Mohave County miner., 1889-06-01
WASHINGTON LETTE..
Correspondence Of the MINER.

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WAsnrSGrox. May 20, 1889.
President Harrison will confer favor
upon an anxious score Of applicants by
filling the vacancy on tho supreme bench
at once. II was expected two weeks ago
and the candidates and their friends are
very impatient. II IL limited that the
President is retarded by the quality Of
the applicants. ifso, he il over particu-
lar, for certainly dozen men as able ~
Chief Justice Fuller have presented
themselves, and it did not take Mr..
Cleveland long TO select Mr.. Fuller. The
truth il that the few men ut the head of
the legal profession could not be in
duced, on account oi the smallness Of the
salary, 10 accept the position. The honor
would not prove sufficient induccment,
for. although the appointment might
still look well in a biography, the charac-
ter Of the men appointed TO the supreme
bench in the last twenty years has been
such as to lower the former standard.
The candidate most talked OF is Attor-
ney General Miller. II would be, Of
course, personally pleasing to the Presi-
dent TO thus honor him, but he might
find serious objection In that II would
deprive him OF his oldest and most stead
fast friend Ia the cabinet II he can do
il without seriously incommoding him
self, you may be sore that the President
will thus elevate his old partner. The
necessary changes In the cabinet would
be easy. Secretary Noble originally ex-
pectei and particularly desired 10 be at
torney general. The multiplicity Of an
noying details in the work Of the interior
department, and the utter disregard of
sound law practice in it's various bureaus,
have combined TO make his official life q
burden. Added TO this he has political
ambition, being even said to have the
vice presidential bee in his bonnet, and
further, habit Of trying 10 do the work
Of the entire department, in go far as dis
tributing all patronage and supervising
ali orders are concerned Decidedly, Mr..
Noble would make q good attorney gen
eral, and the administration would be
relieved by the transfer.
In such an event Mr.. Clarkson would
doubtless be appointed secretary of the
interiorl position which he has always
coveted. To the politicians Of the Repub-
lican patty his selection would be emf
nently satisfactory. II il said that in his
present position OF assistant postmaster
general he considers party service as the
grst and supreme recommendation for
Office. He is q spokesman after the heel.
er's own heart, though he would not go
so far as to appoint man whom he hon
estly thought incompetent. 1t was stated
when Mr. Clarkson accepted his present
position that the First vacancy in the
cabinet would be bis. AT that time il
was thought that John Wannamaker had
accepted the Possoffice portfolio merely
for the honor and would soon resign
That, however, is not extremely improb-
able, and the present is most decidedly
Mr.. Clarkson's golden opportunity. II
these cabinet changes be made Mr..
Chauncey l. Filley OF st. Louis would
doubtless be selected to fill the vacancy
caused in the assistant postmaster gener-
alship.
The death OF Allen Thorndyke Rice
adds TO President Harrison's troubles
that OF selecting new Russian minister
at as early day as possible. The press
urc for the place commenced as soon as
the breath was ont of Mr.. Rice's body.
Halt dozen prominent statesmen were
on hand this morning ready to urge the
claims OF the various candidates. be-
lieve that William Walter Phelps win be
the lucky man, at least il Blaine has his
viii.
Mr.. Rice was one of the least known
public men in the country. He belonged
essentially to the silk stocking contingent
and even when he was candidate for Con |
gress in New York his prospective con-
stitnents knew very little Of his personal |
ity, He gave the heelers his money and
let them spend il for him, and as he
should have known they robbed him. |
He was citizen Of the world at the age
OF %, when he purchased and rejuye-
mated the North American Review, and |
he has since proved himself the mos. re. |
compound Of shrewd business
man and graceful writer that this country
has ever known. Whether or not be
was the author OF the Arthur Richmond |
letters will probably never be known. II
he was it forever establishes his preemi-
nence in that class OF literature.
Friday was indeed murderers' day in
Washington last week. Besides hang. |
Ing there was murder and suicide. a
blear vagrant shot his wife TO death in |
the presence ef the scholars she was en- |
gagged in teaching and then took his own |
life. She left letter of instruction
written several years ago, TO be opened
after her death. TRY TO get Tom sober, !"
she writes, ''and buy him suit Of
This after she had supported |
him for ten years, and after he had spen.
the last cent Of her money and could get |
no more. Washington whisky accom-.