Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-06
LET US GIVE THANKS
For the Liberty, Prosperity
 and Peace We Enjoy.
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
Oommemoration Exercises for the Coming
 Centennial Celebration.

Successors Appointed for Collector Ma gone and Postmaster Pearson-Joel B. Erhardt and Cornelius Van Cott Get tho Places-Presidsnt Harrison's Views on tho Color Line-Itoms of Interest From the National Capital.
 WASHINGTON, April e.-President Harri-
 son has issued the following proclamation,
 recommending April 30 the date of the cen
 tennial celebration of the inauguration of
 President W ashington as a special centen-
 nial thanksgiving day: IA hundred years
 have passed since the government which
 our forefathers founded was formally or
 ganized. The centennial of this H.
 lustrious event in our history has been de
 clared a general holiday by act of Congress
 to the end that the people of the whole
 country may join in commemorative exercl-
 ses appropriate to the day. In order that the
 Joy of the occasion may be associated with
 deep thankfulness in the minds of the peo- pie for all our blessings in the past, and a
 devout supplicatton to God tor their grn
 clous continuance in the future, the repre-
 sentatives of the religious creeds, both
 Christian and Hebrew, have memorialized the Government to designate an hour for
 prayer and thanksgiving on that day. Now, therefore, 1, Benjamin Harrison, President
 of the United States of America. Tn re-
 spopse to this pious and reasonable request, do recommend that on Tuesday, April 30, at the hour of o'clock in the morning the people of the entire country repair to their respective places of Divine worship to i'm plore the favor of God that the blessings of liberty, prosperity and peace may abide with us as people, and that His hand may lead us in the paths of righteousness and good deeds"
 As already foreshadowed in these des- patches, President Harrison has made the following appointments:
 To be Postmaster at New York city. Cor nelius Van Cott.
 To be Collector of Customs at the Port of New York, Joel B. Erhardt.
 It is asserted that Pr esident Harrison has plainly given colored ofice-seekers from the South, who are here, to understand mat they have very little to expect from him. He proposes to reorganize the protec- t1onists of the South and to try in this way to make the dividing line of the parties not upon color, but upon the economic policy. He claims that the South is full of protec. tlonlsts who have been always working with the Democrats because of the race sit uatlon in that section. It is said that many Of these have signiied their desire to join hands with the Republican protection lsts, making that the issue if they can como into the party with the proper recoe milton. The men who belong to this class. Mr. Harrison says, are wealthy and intelli- gent-the active progressive mon of the South. It is asserted that Mr. Harrison proposes to case the way for them into tho Republican party by cradicating the race question as an issue and recognizing emil nent protectienists, former Democrats as well as Republicans.
 It is generally thought at the Navy De- partment that the contract for building the new armered coast defense vessel. for which bids were opened on Monday. will be awarded to the Union Iron works of San Francisco. Mir. Scott's bid was for about s1,52S,0Oo guaranteeing all that the specifi- cations required, against bid of $1, ,6l4 dOO rom the Cramps, making several import ant notifications and refusing to guarantee tho horsepower specified in the contract The extra &l4, 900, it Is thought, will not stand in the way of tho acceptance of the Dld lnasmuch as Scott guarantees eyery- thing and Cramp practically nothing. It is understood that Mir. Charles Cramp, the President of tho Philadelphia firm, left for home to-day, after telling several people that he gave up hope of getting the job
 MT. Huston, the newly-appointed United States Treasurer, will probably not take charge of the office for several days He called on Controller Dunham last night who informed him about the formalities of the filing of his bond and furnished him with the necessary blanks. Mir. Huston said he would send his agent out to Indiana 1t once to secure his securities The bond | required is for s15O,OOO. Treasurer Hyatt is still in New York, where he went to take l charge of the Sub-Treasury during the l period between the death of Judge McCu, and the qualifying of Mir. Roberts.