The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-03-09
WHITE HOUSE THRONGEO,
Ali ON BUSINESS FOR THEM
SELVES OR CONsTITUGNUY.
me S'e'egat.ons and Office A-pIrants
Pourtng In Thick and Fast
Upon the Chief Exec

called on President Cleveland to-day
Were bent on business. Esch had his
axe to grind either for himself or for
some constituent, and applications for
office were filed by the score The
President was up betimcs, and when he
entered his private Office there were mum
bers of cards on his table with the men
| whose names they bore waiting expcc
tantly In the cabinet room. President |
Cleveland saw nearly all who came and |
| devoted few minutes to each Those |
who were in hurry saw Private Secre
tary Thurber and he soon had his hands |
| full attending to their wants President
Cleveland was too busy up stairs in the
forenoon receiving the more dssin-
guished visitors to see the general public
and the East room contingent went
away disappointed.
The Virginia delegation. consisting of
senator Hupton and Representatives
wise and Meredith, presented to the
Presldeut the name CT Judge
John Goode, of V1ginia, for the
solicitor generalship Mr. G ode was SO
hcltor general under the first Cleveland
administration and after Mr. Clevelapa's
election last November his name was
prominently mentioned in correction
with the attorney generaislip ii tue
cabinet. O:her callers were the rev IS
sis.apt secretary of state, Joseph Quincy,
nators Martin, Of Kansas; Roach. If
North Dakota; White, # California;
Gordon, Of Georgia; Mills, Of Texa-;
T. fer, of Kansas; lrby of South Caro-
lima, with Governor Tilman and Scn4or
Call, OF Florida, Speaker Crisp, Repre-.
sentatives Hatch Dockery of Ms
souri,; Savers and Culberson, If Texs5:
t Chapman, OF Michigan, Brookshire, Mar
! tin aud Bretz of Indiana, Pearson, If
Ohio; Holman, Of Indiana; 0 ties, of
Alabama Breckinridge, Dickers5u and
Ellis, Of Kentucky; WeadoCk, Of NcM
; gan; Catching, Of NJ ssis,ipp; NJ G.ao
and Black, OF ILLINOIS,; Wee Pr siitnt
Z Stevenson. Senator Butier and Il gresel
tatives johnson and BraNley and the
: South Carolina delegation, ex Chlef
Swiizler. Of the Uur au Of statistics, who
+ wants his former poslu3n; fal, John H
+ Ooerly, Of Itnn0is ex civil service com
missioner Shortly after Il o'c ock the
president went down stairs and shook
hands with the crowd Of people in the
a east room-about 400 in number
+ One of the earliest callers this morning
was Rev DR.. O. German, Professor Of
q ecclesiastlcal history at the Catholic Uai
+ versity Of America, who presented 10 pri-
7. vate secretary Thurker letter from
:, Archbishop Satelli, pspal logate t. Amer
! ica, cougratulating MIR Cleveland on lis
; accession 20 the presidency, particularly
IA in the nsme of his holiness the Pope .
', The letter was written in English oa the
,e official letter head OF the CathO.ic I nj
y versity
= Senator Lindsey, Of Kentucky, came
z, with t. 9. Allen, Of his state, ana asked
Z Mr.. Cleveland to appoint the latter assist
. ant postmaster.
30 General Chief Justice Bennett, Of Ken
lucky, who came with congress nan Stone
merely paid his respects 10 Mr. Cieve-
- land. Judge Benefits claims will prob
ABLY be presented for the circuit judgsutI
left vacant by the promotion OF Jud5,
Jackson to the supreme bench.
4 Some Of the Illinois congressional del
egatian came with ex-congresssnan Scot
T. Wike who wss to ne comptroller oI
N currency. Congressman Amos J Cum
II mings introduced to President C,evel snc
" ~ delegation Of union laoor m repre-
h senting the typographical organizations
th They were Edward Craft, of Pliladcl
!. phia, w f Shields, Of the Washington
". Union, and Johh T. Burke, Of the b;
ne Six, of New York, and they entered VIC
IN orous protest sgainst the appointment D
nd G.. w. Edwards, Of Wilmington, Dtla
an ware, TO the office Of puOHc printer
AZ Tney said that Edwards was not q uGlo
printer, that he was opposed to labor OF
CARNATIONS and that he was general
II untitled for the office. A. hOt tight fo
"' this office has already begun Ex Con
eressman Owen Scott is one of the mos
prominent candidates. Later in the da
Senator Palmer and Repre- ~ ativ
Williams, of illinois, called win JUGS
M Browning, of Benton, Illinois, VII 1
~ they urged for commission p
.Ef Of the land office. 1t is said that iu &
lts Browning was favorably considered 70
ta the same position when Mr. Cleveian
~ accepted Commissioner Sparks rcslgna
nd ton during his first term. TX Governl
Grey, Of Indiana, called at O'Clock an
saw the president Immediately. lie rs
NAMED with Mr.. Cleveland more th4
- half sn hour aud when he left the whl
80 house smiled knowingly when aske
"a whether he had been given the MeSlca
mission. 1t is said that Governor Ora
ot acknowledged t0iltimate friends that
I'M would be nominated for the posltloi
ted Ex Postmaster General Wanam ker an
ma ih party left Washington this evening ov
mo the Richmond ana Danvllle railroad
ne a tour Of the United States and MeXlc'
led The trip will cover II l61 miles and WI
me traverse twenty-one states, three terr
leo .no tories and one province.
M. Secretary Carlisle arrived at the trea
by ury department very early tins moTn1ni
hut not before a hundred or more dem
- Gratis. who were awaiting his arrival.
~ was c,oseted most of the morning IN
Two room. and those who saw the eecreta
aiy- at all, ran the gauntlet OF his son, Leg
uer Carlisle and were, 10 their turn, ADM
Sc, ted to his presence.
IA Secretary Carlisle did nothing but
p.I. ceive callers, assist Secretary Spauldit
fore signed the department mail as acnl
. secretary and Assistant Secretary Kan
Mrs. bertson WAS resignated by Secretary VI
Isle. The first thing TINS morning
Full sign, was warrants covering In and Ia
and in0 out money from the treasury.
ore, A ttorney General Olney, IKE the OIL
the cabinet Ctficers spent most OF MS VI
ain today receiving visitors. They began
de- climb the steps of the department of j.
Lla- "a. tice at an early hour and kept It up vi
loirs the office closed Most of them came
this delegations, and as a rule they LETT ~
:, nc dreds Of papers containing applicatio
~ and endorsements for an office Tor So
the friend But few designations have so
de- been received by Att )rney General ON
'reh, but among those handed have been