The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-29
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

leaving he made a number of APP
pointments, among them the follow
ing: John l.. Stevens, of Maine, to
be Minister to the Hawaiian Island /;
George Nancy, of Tennessee, to be
Minister to PARAGUAY and Uruguay /;
John M. Crawford, of Ohio, to be
Consul. General at st. Petersburg.
Russia; Horace Greedy Knowles, of
Delaware. Consul at Bordeaux {;
Frank Mason, of Ohio. Consul.Gen-
erai at Frankfort Charles b. Trail,
of Louisiana, Consul at Marseilles,
and Ex-Governor FairchiId, of Wis.
consin, and Gen. Harntraft, Of Penn
sylvania, to be members of the Che
rokee Indian commission.
The President thinks the criticism
he is receiving from many Republic
cans on account of his slowness in
making appointments is very unjust.
In conversation with an old per-
sonal friend he said: ~ am being
severely and ] think uDjustly, criti-
cised for, not making appointm ents
faster. 1t is In no case any fault of
mine. / am, and have been since
the 4th of March. ready and willing
to appoint Republican to any posi-
tion that IS or should be vacant. pro-
vided OF course. that he has the in
dorsement of the Congressional dele
CATION of his State. But what am 1
to do when nearly every State has
two or more candidates for every inn
portant 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 go straight to the dogs,
and an hour afterwards another Sem
ator from the same state says the
same thing In regard to his friends.
If those who criticise my hardness
could exchange places with me l feel
certain they would at once see the
mistake they are making. l am per-
fectly willing to be freely criticised
for my own acts. but object most
decidedly to being held responsible
for the lack of harmony among Re-
publican Congressman"
US Treasurer Huston has gone
to Indiana on private business.
Secretary Rusk has leased the res.
idence occupied by Robert T. Lin.
coin when ne was Secretary of War.
Gen. Malone captured the only
important Virginia appointment
made last week. Mr.. w. E. Craig,
who the general Endorsed, was selec-
ted for U. S. Attorney of the west
ern 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 hold.
ing of convention to frame State
Constitution to be submitted to the
people is valid. Notwithstanding the
absence of a Congressional enabling
act.
Senator Chandler is to be serenaded
next Monday night on b 8 arrival at
his residence in this city by the John
Sherman League and the William E.
Chandler Association of Washington.
1t is generally believed that Calvin
s. Brice. chairman of the National
Democratic Committee, will be the
Democratic Standard Oil Monopoly
candidate for the United States Sem
ate. to succeed Senator Payne, of
Ohio. who has concluded to close his
pockets. The Standard Oil concern
bought Payne's seat for him and If
the Ohio Republicans are not wide.
awake they will do as much for 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 administration.
1t is estimated that the census of
1890 will show the United States to
have population of 67,OOO,0OO
people.
The President has decided that the
civil service rules which prohibits re-
instatement without regular ex-
animation, of parties who have been
out of the classified service of the
Government for more than year
shall not apply to veterans of the
Union Army. This will enable about
l 900 veterans discharged during the
first three years of Cleveland's adj
ministration to get their places back.
There is quaking among the bogus
veterans in the various departments
of which there are said to be many.
There is a vigorous movement on
the part of the real soldiers against
those fellows who have themselves
rated as ex-soldiers on the depart