Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-31
THE CAPITOL QUIET.
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA APP
pliCANTS VERY SCARCE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Women Not
Offensive Partisans.
frrom onr Regular corrospondon,.i


WASHINGTON. May 30.--All of the govern
mont departments were closed to-day and
the Capital City was about as quiet M IL
the usual Sunday. Virginisns and North
Carolinians were exceptionally scarce anu
not for several days yet Will there DO any
thing Of local interest 20 these States IN
the way of appointments unless sucdeh
decision on the part OF the powers 'u"'
be should be reached.
WHO WILL 1T BE!
At the downtown hotels. whore 80 many
of the southern people stop. tho ta!K Is
that in few DAYS the President will an.
nounce the appointment OF the new United
States ATTORNEY for tho Western Dls'Tict
of North Carolina, and while tits generally
conceded that the rnco ~ between MI
Kope Elias. Of Franklin county, ana Dir.
X. Il. Glenn. Of Winston. tho average
North Carohnian does not seem 10
be certain who of the two aspiranis
will be successful. though there
is growing belief that the President IS
more inclined toward Mr Elias. still Nr.
Glenn is heavily backed. and the oriliiant
canvass made HIM during the last cam
palgn IS held up by his friends as entltlIng
hirn to recognition. Mr.. Cleveland y an
unreasonable man as has uceh sara
his method Of making appointments. ana
II IS no secret here that he has taken q
great fancy 10 Mr. Elias.
THE BACgE3s.
Senator Vance ~ backing Mr. Glenn en-
ergeticaliv. and is said 10 be doing all ne
eau TO secure his appointment. Mr.; Elias
has good backing also among the Gelnga-
tiou. and the public will soon know what
the President thinks about the case.
CANT BRING CuARGEs
According TO what the southern con-
pressmcn -av, the pOst-O Office Department
officials seem inclined to stick 10 the much
talhed-ot policy Of requiring members to
fla CHARGES before fOurth-Clas5 post
masters can be removed; butit ths thing
X persisted in tho chances are that many
In Virginia and North Carolina VIII hoId
thoir places for the congressman are en-
larrassed and IN Offices that are now held
bv women they cannot bring charges 81
political activity. As matter OF tact,
these women pOstmasters nave not Dcen
offensive partisans. They belong TO Ke-
publican families. however, and they were
appointed because of such affiiatlon.
HANDICAPPED.
Mir. Maxwell, the Fourth Assistant Post
muster General, appears willing enough 10
make removals. but he is handicapped by
an order from his superlors III Office, and
he does not hesitate TO say so when talk
ing with the members of Congress. ne /
President and the POstDaster-General are
the superiOrs who seem TO want congress-
men 10 file the charges. There - 10 Tou-
BE in cases where men are concerned. Tor
1. Is easy enough TO bring an indictment
that they have been particularly active.
IowERLEss.
Ono North Carolina member says that he
removed
from postmasterships and to appoint
others who belong TO Democratic families
hut rs long as the present policy 81 the
department prevails lie Is powerless, how
ever. because the present women post
masters have not taken any perniclously
active part IN politics.
CONTFsTED-ELFCTIoN CASTS.
Testimony in cOntestod-electiOn cases
80 be tired before the next House Of Re
uresentaiIves will bee opened at the Office
Clerk some time next month. There are
contests both from Virginia and North
Carolina. Colonel GOode, who ran ON the
TOpuEst ticket IN the Fourth District of
Virginia. is contesting the seat Of MIR.
Epos, the present Democratic member.
AMI MI Williams formerly the Demo-
cratic representative from the Fifth North
Carolina District. Is contestlng tho seat
which was awarded Thomas Settle by the
tduNd5Hlu- BDAiu OBJ inc Nlhtt.
Judge Robert ". Hughes. Of the United
STATE Eastern District Court OF Virginia,
Is III the city.
PERSONAL.
Tx-Concressman John T. Harris and /
Ju .gc John Paul. Of liarrlsonburs, Va,
are AZ the metropolitan.
Marshal Watts. of the Western District
of Virginia. is IN the city. Charges Of
political nature have been preferred
against him. aud il Is thought his Demo- !
cratic successor will soon be named.
John u. Gibson, Of Charlotte; T. n. |
Cooke. of SampsonviLe j. II. Tucker. OF |
Ashevilie: G. +. Brown. of Wilmington;
il. Z. Howell. of Goldsboro. and Frank |
McNeIl. of Rockingham, are among the |
latest arrivals from North Carolina.
Representative Epes, of Virginia, has re-
turned home.
Mr.. William Bullet FitzhuGh, Of the |
Cape Charles (Na Pioneer, Is here.