Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-03-30
From Washington.

The matter has already been taken up III
the State Department and Mr.. Quincy is
having a list made of just the number Of
Ministers and Consulships each State is
entitled to.
The way he does it is to ascertain the
total amount paid out in salaries to all
the representatives of the government in
foreign countries and then apportion to
each State the apportionate amount OF
the total sum that it should receive.
Under this plan some States would not
be entitled to offices agsgregatinS more
than $1,000 in salaries, while others Will
be entitled, according to population, TO
900 or more.
After this is done Mr.. Quincy's plan is
to give to each State places in the for
eicn service, the agg- gate salaries OF
which equal the amount apportioned to
that State.
Mr.. Cleveland approves this plan and
the indications are that it will be adopted
as far as possible in all the departments.
The civil service laws will, however, keep
thousands of Republicans in unless all
the present cabinet officers prove as smart
as Secretary Morton in discovering cause
for removals. The Republicans had no
difficulty in finding cause in several thou
sand cases, and tits presumed that as soon
as tie wheels ofthe present administration
become we'll oiled the knives in the
spokes will protrnde and heads will COM
mence to fall.
Congressman John Allen, of Missis-
sippi. was at the White House yesterday.
At Chamberlain last night he made this
statement of what occurred:
81 called on Mr.. Cleveland to-day and
we had quite an extended conversation.
In the course of it he took occasion to
say something that will carry woe into
~. hearts of many patriots throughout
the country. "A great many men are
applying for office, he said, upon the
strength of work done for me. They
were prominent in the State Convention,
went to Chicago and labored faithfully
there. OF CON- ,-.n grateful to them,
hnt vor - III readily see that 7 cannot
.ppoint them. The very fact that they
were jealous in my cause prevents my
recognizing their services by giving them
offices. AS the chief servant of the
Democratic party cannot afford to have
it said that l have rewarded personal
labor performed in my behalf by paying
them out of the public treasury.
''It will thus be SEEN" continued Mr..
Allen, "that the original Cleveland men
are in about as bad fix as the 'exs. By
working to secure Mr.. Cleveland's nomi-
nation they have left themselves ont in
the cold. l am sorry for them, but do
not see that anything can be done. The
President is man OF his word
Editor WILLIAMS in The Greenville News
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 25.-There
are on file in the Treasury Department
nearly one hundred applications for ap-
pointment as chief of division. SO far
no appointments in this class have been
made. Many o. the applicants have
been surprised to learn that even this
class OF positions are within the civil SER
vice rules or partially so.
All the alleged gossip, indications and
predictions regarding South Carolina a.
fairs se2t from here are based on the
hopes Of being, more than on anything
else. have tried to study the facts of
the situation without bias. and the result
Of all l can learn is as follows:
The President is to divide the Federal
Offices between the factions, but will
probably postpone action until the rep
of the factions agree on
some basis of division, or until he has
time to inform himself thoroughly and
to devise plan of his own.
There is one thing that seems reason
ably certain. 1t is likely that the propo-
sition to be submitted to him will be to
give the collectorship to some Tillmanite
Of moderate views whose conduct has not
been so aggressive as to arouse violent
while the marshalship and
district attorneyship will go to anti-Till-
man men Of corresponding position.
Senator Butler will urge the appoint
ment of B. F. Perry as collector and the
Tillman people will fight. as will many
This fight will cause
some confusion of factional lines. Some
will back Tillman in his
fight againt Perry and some Tillman men
will back Butler in his fight for Perry.
Between the two forces Mr.. Perry will
probably miss connection.
The same conditions duly apply tc
Gen. Earle and the district attorneyship
and the result will probably be that some
Tillman people and some Conservatives
favor Earle. The Butler people and a
few Tillman men will oppose him and
there are embarrassments on both sides.
The Tillman people will be in a posi-
ton to claim credis for the defeat of
Perry, to whom SO many Conservatives
objected. Butler will oe in
shape to claim credit for the defeat OF
Gen. Ear.e, who also is likewise strongly
opposed by many Conservatives. There
is the further fact to be remembered that
The tendency of the situation, as far as
Gen. Earle is concerned, is to put him
self in shape to be formidable compro-
mise candidate for the Senatorship OF
Sovernorship. i
Postmaster General Bissell said yester-.!!
lay in discussing the conditions IN New
York and South Carolina that the Cleye-
and men could afford to be magnap'ss
nous in the treatment OF their ff
and shonld devote theis--
antsion to trying te unite the tad