San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 8. 1889.

ing appointments is undoubtedly the
cause of considerable dissatisfaction
among the rank and file of the party,
the men who don't want anything
for themselves, but who insist on
seeing all the important positions
filled by good republicans, AS samples
of themen holding important positions
three months after the Inauguration
of republican President let us take
the u. S. Marshal of the District of
Columbia, the Register of Wills, and
the Collector of Customs. The in
cumbents are all Cleveland appoint
ments, and they each glory in having
left his home in this District and
enlisted in the rebel army, and the
last mentioned once publicly offered
the following toast:
ssThere's to the hand that pulled the
trigger That killed the man who
freed the nigger.n Is it any wonder
that the republicans of this
District are inclined to blame the
President for allowing such men to
remain in office day longer than is
absolutely necessary to select their
successors. These men mind you
had not the excuse of those men who
followed their States into rebellion;
thew lived here under the shadow,
so to speak of the United States
Government, and deliberately of their
own free will went South to take part
in an effort to destroy the Government
and now they are, thanks to that very
Government, and the hardness Of
republican President, in receipt of
very comfortable incomes, paid by
the Government they tried SO hard
to destroy.
Among the few Presidential app
ointments during the past week were
the following: George S. Fisher, of
Delaware to be First Auditor of the
Treasury; J. n. Patterson, of New
Hampshire, to be Second Auditor of
the Treasury; G.. w. Chapman, of
New York to be Solicitor General;
John B. Cotton, of Maine to be
assistant Attorney General and Lewis
E. Pearsons ST., of Alabama, to be
L. S, Attorney for the northern and
middle district of Alabama. Mr..
Parsons was the originator, and The
leading spirit in organizing the
"White Mans republican party" of
Alabama which recently held a con-
vention at Birmingham.
The two Haytian Commissioners
Gen. Lew Wallace and Beverly
Tucker-whOse appointments were
announced last week butimmediately
Withdrawn as premature are still here
but neither of them seems to know
whether the withdrawal of the app
ointments was permanent or only
temporary. In the mean time
Dame Rumor is busily engaged
in circulating all sorts of tom-fool
stories about the matter. Not wishing
to do anyone an injustice 1 shall not
report any Of these very improbable
yarns.
The President greatly enjoyed his
trip to Brooklyn, where he viewed
the Memorial day parade, nO5-with-
standing its hurried nature. He left
hereWednesday afternoon and Thurs
day night at 10 o'clock he was back
in the White House.
Superintendent Porter of the Cen
sus bureau has received the applica-
tion of Mrs. Kate B. Cothran OF
California to be appointed supervisor
of the census for the Californian
district. The fact is notable because
it is the first application of the kind
ever made by a woman,
At the State and Navy department
little credence is put in the report
telegraphed here from Canada that
several English war vessels had been
ordered to Behring's Sea with instruc-
tions to prevent L. S. vessels from
selling English sealing vessels in
those waters under the Presidents
March proclamation. Inasmuch as
the assumption of full and sole au tho
rity over those waters by the United
States Government has been received
by the Governments of the world
without, even the slightest diploma
tic protest, it is hardly probable that
England would attempt TO forCibly
resist what has never been peaceably
objected to.
Gen. Greedy, the Chief Signal officer,
has ordered that all announcements
and publications of the signal service
shall hereafter be called forecasts
instead of indications"
Secretary Tracy is stirring up things
in the Navy department. His latest
orders are for the completion of the
iron clads Puritan" and "Amphi-
trite," which have been lying for
several years in an unfinished con-
dition, one at private ship yard at
Wilmington, Delaware and the other
at the Norfolk Navy Yard. They are
to be finished by the department, one
at the League Island Navy yard,
aud the other at New York.
The Anti-Mahone, republicans, of
Virginia made ripple last week, in
their endeavor to break the little
generaus inananca at the White