St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-26
nominee received the appointment from
the department here.


the department here.
GOVERNMENT CLERKSHIPs.
While talking to the postmaster gen.
eral the other day the subject of gov
eminent clerks came up, and / asked
h i'm whether he would advise young
men to try to get places under the gov
eminent.
He replied that he would not. and
said that the short hours and the work
seemed to demoralize the employees.
Said he:
at seems to me that the hours and
the work here are injurious to charac-
ter. The clerks work from until 4.
and there is tendency for them TO be-
come machines. They have not the in
centives to good work that you find in
other branches of business, and had a
boy would not want him in the depart
ment Just in this connections have a
protege in Buffalo who wrote me the
other day wanting place in the depart
ment. He is now letter carrier in
Buffalo, and when | first met him he
was backing my boots in barber shop.
He attracted my attention by his knowl-
edge of the geography of the United
States. A man who was being shaved
asked whether Detroit was
THE CAPITAL OF MICHIGAN,
when this boy broke i'll and said: No,
it is not; it is lansing 1 then as ked
him what was the capital of Louisa ma.
He replied: Baton Rouge And Con-
necticut?' said |. Hartford is the CAPT.
tai now was the boys reply. it used
to have two capitals, Hartford and New
Haven, but they have changed that. and
it has now only Hartford | then asked
the boy where he went to school, and
he told me that he was going to night
he,
l gave him an order on one of the book
stores for what books he wanted, and
took an interest in him from that time
on. Well, he got fair education. and
one day he surprised me by coming into
my office and telling me that he had
passed the civil service examination,
and was working for Uncle Sam. He
had received an appointment as letter
carrier, and is now making $1,000 a
year. He had been saving his money
and investing it, and he is now worth a
nice little property. He is bright
young man, and, though / did not tell
him so. think he is far better off in
Buffalo than in Washington depart
ment."
BISSELL TALKS OF THE PRESIDENT.
At this point the conversation turned
to President Cleveland. and the post
master general chatted interestingly of
his early association with him. 1t
now nearly twenty years since the two
began their practice in the law together
at Buffalo, in connection with Lyman
K. Bass, who had been member of
congress. Mr.. Bass left the firm in 1876.
and from that time on it went under the
name OF Cleveland 81 Bissell. In speak
ing OF it, said: Suppose, Mr.. Bis
sell, you let your mind run back fifteen
years to the time when you and the
president were practicing law together
at Buffalo. Had you any IGea at that
time that Grover Cleveland might be
president of the United States aud
yourself cabinet otficer?"
II can answer easily for myself"
said the postmaster general, land
almost as we'll as TO the president. /
never had any ambition to engage in
politics, nor to hold Office. and at that
time l was devotlng myself to the prac-
tice of the law"
GROVER AS JUDGE.
| During the first years of my legal
| association with Mr.. Cleveland it was
/ my idea that he might go on the bench.
| and l was at one time very anxious to
have him accept place as one of the
| judges of the superior court, and /
| spoke to him about it, but he did not
! take to the idea. He has an eminently
! judicial mind, and l have always
thought he would have made as great a
! reputation as chief justice of the SUI
j preme court of the United States as he
has as president. Is is the judicial
character of his mind that fits him SO
| well for his present position. His head
/ is always clear as to great questions. he
makes up his mind after considering all
sides of a question. and he is generally
correct. His judicial ability was recog-
nized in the courts at Buffalo. 1t used