Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-06-13
Washington Letter.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON. lime 2. 1890

Inc ffeSluent hardness In making
appointments is undoubtedly the cause
of considerable dissatisfaction among
the rank and file of the party, the men
who don't want anything for them
selves, but who insist on seeing all the
important positions filled by good re-
publicans. AS samples of the men
holding important positions three
months after the Inauguration OF re-
publican President let us take the
u. S. Marshal of the District of Colum-
bia. the Register of Wills, and the
Collector of Customs. The incumbents
are all Cleveland appointments. and
they each glory in having left his home
in this district and enlisted in the rebel
army, and the last mentioned once.
publicly offered the following toast:
Here's to the hand that pulled the trigger
That killed the man who freed the niger
Is it any wonder that the republicans
of this District are inclined to blame
the President for allowing such men to
remain in office day longer than IS
absolutely necessary to select their
successors. These men, mind you, had
not the excuse of those men who fol-
lowed their states into rebellion; they
lived here under the shadow, so to
speak of the United States Government,
and deliberately of their own free will
went South to take part in an effort to
to destroy the Government and now
they are, thanks to that very govern
ment, and the hardness of republican
President, in receipt of very comfort
able incomes, paid by the Government
they tried so hard to destroy.
Among the few Presidential appoint
ments during the past week were the
following: George S. Fischer, of
Delaware, to be First Auditor of the
Treasury; j. N. Patterson. of New
Hampshire, to be Second Auditor of the
Treasury; o. w. Chapman, of New
York, to be Solicitor General; John b.
Cotton, of Maine, to be assistant At
torney General, and Lewis Z. Parsons,
ST., of Alabama, to be U. S. Attorney
for the northern and middle districts OF
Alabama. Mr.. Parsons was the orig
inator, and the leading spirit in organic
inc the white Mans Republican
party of Alabama which recently
held convention at Birmingham.
The two Haytian Commissioners
Gen. Lew Wallace and Beverly Tucker
whose appointments were announced
last week but Immediately withdrawn
as premature are still here but neither
of them seems to know whether the
withdrawal of the appointments was per-
manent or only temporary. lnthe mean
time Dame Rumor is busily engaged in
circulating all sorts of Tom Fool stories
about the matter. Not wishing to do
any one an injustice shall not report
any of these improbable yarns.
The President greatly enjoyed his
trip to Brooklyn, where he reviewed
the Memorial Day parade, notwitiistand-
ing its hurried nature. He left here
Wednesday afternoon and Thursday
night at 10 O'Clock he was back in the
White House,
Superintendent Porter, of the Census
bureau has received the application OF
Mrs. Kate B. KotLrsA, of California, to
be appointed supervisor of the census
for the Californian district. The fact
is notable because it is the first applica-
ton of the kind ever made by woman.
At the State and Navy department
little credence is put in the report tele-
graphed here from Canada that several
English war vessels had been ordered
to Behring's Sea with instructions to
prevent u S. vessels from Selling Eng
fish vessels in those waters under the
Presidents March proclamation. In
asmuch as the assumption of full ant
sole authority over those waters by the
United States Government has been
received by the Governments of the
world without even the slightest diplo
matte protest, it is hardly probable that
England would attempt to forcibly re
sist what has never been peaceably
objected to.
Gen. Greedy, the Chief Signal officer
has ordered that all announcements
and publications of the signal service
shall hereafter be called forecasts in
stead of indications.
Secretary Tracy is stirring up things
in the Navy department. His lates
orders are for the completion of the
iron clads Puritan" and "Amphitrite,
which have been lying for several years
in an unfinished condition, one at 8
I private ship yard at Wilmington, Della
ware, and the other at the Norfolb
Navy Yard. They are to be finished
by the department, one at the League
Island Navy Yard, and the other al
New York.
The Anti-Mahone republicans. OF
Virginia, made a rifle last week in their
endeaYor to break the little generals
influence at the White House, but Ma
hone still holds the fort. the Presi-
dent will give the anti's a hearing on
the 18th inst.
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