The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09

the place of another employe. The Sec
retary of the Treasury has no power to
make such appointments, but this letter
was tolerably strong pull for the lady in
question. Under the law all appointees
in the coiner's department must be nomi-
mated by the coiner himself, but approved
by the superintendent of the Mint as we'll
as in Washington. Daggett is a bitter
enemy Of his coiner, who is Presidential
appointee, and so beyond his direct con-
troll, and he thought he saw chance to
get SPOTS into trouble at Washington, too.
So he merely sent to Mr.. SPOTS by mes
senger the name given, with the verbal
word that Mr. Daggett wanted nomi-
mating letter. Mr.. SPOTS wanted some
information about who and how compe-
tent the lady was, as he had never heard
of her before and Sdeclined to nominate
her without littleinformation.
Daggett made no further communication
to SPOTS, and pointers from Washington
indicate that Daggett sent back word that
Mr.. SPOTS refused to accede to the request
of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr..
SPOTS, however, had smelt rat, and
short time ago secured the information
from Washington that the lady's appoint
ment was desired by Secretary Carlisle.
The nominating letter was at once sent
to Daggett, and the, lady win presumably
be an accountant under Mr.. SPOTS in a
few days. SPOTS saved himself from being
persona non grata in Washington, and
Secretary Carlisle heard of the way Dag
gett got his fair political friend a place in
San Francisco. This, and one or two other
patronage complications now pending,
helped keep the San Francisco Mint in the
foreground of the administrative troubles
of Messrs. Preston and Carlisle.
These little things are merely supple
mentary to the charges against Daggett
which Congressman Mcguire filed when he
returned to Washington q few weeks ago.
The two charges, that Daggett neglected
ness large share OF the time and that he
had invited the Mint employees to SUBJ
scribe to RosaIie mining stock, are not apt
to have great weight, especially since the
Rosalie mine IS reported to be turning out
pretty well.
But the other charge is being made the
most of. Mcguire has told President
Preston all about Daggett's discharging
the sister OF Senator Gesford, the brother
of Senator Biggy and the brother of SEN
ator Fay because these Senators did not
give Daggett their complimentary Demo
cratic votes for United States Senator, and
about Biggy losing the Mint washing for
the same reason. He has recited other
similar patronage doings of Daggett, his
partnership with Sam Rainey to do local
politics and his sending for employees and
ordering them to get out and hustle for
his end of the local Democratic fight. The
story that Daggett called in Alexander
Greggains. as he did others, and told him
what to do, and then discharged him be-
cause he didn't do it, has been told in
Washington as another example of how
Daggett is running the Mint here, and his
interviews in which he declared that he
was running the Mint, and that no Buck
ley man could stay around him, have been
placed on file.
The administration is asked If it can
stomach this sort of business and this sort
of man. So now Mr.. DaggetU is to have
a chance to explain how he is running the
Mint and what ne thinks Mint is for
Senator White has been a strong backer
of Mcguire in the matter, and has been
especially active in behalf of Greggains,
through the influence of prominent Demo-
cratic friends here and through his per-
sonal antipathy to Daggett. The enmity
between White and Daggett began at the
Stockton convention in 1884, when Dag
gett was read out of the party. 1t was in
creased at the State convention in ODD
Fellows Hall, San Francisco in 1885, when
Daggett made an Intellectual effort to de-
feat White for the craftsmanship. From
that convention, too, dates Daggett's hos
tility to Buckley. Buckley refused to op-
pose White and Daggett broke with him.
It is said that while Daggett is in Wash
ington he will attend to some other busi-
ness besides meeting the charges and pro-
tests with which he is concerned. He pro-
poses to see if he cannot get the Mint
building overhauled, repaired and i'm
proved. The structure was built many
years ago, and several thousand dollars
expended on its copper roof and in some