The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-26
As Rule, Appointments Will Only Be Made
as Vacancies Occur, and Men Who Want Of
flee Must Exercise the Virtue of Patience.
Funeral Exercises Over the Remains of
the Late Associate Justice Matthews.
Several Candidates for the Succession Already
in the Field-Arms for College Mill
tary lnstructiOn-Capital Notes.
There Will Be Noe pof Incumbents,
and Ofice-Hun rs Must Be Patient.

Inere w Ill BE NOC sweeps pOf lncumDent8s
and Ofice-Hun. rs Must BE Patient.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-"There will be
no marshals or district attorneys appointed
except to fill vacancies" said Attorne-gen-
eral Miller to delegation of politicians to-
day.
Offensive partisanship is not to cut any
figure in this administration; that is to say
men will not be removed simply because
they are Democrats. This rule will apply
in one as well as another department..
knowing this, the office-seekers have
thinned out very considerably. There are
not more than one-fourth as many men here
tonight seeking appointments as a fort
night since, and not more than 10 per cent.
as many as during Inauguration week.
Most of those who call upon the President
or his Cabinet officers every day for ap-
pointments are men in Congress. They sim
ply file applications, urge appointments at
the earliest possible day, and depart.
The Senate will probably adjourn its extra
session on Friday, and then the legislators
will get out of lie city as rapidly as they
can pack up their personal effects. They
Will conduct their campaigns for appoint
ments from their homes in the various
S tates, as they can do that as well away
from here as on the spot. Nearly all of the
office-seeking is being conducted either by
mail or through the one hundred and fifty
Republican Senators and Representatives
in the city. There will not. in all human
probability, be forty Republicans in Con-
gress here ten days hence. Then, as vacan-
cies by reason of the expiration of commits
sions or designations or removals occur, ap-
pointments will be made. The pablo serv-
ice is not going to be stampeded. The ap-
pointment of marshals, district
attorneys, collectors, presidential post
masters and consuls will be
made very slowly. Secretary Blaine said
this afternoon that he would not begin to
take up the applications of men for consul
ates under three or four weeks, and that
there would not be many changes to make
during the summer. On the strength of
this, one or two hundred familiar faces
that have fingered here since Inauguration
to be sent abroad are leaving for their
homes.
When the superintendent of the railway
mail service went to the Postoffice Depart
inent this morning, he carried under his
arm a large bundle of papers which he has
been carefully examining at his private
rooms for several days. They were the ap-
plications of various men for the
division superintendencies. He has
made his recommendations, and tho
appointments will follow very soon.
1t is especially desirable that
these officers shall get to work early, as
only month after this week will elapse
till the civil-service law will control the
appointments in the railway mail service
and the reorganization will be at an end.
There will not be great many changes in
this service Probably thousand new
men will go in before next fall. but not
more than half that number will be ap-
pointed during the next month. Thus it
will be seen that but few Will go to each
State. Probably the average will not be
more than two to each congressional dis
trict, which altogether will make between
| six and seven hundred.
| Under the circumstances it is altogether
unnecessary for men seeking offices to
| come here unless there are vacancies oc-
| curing OF about to be created. Those who
| want vacancies created because Democrats
| hold the offices should GO to work and
prove that the present incumbents are not
| competent and do not give satisfaction to
| those who do business at the offices.
Labor Thrown Away.
| Special to the Indianapolis Journal
| WASHINGTON. March 25.-Itcannot be too
clearly understood that the applications
| pouring into the varicus delegations for
positions in the various government de-
partments are labor thrown away. All the
departments are under the civil-service
rules, and removals and appointments are
| made In every case under the rules of the
| commission. Senators and Congressman
have absolutely no influence in the prem
| ises, no patronage to give away and no
pull" on the heads of departments, who
| are forced to select their clerks from the list
| of candidates certified over from the Civil
service Commission as having passed high
| examination.
| The Postmaster-general has thus far re-
| fused to say anything for publication on
the subject of offensive partisanship as
cause for the removal of postmasters- But
| the Star tonight says: ION Saturday Mr..
| Wanamaker made the positive announce
| ment to an unnamed member of Congress,
! who had a very offensive partisan post
master he was working to have removed,
that the charge of offensive partisanship
would not be regarded as sufficient cause
| for removals. Some other good reason
| xvoul6 have IN "a Uivau and III did not nm 4