The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1889-03-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER,
WASHING TON, March Is.

IpN, 1917
Harrison is just now catching it on every
hand from the office seekers because of his
sawness in making appointments. Including
the Cabinet. the total of the administration Ia
date are less than sixty. This is state of at
fairs that the hungry and greedy gang Of would
tie public officials find il hard 10 understand.
They expect hundred or more nominations
every day. This hardness on the part Of the
new authorities arises from no consideration
for the Democrats now holding the positions.
hut results from inability, owing Ia the unpra
cedented wransling among the Republican
politicians. 10 decide whom TO appoint.
Mr.. Harrison has been talking rather plain
~ TO some of the gang He told some Indiana
Republicans that ihe best thing they could do
was to 20 home: that ii he wanted them he
always knew where they We're to be found,
and that he thought he knew who we're ell
titled TO the offices i'll that State as well as
any man in it. He is also said Ia have told
ex-senator Malone that he would send for
him when he wanted his advice. All of these
little things add 10 the glorious harmony that
exists in the ranks OF the Republican party.
By the nomination of Mr.. G.. 4. Bates. of
Delaware, to be L. ). Commissioner To the
Samoan Conference to be held at Berlin Mr..
HARRISON has virtually endorsed Mr.. Cleve-
lands position on the Samoan question. Mr..
Bates is Democrat. and was selected in ISSi;
by Mr.. Cleveland to 60 To Samoa AMI make
an investigation of the trouble which WAS then
just beginning. As a result of Mr. Bates re-
port Consul tireenbaum was recalled. The
other commissioners nominated 10 act with
Mr.. Bates ars -s-Consra>sman " W. Phelps
and eNN;It>zs=. Ia Austria and Germany
John \. ka-ss,n.
There Is .;'g ii lit cong on In Il eide who
shall be the :a'Nt Commissioner oi Pensions.
Mr.. Harrison WAITS la give the appointment
10 Corporal Fauncr, Of New York. bit the
New York Congressional delegation have Il
candidate of their uwn-tien. Poole. of Syracus.
-and object Ia the appointment Of Tanner
Tanner friends have suggested that he he ap-
pointed and credited to some other State.
Some surprise was created here when J. ).
GARRISON, of Iowa. the man who would be
Secretary of the Interior ar nothing, accepted
the position of First Assistant Postmaster
General
Senator Chace. of Rhode Island has resign
ed, and all sorts of rtiilnrS arr ilving around
as Ia the cause That most generally believed
is tha. Harrison snubbed him in making an
appointment of L. 5. Attorney for the Rhode
Island district. His friends SAY that he has
all along intended Ia resign at this time, but
that is hardly a reasonable story. Ii is not
likely that he would have gone TO the trouble
and expense Of an election IL the Senate just
for the glory Of serving less Than one month.
he having been sworn i'll on the 4th. inst. for
the beginning of his first whole term. Pre-
vioils 10 that time he was filling out the term
of the late Senator Anthony.
There is probability OF some trouble be-
tween the President and the Republicans Of
these nate over the Southern election question.
Mr.. Harrison had requested personal IA
vor that the matter be- let alone AT the present
extra session of the Senate, and the request
had seemingly beru agreed to. but ;he radical
members of the Senate have succeeded in get
ting the question agitated again. 1t WAS dis
cussed at Republican caucus last week but
waslnot disposed of. 1t will come up again
AT another caucus this week.
Russell Harrison is working the federal pa
tronage of Montana in a way that he hopes
will make him United States Senator from
that State next fall.
The Southern colored people who are in
seach Of federal offices are very much dscour-
aged over their prospects of obtaining any
thing worth having. The fact is. the star of
the negro in the political armament is waning
very rapidly, and it would not he surprisin.
il il should, III the near future. disappear al
together.
W. W. Dudley, of blocks of five notorc-
~, denotes the riimor that he had been snu,-
bed by Mr.. Harrison. lie says he never call
ed at the White House since Harrison has oc-
cuped it. which makes il look rs though he
was afraid he nigh be snubbed.
Senator ingalls, has been sued by local
firm of printers for sl3l for printing The
Hand Book of Protection during the last
campaign. Tho work was not done for In
gals but he promised 10 he responsible TOR
the bill which he afterwards refused Ia pay,
hence the suit.
Wayne Macy easi. who was in Garfield 5
Cabinet, was here day or two ago. lie SAYS
he recognized among the large thron- OF
oiliceseekers hundreds ot faces that were
here on the same e!rind i'll 1881. Onca an
office seeker always An OH Il seeker or an OF.
flee holder.