The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-05-12
STAND BACK.
A Quarantine Established Agci-.st
C@ce-Seekers.
Unique Order from President Cleveland
Public Business Must Take Prece-
dence Over :ie Demands OF
C.sice-ScekcrS.
.Ouarantine" Established.

s.Ouaranttne Established.
WASHINGTON. May 9.-The following
has been issued by the president for
publications:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Nav s-lt has been
apparent after two months experience tina.
the rules heretofore promulgated regulating in
terviews with the president have wholly failed
In operation. The time which under these
rules was set apart for the reception Of sena-
tors and representatives has been almost en-
tirely spent in listening to applications for Of
fee which have been bewildering in volume,
perplexing and exhausting in their iteration
and impossible of remembrance.
due regard for public duty which must be
neglected il present conditions continue and an
observance of the limitations placed upon hui
man endurance oblige me to decline, from and
after this date all personal interviews with
those seeking appointments to ONCE. except a.
I. on my own motion, may especially invite
them The same considerations make II i'm
possible for me- to receive those who merely
desire to pay their res poets except on the days
and during the hours especially designated for
that purpose
I earnestly request senators and representa-
tives to aid me in securing for them unin,er
rupted interviews by declining to introduce
their constituents and when visiting the Exec-
utive mansion during the hours designated for
their reception Applicants for ONCE Will only
tunity and by remaining at Washington to
await results
More Of the Order.
WASHINGTON, May 9. President
Cleveland's quarantine against the of.
fice-seekers has created more excite
ment than anything that has been
promulgated in an official way since
the new administration began. The
crowds which throng the capital at
present are not so much interested in
the questions of finance and revision OF
the tariff as they are in the allotment
of offices.
The effect of the order on the office.
seekers was not manifest at the White
house. for Monday has, according to a
rule of the president, been reserved for
public business. and the office-seekers
have been excluded from the White
house. The first of the week has come
to be termed ''blue Monday" in the
parlors and Hobbies of the hotels.
There are few of the more prominent
oftice-seekers who seemed disposed tC
insist upon seeing the president in the
future anyhow, and take the risk of be
ing turned down. There are very few
of this element, however, for the larger
portion of them. when seen, had packed
their valises and We're preparing to de-
part by the first train. They had moth.
ing to show for the months of weary
waiting in Washington except express
sions of blank establishment and Il big
hotel bill. some of which were receipt
ed and others that are subjected to
some financial arrangement with the
home congressman or senator before
being paid.
President Cleveland's order is some
thing decidedly unique and original to
the eyes of politicians. 1t is prece-
dent in the history of the White house.
A change of administration is always
the provocatiOn for grand rush for
office. President William Henry Harri-
son died a month after his Inaugural
ton as the result of the opportunities
of men who sought office. but ne never,
as matter of self-preservation. closed
the door against men who wanted Office.
Senator Vance, who called at the
White house for a moment. Endorsed the
presidents new order. He said it would
relieve the president and senators from
a great deal of pressure upon them ex-
erted by the Office-seekers. which, while
it consumed valuable time, did not ben
eft the applicant, for personal inter
views rarely amounted to anything at
time like this when the president sees
SO many DerSOnS in tho cO,lrSa of a Gav