Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-03-18
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Feyerish Rush for Office From
the South.
An Iowa Postoffcs Applicant Sends Five
Dollar BIZ In His lettsr..What Il
Cost; 70 Be a Mcmb Dr. of the
Cabinet. Capital Gossip.
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON, March 13-The announce
nent that President Cleveland would in
Ill cases where republican officials have
commissions for four years allow them to
serve ont their full term of Office is not
very popular with those demo rats who
would like to see changes ma lc more rap
IDLY and all the rascals turned ont. But
Il will save the executive and the cabinet
a great deal of work and spare them
much pressure, besides giving much
more time for consideration of the ap-
pointments. In eases where there are
we'll grounded charges against officials
their removal will take place. The rule
will not apply to department positions.
diplomatic places or customs appoint
ments, which will all b, soon changed.
President Cleveland started out in the
SAME way eight years ago, but
soon found 1t TO be neces-
sary to put the customs and internal
revenue departments and foreign SER
vice all In harmony with his admins
tration as soon as possible The rule
spoken of will be the means OF retaining
in office a go q many Iowa republican
postmastcrs il adhered to.
4 prominent figure here of late, and a
gentleman who seems to b. pretty close
To Mr.. Cleveland, Is Richard Watson
Glider, editor Of the Century. He goes in
pleasure, which is privilege denied TO
some of the BIZ senators. Mr.. Cleveland
has liking for literary men and has "a
| number OF very warm friends and admir-
ers among them jos jefferson, too, Is
one of his especial friends, and came here
with him
The fercest pressure for Office comes
from the southern democrats specially
from the free silver coinage and form
erly anti-Clcveland p:ople. The
south has enough candidates for
Office already here on the list to take up
most of the positions. There is reason
for this, which Is that money Is scarcer
and salaries and the returns in
in business and professional occupations
are much smaller than they are in the
north and thus the minds of many south
erners turn to government service as af-
fording easy employment and good com
pensation.
In not inviting Senator Kyle. OF South
Dakota, and Senator Allen, of Nebraska,
into the caucuses this week IL is felt here
that the democratic senator's have made n
mistake, as both gentlemen are ready TO
vote with the democrats on all important
questions. Their votes may become use
ful on many occasions, and IL would have
been good policy to conciliate them
Senator Martin, OF Kansas, was invited
and took part in the caucus, while PETER
was out in the cold, but his leanings are
toward the repub. cans anyway.
Mr.. Hatch, OF Missouri, has recovered
his courage and hopefulness and will re-
introduce and again push his anti-option
bill through the next house lie has
strong hopes that IN will become q Law in
the next congress. He hoped the same
thing last time, but was disappointed.
II was reported in the hotels here
Wednesday that President Cleveland dis
tinctly refused to appoint candidate pro-
posed by Senator Mills for an Office in
Texas because said candidate had held
the same ofice under the former Cleve-
land administration. How it would have
been regarded had he applied for some
other place il Is hard to say, but the re-
port has caused cold shudder to run up
and down the backs of the many ex-office
holders here.
Accompanying an application for an
Iowa fourth-class postoffce received by a
member from Iowa this week wasa - bill
There we're no explanations, but the money
will 60 back TO the sender and he won't
get the ostofficc.
General Rosecrans lets il be known that
he will not resign the position Of register
of the treasury, which he has held for
eight years, and the duties of which he
has not been able to att nd to for six
months. The salary Is 5000 He also
gets % salary of nearly IS, 0O0 as a retired
brigadier general. When he was retired
il was supposed he would resign the other
place, but he did not. He does not believe
for,sSSs ssnrs, as rave sSS
Should the movement just inaugurated
by act of the congress last week, for the
acquirement Of the Indian Territory, be
successful, the territory acquired will be
ample in extent for the creation OF new
state The extreme length CT the Indian
Territory is $40 miles, the av@rage breadth
2l0 miles. and the original area 6l,25)
square miles, or 40, 800. .00J acres The ele-
walton of the land ranges from 5000 TO
t,5O0 feet above the sea level. All the
tribes there have abandoned their heathen
religion, have churches, schools and
newspapers. The government OF the five
principal tribes Is modelled upon that Of
The United States, with a chief who serves
four years, and a legislative assembly.
About l2,00o,000 acres are held
In reservation. AS to the popu-
iation, the Cherokees nun bercd
Ia 1880, 25,s57, the Choctaws l0,0J1, the
Creeks 9,29l, Chickasaws 3,46i and the
6eminoles 1859, a total OF 5000; the
white population is lO,79s and the unciv-
ilized Indians, remnants OF over thirty
tribes, l4,2J9 more. The property owned
kx sAS 9Sd dCc 5as' principal tribes is worth over
Ex.Sseretary OF the Interior Noble. be-
fore leaving for st. Louis, said ii was
very moe to he cabinet member
and the life was pleasant. but That IL cost
him Just $Bo, ,000 year over and above his
salary 20 be In Office II means, he said.
hard labor, constant anxiety, and about
the only reward one gets j. the knowledge
that ne has served his country. He at
once enters upon the practice OF his pro
4sslon in st. Louis. where he ha already
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