Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-15
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WASHINGTON, June 14-Senator Quay
to-day passed his busiest day of the week,
making the run of nearly all departments
except that where Uncle Jerry Rusk pre-
Sides He gave special attention to the
Postofice, Treasury, State and Justice De
partments, where postmasters, collectors,
consuls, marshals and district attorneys are
made, and then turned up at the White
| House in company with Postmaster General
Wanamaker to discuss the Philadelphia
appointments.
There has been quite clear understand
| ing for some that Mr.. Wanamaker is to
have his choice for the Office OF postmaster.
and that the choice is Mr.. Field. So there
was no quarrel to settle at this White House
meeting, but merely desire to know when
the appointments should be made. 1t is
probable that Field for postmaster and
Tom Cooper for collector will be announced
in few days,
Whether Leeds is to be made Surveyor is
not apparent yet, but that he will be taken
care of comfortably, there is no doubt In
regard to the offices for the western part of
the State there is less probability of speedy
action, though the chances are the Office of
postmaster, for Pittsburg will be filed
promptly after the expiration of Mr.. Lar
kin's four years of incumbence.
THE WESTERN OFFICES.
The same rule will be applied to the ALE
ghenv Postmastership, which will, there
fore bring no change to that Office until
April, 1890. Perhaps the first movement
will be the filling of one or two more con-
sulates from Allegheny county. But there
does not seem to be fixed time as yet, with
the exception, perhaps, of the Pittsburg
Postmastership, for which Senator Quay
will undoubtedly name the man.
The Senator will probably leave for home
tomorrow evening, or at least at such time
as will enable him to reach Beaver before
Tuesday, as he would not allow any con-
sideration to stand in the way of his casting
one whole vote for the prohibition amend
ment.
If President Harrison meant to steer
clear of the Republican factions in making
appointments for Virginia, he appar-
emily showed it in a queer way in selecting
Thomas Jefferson Jarrett for Collector of
Customs at Petersburg. The anti-Mahone
faction is up in arms against the appoint
ment, though they still desire to be discreet
enough not to seem to be at open war with
the administration. Hon. J. NJ. Langston,
the colored lawyer and orator, is a resident
of Petersburg, and is one of the most ardent
and outspoken opponents of Boss Malone.
1t is due to the bossism of Malone that he
now has a Congressional contest on his
hands.
THEIR BITTER ENEMY.
To offer as gross an insult as possible to
Langston, and through him to Generals
Brady Groner, and anti -Mahonites gen.
orally, Malone selected the man of all
others in Petersburg most offensive to them.
Jarrett took every means to defeat Langston
for Congress and is only one of the most i'm
portant witnesses for the Congressman-elect
for whose seat Langston is contesting. Mr..
Langston confesses his regrets in very forci-
BILE language that the administration should
have made such selection, but wishes to
avoid thrusting his grievances on the public
ST will say, however," he remarked to
The DISPATCH correspondent to-day,
''that if the administration continues to
make such appointments as Jarrett it will
put harmony utterly out of the question,
can State may as we'll be abandoned.
The anti-Mahone Republicans say that
while Jarrett has been elected Mayor of
Petersburg two or three times, that result
has been accomplished by questionable
means, and that among the best classes of
the community jarrett has no standing.
Since the character and associations of the
new collector have became fully known it is
general opinion among many Republicans
that notwithstanding the earnest and re-
peated protests of the anti-Mahope men and
Harrison's assurance of impartiality, the |
President has shown his determination to
play into the hands of Malone in the mat |
fer of Virginia office holders