Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-04-07
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
A MASCOTT" FOR PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND.

Gresham shows He Is nj the Head
OF His Departmental New Plan
for Ascertaining the Availability
OF Candidates for Office-Lenger
Hours for Chiefs Of the Depart.
ments.
From our Regular COrrespondence.l
WASHINGTON March 81, 1898.
President Cleveland. if one may
judge from his remarkable career,
needs no mascot" to bring him
"good luck" but an old Jacksonian
Democrat-Andrew jackson Long, Of
Cedar Hill, Tennessee-doubtless with
the feeling that it is impossible for a
President, or anybody else, to have too
many "good luck" bringers, has,
through Representative Washington,
presented him with mascot" in
the form OF a silver half dollar, minted
in the year of the Presidents birth
lS37-which MIR. Cleveland accepted
in the same spirit with which it was
given, and in due course of time he
will formally acknowledge the gift in
an autograph letter to Mr.. Long,
which will probably be more highly
priced than the best Office at the Pres.
ident's disposal.
That Secretary Greshman intends
to be the actual head of his depart
ment was proven by his promptness
in demanding the resignation of DR..
F. o. St. Clair, who has been Chief of
the Consular Bureau under the last
three administrations, for having with
held certain information concerning a
U. s. Consul from the Secretary.
There are . number of old bureau
chiefs in the other departments who
deserve to be made to walk the plank
for the same reason. These men
have been in Office so long that they
have arrogated to themselves authority
which belongs only to the head of the
department, and their dismissal would
be for the good of the service in more
respects than one. In fact, there are
few men who can remain IN q respon-
sible government Office for long term
of years without forgetting that they
are servants, instead of masters. New
men and new methods are wanted in
every branch of the government SER
vice, as must soon become apparent
to every member of the cabinet who
examines into the details of his de-
partment, and the indications are that
that is now being more thoroughly
done than ever before.
Removing U. S. Consul by cable
is very seldom resorted to by the De-
partment of State, but it was done in
one case this week by Secretary
Gresham, and the man removed got
just what he deserved. The reasons
for Secretary Greshman's action are,
in short, as follows: In the early
part of the Presidential campaign
William r. Sorsby, of Mississippi, was
acting as Congressman Catching's
private secretary, and taking advant-
age of his position he distracted GER
tain papers containing important facts
relating to the Democratic plans for
the campaign from the private desk
of Mr.. Catching and gave them to Mr..
Thomas H. Carter, chairman of the
Republican National Committee. In
November last Sorsby was appointed
U. S. Counsel General at Guayaquil,
Ecuador, a position which pays
"a OOO a vear presumably "a a reward
for his treachery to Representative
Catchings and the Democratic party.
As soon as these facts were brought
to the attention of President Cleve-
land and Secretary Gresham, Sorsby
was dismissed by cable, and Mr.
George E. billiard, of Mississippi
nominated to the vacancy.
So far from the nomination of DR..
Joseph S. Senner, OF New York, to be
Commissioner OF immigration at New
York, which went to the Senate this