The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-03-19
LIVE WASHINGTON TOPICS.
NO APPLICATION YET RECEIVED
FOR THE NEW YORK POST
OFFICE.
tits Not Yet Decided Wheatber Van
COtt VIII be Allowed TO Serve out
His Term-New York Senators
Will not Oppose COnirma-
tiOus-Various other
Matters of In.


WASHINGTON March tmaster
General Bssell says he has not received
a single application for the postmaster
-hip at New Yark city He has heard
the names of nu e Der of gentlemen sug
gested in various quarters, but so far the
records of the department do net contain
a formal application for that important
Office If Mr.. Pearson had remained in
office his four years would have expired
on the 5th Of next month. II is not yet
decided whether Postmaster Van Cott
will be permitted to serve four years from
the date of his appointment in place Of
Mr.. P, arson OF the time of his individual
appointment Postmaster General Bis
sell says ne has been too busy ,rylDg to
receive all the visitors who have called
upon him during tie past ten days to
consider the New York Post Office case.
he is making rapid progress IN master
ing the details of the postal service. At
present be is Obliged to give up large
proportion of his time to office seekers
and their friends, as none of the pi grims
who visit the post Office depsl tment
daily care to C )mmlt their claims 10 the
republican assistants who are still on
duty. The consequence is that Mr. BIS
sell is compelled TO listen 10 minor details
which. under ordinary circumstances
could Just as we'll as considered by the
a sistants
Senator Murphy, of New York, was
asked tonight whether the report was
true that he would attempt to prevent
the confirm tion of President Cleveland's
New York appoir tmeuts.
There is no truth in it whatever re
piled the senator
"How about the confirmation of Robt
A. Maxwell and Edward r. Whitney, 2
The New York senators will do moth
ing to delay their confirmation On tie
cor tcary, they will aid in having them
conf med.
Only few clerks and other attsche'
Of the new senate committee have ye
been appointed, but the britf list an
nounced today is as follows:
PIivata secretary to Vice Presiden
Stevenson. Louis G. Stevenson; clerk Z
the Judiciary committee (Senat2r Pugh
Of Alabama, is chGirmaD), Henry l.
Pueh; clerk to The foreign relation
(Senator Morgan, If Alabama, chair
man), George w. Morgan; clerk to com
m tee to examine the several braDche
of the civil service (SenatOr PETER, o
Kansas, chairman), w. NJ. PETER; clerl
co finance committee Senator VOORHEES,
chairman, James P Voorhees,; clerk I
District Of Columbia (Senstor Harris, {
49, . ri
The change that has come over the SCI
! ate was patent TO the most lLexperlence
, observer today Immediately after II
, adj urnment today the army OF ON
see rkers who have been throI glng the co
: ridors for days past found tntir Way
F., the Democratic 5 de OF the chamber, WI
the result that rearly every senator sea
ed there WAS soon surrounded by grouI
, af men, or was obliged in self defence
J flee to the retiring rooms or the conml
tee rooms. On the other side
tae chamb the republican sena'o
sat at their ca ss4nd were unmolest'
o ,servers of the scene. Some OF the
iokinely complained that they had lo
popularity, and the leaders, like Allls9
Manderson, Frye, and others. who rare
have q moment to themselves, had lei
: ure today to sit qui, tly and commisers
X with their hardly beset colleagues on
'e democratic side Several OF the repu
ts bean senators talked earnestly with S
9 atoe Stewart, possibly in explanation
&c tie party necessity which had Impel
d them to drop him from the MINOR
membership in the appropriations COZ
mntee. II he feels any soreness over
matter he manages to conceal 1t very
: fectualy. He processes to be en- II
, satisfied with his situation, being at i
~ erty to vote with either party or agai
anv measure which does not comma
VI VI itself to his own judgment, irrespect
ed of party consideration.
nd Messrs. ThurstOn and Castle OF
n Hawaiian annexation commission n
~ left for Chicago by circuitOus routes
81 fulfill several engagements to speak
he the general subject of their mission
les tn country. Mr.. Thurston Will soc
os in Norwaih. Conn, and to the stnde
~ n, Of Cornell University, Ithaca, n.
Castle has engagements with the - !
lin Club, New York city; P.rl
IL. church. Brooklyn. ard the literary
wo cieties of Oberin, Ohio, College.
ly will then go to Ann Arbor to visit
sister and address the students of
II Michigan State University Mr.. Tau
"a ton has business in Chicago as Wor
. Fair commissioner from Hawaii, and
.a, a'l ter it has b. en- transacted he will ret
to Washington and join Mr.. Carter
Ira length of their stay in this country
undetermined Mr.. Castle exp,c,s
,nl. sail for Honolulu on the 3lst inst
and
're, Mr. Josiah Quincy, Of Boston,
and NJ pnhort MAXWELL of r tavia