correspondent of
several prominent German news
papers, and during the last campaign
he was in charge of all the political
documents, printed in German. that
the Republican national committee
sent QUIT ;Solomon Hirsh, of Oregon.
to be Minister to Turkey C. E. Carr,
of Illinois, to be Minister to Dem
mark, editor Haskell of the Min
neapolis Tribune. tried hard to get
this appointment. and it is believed
would have succeeded but for the
editorial insult to Mrs. Cleveland,
which he printed several years ago in
that paper; H. w. Severance, OF
California, to be Consul general at
Honolulu; John Jarrett, of Pennsyl-
vania, to be U. S. Consul at Birming-
ham. England, (Mr. Jarrett is well
known throughout the country on
account of his prominence in labor
circles, being secretary of the largest
association of metal workers in the
country. His appointment is de.
served recognition of his services in
the last campaign; Thos. H. Sher-
man, of the District of Columbia, to
be U. S. Consul at Liverpool, (Mr,
Sherman has been Mr.. Blaine's pri-
vate secretary since 1861; j. w,
Savage, of Nebraska, John F. Plum
mer, of New York, Geo. E. Lighton,
of Missouri. Jesse Spalding. of Illi-
nois, and r. B. Bullock. of Georgia,
to be Government directors of the
Union Pacific Railway. company ;
ex-senator Saunders, of Nebraska, to
be a member of the Utah board OF
registration and election, and S. G.
| Wright, of Nevada, to be superin-
tendent of the U. S. Mint at Carson
City.
Mrs. Harrison is making prepare.
lions to move into a cottage at Deer
| Park, Maryland, for the summer.
The President will remain at the
White House during the most of the
summer. joining the family at Deer
Park every Saturday afternoon and
remaining with them until Monday
or Tuesday.
Secretary Proctor has gone to West
Point to select sites for several new
buildings provided for at the last
session of Congress. Before return.
ing he will pay hurried visit to his
home in Vermont.
The sudden death of Allen Thorn.
dyke Rice last week makes a vacancy
in the Russian mission.
The President is certainly a fortu-
nate man. He has appointed two
Commissioner for the District OF
Columbia, one Democrat and one
Republican, and not single objec-
ton has been raised to either. This
is something which never happened
in Washington before.
The Acknowledgement has receiv.
ed the report of the special agents