Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-03-22
WASHINGTON LETTER
Written and Com piled for the HERALD
WASHINGTON, March Is, 1889.

liberately IN making appointments
This Is very irritating to the once
seekers. particularly those plling
up bills at present at the Washing
ton hotels But, OWING to the gen
eraI excellence Of the appointments
so far made, the people seem dis
posed to think that General liar-
rison should be allowed to take his
own time in selecting the men that
will make or mar his admlnlstTa-
ton.
The total number of appointments
TO date exclusive of the Cabinet, is
less than fifty, divided among nine
teen States and Territories, as fol-
lows: New York-G. y. Batchel'
Ter, Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury Eugene Schuyler, Assls'
tant Secretary OF State; Cyrus Bus
sew. Assistant Secretary OF the
Interior, and six po>tmasters; lowe
j S. Clarkson, First Assistant
Postmaster General d. 4. kasson,
Commissioner 10 the Samoan Con
c,,euc. at Berlin. and one post
master; Michigm--tN > ona or
Palmer, Minister 90 Span, ana one
postmaster; Illinois,. Icheuor
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury. and J. \. Euander, Minister
to Denmark; Indiaua-eX.Govern-
or A. G.. Porter. Minister to Italy !;
T IS. y. Chambers, L. $. Attorney !;
/ W. L. Dunlap, L. S. Marshal, and
w. Wallace, (brother of General
Lew Wallace postmaster at Indian
apolis in place of the notorious
A0uilla Jones; California. T.
Swift, Minister to Japan; MasSa'
chnsetts-J. ID. Washburn, Minis
ter to Switzerland, and one post
master; Mdlne-Walker Blaine,
(Son of lanes G) Solicitor for the
state Department, and three post
masters: North CarOlina-J. c.
Perry, Assistant Surgeon General
Marine Hospital ervice; Rhode
Island-R. Gardner, U. S. AttOr-
ney New Jersey-W. w. Phelps,
Commissioner to the Samoan Con-
ference at Berlin; Minnesota-two
postmasters Ohio and Pennsylva-
nia-one postmaster each Della
ware gets the only Democrat yet
appointed to Office under the pres
ent administration, in the person OF
G.. III. Bates, Commissioner to the
Samoan Conference at Berlin ;
Dakota-D. G.. Mellette, Governor;
L. &. Richardson, secretary, and
three postmasters; Washington
Terrltory-C. II. Hanlord, Chief
Justice Montana-G. W. Irwin,
| L. 5. Marshal J. Sullivan, Collec-
tor of Customs for Montana and
Idaho, and one postmaster; All
zona-L. Wol1ey, Governor. a
noticea ble feature about the Terri
tories appointments is that they
are all citizens of the Territories
where they are to hold Office.
Senator Chace, of Rhode Island,
has forwarded his resignation to
the Governor OF thai state. As
the Senator only began his second
term on the fourth Of this month,
this action created considerable
surprise among those vino were not
in the secret. II was no surprise
however to Mr.. Chacc's friends
who knew that he would never
have been candidate this last
time except that d was considered
necessary by the party leaders III
his State Mr. Chace has never
been satisfied in The Senate, having
been all his life engaged IN active
business. He has made a good
Senator, and his resignation is
generally regretted.
Postmaster General WanamakeI
goes over to Philadelphia every
Saturday evening, in order to be
on hand sunday morning 10 teach
his bible class. This bible class
was organized by Mr.. NanamakeI
some years ago and numbers lot
young men.
Some Ananias Of the press has
been sending out ridiculous story
in which he makes the President
snub Colonel w. w. Dudley. NJ
denial was necessary, but in an
swer to questions Colonel DadleN
and private secretary Haliord say
that the story is without the slight
est foundation.
Ii is stated here that RnsSel Har
rlson, son of the President, is
candidate for the United States
Senate from the new State of Mon
tana.
1t is fortunate tor the working
Republicans throughout the cOun
try, that i. S. GARRISON was finally
persuaded to accept the position o
First Assistant Postmaster Gener
al. From a political standpoint
it is about the most important 20
sition under the Government
abont 80, 600 fourth class postmas
ters beng ap pointed by him. Ne
man in the country is better fitted
10 undertake this work than Mr.
CIarkson ; he Is thoroughly tamil
lar with the men who did the reaI
work in the campaigns Of 1881 and
1888, and what is more important
be will see 10 it that the drOnes dc