The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-07-08
Az IMPORTANT OFFICE.
The Chief CierAship Of the United
States Treasury Department.
Hilled at Present by Logan Carlisle, Son
OF the Secretary-Directiy Responsible
for an Annual Expenditure of
Two Millions.
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Gentlemen who occupy high official
station in the executive branch of the
government are frequently criticised
FOR giving employment to their rcla-
tives or members of their immediate
families. The newspaper critics who
deliver philippics upon this subject
might possibly restrain their ever
ready pencils if they understood the
subject better than they do. There
are many positions in the national cap
ital requiring the assistance and conf
dental aid of the most reliable person
who can be found.
The secretary of the treasury, Mr..
Carlisle, the vastness and Importance
of whose work was recently described
TO the readers of this paper, was criti-
cised by a few writer's because of the
appointment of his son to the chief
~c}erkship of the treasury department.
As a matter of fact the secretary of the
treasury is very fortunate in having a
Son of proper age and executive ability
TO appoint to this important position.
The private secretary to a member of
the cabinet must be u gentleman of a
great deal more than ordinary ability
in every respect; but the chief clerk of
the great financial department of the
government must also possess not only
executive talents of a very high order,
but he must be absolutely and wholly
IN the confidence of the secretary, and
be unquestionably loyalto that official.
The late distinguished secretary of
state, Hon. James G. Blaine, trained
and educated his son Walker until that
young gentleman became almost as
necessary to the public life of his dis
tinguished father as the air he
breathed. In the great political and
public world his son, Walker, was the
only mar upon whom the statesman
could absolutely rely in every particu-
lar. From the day of the sudden death
of his beloved son the life Of James G.
Blaine began to rapidly ebb away.
Walker Blaine was the worthy son of
his distinguished father.
Logan Carlisle, chief clerk of the
treasury department is a competent
man for the position to which he has
been appointed, and it is fortunate for
the secretary that he has a son upon
whom he can rely for the administra-
ton of hat important office. The
new chief clerk is about thirty-two
years of age. He was born in Coving-
ton, KY, and received his preliminary
education at the public schools in that
town. He was also a student in the
military academy of Washington, d.
c., and of the law school of the uni
versity of Louisiana. Several years
ago he commenced the practice of law
in Wichita, Kan, with his brother, but
gave it up temporarily to return to
Washington and act as clerk for his
father when he was speaker of the
house of representatives. No young
man could have a better education
under any circumstances than by init
mate association with the distin-
guished kentuckian who has occupied
so many prominent positions and filled
them all creditably and well.
The Office of the chief clerk of the
treasury department is Immediately
below the room which is occupied by
the secretary. The chief clerk is a
very busy man indeed and his duties
arc multifarious. He has entire super
vision of the department, is respon-
Gble for the furniture, and the ex-