New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-22
THE WHITE HOUSE CALLERS
oFFIcE-sEEKERs RAISE THE SIEGE EARLEH
THAN EVER.
ONLY raE ORDINARY NuMBEH on VISITORS ~
rHn FxEoUTxvE MANSION yEsrEsDAy-k
WARN TIME OVER PATENT oHyIuE / y
Ipr rrLEoRlpn TO THE rnrBuHnl

IBY TKfReRAPn TO THE TnrBUHBl
Washington, March Gilt goes without ssyfn&t
that to-day's list OF appointments Is regarded
as extremely imperfect to say the least, By several
hundred men In Washington tonight good many Oh
whom were on the ground before March 1, believing
that the first comers' would be first servcd' fhey
naturally and unanimously vote this Slows Admins
straon in proof of which they point TO the fact thai
1t Is stA without representative or politeai friend
In nearly every important Office In Washington, as wen
as IN the different branches Of the public service ou-
side Of Washington at home and abroad. whss the
impatient ofce-seeker docs not carefully consider b
that for the once he wants there dozen or twenty
other applicants capable and deserving % he HIM.
self all Of whom Is strongly backed by business social
and political influences and, therefore, that the Prss'
dent is really embarrassed by the large number of COED
men ready, willing, nay anxious, to hll every once
within his gift.
1t Is fact, however, that the men who arc hers
after Office this year fewer IN number, less oo4
trsiye and impatient and moderate In thoir dos
ands than tho men who came here bent on the same
object either four eight years ago. Tnero -
decided difference between tho oce-seekers Of todAy
and their predecessors OF four years ago. said an o-
fetal who ought 10 know, to STAR reporter todsSa
a any of these men fa TO got the place they started
out for they may be satisfied with some other posonj
II t is anything like equal in importance OF salary %
the one of their first choice otherwise they VIII 90
home When President Cleveland eamo To tho rush
was far greater than It has, as yet been under Pr
dent HARRISON and the men who wanted places verd
the most accommodating crowd Of sof-sacrihcfns
patriots you ever saw. Some who wanted TO be MIN
Isters 10 the principal European courts Compromised
on Indian agencies where the salary was not mora
than 81 400, whilo one man knew. who wanted
90 900 Indian agency, accepted place as aborer IN
the Government Printing Office. That crowd would
take anything This multitude either gets about whas
thinks ought to have else goes Aoms TO snotbes
quadrenium Of private lfe'
It Is noted too that tho Office -ssshss hGye raised
the seep AZ the White House sooner than befors.
To-day for example, the doors Of the Executive Mans
sion did not open to more callers than might be ex>
pected on any day at any time when visitors are ro
ceived at ALL and tho secretaries, ushers and other Az
endants for the first tine since March o, wore not hnr
red
The rst political callers from tho Lone Stars
state-senators Coke and Reagan, piioted by Toms
ochiltrec whatever protest Coke and Reagan nay
have offered against United States Marshal Frches
was for his aone and not spoken ON the house
top Senator's Plumb and Teller. who came carly, dtd
not look like who had come merely TO pay tAer
cspects.s Senator Gray, Of Delaware. who followed
he declared that that his sole object In calling
senator Hscoek spent some time with the Presidents
He may have received some definite information ros
specting coming New-york appointments. buf, soa
he was most successful In ooneealing It Senatog
Hoar came arn-in arm with the stavart new Minstes
10 Switzerland Mr. waskburn, who stands six feet 1O
In his stockings. Senator spooner dropped In scanned
to be In no hurry and when be left carried away cons
placeRt face.
I'm bet he has axed another wisconsin man an
right said man who looked liko hopefrl seskse
for Office
senator Blair thoughttaily slippcd Oh hls rubbcs
oyershoes before entering General Harsons presence.
He did not keep them on very long. and whom ha
was going away he remarked that no thought th6
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