Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-22
THE PRESIDENTS QUIET DAY.
A Few Callers, but Fewer Still Manage
To See Him.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE oFFIcERs-THE INTEREST IN
THE APPOINTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTER - A
GOOD sroRY-DRoPPINo INTO PoETRY-oES-
ERAL MAHoNE WAITING.

The upper floor of the White House looked
really desolate to-day. The great American
offce-seeker was absent; shut out by the presi-
dental decree, which insists that on Monday
the executive mansion shall be free from the
place-hunter. The energetic aspirant has ac-
cepted the situation with that easy grace which
characterizes the species and maps out his ar
rangements so that the day shall be spent in
sinuous endeavors to capture something in one
of the departments.
At about 1890 the Attorney General called
and was admitted to the library, where he re-
manned in consultation with his old law partner
for more than an hour and half, OCCASIONAL y
pausing in their business to look at
THE THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN
who were enjoying themselves in the grounds
There were quite number of anxious ones
who transferred their affections to Secretary
Halford and few of the greater
political lights also saw him. sena-
tor Evarts, Senator Cullom and Senator
Blair all had business with the private secre-
tary, or seemed to have, but the fact Is that
they slipped through the doorway in his Office,
which opens into the cabinet room, and thence,
by easy stages they reached the President.
Representative Morrow sat on one of the
dilapidated sofas in the Secretary's room and
said farewell. He leaves tonight for Califor-
mia, satisfied that the Pacific coast will be dealt
fairly with when the Offices are all handed
around
Representative Wade walked upstairs, looked
at the closed door, and then walked down
again.
Ex-Representative Brady, of Virginia, tried
TO make arrangements for an interview with
the President, but the rule could not be bro
ken. The Nirginiaps will come tomorrow.
GENERAL MALONE WAITING TO BE SENT FOR.
Gen. Malone is in town, but has not yet put
in an appearance at the White House. He is
waiting to be sent for. He thinks he ought to
be consulted as to the disposition of federal
patronage in Virginia, and he believes that the
President will notify him to come around and
talk the matter over as soon as he is ready to
straighten things out in old Virginny The
nti-Mahoneites say that they have been adj
vised that the little general will have to wait
quite long time before the President sends
for him, because the Presidents memory has
not yet faded out as to events which occurred
at the Chicago convention. They seem to
think that John s. Wise will be consulted be-
fore the administration talks to Malone.
IDAHoANs DON'T WANT OFFICE.
One of the quietest and least obtrusive of the
congressman who visit the White House is
Fred. 7. Dubois, the delegate from Idaho. He
has not asked for great deal, because in the
nature of things he has but few offices to fill.
but his recommendations have been concurred
IN every time. He has had an almost con-
tinuous fight with few men who came on here
during the inaugural period. and who expected
to run things to suit themselves, but failed
lamentably.
In spite of the annoyance caused by these
conflicts, Mr.. Dubois is favored above all other
representatives. While hundreds of other
legislators are struggling with thousands of
offce-seekers, Mr.. Dubois cannot find men to
g.
day last week the Postmaster General notified
him that there was vacancy in the post-ofice
at Moscow, Idaho; a vacancy that was worth
81 200 per annum. Then the delegate was
puzzled. He knew great many men in Mos
COW, any one of whom would make first
class postmaster, but he felt sure that
none OF them would accept the position if it
were offered to them. Failing to think up the
name of some one to whom the place would be
welcome he sent recommendation blank to a
friend in Moscow and deputed him to find
somebody, insert his name in the proper place
and return it to the Post-Office department.
How many men are here who would Jump at a
81 200 post-offcei The post-office at Boise City
will be vacant soon and the same difficulty
besets Mr.. Dubois as the one he is now wrest-
ling with at Warsaw. There is not a single APP
plicant for that nice S1.700 job. What a god
send that thing would be to one of the hungry
ones who haunt the departments daily. Mr..
Dubois explains this lack of enthusiasm on the
part of his constituents by saving that the re-
publicans of Idaho are too busy and to well-to-
do to bother with such pdltry affairs as post
offices, no matter what the salary amounts to-.
THE PUBLIC PREMIERSHIP.
Candidates for that supposed-to-be desirable
position, the public rrintership, are not numer-
Gus at the White House, but their friends and
supporters are there as frequently as the most
exacting aspirant could desire. They watch and
wait and hope and pray, and are patient
in the face of reverses that would up
set the equanimity and spoil the temper of any
but an of1ice-seeker. Just now they are very
much excited because rumor has it that the
President will not appoint a successor to Bene-
diet until the beginning of the next fiscal year.
The author OF that unfounded report has much
to answer for. Some of the candidates, it is
said, are really afraid that the President will
delay matters until what they regard as an ir-
piece of damage will have been
done. The incumbent is now making prepare
tons for calling for bids on supplies which
the Office may require during the year COM
mencing July l, and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
fear is that he will award the contracts and
stock up the office in a manner which may
embarrass his successor The attention of the
President has been directed to this phase of
the case, and portion of the testimony
taken in
THE PRINTISG-oFFICE INVESTIGATION
has also been placed before him. This particu-
lar scrap o. testimony is that which places in
the public printers mouth the statement (said
to have been made to a representative of q low
bidding, but successful frm) that his friends
had placed him in power and he was going to
stand by them. This policy, the President has
been told will result in the expenditure of sew
eral hundreds of thousands Of dollars among
persons and firms whose influence was exerted
for Mr.. Cleveland in the last campaign.
Quite number of prominent public men.
who have no candidates of their own, have ad-
vised the President to find his public printer
among men who have some acquaintance with
the office for the reason that any stranger-no
matter what his executive ability or knowledge
of the businessman be nothing but a mere
fgurehead for at least year. But few people
realize what an immense establishment that
printing Office is, and not more than half a
dozen living men know what an enormous
burden it is even to the experienced man.
The President is quoted as being favorably
inclined toward Palmer, of Chicago, but it Is
the President say anything about being i'm
pressed with Palmer's fitness for the place. II
is generally understood among Illinoisans that
Palmer would not accept the position if it was
offered him. Osborne Childs. Helm, Donath.
Davis and Nichols are still in the ring. 1t is
anybody's fight after a six weeks struggle.
GOOD STORY
comes from the government printing Office.
There are in that establishment number of
employees who would like to continue to be en-
ployes under the present administration and
they sometimes make the candidates lives very
miserable. They use every endeavor to make
themselves solid with all the possibilities" and
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