New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-04
POLITICIANS TO THE REAR,
YOUNG LAWYERS NOMINATED TO III.
PORTANT TREASURY POSTS
WILLIAM E. CURTIS AND CHARLES S. HAMLIN
NAMED FOR ASSISTANT sECRErARIES-
JAMES II. ECKELs FOR CONTROLLER
OF THE CURRENCY-oTHER
NAMES SENT IN.
(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUSE.1

NAMES SENT IN.
(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUSE.1
Washington. April 3.-Theslist of nominations
sent to the Senate to-day, though imposing in
length. contained few appointments Of political
Importance. Most Of the posts filed were in the
Treasury Department, and only two of the
grade Of an MISUNDERSTANDING. The list is a.
follows:
William Edmond Curtis, Of New-York, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Genio n
Lambertson, resigned.
Charles s. lIamlin, Of Massachusetts,, to he As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice John II.
Gear, resigned.
James II. Eckels, of Illinois, to lie Controllep
of the Currency.
James +. Mene. of the District of Columbia.
to be Assistant Treasurer Of the United States
T. Stobe Farrow, of South Carolina, TO be Second
Auditor OF the Treasury John b. Brawley Of
Pennsylvania, to he Auditor OF the Treasury for
the Postofice Department; James j. Willie Of
Florida, to be Deputy Fifth Auditor Of the Treas
ury.
Henry W. Egnor, of New-Jeisey, to be- collector
of customs for the District of Newark, y. j.;
Dudley o. Watson, Of Michigan, to he collector
of customs for the District of Michigan.
John Tracey, of New-York, to be Superintendent
of Charities for the District of Columbia, vice
A. g. Warner, resigned
Postmasters New-Jersey-Patrick Sheridan.
Elizabeth; Charles F. Newton Woodbridge; l.
Mount Smith. IIiChstOwn: George w. Evans,
Ocean Grove; J. Elwood Harvey Little Silver.
Kansas-Frank Marsh. Kansas City.
The appointments in the Treasury, though not
in themselves highly important, have rather
marked significance in this way that they em.
pfasize Mr.. Cevcand's determination to exclude
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Democratic party on whom he drew for nearly all
his appOintees during his first term. The new
Treasury officials either young men just en-
tering active politics or employees in the Depart
ment who have reached their present grades by
gradual promotion The two assistant Secretaries
Of the Treasury young lawyers, one in New
York. and the other in Boston, who have become
identified with the extreme Cleveland element In
the Democratic party. Mr. Curtis is known as
an "Anti-Snapper' leader in New-YOrk. and Mr..
Hamlin has come TO the front in Massachusetts,
politics since Josiah Quincy and the Harvard con.
tngent captured the Democratic leadership in that
State. Both appointees are said TO be ardent
tariff reformers' Of the campaign-pamphet and
stumpspeech kind. and they may learn something
practical and useful about the workings of the
tariff while they in office They begin, Of
course, under the serious handicap of having to
disabuse themselves of many of the eXtravagant
and grOtesque prepossessiOns about the customs
system which form the stock-in-trade of the
Younger school of tariff smashers."
Mr HamIin and Mr. Curtis are r., taken out of
lawyers front offices to manage the collection OF
customs and help IN the adminstration ,i1. Of the
young and inc experienced lawyer, Is, in the same
spirit Of sanguine confidence, thrust into tho
ppGmd that q Mr. moMs H s the
world about banking. and that he was candi.
date for United States District. Attorneyship
in illinois, His chief qualification for a Treasury
place is that he has beer for some time writer
on tariff reform Besides, he is frlend Of eX-
Representative b. W. Cable, Of Rock Island, the
manaser in Chicago Of the Ms,teIn democratic F;t,
Auditor and Assistant Treasurer have been IN
the Government service before, and two OF them
of meritoriolIs service The new Sixth Auditor
is lawyer in MeadvIlle, Penn.
William Edmond Curtis, who nominated
yesterday for Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury, Is
thirty seven years old and n native OF Newiork City.
Ills father was william Edmond Curtis. Chief
Justice Of the superior Cour and was actively identi'
fled with the movement which resulted In the over
throw OF Tweed. The secretary was graduated
from Trinity College Hartford, In 1879, and studied
law at the Columbia Law School. After being adj
mitted the bar he entered the firm OF his fathers
old law partner, James p. Stearns. Their Offices are
now at No. IS wiiam-s Mr.. Curtis Is the attorney
of several domestic turing corporations, among
them the Mitchell Vance Company and the Wheeler
d Wilson Manufacturing Company. He Is stock
holder In importing concerns, but he says That
he will sell his holdings.
Mr. Curtis Is well known an Antl-Snapper lie
was prominent in the syracuse Convention. and was
mad. treasurer of the Provisional State Committee.
lie IS not 50 much OF anti Tammany man, however,
but that he supported Hugh ]. Grant for Mayor Two
years ago and Mayor Gilroy last fall lie Is
member OF the Committee of Admissions OF the New
York Bar Association life trustee OF Trinity College
and belongs to the Union, University Manhattan,
Century Democratic and Reform clubs.
Mr. Curtis said yesterday that he did not know TO
what secretary ship he would be assigned No perma-
nent assignment would probably be made until the
new secretaries had broken into their duties and
had shown what work they could do best. The
third secretary would probably not be appointed
until the already named had learned the routine
OF their duties
Charles $ Hamln, Of Massachusetts, nominated to
he one OF the Assistant Secretaries OF the Treasury
to succeed Mr.. Gear, Is resident OF Brookline,
practising Law in Boston. lie Is about thiry-two
year. o' a,;". ard Is student Of economics Mr..
IIamlin WIS an active member Of the Massachusetts
Tariff Reform League and also of the Civil Service
Reform Association. lie candidate for the
Office OF secretary Of State the Democratic ticket
last fall lie is a relative OF the late Hannibal
IIamlin.
James II. Eckcls, nominated to be Controller OF
the Currency. is young man OF thrty-hve lie
lives at his appointment Is said to be due to
n personal acquaintance of more than dozen years
with the President himself Mr.. Eckes Is an attor-
ney and has written much on tariff REFORM lie
wanted the Office of Distiict-Attorney. lie Is said
10 know nothing about banking.
=" Major J. +. Melne who nominated yesterday
by the President for Assistant Trea OF the United
states Washington. IS now In New-lork with
Urea Nebeker looking after the money In the Sub
Treasury lie Is the head 0f the company Of experts
who are tO cOunt the money preparatory to turning
II over to Mr. R0bertss successor. He Is about fifty
wears old and comes from Cincinnati. His ancestors
came from France. and he Is hnsman OF NJ. Meline.
who has Just been trying to form cabinet for Pres
dent Carrot. Major Meine enlisted IN the 6th Ohie
being wounded at Mission Ridge and Stones River.
left the service in 1854 with the rank OF captain
and major by brevet. He went into the Treasury
Department as a 81 200 clerk. in the ONCE Of the
TREASURER After working three months he went
back Into the Army on the staff Of the I'd Hancock
Veteran Corps. After the war he agaiR went into
the Treasury and has been there since lie
has been promoted ten times and is assistant
cashier.
r. stobe Farrow. nominated for Second Auditor
the Treasury. chief Of division in the Sixth
AUDITORS Office during Mr.. Cevelands former Admnls-
ration. He l. sixty years Of and belongs TO the
Anti 1iIlmln wing OF the south Carolina Democracy.