The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-02-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 1889.
(From our regular correspondent

Mr.. Cleveland has removed Civil
Service Commissioner Edgerton and
nominated Hugh S. Thompson Of
South Carolina, to succeed him. Mr..
Thompson is assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury at present and Il very
warm friend of the President. The
removal of Mr.. Edgerton was not a
surprise to anyone familiar with h
workings of the Commission. 1t had
several times been intimated to him
that his resignation would be accepted,
but he refused to take the mint, and
finally when the President asked him
in plain language to resign he declined
to do so, and the removal followed.
Mr.. Edgerton is Il good man, but
holding the opinions he does he should
never have accepted the office in the
first place. The removal leaves only
one Commissioner i'll office, and he is
a Republican. For that reason it is
thought that the Senate will probably
confirm Mr.. Thompson, as the law
provides for a Democrat on the board,
and there is another vacancy into
which Gen. Harrison can put a Repub-
lican.
Representative Springer thinks his
Omnibus bill will yet get through in
spite of the fact that the confreres
have failed to agree upon it. He says
that three, if not more. Republica IL
Senators will vote with the Democratic
Senators to admit New Mexico. l
shall only believe it when they do it.
The report of the Treasury experts
on the tariff bill shows that outside Of
the internal revenue features the
measure will only make a reduction
of from three to five millions of dollars.
The House Ways and Means Commit
tee will report the bill this week, with
a recommendation that it he rejected.
Just what will follow if it be rejected
it is difficult to say. The internal
revenue features of the bill are sati s.
factory to quite a number of Demo-
Gratis in the House.. and unless they
can be satisfied that the COwleS bill,
repeating the tobacco tax, now in the
hands of Mr.. Randalls committee, or
Il similar one will be Immediately re-
ported to to the House, | shall not be
surprised to see the Senate bill adopt
ed. And | believe that its adoption
would create far more dissatisfaction
among Republicans than Democrats.
Senator Vest is going to have some
fun with the Republican Senators
when the Senate conferees on the
Springer Omnibus bill make their
report to the Senate. Mr.. Vest will
prove by the Record that in 1875,
when New Mexico was thought to be
Republican, that many Republicans
now in the Senate voted in the House
for the admission of that Territory
along with Colorado. Now he wants
t, know why these same men oppose
the admission of that territory. The
Inference is very plain to Senator Vest
| and everybody else. New Mexico is
now Democratic. What care these
Republican, Senators for consistency
when party interests are at stake.
There is IL movement here which is
said to have the Presidents approval,
to have Senator Kenna withdrawn
! from the contest in West Virginia.
The idea is that it is impossible to
have Senator Kenna reelected, and
that some other Democrat may be
elected. thus saving the seat to the
party. As a compensation it is pro
posed that the President shall nomin-
ate Mr.. kenna Interstate Commissioners
Senatorial courtesy, making it certain
that he would be immediately con
tirmeu.
Secretary Bayard has once more
become Il target for criticism. He has
demanded the resignation of II. II
Sewall, L. s. Consul G%eneralto Samoa
Mr.. Sewall has recently been Il wit
ness before the foreign committees q
the House and Senate and i'll his testi
mOny regarding Samoan matters h,
took occasion to express opinions crit
icising the Department of State i'll
somewhat severe banner. Whethe
Mr. Bayard has done right or wrong i
compelling him to resign at this time
is Il question, but like the rest of us
Mr.. Bayard is human. and has punish
ed his subordinate officer for indiscre
ton. Anybody else might have don
the same thing under the same circum
. stances.
So after the Fourth Of March Nj
Cleveland will resume the practice &
law, il New York city. 1t is said tina