The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-30
Some Fair Sized Plums Handed Out
by President CleYeIand.
TENACIOUS oFFICEHoLDERS.
A Judge II. moved by the President Re-
fuses to Step Down and Out and q
Now Question IL Ksissd In tho Mat
ter Of Removals.


uty fourth auditor of the treasury.
George b. Anderson OF the District of
Columbia to be secretary of legation at Rio
de Janciro.
To be Consuls Of the United States--Ieo-
pold Moore of New York at Hull. Eng
land; James G. Fox Of New York at An
tigua, West Indies; Granville James OF
New York at Woodstock. N. b.. George
w. Savage of New Jersey at Dundee. Scot
land; Eugene Germain of California at
Zurich. Switzerland; James II. Madden
Of Illinois at Smyrna, Turkey; Frank K.
Hyde OF Connfcticut at Lyons. France:
Frederick w. Hiokbusch Of Wisconsin at
.-Stettin. Gevmany; George g. Mathews,
Jr., OF Florida at Para, Brazil; Otto II.
Deyesen Of North Dakota at Christiania;
Louis s. Delspiaine, Jr.. Of West Virginia
at Demerara. Geiana: j. Courtney Htxson
of Alabama at Ningpo. China; Edward p.
Crane of Pennsylvania at Hanover Ger
many; Henry G. Smith OF Alabama at
Santos, Brazil.
George H. Kearny, chief engineer, Unit
ed States navy; Charles A. Il. King, passed
assistant engineer United States navy.
Guy II. Jenkins. adjutant Third battalion
of infantry, militia of the District Of Co
lumbia
The total number of fourth class post
masters appointed today was 95, of which
81 were to fill vacancies caused by resgna-
tions and deaths. Among the appoint
ments were the following:
Connecticut-Colebroo Herbert L. Gull
yer; Falls Village, w. Fl. Chaplin.
New York-East Homer, B. r. Walter;
Parish, B. j. Morgan; Rockland Lake, II.
II. House; Steamburg. Alpha Flagg.
New Jersey Closter, G. ID. Durie;
Oceanic, James Enright, Jr.
Pennsylvania-Alba.E Il. v. Cowles. Bent
ley Creek Miss n A. Wall; Columbia Cross
Roads, Isward Furmsn; Granville Center.
Oselus Baxter; New Berlin, James T.
Smith; Shirleysburg, w. s. Miller; Villa
wana, Mrs. Hattie Beidelmann.
Official changes were today made i'm the
treasury department as follows: Appoint
ed-Dewitt G. Jackson of New York, spe-
cial inspector of customs; John Finley Of
New York, special inspector of customs,
and Dennis A. Ryan assistant custodian
of the custom house mt St. Louis at 81, 400
vice George W. Gibson. resigned.
Resigned--Dan Hogan, collector of in
ternal revenue Thirteenth district Of Iii.
nois.
The Right OF Removal.
The question Of the right of the president
to remove public official before the ex-
piration of his term Of four years without
assigning cause comes up in new phase,
differing from the points raised in Ala
bama recently. Certain old officials in
that state, 1t will be remembered, set up
the claim that the president had no power
TO remove them before the end of their
terms. One of them was the old United
States attorney who refused to give way to
the new appointed The matter came up
In court, and while the court did not rem
der any decision involving the question at
Issue it cut the gordian knot by simply
recognizing the new appointee and refus-
ing to listen to the old United States at
torney.
Now Judge in one OF the territories re-
fuses to turn his Office over to the new
Judge appointed by President Cleveland,
and Attorney General Olney Is somewhat
embarrassed by the situation. The old
judge is removed" on paper, but phys
ically he is In possession of his Office. There
are also several old treasury officials who
resent their rem oval to the extent of threat
ening to appeal the cases to the court.
These cases differ from the cases in the de-
partment of justice in that the removed
persons held their commissions from the
secretary of the treasury instead of the
president Of the United States.
Caleb Cushing's Opinion.
Some doubt is expressed in high official
circles as to the absolute right of a presiden-
tial commission. The late Caleb Gushing
Is usually quoted by those who entertain
this view. In a legal opinion rendered
L.. H.
ut some length against the right Of abso-
lutte removal of officials who were appoint
ed by the president and with the advice
and consent of the senate" His deduction
was that the same power that consummat-
ed the appointment must cooperate in
making the removal.
This opinion, however, seems to stand
alone, and during all administrations the
power of removal has been exercised by
the president, and now that that paragraph
of the tenure of Office act relating to the
term OF service has been repealed IL is con-
tended that there Is nothing in the law
that abridges or qualities the right Of the
president as to removals.
Still the question Is an undecided one az
far as the courts go. The attention of the
civil service commission has been called to
the subject by some of those recently af-
fected, and Commissioner Roosevelt had
an extended conference with Secretary
Carlisle presumably on this subject.
Keeping an Eye on Cholera
The temperance Of cholera in Europe
does not cause any alarm among treasury
officials Tips are daily received from
United States consuls and other agents
abroad, and they concur that the climatic
conditions that have so far obtained in Eu-
rope are not conducive TO the spread Of
sholera there. There have been sporadic
sases of cholera and some deaths from it.
but the disease has not spread as II did last
year. They express the opinion that 1t
will not reach this country.
Assistant Secretary Curtis of the treas
ury department, who has general super
vision over the marine hospital service of
the treasury, comedies with this view of
the situation m expressed By foreign
agents, but still maintains. and will con-
tinue to do so, the closest scrutiny over all
immigrants and others coming from chol-
era infected countries. The system of In
..oottoV both o,doo NJ tbo l.