Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-16
THE CENSUS APPOINTMENTS.
An Effort to Bring Them Under the
Civil Service.
PARTISAN sNseReRs slLeNcED,
Harrtson's Generous Contribution to
the Flood Sufrerers-Biaine Fills
Several Positions in the
Consular Service.
WASHINGTON BUREAU, THE OMAHA BEs
5l3 FOURTEENTH STRHEr,


The civil service committee are determined |
to bring the appointments under Census
Commissioner Porter within the classified
list, If they can possibly do so, and with this
iden they in letter, called the attention of
the president to the subject, to-day, and
practically asked that the rules be so
amended that the applications must all pass
through their hands. This programme will
doubtless be resisted with vigor by men,
bers OF congress, and 1t Is gen.
orally believed that Secretary Noble
will also advise the president
against constituting the law so as to cover the
census bureau in the classified service. The
appointments are by the very nature OF
things only temporary, and it is figured that
inasmuch as there are so many men expert
in the business of the census who are anxious
TO get appointed, that it will inure TO the
benefit of all concerned to keep this bureau
outsiuo of the pale of the civil service COM
missions bailiwick, and the members OF
congress and others interested, believe that
those efforts will be successful.
sNEEIERs sILENCED.
Ever since the Washington relief Com
mittee began to publish the list of contribu-
| tons for the food sufferers in the Cone
| maugh valley, numerous Observation-Disclosures
| papers tnrOuRnOuU btlc CouutTy nave ohOSi-
| ingly called attention to the fact that the
| name of President Harrison did not appear
| on the list. 1t was true. General Harrison's
name was not among the list of Washington
| contributors, and the reason why was that
| he had telegraphed Governor Beaver to
| draw upon him directly for his contribution.
| The president has stood ready to honor that
draft at any time that it might be made since
he sent his instructions to Pennsylvania
chief magistrate. Up to the time
that he left Washington, this
| morning. for his trip down the river,
he had not been called upon to make good
| his promise, and in order that the money
might be made available AT the earliest pos
sible moment, he directed Private Secretary
4 Halford to send a check for $500 to the tres
nrer of the relief comm tee. That check
was received this afternt and will help
swell the fund which has been collected by
the committees of which President Harrison
is chairman, to the grand total OF S4l,oSo;
This in addition to about sl1 GOO contributed
through other sources, brings the total OF
Washington's answer to the appeal OF the
suffers up to more than S52, 600. No further
| altemp pts will be made to increase this fund.
A BATCH OF APPOINTMENTS.
! More than week ago Secretary Blaine
| visited the white house and csrried from the
state department q batch of appointments TO
| positions in the consular service. This ac-
| ton on the part of the secretary of state
| leaked out, and there were at once anxious
inquiries from all quarters as to who We're
| the fortunate individuals who had been Sc.
| lected for Uncle Sans foreign service. All
attempts to secure information on the sub
ject were without avail, as neither Mr.
Blaine nor any of the subordlnates OF the
| state department would give any informa-
| ton, even to their warmest congressional
friends Almost every newspaper corre-
| spondent here received urgent letters aud
kilograms from friends who were desirous OF
entering the consular service. begging for
| news as to the writer's chance for a
| place in the list, but every move for securing
| this news proved futile. To-day the list was
announced. The appointments are all among
the most important, and while there are not
80 many of them as it was thought there
| would be, they afforded general satisfaction
| to those who have to do with the consular
| service 1t is understood that another batch
of smaller consulates are listed to be filled,
| and that Mr.. Blaine's recommendations are
in the hands OF the president for his early
consideration. MIR. Blaine will leave Wash
| ington for the summer, 1T is said, the latter
part of next week, and for this reason the be-
| lief is quite general that to-day's appoint
ments will be followed by great many more
in the next seven days.
THE CHIPPEWA DISTURBANCE.
The war department will take no official
notice of the Chippewa Indian outbreak 1t
is the intention of the department, as far as
can be learned, to leave the matter entirely
1 to Major General Crook ana his aides, and
the news received, to-day, leads to the belief
that there is no danger OF further disturbance.
GILLIoK's APPEAL.
The appeal of S. S. Gillick from the de-
| cision of the general land Office, holding for
| cancellation his homestead entry for the
northwest quarter Of section 3, township l.
north, range 35. west, McCook, Neb., was
J decided today. The entry was made Sep
| tember 8, 1884, and October 8, 1885, Ulysses
M. Jones filed In the local Office an
| afidavit of contest against the entry,
charging failure to establish residence and
, | ABANDONMENT and change Of residence. The
claimant deposed that he established his res
: idence upon the tract October B,
, 1885, upon which day he began to
I build lumber house 12xlO feet, which
> was complete before he left, four days later.
| The sickness Of his family and of himself, he
swcars, prevented his establishing his resi-
dence within six months after entry. 1t is
| found that GillIck is a member of the firm OF
Barnaby & Gillick, merchant tailors OF Lin,
| coin and it appears that after his alleged
settlement on the land Gillick returned to
Lincoln and resumed his occupation as
tailor. He bought no furniture for
the house, made no improvements, and did
, | not dissolve his partnership with Barnaby.
The TACT that his family never saw the land,
but resided in Lincoln from The inception OF
| the entry to the date OF the deposition is
regarded as circumstance that makes
strongly against Gillick's statement that he
4 | established residence upon the tract on the
occasion of his visit, In October, 1885. Upon
| consideration Of all the circumstances shown
, by the evidence, Assistant Secretary Chand-
i | ler has come to the conclusion that Gillick
never established residence upon the tract
| with the intention of making it his home
j. and affirmed the decision appealed from.
THOMAS coLFER's CASE.
!. The appeal of Thomas Golfer from the de-
cison OF the general land Office. holding fol-
cancellation his homestead entry of the
southwest quarter of section 81, township
south, range 26 west McCook, Neb., was
g decided to-day. M. A. Spalding filed AM
S davit of contest and abandonment;, that he
;. changed his residence from the land fol
more than six months since making the
: entry; non settlement and that he has failed
: to establish his residence within six month.
after making entry or since that date. Colfel
y is married man, an attorney-at-law anc
Q resides at MtCook. Early in 1885 he pur-
chased the land in question, together will
improvements ou it. He slept ut night in G
= small house on the land and transacted hi
business in the city during the day. IL
: facilitate his travel he purchased a hors'
, | which was ''lariated out' at night and dur
ing the day was kept in stable which ht
IS | built for the purDose near his house In Nc