Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-06-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Written and Compiled for the HERALD
WASHINGTON, June "a, 1889.

STAYING with Mrs. Harrison and bis
grandchildren since Friday. BE.
fore leaving he made a number of
appointments, among them the
following John L. Stevens, of
Maine, to be Minister to the Ha.
waiian Island George Nancy, OF
Tennessee, to be Minister to Par.
aguay and Uruguay; j. M.Crawford,
of Ohio, to he consul general at st.
Petersburg, Russia Horace Greedy
Knowles, Of Delaware, consul at
Bordeaux Frank Mason, of Ohio,
consul general at Frankfort ;
Charles b. Trail, of Louisiana, con.
sui at Marseilles, and Ex-Governor
FaIrcbild, of Wisconsin, and Gen
eral Harntraft, of Pennsylvania to
be mem bers of the Cherokee In
dian commission.
The President thinks the crit.
cism he is receiving from many Re.
pubhcans on account of his slow.
ness in making appointments is
very unjust. In conversation
with an Old personal friend he said;
81 am beng severely, and l think
unjustly, criticised for not making
appointments faster. 1t is IN no
case any fault of mine. | am, and
have been since the 4th of March,
ready and willing to appoint Re-
publican to any position that is or
should be vacant, provided, OF
course, that he has the endorse
ment of the Congressional delega.
ton of his State. But what am |
to do when nearly every state has
two or more candidates for every
important office, each supported by
some portion of the Congressional
delegation when one Republican
Senator informs me that unless his
friends are appointed the party in
his state will 90 straight to the
dogs, and an hour afterwards an
other Senator from the same state
says the same thing IN regard to
his friends. If those who criticise
my hardness could exchange
places with me feel certain
they would at once see the mistake
they we're making. | am perfectly
willing to be freely criticised for
my own acts, but object most de-
cidedly to being held responsible
for the lack of harmony among Re-
publican Congressman"
United States Treasurer Huston
has gone to Indiana on private
business.
Secretary Rusk has leased the
residence occupied by Robert T.
Lincoln when be was Secretary of
War.
General Malone captured the
only important Virginia appoint
inert made last week : Mr.. w. +.
Craig, who the General endorsed,
was selected for United States
Attorney of the western district of
Virginia.
Attorney General Miller has de.
cided that an act passed by the
Arizona legislature and approved
by the governor providing for the
holding of a convention to frame a
State constitution to be submitted
to the people is valid, nOtwith-
standing the absence Of Con.
gressiopal enabling act.
Senator Chandler is to be sere
naded next Monday night on his
arrival at his residence in this city
by the John Sherman League and
the William f. Chandler Assocla.
tion OF Washington.
1t is generally believed that
CALVIN S. Brice, chairman of the
National Democratic Committee,
will be the Democratic Standard
OH Monopoly candidate for the
United States Senate to succeed
Senator Payne, Of Ohio, who has
concluded to close his pockets. The
Standard OIL concern bought
Payne's seat for hin. and IT the
Ohio Republicans are not wide
awake they will do as much Tor
Brice.
Senator Tracy is trying to effect
a settlement with the heirs of the
late John Roach, the ship builder
who was driven to bankruptcy and
death by the Cleveland admins
tratiOn.
IL is estimated that the census OF
/ 1890 will show the United States to
have a population OF 100000
people.
The President has decided that
the civil service rules which pro-
hibits reinstatement without a reg
ular examination of parties who
have been out of the classified ser
vice of the Government Tor more
than a year shall not apply to vet
Grams o. the Union Army. This
will enable about 1000 veterans
discharged during the first three
Years of Cleveland's admlnistra.