The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-21
THEY ARE VERY SAD.
Not Enough Nominations to
Please the Gang.
QUITE DETECTED AND UNHAPPY.
Reasons for Schuyler's Failure to Connect
Reid Let Down NiceIy---EVarts is Grow
ing Weary of His Load.

Especial TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Dispatch
WAsHINGroN, March 2O.-The politicians
had another disappointment yesterday at
the small number of important nominations
sent to the Senate One foreign minister.
one consul-general and few local places
comprised the list The Senate waited in
rvain until 2 O'Clock to have it extended, and
-then adjourned.
e President Harrison is pursuing his an
= bounced policy of going slow, and the appe-
-.tites of the place-hunters are growing more
and more voraciOus by long abstinence. A
Democratic member of Congress is rare
sight here now. They have all gone home,
butEae Republican members remain and
beslSge the White House and the depart
ments with ceaseless opportunities. The
snembers harrass the cabinet members and
CONSTITUENTS harrass the members.
LOADED WITH APPLICATIONS.
An Illustration of the general situation is
found in the attitude of the California dele
cation. Senator Stanford alone has re
ceived 900 applicants for Office, and gets
an average Of twenty-five dispatches day
urging him to look into various depart
ments and secure certain appointments.
The delegation has held half dozen meet
ings, but has not succeeded in uniting on
candidates for more than three places midst
the multitude of applicants.
They are getting detected and unhappy.
The withdrawal of the nomination Of
Eugene Schuyler for assistant secretary of
state was not entirely unexpected by those
who have known what was going on in the
committee on foreign affairs during the
past 6aW days. As soon as the nomination
was announced, Washburn, the new Sen
atOr from Minnesota, declared war on MIR.
aTBf
in his book on American diplomacy on his
brother, E. b. Washburn
He WAS 4 DEMOCRAT.
This would not have prevented his COS
firmation. but for an interesting discovery
made by Senator Edmunds, of Vermont
He was told that Mr.. Schuyler had made
an earnest effort to be made assistant sec
rotary of state under Mr.. Bayard at the
start of the Democratic administration. He
was strongly endorsed to Bayard as a man
OF letters, a trained diQlOmatiSt and thor
Oughly familiar with the routine of the
office.
1t was reported that while Schuyler has
generally passed for a Republican he really
had no politics of a violent sort, but was
citizen OF the world, and more interested in
diplomacy than in party Schemlng. Mr..
Bsyard was not thoroughly satisfied on this
head, and gave the place to Ex-Governor
Porter of Tennessee who afterWard re
signed.
INDEED A RETROGRADE.
This discovery regarding Schuyler was
PROXIMITY communicated by Senator Ed
mum lis TO the committee on foreign affairs,
and naturally caused feelings not far re
moved from horror that they had come
near confirming a man who had been so lost
TO a sense Of duty to his party as to ask
Tor an Office at the hands OF the Cleveland
administration.
Schuyler's friends were told that the
committee would feel obliged to report his
name adversely. They cabled the fact to
him, and he cabed back to have his name
withdrawn. 1t is not yet known who will
be made assistant secretary of state.
Walker Blaine has been occupying the desk
since his father entered the state depart
ment and in default of other material 1T
may be necessary to transfer him there
from his place as examiner Of claims.
LET DOWN EASY.
Whitelaw Reid is ''let down easy" in
the language of the street, by the nOmina-
ton Of minister to France. He had set his
heart on going to England, but there was
strong opposition, and the President felt
shat his abilities were entirely inadequate
10 the delicate work required during the
coming four years of our representative at
the court of st. j. es.
The position tnen seemed to be between
CudulCGN M. 1GDCh anu tOCLldlOI Il d. Jo' VI
New York. Depew can have it if he wants
IT, and is quite likely to accept. If he does
not Senator Evarts will probably be the
man. The legal ability eff either would well
qualify him to handle the complicated nego-
tiations necessary with the fishery and ex
tradition disputes.
HE WILL NOT RESIGN.
6aator Evarts says that the public story
=. THAI he contemplates resigning his seat in
the Senate is not true. Friends Of his IN the
Senate say, however, that he has seriously
considered the matter and that he is fairly
sick of the scramble for spoils into which
he has been drawn.
1t was stated in the dispatches some days
ago that it was the original intention of the
Senator to keep aloOf from the scramble
aud allow his colleagues in the Senate and
the Republican leaders in the Senate to dis
tribute the spOils.
TREY URGED HIN.
The Union League club of New York
city and other organizations which have
contributed to his election, at once pro
tested against this policy of inaction, and
urged Mr.. Evarts to exert himself to see
that none but men of ability and nigh char
acter were put into the New York offices.
He accordingly set out to make the tour of
the cabinet anti-chambers, and press the
men of his choice for the various positions
70 be filed.
DON'T LIKE THE JOB.
But it is extremely distasteful to him and
II he has got to keep it up inedfinately he
will find a Senatorial career anything but
agreeable. The post of minister to England
would be much more to his liking.
BE WANTS THE EARTH.
Ex-senator Palmer of Michigan is some
what amused by the stories which repre-
sent him as in doubt whether to accept the
Sps(qish mission. He has not the least idea
of declining, and will leave for his post in
about three weeks. He makes no secret,
however, of his purpose to remain in Spain
no more than two years. He has been am
bilious for some time to fill the guberna-
torial chair of his state, and he believes he
can reach the goal in the election of 1890.
His friends will make the canvass for his
nomination and if nominated he will re-
sign his post and return to the United States
and fight the campaign, with the confident
expectation that the sturdy Republican
majority in the state would seat him in the
gubernatorial chair
General Longstreet, Of ex-confederate
fame. is said to be slated for the register
ship of the treasury department, now filled
by General Rosecrans.
General Moseby, the former consul
general to Hong Kong, is an applicant Tor
his old position, with, it is said excellent
DrOcnactc If cucppGS The nomination OF