The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-09
GROWERS HEROIC STEP.
The Mandate Against the 0lliCC-SeGk-
CTS His Own Idea.


Consulship and the Atlanta Johnson
= Got It-Gen. Young Route to Guate-
mala.
Washington, May S.-Thc full results of
the Presidents order, closing his door to
of1ice-seekers, were not apparent at the
white house today, for Monday is re-
served by President Cleveland for unin-
terrupted attention topublic business out
side of interviews. His only visitors this
morning were Secretaries Gresham and
Lament, who spent some time in Mr.
Cleveland'S private room. But a partial
effect of the Presidents statement was
the increased attendance of callers on
Private Secretary Thurber Many of
them called, so they said, ''mcrcly to pay
their respects, and several left "P u. c."
cards for President Cleveland TO show
him that they appreciated, TO its fullest
extent, the hint conveyed in the closing
sentence of his circular that applicants
for Office will only prejudice their pros
poets by remaining in Washington to await
results"
1t can be stated on authority that
the President decided to issue the state
ment without consultation with any one
He did not even ask for the opinions of
the members of his cabinet. The new
rulings were practically decided on last
Friday, but it is understood that the
President has contemplated the innoya-
ton for some time, his delay in action be-
ing probably due to hope that the rush
for Office through personal calls would
cease,
IN THE GENERAL LINE.
A number of persons who wanted to
merely pay their respects to the Presi-
dent to-day postponed the calls they con-
templated making on President Cleveland
in his private room during Office hours
and fell in line with the general public
who are received by President Cleveland
in the east room on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Saturdays at / O'clock The recCp-
tion consists merely in handshalling and
passing along to make room for others
Even DIR. Byron Sunderland, who is pas
tor of the Presidents church and who
Ofticiated at the marriage Of Mr.
and Mrs. Cleveland, did not presume on
his intimacy with the President, but took
his place in line with the people in the
east room. 1t is believed that the effect
of the new order of things will be to send
applicants in increased numbers to the
cabinet officers. Judging from the crowds
at some of the executive departments to-
day this result has already become ap-
parent.
GIVEN CAREFUL CONSIDERATION.
1t is known that Mr. Cleveland has
been considering the advisability Of MAX
ing this order for at least a week. He
has been making inquiries, through
Private Secretary Thurber, as to the re-
ception which would be accorded to such
a ruling and felt sure that its wisdom
would be appreciated He did not CON
suit the senators and representatives
on the subject, but he might
have done so with safety,
for of a numbtr with whom the News
correspondent talked this morning the
large majority expressed themselves as
glad that the President had taken this ac-
ton. Senator Vance of North Carolina, who
was at the white house for a short time,
said that he thought it was a good order.
There is no doubt" said he, "that these
interviews were of little value. We
would 90 in, pass in line before the Pres-
dent, say few words and come out again
IT amounted to nothing. Now a congress
man or senator can go and see the Presi-
dent and have quiet half hours talk
with him and settle everything in his dis
trict or state"
YOUNG'S TRIP TO GUATEMALA.
Gen p. NJ B. Young has been in Wash
ingtOn for some days, and received his
final instructions as minister to Guate-
mala this morning. He will return to
Georgia for a brief visit and then start
for his post of duty. Interviewed to-day,
the general said he had the choice of
three routes to Caracas, but that he had
determined to cross to Frisco and sail
down the coast to San Jose, small sea-
port in Honduras, from which a rail
road extends inland eighty miles
to Caracas Gen. Young, contrary
to expectation, wants a young man not
Georgian as his chief clerk. He refused
to divulgc his name, for" said he, with
some show of resentment, sit seems that
the state department and not myself is to
select my private secretary" This place
of secretary to Gen. Young's legation is
the one Jack Cohen, of the Atlanta Jour
nal, wanted, and it cannot be denied that
he would have filed it with signal ability
HARVEY 'JoHNsoN's APPOINTMENT.
There seems to be some sort of confu-
sion about the appointment of Col.
Harvey Johnson Of Atlanta to Ant
werp as a consul, for it is pretty
generally known that Col. Lind
saw Johnson of Rome was
candidate for that position and
and Col. Harvey was not. Last week
Col. Lindsay Morgan seized his grip and
went to New York to see the warships,
and during his absence the Antwerp plum
slipped away from him There is a diff
ference between the two Johnsons, the
Oostanula colonel being a trihe fuller in
the stomach, and then he tells a story
about how the surgeons during the high
water at Rome, got into his
cellar, and after chasing his
butler upstairs, ate sixty bushels
of potatoes.
No Georgians received appointments to-
day in any Of the departments and only
two fourth-class pOstmastcrs were given
to the state, one at Beach, in Ware
county and another at Sylvania, in
Scriven county.
Judge Hall, Gen Ed. Thomas and others
went down to the battle field of Manassas
yesterday and spent the day. The bal
ance Of the Georgians took pleasure
trip down the Potomac TO Marshal Hall
and enjoyed a planked shad bake.
FLORIDA PosTMAsTERs.
The following fourth-class postmasters,
the first batch Of the season. were given
TO Florida to-day: Anclote, Hillsboro
county f.. A, Wiel, vice j. NJ. Cravcr, re
signed Emporia, Volusia county, r. Lair,
vice W. r. Wasson, dead; Hawthorne,
Alachua county, X. II. StringfellOw. vice
j. L. Brown, resigned Hollister, Putnam
county, w. o. Livingston, vice $. G. Muir
dock, resigned; Melrose, Alachua county.
II. $. Fickle, vice Lucy NJ. Fox. resigned
Phoenix, Levy county, j. S. Bitch. vice
j. T.. Eppcrson, resigned PicrsOn. NOlu-
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