San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent. !
WASHINGTON, April lOISg3

WASHINGTON, April l0,IS93.
Mr.. Cleveland is going to feed
the Tammany tiger with official
pap, and the promise he made to
Murphy, Sheehan, and Croker, at
that memorable ante-electiOn din
ner in New York are to be kept.
When Senator Murphy and Lieut..
Governor Sheehan called at the
White house to arrange a date for
agreeing upon the individuals who
are to fill the offices allotted to
Tammany some people are sur
prised, as they had taken up the
idea that because the anti-Snap-
perS We're being taken care of,
Tammany was to be Snubbed. Not
so. Hill is to be snubbed, has been
already numerically snubbed in
the distribution of federal patron
age in his state, outside of New
York City, but the Tammany
promises are to be lived up to, and
this week Murphy and Sheehan
are to meet Mr.. Cleveland to ar
range the slate. 1t is not surpris-
ing that Mr.. Cleveland should
have considered it necessary to go
away for two or three days absolute
rest before tackling this job.
That row between the President
and the Senate may occur yet (al-
though the impression is general
that this will be the last week of
the extra session. and without
Senator HIPS assistance. The
nomination of Mr.. Eckels of ILL.,,
to be Comptroller of Currency was
such a manifestly unfit one that
it has been hung up by the Senate
committee on Finance, and Mr..
Cleveland has been requested by
the Democratic members of that
committee to withdraw it, but up
to this writing he has not done so,
and his stubbOrnesS is 50 we'll
known that it is hardly expected
that he will. TheDemOcratic SEN
ators may back down, vote to re-
iect, adopt the "sneak act" and adj
journ without acting upon the
nomination.
Attorney General Olney, al
though said to be a good lawyer,
has none of the tact in dealing
with politicians which is 50 neces-
Sary for a member of the cabinet
to have, if he wishes to escape be-
coming unpopular. The most in
| tluential Democratic senator or
t,,t
coolest and most Indifferent cour-
teSy if he calls on Mr.. Olney with
out an endorsement, oral or writ
ten, from somebody fortunate
enough to enjoy the priceless boon
of his acquaintance. Naturally
enough, the Democrats do not like
this sort of treatment. Within the
memory of many men now in pub
lie life there was another and
very similar attorney general
from Massachusetts-Mr. Hoar,
who was in Gen. Grants cabinet,
who had Mr.. Olney's knack of Of
Tending his political callers by not
treating them as they thought
themselves entitled to be treated,
and the result might be profitably
studied by Mr.. Olney. Gen. Grant
nominated Attorney General HOar
| to a vacancy on the Supreme court,
and was greatly surprised when in
formed that he could take his
choice between withdrawing the
nomination or having it unani-
mOusly rejected. 1t was with
| drawn.
After what had been said about
Mr.. ClGVeland'S intentions, by
those near him, the appointment
of Judge William LOchren, of Min
neSOta to be commissioner of pen
siOns, was very pleasant surprise
to Republicans, who generally
feared the selection of some man
who hadn't been in the army at all.
Judge LOchren was a brave soldier,
and if he is allowed to have his
way in conducting the business of
the Pension bureau, the interests
of his soldier comrades will be safe.
But, if some Democrats of intlu-
ence know what they are talking
about, he isn't to have his own
way, but is merely to follow with
out the slightest deviation lines
laid down by Mr.. Cleveland for the
government of that bureau. Well,
we shall soon see, as he assumes
office about the first of May.
AS a press mueller Postmaster
General Bissell is not a shining sue
cess. His order against making
public the changes in fourth class
pOStmasters was issued in the
morning and suspended in the