Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-18
GUARDING AGAINST TROUBLE.
General Merritt Virtually Military
Governor of Oklahoma.
COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY
Edward s. Lacy of Michigan APP
pointed TO That Position-Harri.
son On the Consular Service
The Corean Famine.
WASHINGTON BUREAU. THE OMAN, BHr, ,

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| WASHINGTON BUREAU, THE OMAHA BEE,
5l3 FouRTEENTa SrRsEr,
| WASHINGTON, D. c., April IL.
There was a conference at the white house
to-day which may lead to important conse-
Quenccs. President Harrison was Joined by
| Secretaries Proctor and Noble and the attor-
ney.general, The subject which occupied
this ouartette was a telegram received by
the secretary of war from General Merritt,
| commander of the Department of the Mis-
| souri,, asking for instructions in case trouble
| arose at Oklahoma. General Merritt laid
| stress upon the serious aspect that is pre-
sented by the great rush of the boomers
| and was emphatic in reciting his embarrass-
| ing position, resulting from lack of power
| to act in case of an emergency. The matter
| was regarded by the president and his ad-
| visers as one, in its possibilities, as extremely
serious, and its consideration occupied over
| an hour in time. The conclusion of the con.
| ference was embodied in u telegram which
| was sent to General Merritt yesterday, and
| although it was not made public through the
ordinary channels, 1t is learned that it gives
| the commander of the Department of the
| Missouri extraordinary discretionary pow
| ers, making him in fact, if not in name, the
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| riot or any necessity should arise requiring
| the bayonet to preserve order. General
| Merritt has been diligent in preparing the
| troops under his command for instant ac-
tion, and any trouble would be met
| promptly.
The postoffice department is making every
| necessary arran cement to give the new set
| tiers of the territory of Oklahoma all the
postal facilities which it will be possible to
afford, at the earliest possible momeut after
| the opening of the territory. Assistant
| Postmaster-G General Clarkson says that
within three months from the present time
there will be at least one hundred fourth
| class postotfices in Oklahoma. In his opin-
ion there will be more than a hundred thous-
and people IN OElahoma within six months,
and in his opinion it will be ready for admis-
sion into the union within two years. The
department will afford the settlers every pos
sible facility for communication with the
outside world, and each settlement will be
supplied with postofce just rapidly as
they can be established.
| COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.
| AS predicted in these dispatches the presi.
dent has appointed Mr. Edward S. Lacy, OF
Michigan, comptroller of the currency. Mr..
Lacy has been a banker i'll Michigan for a
number of years, and his appointment was
urged by the leading republicans of the
| state, as well as by bankers from all over
the country. He was member of the For
| ty-seventh and Forty-eighth congresses, and
was member of the committee on coinage.
He said to the press correspondent this af-
| ternoon that he has the arrangements all
made for the disposal of his interest in the
jackson bank, and that he will be ready to
assume his new duties within the fifteen
days specified.
THE CONSULAR SERVICE.
To an applicant for consulate
president said that the consideration
of consular appointments would not be
taken up for at least three weeks to come |;
that in appointing the new consuls there
| would be no clean sweeps and that the state
department would act very slowly. The ap-
pointments will be made on geographical
lines, due regard being at all times had to the
commercial fitness OF the applicants. Mr..
Blaine this afternoon reiterated this state
ment of policy. He ADDED incidentally that
for the 210 consulships there have been 3, 500
applicants. 1t is believed that the consulate
|. Mt Liverpool will go to Mr.. Thomas Sher-
man, of Maine, who has been for years con-
nected with the consular service in the state
department. 1t is stated on good authority,
/ however, that MIR. Morton has asked the
, | president to promote his brother-in law, MIR.
, Grinnell, at present the consul at Bradford,
England, to this Office Mr.. George Balm, OF
ST. Louis, is believed to be slated for the
| Glasgow consulate, and Mr.. George Johnson,
| of Cincinnati, for the consul-generalship
at Berlin, and General Adam e. King, of
Baltimore, for the l-gencralship at
| Paris.
THE CoREAN FAMINE DENIED.
DIR. Allen, the American secretary of the
, | Corean legation, stated TO your correspond
ent to-day that the reports printed OF the
| famine which is ALLEGED to be devastating
| | Corea are exaggerated and untrue. He re
| ceived letter from an American friend in
, | Corca to-day from which he read that while
the crop of rice in southern Corea had beer
short this year the shortage had been fore
| seen by the government and that ample sup
! plies had been stored up by the king both al
| private and public expense, and that al
, needy persons would be fully taken care Of
, | The next crop will be gathered this summer
1 nd N,Fill hn 1li IanN l..S
, | been no deaths from famine. he said, and the
, principal distress among the people arose
. | from the merciless extortions of the govern
ment tax gatherers
AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
One OF the Interesting questions which II
now o.cupying the office-seekcrs Is the con
struction the present administration will pu
| upon the date of the commencement of tn,
dental class. Representative Payson callet
on the attorney general to-day for informa
ton on this subject "Whiic the attorney
( | general said that the policy had not bee,
definitely settled" SAID Mr.. Payson, "still
feel justified in saying the tenure of onic
, ! Will be held to commence with the date o
! | original appointment"
NEW NEBRASKA POSTMASTER.
Charles III. Woodruff Keene, Kearnel
county, Nebraska, vice j. E. johnson, re
, | signed.
IOWA posTMAsTERs APPOINTED.
Edward Steigleder, Plow Creek, Clay
county, wee John Watts, resigned, and A. X
Stoddard, West Point, Lee county, vice Joh,
Kcmpler, removed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
= The first assistant secretary of the interior
Q has affirmed the decision of the commissions
!. of the general land Office in the case of Rob
. ert III. Waltz VS. Abraham Graves in the at
. peal of Henry Carty, protestant, from tn
. commissioners decision of February Is, 1855
/ awarding to Waltz his preference right O
= entry as successful contestant for the south
= west quarter of section 8, township 33 north
= range AZ west, Chadron, Neb., land district
!. The first assistant secretary says he is salts
. . fled that The motion TO dismiss the contes
should have been overruled; that the evi
dence fully sustained the truth of the charg,
against the entry of Graves, and said The
entry should be Cancelled and that Walt
! should have the preference right of entry
: hut II for any reason he could not max
/ entry then the said contest AFFIDAVIT Of Cart!
being ON file will give him the nraferencl