The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-05
CUSTOM HOUSE GOSSIP.
THE FIVE .iRRIY or .frFEICdNTS
FOR NINE $1,000 JUBS.

Plummer Among Them-Mr. Cooper Olives
Labor Candidate Crawford n Joh-IIow
Chief MURRAY Lost His PIRce-Teu-Doi-
lar Fees TO GO all Round-Ah :BHbcocR's
School for StorekeePers
With tho Mckinley Administrative bill
providing for the appointment Of nine general
appraisers, each to cost the Government $1,000
q year, only half way through, candidates for
the nine rat Jobs are popping up Ike asparagus
on n Long Island farm. Tho bill distributes
the places among five Republicans and four
Democrats, and already petitions by tho yard
taVornE scores OF applicants, have been sent TO
washington. 1t Is observed that among the
candidates talked OF are ex-senator Warner
Miller and John +. Plummer. In addition on tho
Republican side are Lawgiver Dudley Phelps
OF the Custom House. Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury Tichenor. A. X. Tlngle. Super
visor OF the special Treasury agents, Col. \. W.
Bingham OF Boston. and D. ii. Hiudes. q for
NOR special Treasury agent said to DO backed
by Mr.. Blaine. The reported candidacy OF OK
Senator Miller and MIR. plunmer is not takon
In earnest MIR. Miller Is President OF a canal
company and has long since. 1t ia said. glven
UP expecting much from the Harrison Admin
istration. Mr.. rlummer would be opposed it is
said by the importers.
MIR. Tlchnor is sick Of his place as Assistant
Secretary OF the Treasury His health il not
good, and his friends bellows that he would i'm
provo II he could be unshacklcd from his desk
In Washington. Mr. Tinge is tho most earnest
candidate on the list Among THO Democrats
Assistant Soc ctary of the Treasury: Coi. Jew
ell. chief Of the special Treasury agents under
Cleveland; aud Henry J., kiItileld.. There IRE
many back counties to hc heard from. and II
the bill should become n law even IN %! position
to the sturdy protest uf n large contiI gent OF
nine places will lie one OF the serious questions
OF the Harrison regime
Secretary Window does not agree with APP
praser Cooper that tn" special Treasury
aHs ssn s pr must obtain tho rS1
to overhaul invoices and make invesliGH-
lions ,Ii II the 1Might s!r"o>u building.
m"Tto against tho agents This will b" lone.
Appraisers deuarlmcnt and cooly inform his
or that Federal official that il no winks with his
right eye when he should wink with his left
he il DO In the poniteniary IN less time than
1t takes t. tgy Jack hobinss"n." This is the
style IN which ono Of the Treasury, moGuls
recently attempted To overawe one OF Mr.. Coop
er's assistants.
to John l. Close and William kearney, the
Customs inspectors who allowed tho City OF
tcred and got her rclniI. Surveyor Lyon. in
!ysestEated and re!e3mmended the removal 9f
the inspectors. Collector Erhardt ooncurred,
and Close was tumbled ont by return mail
from Washington. kenrney, however. Is still
nsd Io the breasworks, although the papers
be the chief culprit in the affair.
Surveyor Lyon will run over to Washington
this week. lie says that everything in his de-
pRrtment Is working with the precision OF O
piston rod. except tho wciGhers' department.
There are not enough WuiGhcrS," he saya.
to insure PROPER SUPERVISION OF tho port,
which you will under stand lakes in thirty
l should have mt least six additional weiRhers."
tho Twenty hrst Assembly district. who was
tumblcd ont Of the service two weeks ago by
Collector Erhard'. has Just got from Appraiscr
Cooper u Job as an opener and packer at $40
year.
Appraiser Cooper is MS bland as you please
after his trip to Washington. and 1t looks AS II
his recommendations concerning the removal
OF three assistant appraisers were to receive
attention. speaking Of visits TO Washington.
4 Is Just possible that Mr.. Plat may run across
He Sew ths
with his weather eye Oh A albany, but with the
Of the az 1t s almost
on Washington and have something to saI.
Duroan is nm applicant Tor Paymaster Siliecks
$4,000 place MAJOR Terri is backed by the O..
a. T., and Is fortified With Congress medals for
Many anxious eyes arc directed toward the
Of the bureau Of Certified iie;unds. Mr. Murray
resigned tho place when Mr.. McCielland, lately
s5ssdne w m md hna he W%s
be Mr. Mcrennds partner in the customs
adjustment business Ihee Offices II the Mills
RHri;nersshiT Win Charles Hess q The Diamond
Murray WIS left high and dry. Mr.. McCeland
offered him cIerkshipin his Office. This Mr..
Ma NJ rniused aGd ne has gone Vest to seek
q the bureau is apparently in the van as Mr..
MuTrayS successor.
Secretary WINDOWS order that customs in.
spectors are to receive only ~ instead OF $40
for night work has hoen rescinicd. The in
spectors go back to the old pay OF So and in
addition, clerks in the departments who work
nre 10 receive the $40 also. An effort is to be
made o hive the extra compensation Extend
aes az ad g and
owners OF sailing craft.
Issued nm order. and is burning sandal wood
Joss sticks In It's honor, requiring al the
be- 70 f6r m on TO @ ce a
ships. The, promotion Is afer the usual
Chinese fashion. The storekeepers already
get 81 400 u year. They are experienced men.
and they don't want clerkshpSI; They want 10
stay where they are, But Al BGGbcock has tho
keepers to como Wednesday f. that every Gov
erpment store on the rive, ron, N that day
who know ms much about slGrok"cGGr's ac-
counts as an elephant doe about ChoctAW
are 10 be detailed to look after thing while
the store keepers arc W before ~" Board OF
Wongs II Is nppreh"Ld"d that tho Storekeep-
ers will have n slN months con ract in straight
enng out the hlunders OF tho green clerks;
but Chinese 'aLco,k wouldn permit thom to
come IN PATCHES or be cNamu ed IL night. Tho
questions might leak. no sRd.
Col. Weber las returned from his visit to
Secretary WINDOW. It IL now an open secret
that tho Administration wants Castle Garden
Tor the Immigrant landing depot. Ellis Island
was little moro tim II bun The Barge Offlc0
GWarters are rIdi"ulousy small. The arrange
ments are Of the most complicated and In.
Immigrants arc slipping through Col. Weber'S
fingers and II tho COMPLAINTS Of the labor
romethng must he done and done quickly.
Meanwhile tho Bparrows are making q YER.
table music hall Of old Castle Garden. and the
,Rrbolc acid and odors OF all nations do not
disturb their merry chirpings.