The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular Corr snan ieat.,
Washington. MAy -. 1883.

(From our regular Corr snan ieat.l
Washington. MAy ~, 1889.
iiHtisCn NJ sie I'll. G.. appoint
ln"nt that he has yet maze when |
IL selected Ex-Gsv. TIL mps N, of
South Carolina, q the democratic
melnber of The The @ vi Service
Commission. G,y. Fhom.' GA was
Assistant Secretary ri Toe treas
nry nndes Cieveiaass : iminislra
ton. AID was during iac last days
OF { ngress aPfo;ntrd by Mr.
Cleveland to the same position he
has just received ;rou Icpubii-
can Presiden', but the 5 nate did
not act on his nomination.
There Is weeping AID wailiLg
and gnashing of teeta among the
Little crowd OF late app io4nts FOR
the position OF Pubic Printer, I've
OF whom are understood TO have
made a csmbiaaticn, cacA promis-
ing TO give the oth.r four appoint
meDts in the office i! ma'le Public
Printer, over The fact that the Gov
eled prizs has gone - Elk Con-
gresham Frank w. Palmer, form
erIy postmaster st Chicago
whether Harrison suspect q the
"com bine" which t. eSe applicants
had entered into tanaot say, bat
Is Is known that some days ago he
told q gentleman that he should
not appoint any of The applicants
up TO that tine anil. asked bin TO
name good nsn Tor the office.
Palmer was nameti, an | after tu.
Their iavestiga .Ioaj the office was
tenderec to him, and he accepted
it. When the appointment wss
made public it was really amusing
to see the members of the "com-
bine" chasing around try ng to fad
somebody TO introduce them 10 the
new Public Printer 50 they could
get in their applications for the
"fat' positions under him. 1t is
thought that one OF these men-Do-
na,h, nominally OF Pennsylvania,
really Of the District of Columbia,
may lose his mind so great shock
has the disappointment been at
not being made Public Printer.
He was SO certain ,hat he was to
get the appointment that he kad
already gwen away several OF the
most important Places in the Gov
eminent Printing Office.
IL is eviiently the purpose of the
republican politicians 10 make the
census bureau an asylum for their
political proteges. The Interior
Department has decided that the
appointments ia tbs bureau are
not uader the civil service rules.
TIE bureau Will have next year
when 1T gets regularly to work,
over 1900 clerks, besides an army
of special agents, and the most of
these will be kept for two years or
longer. It will be a great conven-
fence TO prominent republicans TO
use these positions TO pay off their
pohticai debts, and il the appoint
ments were made under civil ser
vice rules that would be inpossi-
| bic.
The first Of the fifteen contested
election cases which are to come
before the Fifty-frst Congress was
opeCed by the Clerk of the House
this week. 1t VS. Chalmcrs VS..
Morgan, Of the sec MI Missis ,lppi
District
Harrison having provided a snug
placa tor his brother is now, 50 it
IS said, about to appoint Il aine's
b. other to one OF the most lucra-
tive local offices in Washington
Register of Wills.
The new Secretary of Agricult-
ure ia order to prove his famiIiari
ty with farming implements, and
maybe to get solid with the farm
ers ofthe country, put in half an
hour cutting grass with q scythe in
the grounds sur ounding his Ae-
partment, one day this week. or
course he was entlre.y igoorant uf
the fact that several newspaper
men had ,heir eyes on him during
the entire performance.
Republicans ere already begin
ming to compare Harrison with
Hayes and Arthur; they say that
he is Liuij almost 10 the extent ui
cowardice.
1t is said that the Post office
Department is appointing clerks in
the Railway Mail Service and dat
ing heir appointments in April in
order TO avoid compliance with
civil service rules under w;ch ali
such appointments should haze
been made since May
Senator German thinks that
Calvin S. Brice will be elected
chairman of the National deDo-
cratic committee TO succeed the
late ex Senator Barnum. This is
taken here to mean that Senator
German will not accept the posi-
ton.
Theodore Roosevelt, of New
York, who has just been appointed
as one of the repu blican Civil Ser
vice Commissioners, is a pronounc
ed free trader. Funny isn't it,
that a man elected President sole
Iy because be WAS rigid prot,c
zionist should give such a promi-
nent appointment to free trader
The newspaper mans luck hiss
not yet dese;te him. The new
Public Printer is member Of the
fraternity.