Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-23

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nessee. chief of the loan division OF the
registers office, Treasury Department.
Mr.. Hughes was at first recorded as
dismissed for cause" but he was sub
sequentIy permitted to resign. This is
the first change made by Secretary Car
Isle among this class of officials and it
brought down on him this morning sew
cral of the democratic members of the
Tennessee Congressional delegation
who asked for his retention. Secretary
Carlisle was somewhat surprised at the
request for Mr.. Hughes retention COM
ing from this source in view of the fact
that Mr.. Hughes was a delegate to the
republican convention at Minneapolis.
lie declined to reconsider his action
in the matter.
Secretary Carlisle has requested the
resignation of J. n. Patterson, second
auditor Of the treasury department.
So far he has declined to resign. The
Secretary has accepted the resignation
of w. ID. Owens as supintendent OF I'M
migration.
But little was said to the President
to-day concerning his noted rules.
They have come to be SO well under
stood that few points in regard to them
remain to be cleared up. The no.: 20
appointment rule is, of course, the prin-
cipal one, and in it the greatest interest
is manifested. From what Mr.. Cleve-
land has said it is understood not to
apply in certain cases, as follows :
l. To those who have no opposition for
reappointment. ?. To those candi-
dates for postmasterships who have OPP
position but are endorsed almost unan-
imously by citizens of their city or
town. s. TO those who were removed
by the Harrison administration without
serving out their terms. 4. To those
who were nominated for Office by Mr..
Cleveland just prior to General Har,
rison's Inauguration but who failed
of confirmation by the Senate. Since
the exceptions to this rule have become
more familiar to otlice-seekers, there has
been been rush of the lexis" to the
White House. They have received lit,
tie satisfaction from the President, how.
evr, unless they enjoyed his personal
acquaintance.
1t was reported at the Metropolitan
Hotel, the office-seekers' headquarters
to-day, that Congressman Wilson Of
West Virginia, Enloe of Tennessee and
Meredith of Virginia, and Mr.. John
Goode, also ofEirginia, would call upon
the President to-day in behalf of Mr.. R
C. Glasscock of Virginia, who is an al,
plicant for the place of superintendent
of printing and engraving.
A delegation from Fredericksburg
Va, is here to-day to recommend the
removal of Postmaster Foster Of that
town, in consequence ofthe present bad
repute of that office, and the appoint
ment of Mr.. H. II. Wallace in his place
Mr.. Fosters tern will not expire until
June oath.
Mr.. John Wolff of Fredericksburg is
so i'll at Providence Hospital, in this
city, that his friends fear he will never
recover.
No nominations were sent to the Sen,
ate to-day.
Senators Hunton and Daniel and
Representative O'Fcrrall, Jones and
Meredith of Virginia, called at tho
White House this morning and asked
the President 10 nominate Mr.. Basi
Gordon, of their State, to n foieigr
mission, either that at Vienna, Rome Of
Madrid. The President spoke in the
highest terms of Mr.. Gordon, but die
not indicate whether or not he would
grant their request. He remarked tt
Mr.. Hunton, who had been TO see hin
Yesterday in behalf of Judge Smith o
Warrenton, an applicant for seat Oh
the new Court of Appeals for this city
that he would not appoint the justice:
TO: that court until next month.
The long talked of conference oftht
Virginia democratic congressional dele
CATION, to apportion the federal patron
re in their State among the several
districts thereof, and recommend the
IN n to whom it shall be given, wa:
held last night, and, as anticipated
came TO nothing, and adjourned t.
meet again on the 3lst inst. Accord
ing to the church calendar the 3lst viii
b. Good Friday, but as it will be eight
Gays OIL, and as the hotels charge
office seekers by the day, it vii
be Bad Friday for the many o
them who haven't bank accounts al
home upon which to draw. The
meeting appointed q committee
of three to call upon the President and
learn from him whether its action would
be effective; but as Mr.. Cleveland's
views on that subject are already wei
known, some of the office seekers say
the adjourned meeting was only de-
termined upon as q means of putting
them of. 1t is also said that an in
spection endorsements shows that the
extent of log rolling was never exceed.
ed among the office seekers, as every
one of them has endorsed the applica'
tons of all the others.
Mr.. Maxwell, the new 4th Assistant
Postmaster General, went into office
yesterday. To-day he appointed forty
new 4th class postmasters, of whom,
however, only five were to fill vacan-
cies created by removals, four in New
York and one in Tennessee. Among
the changes there is one in Virginia,
Arthur Lyell, at Milford, Caroline
county, vice Otto G. Knopf.
Capt. John Opie, of Staunton, Vir-
ginia, an applicant for the attorneyship
of the western district of his State,
told the GAzErTE's correspondent this
morning that in an interview he had
with the President yesterday, he asked
Mr.. Cleveland if he would be governed
in his appointment Of federal officers for
Virginia by the action of the conference
of the democratic congressional delega-
ton to be held that night? To this
the President gave decided negative
renly. saving he would not abrogate his