The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-07-14
AN IMPORTANT OFFICE.
The Chief Clerkship Of the United
States Treasury Department.
Filled at Present bv Logan Carlisle, Son
OF the Sccretary-Directly Responsible
for an Annual Expenditure OF
Two Millions.
Especial Was hington letter.

Gentlemen who occupy high officia
| station in the executive branch of the
| government are frequently criticised
for giving employment to their rela
tives or members of their immediate
families. The newspaper critics who
deliver philippics upon this subject
might possibly restrain their eve,
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 few writer's because of the
| appointment of his son to the chief
clerkship of the treasury department.
As n 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 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 loyal to that official.
The late distinguished secretary of
state, Hon. james q. 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 man 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 competent
man for the position to which he has
been appointed. and it is fortunate for
the secretary that he has son upon
whom he can rely for the administra-
tiop of that 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 student in the
military academy of Washington, ID.
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 n better education
under any circumstances than by init
mate association with the distin-
guished kcntuckian who has occupied
so many prominent positions and filed
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
very busy man indeed and his duties
are multifarious. He has entire super
vision of the department, is respon-
sible for the furniture, and the ex-