The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-04-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular cor~respondent.)
WASHINGTON, March %, 1882.

cause Of his slowness in making ap-
pointments. Including the Cabinet,
the total of the administration to date
are less than sixty. This is II state OF
affairs that the hungry and greedy
gang of would-he public officials find
it hard to understand. They expect Il
hundred or more nominations every
day. This hardness or the part OF
the new authorities arises from no con-
sideration for the Democrats now hold
ing the positions, but results from in
ability, owing to the unprecedented
wrangling among the Republican poll
t%icians, to decide whom to appoint.
Mr.. Harrison has beer talking rather
plainly to some of the gang. He told
some Indiana Republicans that the
best thing they could do was to go
home; that if he wanted them he al
ways knew where they were to he
found, and that he thought he knew
who were entitled to the Offices in that
State as well as any man III it. He is
also said to have told ex-senator Ma
hone that he would send for him when
he wanted his advice. All of these
little things add to the glorious har-
mOny that exists in the ranks of the
Republican party.
BY the nomination of Mr.. G.. A.
Bates, of Delaware, to be U. S. Com
missioner to the Samoan Conference
to be held at Berlin, Mr.. Harrison has
virtually endorsed Mr.. Cleveland's po-
sitiOn on the Samoan question. Mr..
Bates is Il Democrat, and was selected
in 1886 by Mr.. Cleveland to go to Sa-
moa and make III investigation of the
trouble which was then just beginning.
AS a result of Mr.. Bates report Consul
Greenliam was recalled. The other
commissioners nominated to act with
Mr.. Bates are eX-Congresslnan W. w.
Phelps and eX-Minister to Austria and
Germany John A. Kasson.
There is a big fight going on to de-
eide who shall lie the next Commits
sioner Of Pensiosn. Mr.. Harrison wants
to give the appointment to Corporal
Tanner, of New York, but the New
York Congressional delegation have a
candidate of their own-Gen. Poole,
of Syracuse-and object to the APP
p%ointment of Tanner. Tanners friends
have suggested that he 0e appointed
and credited to some other State.
Some surprise was created here
when J. S. Clarkson, of Iowa, the man
who would be Secretary of the Inte-
rior or nothing, accepted the position
of First Assistant POstmaster-General.
Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, has
resigned, and all sorts of rumors are
flying around as to the cause. That
most generally believed is that Harri-
son snubbed him in making an an
pOintment Of the u. s. attorney for the
Rhode Island district. His friends
say that he has all along intended to
resign at this time, but that is hardly
a reasonable story. 1t is not likely
that he would have gone to the trou-
bic and expense Of an election to the
Senate just for the glory OF serving
less than n month. he having been
sworn in Oh the 4th inst. for the begin
ming of his first whole term. Previous
to that time he was filling out the term
Of the late Senator Anthony.
There is a probability of some trou-
BILE between the President and the Re-
publicans of the Senate over the South
ern election question. Mr.. Harrison
had requested as a personal favor that
the matter be let alone at the present
extra session Of the Senate, and the
request had seemingly been agreed to,
but the radical members of the Senate
have succeeded in getting the question
agitated again. 1t was discussed at a
Republican caucus last week but was
not disposed of. twill come up again
at another caucus this week.
Russell Harrison is working the fed
eral patronage Of Montana in a way
that he hopes will make him United
States Senator from that State next
fall.
The Southern negroes who are here
in search of federal offices are yery
much discouraged over their prospects
of obtaining anything worth having.
The fact is, the star of the negro in the
political armament is waning very
rapidly, and it would not be surprising
if it should, in the lea future, disap-
pear altogether.
w. W. Dudly, of ''blocks of fire" no
tOrieiy, denies the rumor that he had
been snnbbed by Mr.. Harrison. He
says he has never called at the White
House since Harrison has occupied it,
which makes it look as though he was
afraid he might be snubbed.
Senator ingalls, has been sncd by a
local firm of printers for 1871 for print
ing "The Hand Book Of Protection,
during the last campaign. The work
was not done for Ingalls, bnt he pro-