Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-03-15
The Speedy Appointment of Mellette
Attributed to the Withdrawal
Of all Opposition.
An Effort Made to Have Secretary
Mccormack Retained q Few
Days After Church.
Nothing Seems to be Known of the
designations of Both Gentle
men in Washington.
Carle's Special.

ST. PAUL, Minn., March l2.-[Speclal.l-
+. A. Carrie telegraphs the Pioneer Press
from Washington tonight: The last oppc-
sitien to the Dakota appointments was
withdrawn this morning and the nomina-
tion of Arthur c. Mellette and Luther B.
Richardson for governor and secretary
went to the senate this afternoon. They
would have been confirmed at once but
for the objection Of Plumb, which sent
them to the committee on territories. It is
believed that they will be accepted and
confirmed tomorrow. The nominations
do not state in the usual form the manner
in which the vacancy they are made to fill
is created. Mellette and Richardson are
not appointed vice Church and McCor-
mack, resigned or removed. They are
simply appointed and the appointment
operates as a removal of their predecessors
or will, when it is completed by conirma-
ton, commission and qualification. This
indicates that up to the time the nomina-
tions were sent in the designations of
Church and Mccormack asked for Satur-
day had not been received. If appear
ances and assurances are to be trusted, ,2the
appointment of
MELLETTE GIVES UNIVERSAL sATIsFAC-
TION.
There has been no confessed opposition
to him lfrom the first, and the delay in his
nomination, which some were inclined to at
tribute to secret Vaccinations is explained
by other influences. There was opposition
from North Dakota to the appointment OF
Richardson, but this came in the main from
representatives Of the other crowd at
Grand Forks who withdrew it this morning
when they found that Mellette's name
would not be sent till Richardson's
was and that their opposition was
simply delaying the removal of Church.
Governor Pierce shared in the opposition
to Richardson not, as he explained, through
any opposition to him, but because he
wanted to see McC Cormack left in office a
week or so after Church's removal. This
wish turns our to be connected with the
burnfngl desire that has filled the breast Of
all Dakota republicans here for the last
day or two for the peremptory sus-
pension Of Church by telegraph
without waiting for the. slower
process Of appointing his successor,
leaving Mccormack as acting governor till
Mellette could get to Bismarck. fThe presi-
dent and Secretary Noble have been de-
luged with kilograms this morning urging
the instant removal of Church on the
ground that since the adjournment of the
legislature he is filling I'll territorial Of
fees, executive boards and such like with
democrats whom 1t is alleged Nellette can
not remove under the law. The president
did not see his way clear to suspend
Church for this offense, but the telegrams
may have FASTENED Mellette's appointment.
II turns out that Mccormack has not yet
issued the commission to Church's ap-
pointees, and Twas thoughtif
CHURCH COULD BE SIMILARLY DEPosED
before that was done Mellette might still
come into his own. This is the culmina-
tion Of all the acts Of ofcourtesyto the repub-