Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-03-28
Entered as Second Glass matter at the
1uka Post ONCE, May llth, 1888.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ERoM OUR RkoULAH CORRESPONDENT.

Harrison is just now catching II
on every hand from tho office seek
ora because Of bis klowness in max
ing appointments. Including the
Cabinet, the. total of the administra
ton TO date are less than sixty
This isa state of affairs that the
hungry ard greedy gang of would
be public officials find it hard to un-
derstand. They expect hundred
or more nominations every day
This tardiness on the part OF the
new authorities arises iron. no con-
slderation for tho Dsmocrats now
holding the positions, but results
from inability, owing to the unpre-
cedentedswrangllng among the he"
publican politicians, to decide whom
10 appoint.
Mr.. Harrison has been talking
Father plainly to some OF this gang.
He told some Indiana Republicans
that the best thing they could do
was to go homo; that if he wanted
thcm be always. knew where they
were to bo found, and that
he thought he knew who
were entitled to tho Offices in that
Stats as well as any man In it. he
is also said to havo told ex-senator
Malone that he would send for him
when he wanted his advice. All OF
these little things add TO the glori-
GUS harmony that exists in the ranks
Of the Republican party.
By the nomination of Mr.. &. A.
Bates, of Delaware, TO be U. 5
Commissioner to tho Samoan Con
ference to be held at Berlin, Nj
Harrison has virtually Endorsed Mr.
Clevelands position on the Samoan
Question. Mr.. Bates is a Democrat
and WAS selected in 1886 by Mr.
Cleveland to 60 to Somoa and make
IN investigation Of tho trouble which
was just then beginning. As a le-
suit of Mr.. Bates report Consul
Green baum was recalled. The other
commissioners nominated to act
With Mr.. Bates are ex.Congressman
W. W. Phslps and ex-Ainister to
Austria and Germany John A. Kas-
son. !.
There 10 big fight going on to
decide who shall be tho next Com.
missioner of Pensions. Mr.. Harri-
son wants to. give the appointment
ia Corporal Tanner, of New York,
but the New York Congressional
delegation have candidate Of their
own Con. Poole, of Syracuse-and
object to the appointment OF Tan.
ner. Tanners friends suggest that
he be appointed and credited to
somo other State. ~.
Some surprise -was created here
whom J. S. Clarkson, of Iowa, the
man who would bs Secretary, Of the
Interior or nothing, accepted the
position OF First Assistant Post
master General. Is
Senator Chace, sof Rhode Island
has, resigned, and al sorts Of rnmerf
arc flying around as, to tho cause
That most generally believed is that
Harrison pnubbed him in making NJ
appointment Of U. S. Attorney fol
tho Rhode Island district. Hi
triends say that he has all along IN
tended to resign At this time, bu
that is hardly a reasonable, story
Iii not likely that he would .havs
kone to the, trouble and expense Q
sn election 10 the Senate just for tn.
glory Of serving less than ono month
be having been ssvorn. in on the AZ
inst, for the beginning Of his drs
whole torn. Previous 70 that tim,'
he VAS hlling out tho term Of th'
late senator Anthony.
Thera il ! probability Of som'
.troubla between tho President an!
;ths Republicans d tho, Senate ovei
liz South4Sp election question. NJ