Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-15

nor gratlncauOn 70 watch Tor IN the line. The
thing that disturbed them was that two good
days were being wasted. According to theil
way Of thinking a great many nomination.
might be sent in to the Senate dur.
ing two days. But until Monday, now
none can be hoped for. They live now in ex.
| pectation that big batch Of nominations will
60 in on Monday as the result Of the delay. OF
course the Senate would not have adjourned
over IL they had not known that the President
had no further use for them during this week
| This Is merely another indication to the minds
of the office-seekers that the President ia in nc
| sort Of hurry. No policy has yet been an.
nounced to anybody, but it is thought that one
has been pretty plainly indicated by this DELHI
GRAFTON. What politicians are talking about ID
the
DELAY IN FILLING THE FIRsT-cLAss FOREIGN MIS-
sIoNs.
1t was popularity expected that they would all
have been filed by this time. The delay gives
rise to the rumor that there is hitch some.
| where, but the chances are that the only
hitch" is that General Harrison wants to &c
slow enough to be sure of doing the right
thing. 1t is said that Mr.. Blaine wants the
British mission given to Whitelaw Reid, and
| that some Of the members Of the national COM
mittee are opposed to Reid's selection for that
particular mission. 1t is understood that
Chauncey Depew is being pushed for the
English mission.
MR.. JOHN @. NEW
arrived in the city last night. From the mo-
ment he reached the city he was beset by Of.
fce-seekers, who assume that his influence
would be potent to get them most anything
they want They all assume that he has some
sort Of mortgage on everything under the adj
ministration, and can, by merely saying the
| word, have anything done. They have been
pressing upon him almost az much to-day az
upon the President. They want to reach the
President through him.
1t is generally believed that Mr.. New ID
Austria is generally mentioned as the one he
will get He says he is not getting anything;
that there is no foundation in the statement
that he is to go abroad.
COL. FRED. GRANT
| called on the President to-day, and it is sup
posed that they had something to say abont
| the Chinese mission. Col. Grants friends say
he will be United States minister to China.
GENERAL aoFF,
who has been trying to get his seat as governor
of West Virginia and to straighten up affairs
out there, has returned to Washington after his
failure to get what he considers justice out of
the supreme court of the state, and to-day had
an interview with the President It is supposed
that he has some very decided views as to the
methods Of conducting elections in the south.
His friends assert that had there been a fair
deal he could either have been elected Senator
or governor.
THERE Is CONTEST ON HAND
between Maryland and Delaware over the col
lectorship of internal revenue for that district.
Senator Higgins wants D. Dawson, of Delaware,
appointed; and the Maryland candidate is G. T.
Biggs. Gen. Agnus, of the Baltimore American,
saw the President and Secretary Window in the
interest Of Biggs to-day. He had very pleas
ant interview with the President, and is con-
fdent that his candidate will be successful.
MANY CALLERS THIS MORNING.
A. r. Hart, of Brooklyn, candidate for
public printer, had an interview with the Presi-
dent to-day, and came from the White House
expressing confidence to his friends that he
would be appointed.
Ohio, is to be second assistant postmasterLgen-
eraL
The President saw great many callers this
morning between 10 and IL o'clock but there
were fewer delegations. Senator Spooner was
with him for a while before the cabinet meet
ing, and Representatives Morrow, McKenna,
Bingham. Dunnell and Henderson, ex-Repre-
sentative Thomas and Delegate Dubois, called
THE ILLINOIS PEOPLE
matter Of the recognition" of their state, and
there is a little friction between the Senators
and the members of the House. Some of the
members are complaining that the only thing
they have got was the appointment of Tchenor
as assistant secretary of the Treasury, and that
while everybody approves Of his appointment
as the best possible, they do not think he ought
to be charged to Illinois.
GENERAL LoNosTREET,
with delegation who would like to see him
get some very good appointment under this
administration, had an interview with the
President to-day.
THE DISTRICT coMMIssIoNERsHIP
Mr.. Stocking and Mr.. Weller, of the East
Washington delegation, fled some more in
dorsements of George Francis Dawson for Dis
trict Commissioner with Secretary Halford this
morning.
Among the other callers on the President
were Wager Swayne, Of New York; John F.
Seaman, of Chicago; John 8. Wise with a dele
CATION Of Virginians, who spent Just two min
utes and q half with the President; ]. Willis
Menard, of Jacksonville, Fla, and A. NJ. Swope,
Of Kentucky, the ex-collector of internal rev.
enue who doesn't want ex-Commissioner Evans
restored to succeed Mr.. Miller as commissioner
of internal revenue.
Senators Morrill,, Hawley, Evarts, Sawyer,
Mcmillan, Stockbridge, Wilson, of Iowa; Repre-
sentatives Stone, Of Kentucky; Bayne, Mckin-
ley, Hopkins, and Representaves-elect Evans,
of Tennessee, and Westinghouse of Missouri;
Gov. A. c. Mellette and L. B. Richardson. of
Dakota, were also among the Presidents callers.
Candidates for Office.
James C. Maynard, son of the late Post
master General Maynard, now chief clerk of
inspectors division, post-office department, Is
an active candidate for chief post-office in