The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-19
LIVE WASHINGTON TOPICS.
SENATOR BUTLER ISN'T QUARREL
LING WIN THE PRESIDENT.

ne says Senators and Representative Have
the Right to Recommend. hut Not to Die
tate. who shall he Appointed 20 Once
A Commission to Determine the Legal
Owner OF Pope's Folly Island, or Msiue.
WASHINGTON. June 1a-Senator n c. Butler
| OF south Carolina. in letter addressed to one
| OF his constituents. says that while he is ready
to give the President his opinion OF an arpli-
| cant's fitness for offlce he does not understand
| how Senators or Representatives can expect
Mr. Cleveland to abdicate his Constitutional
| duties and delegate them to Congressman, and
| says no has never been able to understand why
| they should expect or desire to assume them.
| Ho believes that the President will be sus-
tained By the great body OF tho people. who
| are much m orc Interested in an honest and
| wise adm nistration OF their Government than
In the doing out OF patronage. In the course
| OF his letter Senator Butler says:
THAT m embers have the right to recon-
mend nobody denies. Any citizen OF this
country has this right, but that Senators and
Representatives. have the right to dictate ap-
pontments, or that their recomme ndations
should be conclusive and unqucstloned fs
denied. Tho Executive is held responsible
under the Constitution for all officers, and
should. therefore, bo allowed the fullest lati-
tHa' is he sf'r pespansne for ali laws and
should. therefore. 30 exempt in the fullest
degree from the dcation Of the ExeentiES .,
our Government, and although the President
Is not bound to consult anybody IN making
observe this principle as far as practicabis in
max Ing his selection o.; Postmaster. He GER
,ona tight fight and duty to maze those APPOINT
ments. the patrons, OF the offices. the people
tie proper administration OF The Post Offices;
should be consulted stand ready at all
times to give tho President and r.stma nns.
such information MS may have touching the
qualifications OF applicants Tor once. put l
mendations or suggestions are not followed
Surgeon General Tryon has taken another
step toward the formation Of his school Of in
structon for naval surgeons at New York by
securing the detail OF Passed Assistant Sur
ceon d. NJ Guitcras to duty as assistant to
the director in charge o! the Naval Lahora-
Medical Director Rioodeool. now in charge of
the anorato5y VII retire in AnSspst and viii
Wells at, present attached to the Naval Hos.
rital In this city The corps OF instruction; In
addition to DR.. Guteras. Will include the
naval surgeons who are memb ers Of the Ex-
aiming Board at New York.
Tho Secretary of State is in receipt of de-
spatch from the United States Minister at La
Paz, Bolivia. in which he speaks OF n curious
reform in the currency in Bolivia only Just &C.
compli shed. 1t appears that when bank notes
Te.s h1;t issncd in D9ivIS there was GrsHs
ing the bank notes into fractions. The banks
money. aud the custom then inaucurated has |
continued to the present time. An entire |
B H"n almost tie entire issue cir.
cuiating in tho shape Of fractions.
structed to redeem these fractions Of bank !
notes until June 80. after which they will not |
be received IN ~ the or by the
from circulation. Tho substitution OF a new !
and entire bank note for the old fractional !
bills are warned 10y legal Advertisements in |
tho neWspaGers to- present them Ter redeEp-
ton before Juno 80.
Prot. T. c. Mendenhall o; the Coast and
Geodetic Survey on the part OF the United
States. and Commissioner King on the part OF
Great Britain. will shortly leave Washington
county IS the legal owner Of Fope's Folly
Island, near the waters OF the boundary line
coast OF Maine. Tho possess ion Of this island
b. been IN a., diisrate Tor ,hr last century hut
hall that tho first chart ed by Great B,italn.
showing TIE boundary line between the United
in Canadian territory. The island is not
case OF war would be decided ai-
vantage to tho country possessing it.
IN view II his latest discovery that the island.
according to the chart OF Great Britain. was
conceded T. the United States. tho Professor
believes he will have no trouble in settling tine
yexgd question in favor Of tho United states
With this question settled. tho only other i'm
portaat one pcndinG between the Unite, States
marking otthe boundary limo between Alaska
and the British possessions. Tho party which
left hore In March last have been unable to
accomplish much When last heard from the
mounta ins werc covered with snow. 1t is not
believed that the boundary line between tho
disputed possessions can he marked for year
because OF the unfavorabe weather.