Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.

The President and his cabinet
have spent the first week of their
administration in receiving con
gratulations and applications for
Office. Both of these are all right
when moderately INDUCED in at
the proper time and place, but as
shown here since Inauguration
day, they are all wrong; to say
nothing of their endangering the
Presidents health. One man
cannot stand everything, and Gen
Harrison plainly shows the effect
of his first week in the White
House; his right arm is famed SO
badly that he can scarcely use it
at all, and his face has the pallor
of death. He told a friend yester-
day that he had not had ten
minutes to himself since he came
into the White House. Each day
SO far has been but a repetition Of
the one before. Crowds down in
the East room to shake hands
with the President, and up stairs
in the executive offices swarms OIL
senators and members pushing the
claims of some of their constitu-
ents for office.
1t seems as though every State
in the Union has more than
enough candidates to fill every
prominent office under the Govern
ment. 1t is even worse
than it was four years ago
Of course there will be many and
bitter dlsappointments as soon as
the plums are given out, but all
we'll wishers of the President
earnestly desire that the prominent
positions be filled at the earliest
possible moment, for no personal
disappointments can affect the
country as the death Of popular
President would, and that Gen
Harrison's health is now in danger
is plain to be seen.
| The President is moving very
deliberately in making appoint
ments. This is very irritating to
the office-seekers, particularly
those piling up bills at present at
| the Washington hotels. But
owing to the general excellence OIL
the appointments so far made, the
people seem disposed to think
that General Harrison should be
allowed to take his own time in
selecting the men that will make
or mar his administration.
| The total number of appoint
ments to date exclusive of the
cabinet, is less than fifty, divided
among nineteen States and Terri
tories, as follows; New York
G. A. Bateheller, Assistant Score
tary of the Treasury; Eugene
Schuyler, Assistant Secretary OIL
State; Cyrus Bussey, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, and six
postmasters; Iowa.. S. GARRISON
First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral; J. A. Kasson, Commissioner
to the Samoan Conference at
| Berlin, and one postmaster;
Michigan Ex-senator Palmer
| Minister to Spain, and one post
master; Illinois-G. Tichenor
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, and J. A, Euander, Minister
to Denmark; Indiana-ex-Gov- A.
G. Porter, Minister to Italy; S. n.
Chambers, U. S. Attorney; w. L.
Dunlop, U. S. Marshal, and w.
Wallace (brother of Gen. Lew
Wallace) postmaster at Indianopo-
lis in place of the notorious
Aquilla Jones; California;. F.
Swift, Minister to Japan; Massa-
chuSetts = D. Washburn,
Minister to Switzerland, and one
postmaster; Maine-Walker Blaine
(son of James g. Solicitor for the
State Department, and three Post
masters; North Carolina-T. c.
Perry, Assistant Surgeon General
Marine Hospital Service; Rhode
Island-R. Gardner, U. S. Attor-
ney; New Jersey-W. w. Phelps,
| Commissioner to the Samoan
Conference at Berlin; Minnesota
two postmasters; Ohio and Penn