The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-05-04
TH1BODAUX, LA., SATURDAY, MAY L. 1889.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 30. 1885.

delegation are at dagger points. The
Senator, with hisus,,al greediness, wants
the other fellows to allow him to name
the Ohio men who shall have Federal
patronage. This one-sided way of
giving the prizes is strongly objected
to by Congressman Mckinley. Butter
worth, Burton and others who have
friends they wish to pro eide for, and
the result is that Ohio is getting left
in the distribution of official pap.
Among the disgusted Ohio Repubii-
cans is Alphonse Hart, who came here
prepared to go to work as Solicitor of
Internal Revenue, a position which he
says Attorney General Miller rendered
him and which ne accepted 81 veral
weeks ago. But he has not gone to
work, owing to the objection of il man
greater than "Me Too" Miller. Boss
QUAY has Il man whom he wishes to
put into that position, but nothing mas
yet been done, and us Quay is said to
have gone home in IL pet last week,
perhaps Hart may get it after all.
The new Republican officials are
very prompt in getting sworn in, so as
to let their salaries begin. Then they
| take their own time about beginning
to work. | was forcibly reminded
of this when Robert p. Porter, editor
of the New York Press, turned up here
two days after lie was appointed Su-
perintendent of the Census. was sworn
in, rushed down, caught an afternoon
| train and returned to his private bust
ness i'll New York city. BY the way,
Porter, who is one of the most rabid
advocates of a protective tariff, is an
! Englishman, and is said to have writ
ten rlindly In favor of free trade until
he was bought over by the protection
lists. II Mr.. Cleveland had appointed
an Englishman to us important po-
stion as this, all the Republican ps-
pers Ill the country would have been
| yelping ut him and charging him with
all sorts of crimes. But then You see
1T makes a great difference whose OK
is gored.
The notorious 'colored ex-Congress-
man Smalls, of South Carolina, came
very near to being the first negro ap-
pointed to office by President Harri-
son, and he may be yet the first. He
is an applicant for the position of Col
] lectOr of Customs at Beaufort, South
Carolina, and it had been about de-
cided to appoint him when a telegram
was received f,om his State asking
that the matter be held up until GER
tain charges against Mr.. Smalls could
be submitted to the President. Ii the
latter thinks to strengthen his party
in the South by appointing such men
as Smalls to office, he is sadly misin-
formed as to the status of public opin-
ion in that section.
Representative Henry Cabot Lodge,
OF Massachusetts, is a very fortunate
man. He says: 81 am not overbur-
dened by office-seekers. The people
Of my State do not seem to be anxious
for. much. IN my district there has
not yet been II single endeavor to re-
move even Il postmaster"
All the arrangements have been
completed for the trip OF the President
and the Cabinet to New York next
Monday, to take part in the Centen-
nial celebration. They leave here at
Il very early hour, arriving ut Eliza
beth, n. j., in time to take breakfast
with the Governor OF New Jarsy.
They then go'to E!izabethport, where
they take boats which are to take them
overexactly the same route that George
Washington went just one hundred
years ago,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
TichenOr is mad, he Is in fact very
mad, and does not care who knows it.
He had Il candidate Tor the position OF
appraiser OF the port OF New York, and
the President appointed another fell
low. The only consolation that Mr..
Tichenor has is the fact that the ap-
pointment does not please the New
York Senators any better than it does
himself.
For years it has been the custom to
consider the four years commissions
OF Federal officials as beginning from
the date of their confirmation. Now,
in order to make vacancies, the Repu-
blican Congressman are bringin. pres
sure to bear on President Harrison to
have an order issued to consider these
commissions as dating from the orig
inal appointment. The President has
referred the question to "Me Too
Miller for an opinion, and the chances
are that all those officials appointed
by Mr.. Cleveland in the spring and
summer OF 1885 will find out that their
commissions are considered rs having
expired, notwithstanding that it was
in some cases year after appointment
before the Senate confirmed them