Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-28


Greene acted with considerable force and
contributed a great deal OF entertainment
to the tariff sideshow. although the per-
formance in the big tent can hardly be said
10 have commenced.
Now that the "headsman'' of the admins
tration has been appointed in the person of
j. l.. Bristow of Kansas as fourth assistant
postmaster general, the heads of luckless
postmasters will soon begin to fall into the
official basket. Hundreds of good workers
in Nebraska are waiting for the ak to de-
scend and already dozen or more recon-
mendations have been made by the repub-
lican delegation from that state in congress,
changing democratic stamp cancellers to re-
publicans Brstow is said to be an ideal
man for the place, which is one requiring not
only vast knowledge Of men, but finesse
as we'll.
Much has been written and a great deal
more said regarding the right of Senator
Thurston to name the United States mar
shal and there is no denying the fact that
q great deal of bitterness has been engen-
dered over the failure to appoint Ed Sizer
of Lincoln to the position which will be oc-
cupied very shortly by George II. Thummel
of Grand Island. So far as could be learned
of the meeting held by Thurston, Strobe and
Mercer there was harmony prevailing in the
camp up to the close Of the session, but the
Sizer, the hotter he got over the failure of
Senator Thurston to appoint his friend to
the place, and when Strobe once gets hot he
is hot all over. He was not backward in
expressing himself in good round terms as
to Senator Thurstons choice and even inti-
mated that he might carry the war into the
senate If Thummel was named 1t is be-
lieved, however, that there will be little
friction between the republican representa-
tives and the senator now that the marshal
III, H., I. ,aI ..r
politics and the man to succeed White has
been named and confirmed. Senator Thurs
ton very frankly says that he will do every
thing he possibly can to strengthen the re-
publican party in the state of Nebraska, and
in this he will have the assistance of Pres
ident Mckinley, who relies implicitly upon
Senator Thurstons word regarding the ap-
pointments in that state. Ex-senator Pad
dock, in speaking Of the unfortunate disa-
greements in the ranks of the Nebraska
delegation here in Washington, said that
he believed it to be the proper thing for
every good republican of the state to sup
port Senator THU ston in his efforts to name
the very best man in the state for political
preferment and for the right of Judge
Strcde to name the postmaster at Lincoln,
he stated emphatically to The Bee that he
never during his senatorial career of twelve
years conceded that placd to the republican
from the First Nebraska dis
trict. That as it was the capital city it fell
TO MIN TO name the man ana he always
named the postmaster there even though
the representative demanded that his man
go in. Should the fight on Thurston con-
tinue, therefore, the senator, with this prece-
dent before him, might make Judge Strobe
a great deal of trouble in demanding that
he be allowed to name the postmaster at
Lincoln. There are great many protests
being heard against Harry Bushnell who
is Judge Strode's candidate for the postmas-
tership and so fierce are some of these pro-
tests that it might become necessary for
Thurston to interfere to quiet matters.
Vice President Hobart Is welding gavel
that is destined to become historic, because
it Is made of woods from many historic
places The handle is of yellow pine, taken
from the stairway leading to the old senate
chamber, now used by the supreme court
of the United States, said stairway having
been laid in the year 1900. The small pieces
inserted in the handle are from the following
historic places, to wit: The cherry is from
Mount Vernon, the boXwood was planted by
Washington and named after Lafayette, the
magnolia was planted by Washington in the
year 1893, live oak taken from the United
States frigate United States, and live oak
taken from the rebel. ram Merrimac, the
lignum-vitae from the sheave that hoisted
the statue of Liberty on The dome of the
capitol pine from Fords theatre, oak from
the bridge that crossed the east branch of
the Potomac and was burned in the year
1914, pine from the root of a stump near
the Providential sqring in Andersonvile
prison, and the hickory is from Wakefield,
birthplace. and piece of the
Charter Oak.
Secretary Wilson OF the Agricultural, de-
partment concluded the work this week OF
sending out four tons of beet seeds to
eighteen different states in which the beet
sugar industry is being experimental with
upon an extensive scale. Mr.. Wilson, in
speaking of the matter, said that all the seed
came from Germany, as there was no place
in this country where the best quality of the
seed can be obtained. II have not the faint
est doubt" he continued, that within the
next five or ten years the United States will
produce a sufficient quantity of beet sugar
to supply the entire demand for saccharine
matter. The experiments thls far demon
strate that beet sugar can be manufactured
in this country az well and as extensively
as in Germany or France. and ! expect to
see the time when we shall be entirely inde-
pendent Of these countries in the matter Of
sugar four our tables"
With the close of the week nearly all the
have been practically organized
by the new administration. Heath and
Bristow are actively at work in their places
IN the Postoffce department, and so far as
hat department is concerned, the daily
routine work goes on with the same exact
hess as 1t did when Jones and Maxwell were
1t the head of the respective offices. The
allure to appoint other assistant secretaries
S due largely to the apparent inability of
state delegations to agree upon candidates
or the places which have been assigned to
hem. Should this continue for any great
ength of time the president Is understood
o have told a friend that II he cannot induce
he men to whom he has given the privil- |
'ge of naming the assistants to come to an
agreement, he will take the bull by the
lorns and name these officers himself, with |
nut regard to consequences He wants to
zee the first OF April dawn with the depart |
nents in position to do business and he |
5 anxious that as soon as the men are con- |
rmed by the senate they shall qualify and |
ssume their respective duties That was |
practically the case with Judge Willis Van |
)eyenter of Cheyenne, who is one of the |
ssistant attorneys general in charge of the |
Interior department work. Judge Van De- |
enter was confirmed on Tuesday and |
Wednesday morning. even though his com
nission had not arrived, nor could he take |
lis oath Of office without 1t, he was at his |
esk learning the ropes from the retiring |
ssistant attorney general.
There has been an exodus of Nebraskans
urinG the past week to the everlasting de-
ght OF Thurston, Strobe and Mercer, but |
lille the personal importuning has some
hat let up, the mails OF all three of these
entlemen continue to show little
iminution and there are just as many peo-
lie In Nebraska anxious for ofice now as
here was upon the election Of Mr.. McKin-
'y, and there are Just az many people max