Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-14
EDITORS ALL RIGHT
They Have the Same Show as
the Populace,
AND ARE NOT OFFICIALLY EXILED.

ANb 1AAsA Nv VI 4S4ahA1 bo1dbDs
Cleveland Repudiates One of the Rules
Ascribed to Him-Senator Murphy Ex-
plains Why New York Is Backward-The
Charge on the Postoffices-AlIeged List
of Chairmen of the Senate Committees
Which Is Discredited by the Steering
Committee-KaiuIani Visits Mrs. Cleve-
land--Capital Items.
WASHINGTON March f4.-The week open
ed more busily for President Cleveland.
When he entered his Office yesterday morn
ing he found crowds of senators and mem
bers awaiting him with their friends. To
a party of Missourians, composed of repre-
sentatives Dockery, Morgan, Burns, Cobb
and DeArmond who had come especially
to ascertain whether it was true that none
of their editorial constituents could hope
for appointment, Cleveland stated that
there was misconception on this point.
Newspaper men would not be barred from
appointment to office and their applications
would be considered on precisely, the same
footing those of any other of the ca, 000.
OO0 of citizens. The impression that editors
and journalists generally were to. be
barred, Cleveland said, arose from a mis-
construction which he could not explain.
Dockery Suggests an Explanation.
Representative Dockery thought that
the mistake came from from a wrong in
depreciation of remark of Postmaster
General Bissell, who, a few days ago, said
that in appointing postmasters he would
want to have it understood that whether
they were merchants or editors they would
have to be prepared to give their whole
time to the service of the government and
could not farm out the business of the Of
flee to incompetent clerks and others.
Senator Hin's Colleague Talks.
One OF the first of the presidents callers
was Senator Murphy. of New York. His
attention called 70 the surprisingly
small number of applicants for office who
have yet made their appearance from New
York, the largest state of the Union
"That shows the power of organization"
replied Murphy. New York will be heard
from at the proper time. Instead of hav
ing every Tom, Dick and Harry running
here to Washington and bothering the life
out of the president. the leaders of the
party in New York will decide upon the
men whom they desire to have appointed
to positions in the federal employ, and
whose appointment they think will benefit
the party most. These names being de-
cided upon the men will come on to Wash
ington, present their papers and will, if
necessary, be introduced to the president"
Fills West Virginia's share.
In this connection it is understood that
ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mil
Ter, also of West Virginia, will be reap
pointed to his old position, in which case
that state will hardly be likely TO get any
other big bureau appointments in the
Washington departments. Messrs. War
ner and Thayer, of Detroit, Mich, saw the
president in the interest of Levi I. Griffin,
of their city, whom they want to succeed
Justice Howell s. Jackson as circuit Judge
~ Coll
number of visitors who saw the president
but the crowd was still of fair size
At o'clock Cleveland held public recep
ticn in the east room. Several hundred
people attended.
We're a-Coming Father Bisseu.
There was a notable decrease in the num-
Der of visitors at the postoftice. Post
master General Bissell, however, received
a number of visitors yesterday. but his in
variable response to appeals, however, ur-
gent, for action on particular cases, was as
it had been during the last week-that all
applications must take their usual course.
1t expected that Maxwell, who has been
nominated for the position of fourth assist
ant postmaster general, will arrive here
next Thursday and that he will at once
take up the matter OF postoffice appoint
ments. These applications are now COM
ing in at the rate of thousand a day and
it is probable that in a short time this
number will be increased to 1,5O0 per
day
Mutually Agreeable Arrangement.
Senator Faulkner's name was yesterday
presented to the president as a candidate
for appointment to the chief justiceship of
the new court of appeals for the District of
Columbia, recently established by act of
congress. Representative William l.. Will
son, of West Virginia, was the one who
announced Faulkner's candidacy. Faux
ner is very anxious to leave the senate and
become judge in an appellate court. If
his ambition is gratified it is already
ranged, so it is said, that he shall be sue
ceeded in the senate by Wilson
kiAUlANi VISITS THE WHITE HOUSE.
An Entirely Unofficial Call Made On the
President and His Wife.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Princess
Kaiulani has met her great and good
friend" Hawaii and the United States
have shaken hands. The interesting event
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