Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-17
THREE FAT OFFICES
That the President is Expected to
Fill in a Very Short Time.
HIS NIFE'S FOLKS LOOK FOR TWO.
The FurlOng Application May Also be
Settled While Hes About It.
CIVIL SERVICE CONuNDRUMs TO CRACK

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.l
WASHINGTON, August 16.-During the
parts of two days that the President will be
in Washington before returning to Deer
Park, a number Of important Offices are to
be considered. In the War Department
there are three places which it is under
stood that the Secretary of War will call to
his immediate attention. One is the va
caucy in the superintendency of the Mill
tary Academy at West Point The ex-
pectation has been that Colonel John
NJ. Wilson, the present Commissioner of
Public Grounds in this city, would be
assigned to that place. So confident
of this was Colonel Wilson himself tnat he
began to take leave of his friends; but there
was delay because of the difficulty in agree
ing upon a suitable successor OF Colonel
Wilson in the Office which be now holds.
This is o confidential Office, and as 1t has
been administered for the last few years it
has assumed the relation to the Chief Execu-
tive of q sort of Lord High Chamberlain.
At all events, the Commissioner of Public
Buildings and Grounds is now performing
duties the suggestion of which would have
amazed that official years ago.
FOR HIS WIFE'S K1NSFOLK.
1t is expected that one of two persons,
both related by marriage to the President,
will be appointed to succeed Colonel
Wilson.
1t is thought also that there may be a
change in the Engineer Commissioner of
this district, Major Raymond being trans
ferred to some other duty.
Another important office where an imme-
diate appointment is expected is that of
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. 1t is not
expected that the present incumbent, Mr..
Switzler, who was appointed by President
Cleveland. will retain his place, Mr..
Switzler is said to consider the Bureau of
Statistics a non-political Office, but there is
very strong pressure for the place. and there
irrespective of his politics. Some of the
German Republicans are especially opposed
to him, alleging that he has devoted much
of his attention to
MANIPULATING FIGURES
to show that prohibition should have the
Governments support. Mr.. Whitney, the
present Chief Clerk in the Bureau, is an
applicant for promotion. He has been a
very great many years in the service, is
competent for the place, and has strong
political support.
The Chief OF the revenue marine service
of the Treasury Department is another office
(which the President, it is expected, will
soon fill. The incumbent is Mr.. Bennett,
who was appointed by President Cleveland.
He is said to have made good official. One
of the applicants who is the most strongly
indorsed is E. W. Clark, who was formerly
head of the division, and who was removed
to give the place to Captain Bennett. Sem
ator Sherman is q very earnest supporter of
Mr.. Clark. The latter, however, was in ser
vice for nearly 20 years before he was re-
moved, and ii is said not to be the policy of
President Harrison to restore to the old
places men who have been
so LONG IN OFFICE
Congressman Randall, of Massachusetts,,
q newcomer, is earnestly supporting Lieu
tenant Ross, one Of the under-oficials of the
revenue marine service, for promotion to
the chief place, and a good many of the
New England members have Joined him.
Another important bureau Office in the
Treasury is that of the Chief of the Secret
Service. There has been a very earnest and
peculiar contest for this place. One of the
candidates who has been most strongly pushed
is Thomas Furlong, who has long been a
detective in Missouri, and the West gen.
orally. He is said to have been for many
years in the employ of Mr.. Gould's system
Russell Harrison, the Presidents son. Mr..
Powderly and good many other laDor men
have earnestly opposed the appointment of
Furlong because of the position which he
took in connection with the strike in Mis-
souri, some years ago, but it has recently
been said that Powderly has withdrawn his
opposition.
ANOTHER FAT OFFICE.
The bureau of the Director of the Mint is
another office in the Treasury which the
President will soon fill.
The bureau offices above named are all in
one department. There are other bureau
Offices of equal Importance in other depart
ments of the Government, and q wholesale
expulsion of the Cleveland heads Of divi-
sions is expected about September /.
1t is possible that the attention of the
President while here will be called to the
fact that one of the bureau officers of the
Treasury, John r. Lynch, colored, Fourth
Auditor of the Treasury, is at present
in Mississippi presiding over a
political meeting. and that W.
B. Glib, the new Postmaster Of
jackson, Miss, is acting as secretary of that
meeting. A good many friends of civil
service reform are anxious to know whether
President Harrison intends to adopt the
policy which President Cleveland so vigor-
ously enforced, namely, that while Federal
ofice-holders should not in any way be re-
stricted in their rights as citizens, and
SHOULD HAVE FULL LIBERTY
to exercise the right of suffrage, they should
not be permitted to take part in political as
semblages. A good many Democratic Fed
eral office-holders who at first were disposed
to attend political conventions were re-
quested by the last administration not to
do so. This request was in many instances
ignored; but it was generally known to all
the bureau officers here that the presence at
political conventions was forbidden. There
haSbeen no change in the general order of
the Chief Eracntiue on this inject