The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-04-18
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The President Shows No DISPOSE.
ton to Create a Cyclone of Po-
litical Removals.

WASHINGTON, April lO.-The long list of
postmasters appointed yesterday inspired
the Office seekers with an hilarious appre-
hensloh that the hour of the long and
anxiously prayed-for clean sweep had at last
struck. A careful analysis Of the papers in
the various cases filed in tine department
does not justify this sanguine concensus of
Judgment Only q minute fraction of the
appointments were of the clean-sweep sort,
VI torty-seven appointments to PRESIDENT
offices ten were to fill vacancies made
by designations, ten were to va
cancies created by the expiration of
terms, eleven were to offices that
have newly become presidential, and six
teen were to replace postmasters removed.
Ot the sixteen, three were removed for
causes, and it is said several more might
have been. only the department was not dis
posed to send men out of office with O bad
record where 1t could be avoided. Others, it
Is explained, were EDITORS of Democratic pa
pers who challenged removal by bitter at
tacks upon the administration since the 4th
OF March. Offensive partisans, ambitious of
martyrdom, whom it was thought best to
CRAFTY. 1t Is known that there was much
sober consideration over. this list OF post
masters. Mr.. Wanamaker was closeted with
Il and the president for two hours, and it was
nearly night before the announcements were
made.
To-day the department was fortified with
justification for all the changes made. 81
there Is no evidence yet of a departure from
the rule laid down q month ago, that re
movals would not be general in presidential
postofices, and that most OF Mr.. Cleveland's
appointments would be permitted to serve
out their terms. or the two Northwestern
appointments in the list, one, that at LIVING
sion, was to fill a vacancy created by resig-
nation, and the other, at Madison, 8. D., to
fill a vacancy caused by the failure of the
senate to confirm one of MI. Cleveland's ap-
p~ointments. It may be that Wanamaker has
been warned by the fate that has overtaken
Secretary Noble. Officials of the interior de-
partment say it was more crowded to-day
than it has been since the 4th OF March. ALI
of the Office seekers in town seem to have
deserted the other departments to flock
there, accepting as an invitation Mr.. Mobiles
recent declaration of policy. The reputa-
ton of a moderate civil service reformer ie
not only a good thing in the abstract, but it
is q shield and a strong castle to protect
cabinet officers from the assaults of the mob
Literally Construed,
WASHINGTON. April 1O.-Assistant Secretary
Bussey is giving a more liberal construction ia
the pension laws than has heretofore been given
and each day a number of former decisions OF
the pension office are overruled. Among other
recent r~eversals are the following: In the case
Of Henrietta Breckenridge. a colored woman,
who applied for a pension as a dependent widow
OF Olmstead Breckenridge. Company K, One Hun
dred and Twenty-third United States Colored
troops, he revcrses the pension office decision
Her application was first rejected on the ground
that she was not his wife, as they were both
slaves at the time of his enlistment and lived in
Kentucky where the law did not recognize
the legality Of marriage among slaves
Assistant Secretary Bussey holds that
the point Is not material and as they
cohabited directs a pension to issue. John
Miller, Company G, second battalion, Sixth ma
after the pension Office had rejected his claim
on the ground that disability did not develop
until after his discharge, and that disease was
not contracted in the line of service. Sarah Jane
Morgan. mother of William Morgan, Company
A, Fourth United States artillery, has been al
lowed a pension on new evidence adduced tC
support her claim. Simeon B. Williams. Com
allowed a r pension for the loss of two fingers by
the accidental discharge Of his gun His claim
was first rejected by the pension Office on the
ground that there was no record of his being at
tached to the regiment at the time the accident
occurred, but Assistant Secretary Bussey holds
that the evidence Of the officers and comrades OF
Williams is sufficient in the absence of the of
fetal racord