Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-06

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM 10 THE pIsPArcH.l
WASHINGTON, May 5.-Execrations on
the President for the extraordinary slowness
of his movements in the appointment of Re-
publiesns to office have been loud and con-
tinued for the last "a hours, or since the
close of the week with no more important
appointments than his own brother and his
friend Alexander. But hope seems to spring
eternal in the breast of the Office seeker, and
this evening the crowds in the hotels appear
to have almost forgotten the dissppolnt-
ments of the week, show an inclination to
pardon the President on account of the
fatigue necessarily attendant on his Gen
tennial trip, and are canvassing with In
terest the probabilities OF good lot OF an
pouncements for the week now begun,
WHAT Is EXPECTED THIS WEEK.
There seems to be a conviction that
Public Printer, Chief of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, two District Com
missioners and possibly two Civil Service
Commissioners will be appointed. 1t ap-
pears to be pretty general conviction that
Palmer, of Chicago, will get the Public
Printer plum, and Meredith, as everybody
thinks, has had the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing in his possession, hguratively
speaking, for several weeks. Meredith is
another personal friend of the President to
be well placed, and if Palmer be appointed
his selection will be due to his close friend
ship with Halford, the Presidents Private
Secretary.
1t is generally agreed that no former ad-
eh cfr
tion to take care of its personal friends and
relatives in the first month of its existence.
MENTIONED FOR PREFERMENT.
For Commissioners of the District, to sue
ceed Webb and Wheatly, no one seems to
have any knowledge of the identity of Mr..
Harrison's selections. The District govern
ment was never in a much worse condition
OF Generalization, and there is a general
hope that frst-class business men will be
appointed, but past experience invites de-
spair rather than hope. For the Demo-
cratic appointment, William Dickson, a
local leader, popular with both Democrats
and Republicans, is the most conspicuous.
For the Republican succession there is
legion of candidates. The most recent is ex-
Congressman Hazleton, of Wisconsin, who,
after the expiration of the Forty-eighth
Congress, remained in Washington as a
lobbyist. Not being successful as member
r of the third House, he wants to be Com
missioner and claims 100 Representatives
and 30 Senators as his hackers.
Notwithstanding the beginning Of active
work by the Civil Service Commission, with
more thsn can be done demanding attention,
VAr Lyman is yet the entire commission.
The crowding of work, probably, has caused
the report that two commissioners will be
appointed this week, but no one has guess
to hazard as to who they will be.
PENNSYLVANIA NOT IN LINE.
ANY number OF candidates for govern
mental positions from other States declare
they have been promised appointments this
week, but none of these are from Pennsyl-
vania. In the beginning everybody ex-
pected to see the appointments for the Key
stone State railroaded through at limited
express speed, but there seems TO have been
q strike and tie-up of some kind, not ex-
actly apparent. Senator Cameron has aban-
doned the whole business, in which he never
evinced more than a very Indifferent inter
est and Quay has been generally reported
to be sulking in a rural tent somewhere
west of Harrisburg. Bayne is the only one
of the new managerial triumvirates left on
the scene of action, and rather as sentinel
than as q warrior battling for appointments.
Not whisper can be heard anywhere of
possible Pennsylvania appointments, of any
importance in the near future.