Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-18
FREE MAIL DELIVERY
OF DELAY IN THE
CASE OF MANCHESTER.
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
removals in Spite of the Presidents
Order to the Contrary-Attorney
General Decides Against Their he
ing Made. f..4E
ing Made.

man Lamb I'm regard to the delay IN es-
tablishine free delivery in Manchester.
Captain Lamb says the repeated pro-
misses of the department have all Deeh
broken. and the good people OF the niue
city on the south side of the James are
growing impatient Mr.. Machen Is reauy
TO put the system In operation at any
time. and Is anxious to do so, as nc mas
become deeply interested In the matter
but he is awaiting action by first-As-
sistant- Postmaster General Heath VINO
is absent ON q ten-day vacation, and will
not be back until Monday week, next.
In the mean time, however, Superih-
tendent Machen will lay the whole mat
ter and Captain Lambs letter before
General Cary and endeaVor
TO have the necessary order issued 10
put the system into operation.
In the absence Of First-Assistant-Post
master-Generai Heath to-day, II was I'M
possible to ascertain where the hilcn 10
that causes the delay
THE NEWPORT NEWS SERVICE.
Following is the official order establish
ing free delivery at Newport News
Office of Postmaster-Generai'
Washington. ID. c.. September II, 1885,
order No. 5l2: r,.,oo ot
Establish the free-denvery seiNiS a,,erN
Newport News. Va. with four letter
carriers and twenty street ietter-DoNes'
Supply the necessary books, DlahKs'
furniture, etc. ,vo7
PERRY 5. HEATH,
Ito. Doc. ~ General
officials at the department report that
the transmission and deliVery Oh inaliS
throughout the South are greatly re-
tarded by the yellow-fever scare prevail
ing in that section. In some places there
Is a shotgun quarantine, and a postal
clerk dares not show his head out OF
car window. much less deliver pouch.
The postmaster at NittaZuma, MISS
wires that both he and his clerk are
ouarantlned, and he has had TO close ~
office.
The President will probably leave on
Saturday for New England, as all the
urgent appointments have been made,
and all business requiring immediate at
tention has been transacted.
PERSONAL.
Penublican National Committeeman
George t. Bowden. Chairman Park Az
new. and Morgan Treat, Esq, OF west
Point. having accomplished Il consider
able quantity of departmental business
mainly in the way of post-ofiice appoint
ments. left for their respective homes
this evening"
Mr.. Frank NJ. Parker, Jr., Of Richmond,
arrived in the city last night, stopped at
tho METROPOLITAN. and left this morning
for northern cities on business.
of
r. w. +. Conner, and ia. Balz, Oh
| Charlottesville, and John f. Nelson, Lees
burg, Va, are at the metropolitan
yohn ID. Hooe Warrenton Va, A. {.
| Reeker. ]. II. Drake. Richmond; A. IL.
| FeIthaus Richmond-the Raleigh.
Mrs. d. Hawk, Richmond; Mrs. A. Il.
| McDougal, Va.-the National.
| ". II. Farmer and wife Richmond;
w E. Council, Virginia; J. T. Fuller,
Richmond; j. L. Cobb, Virginla-the d.
| James.
! ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
The publication exclusively in the Dis
match concerning assistant district at
| torneys. in connection with the civil ser
| vice law. has attracted wide attention,
and has been the subject of comment
| and denial In Republican circles. But the
test was made to-day, in the case OF
| Snencer Blackburn, recommended FOR As
eistant Attorney for the Western North
| Carolina District.
Mr.. Coyington, the incumbent, has not
resigned. and to-day the Attorney-Gene-
| raj declined TO appoint Mr.. BLACKBURN
holding that the incumbent cannot be re-
moved under President McKinley's order
Of August 18th. without cause. Inc
matter was referred TO Assistant-Attor-
nev.General Boyd, who prepared an
elaborate opinion. maintaining that the
Presidents order was not applicable 10
this class of appointments, out the Al
torney-General does not concur IN tne
oninion. and declines to approve 1t.
.oThe Presidents order will control all
arnointments in the Department OF JUS
tice " said the Attorney-General to-day
until revoked" The departments Will
take no official notice of Judge Coke
decision in the Woods case. and no re-
n,ova1s from Office will be made without
cause in accordance with the letter ano
shirt of the Executive order OF August
nth.
This announcement to-day has PROVOKED
pennblican wrath, and the air
full of naledictions against the biundel
Of the administration, as IT is called, II
nronulcating the August order.
In the blackburn case. and other Tx
cases If was positively announced To-
dav that no appointment OF assStah
T. attorneys would be made until there wa
eor,a qualification or revocation OF I'M
Presidents order except in cases o
resignation OF the incur- ents' MT
BLACKBURN goes home tonight, disap
pointed and disguised
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
,rbore are no developments to-day II
,ra onnointment of United States Al
tornev for the Eastern North Carohni
nistrjct. Mr.. Bernard, accompanied 10y
| ponresentatiye Skinner, saw the Presl
Ant and Attorney-General to-day ii
| rofarence 10 the matter, but 1urthe
,hon tho assurance that the claims o
oil candidates would be duly considered
noth,ne was said TO indicate who woul'
hs onnointed or when the appointment
would be made.
oscar Spears. one of the applicants
arr,ved to-day and c. Nj. COOK, VINO l
is understood. Is endorsed Dy senate
pritchard. is expected here to-morro"
! cook is a Russeiiite In state politics
and all the other candidates are trylnl
I 10 effect a combination 10 deteat III
I appointment. II, as ii seems 10 be un
Saretooa senator Pritchard is indiffer
ar, notwithstanding his endorsement o
cook the opposition is confident tina
! Cooks appointment can be defeated
senator Pritchard was expected here TO
I morrow. but the illness of his child,
2 wires will keep him at home.
Representative Skinner saw the fresi
, | dent today in the interest OF colone
John b. Respass, an applicant Tor
consular appointment, and got IN
nro,oise of his appointment as Consu
at Sidney. Australia.
, The Eastern North Carolina appon,
. | mepts. Colonel Skinner thinks. will no
p be made until November or later. ii
returns home Tonight.