The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1889-03-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent

Harrison is just now catching it on
every hand from the Office seekers be-
cause Of his slowness in making ap-
pointments. Including the Cabinet.
the total Of the administration to date
are less than sixty. This is a state Of
affairs that the hungry and greed gang
Of would be public officials find it
hard to understand. They expect a
hundred or more nominations every
day. This hardness on the part Of
the new authorities arises from no
consideration for the Democrats now
holding the positions, but results from
inability, owing TO the unprecedented
wrangling among the Republican pol
iticians, to decide whom to appoint.
Mr.. Harrison has been talking rath-
er plainly to some Of the gang. He
told some Indiana Republicans that
the best thing they could do was to go
home that if he wanted them he al
ways knew where they were TO be
found, AID that he thought he knew
who were entitled to the offices in that
State as well as any man in it. lie is
also said to have told ex-senator Ma
hone that he would send for him
when he wanted his advice. All of
these little things add to the glorious
harmony that exists IN the ranks Of the
Republican party.
BY the nomination of Mr.. G.. A.
Bates, of Delaware, to be L. S. Com
missioner to the Samoan Conference
TO be held at Berlin, Mr.. Harrison has
virtually endorsed Mr.. Cleveland's
position on the Samoan question. Mr.
Bates is a Democrat, and was selected
in 1886 by Mr. Cleveland to 90 to
Samoa and make an investigation of
the trouble which was then Just be-
ginning. As a result of Mr.. Bates re-
port Consul Greenbaum was recalled.
The other commissioners nominated
to act with Mr.. Bates are ex-Congress-
man w. w. Phelps and ex-Minister to
Austria and Germany John A. Kas-
son.
There is a big fight going on to de-
eide who shall be the next Commits
sioner of Pensions Mr.. Harrison
wants to give the appointment to Cor
poral Tanner, Of New York, but the
New York Congressional delegation
have a candidate of their own-Gen.
Poole, Of Syracuse-and object to the
of Tanner. Tanners
friends have suggested that he be APP
pointed and credited to some other
State.
Some surprise was created here
when J. S. Clarkson, of Iowa, the man
who would be Secretary Of the Inte-
rior or nothing, accepted the position
of First Assistant Postmaster-Gener-
al.
Senator Chace. of Rhode Island has
resigned, and all sorts Of rumors are
flying around a. to the cause. That
most generally believed is that Har-
rison snubbed him in making an APP
pointment of L. S. attorney for the
Rhode Island district. His friends
say that he has all along intended to
resign at this time. but that is hardly
a reasonable story. II is not likely
that he would have gone to the trouble
and expense Of an election to the Sem
ate just for the glory of serving less
than one month, he having been sworn
in on the 4th inst for the beginning Of
his first whole term. Previous to that
time he was filling out the term ofthe
late Senator Anthony.
There is a probability of some
trouble between the President and the
Republicans of the Senate over the
election question. Mr.Har-
rison had requested as a personal ia
yor that the matter be let alone at the
present extra session of the Senate.
and the request had seemingly been
agreed TO, but the Radical members of /
the Senate have succeeded in getting
The question agitated again. 1t was
discussed at a Republican caucus last