The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-07-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


ing Mrs. Harrison and the children
back TO Washington, but the great
press of business consequent upon the
closing of the fiscal year deprived
him of that pleasure. He took time,
however, to run over to Baltimore
to meet them Saturday afternoon.
The President is going to Wood
stock. Conn.,, to take part in big
Fourth of July celebration.
Among the recent important APP
pointments were the following
Frederick Douglass. of the District of
Columbia, to be Minister to Hayti
w. M. Meredith, of Illinois, to be
Superintendent of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. The appoint
ment of Capt. Meredith caused no
surprise. No one else had been men,
toned for the position; Daniel S.
Randall, of Indiana. to be U. S.
Marshal for the District of Columbia.
The closeness of the personal rela-
tiOns between Mr.. Randall and the
President makes it generally sup
posed that the Marshal will resume
the social duties at the White House
which were! always performed by
that official except under the Hayes
and Cleveland administrations. when
they were delegated to an army
officer; r. Fl. Hunter to be collector
of Internal Revenue, fourteenth dis.
trict. New York John G. Watts, of
Virginia, to be U. S. Marshal for the
Western district of Virginia. Mr..
Watts was endorsed by ex-senator
Malone; j. A. Connolly. of Illinois,
to be U. S. Attorney for the South
ern district of Illinois. He was re-
moved from the same Office by
Cleveland ; William Walter Phelps,
of New York, to be Minister to Ger
many. This position was given Mr..
Phelps as recognition of the able
manner in which he conducted the
American side of the Samoan COM
mission. which recently finished its
sittings at Berlin, and the following
U. S. Consuls: E. G. Goodenough,
of Me-, to st. Stephens, New Bruins.
wick ; d. X. Hubbard, of Mass, to
Annaberg, Germany; H. M. Stark
loft, of Mo-, to Bremen; w. T. Gum
neil, of New York. to Manchester.
England J. A. Tibbeth, of Conn.,, to
Brandford, England, and r. w.
Turner, of Kansas. to st. John. New
Brunswick.
Secretary Tracy has shaken up the
dry bones in the Navy department
by an order recognizing and i'm
proving the methods of doing bust.
ness.
Ex-Gov. Hartrauft, of Pennsyl.
vania, and ex-Gov. Fairchild, of
Wisconsin, met the other members
of the Cherokee Indian Commission
here to day. After receiving their
instructions they will proceed to In
dian Territory.
AT least two prominent Republican
members of the United States Senate
will retire at the close of their present
terms. l allude to Senator Cameron,
of Penn, and Senator Blair, of New
Hampshire, both of whom have
stated positively that they would not
again be candidates. 1t has long been
known here that Senator Cameron
remained in the Senate solely in def
erence to his fathers wishes but Sem
ator Blair has never intimated until
very recently that he would not re-
main in the Senate as long as the
Republicans of New Hampshire
chose to send him.
The President has greatly pleased
the temperance people by issuing an
order prohibiting the sale of intoxi.
eating liquors in the camp grounds
of the District of Columbia Militia,
during its annual encampment short
ly to take place.
am informed by an official close
to a member of the Cabinet that
within thirty days from to-day it
will be hard to find a Democratic
official in Washington outside of the
classified service. He says the DEM
ocratic chiefs of divisions and others
have been allowed to remain in Office
up to the present time simply as a
matter of convenience in closing up
the affairs of the fiscal year, but that
from to-day the first of the new fiscal
year the Republican administration
will really date its beginning. He
called my attention to the fact that
Sixth Auditor Coulter had already
began the good work by demanding
the designations of the deputy audi
tor. chief clerk and eight chiefs of
divlsions-all Democrats.
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