The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-30
CoIored Men Making War ON Claude
johnson in the Interest of Capt.
w. VI. Meredith.
OFFICES FILLED BY M'KINLEY
MARINE CORPS LIEUTENANTS WOR-
RIED OVER AN APPOINTMENT.
Senator Hoar's Report on the Case
of Ii. w. COrbett, o2 OregOn-Ran-
nOcks Causing Trouble.
ecial to the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-The appoint
ment of DR.. S. A Ebert of indianapolis,
consul to Bahia, Brazil, was not sent to
the Senate to-day but he is slated for that
berth and his name will probably go in to
tomorrow or next day. This is most ex-
ceilent berth. Representative Overstreet
and Senator Fairbanks have been working
hard for the doctor ever since it became
evident he could not secure the place he
started after. Bahia will be in every way
satisfactory to the doctor.
The colored brother is on the staff of Cap
tain w. NJ. Meredith and work
ing for the overthrow of Claude
Johnson, superintendent of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. They
are charging the superintendent with I'M
fair discourteous and offensive treatment
during his four years incumbency. He is
accused of having Disseminated against coll
ored people and to have said profanely that
he did not want any olanked 'riggers' in
his bureau while he was in charge. This
alleged observation in disparagement of the
colored people is being used against him
with considerable effect and an effort is
making to inflame the Ohio colored vote
and make the story political issue in the
impending campaign. The colored popula
ton Of Ohio is being told that it is an out
rage for the administration to keep a high
official in place who is alleged to have
slurred the black race and it must be con-
fessed that the movement is not without eff
feet. Down to date Mr.. Johnson has not
met the charges, although he is aware that
they have been raked up against him.
The fOrtV-three 1ieutenantS of the Marine
Corps are up in arms over the appointment
of c. L. McCawley a civilian of Washing
ton, as captain and assistant quartermaster
general in that branch of the service. They
are making terrible outcry and say they
will defeat the young mans confirmation
on statutory and other grounds. Some of
the lieutenants who complain that the APP
pointment is an outrage have been waiting
for twenty years for promotion to the rank
of captain and they feel they have basis
for a grievance at the appointment over
their heads of a rank outsider with a social
pull" The matter will be aired in every
possible way and sentiment worked up
against McCawley in and out of the Senate
The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the Senate:
To be consuls general of the United
State-Church How, of Nebraska, at Apta
and NulIualofa, Tonga; John P. Bray, of
North Dakota, at Melbourne, Australia
TO be consuls OF the United States-Hugo
DonZelmann, of Wyoming, at Prague, Be-
hernia; Louis A. Dent, of District of Column
bia, at Kingston, Jamaica; Samuel S.
Lyon of New Jersey, at Oraka and Hiogo
Japan; RounseVelle Widman, of California
al Hong Kong, China.
Charles II. Herliska, of the District of
Columbia, to be secretary of the legation
of the United States at Vienna, Austria
John K. Richards, Of Ohio. to be solicitor
Infantry to be colonel; Maj. c. E. Bennett
Nineteenth Infantry, to be lieutenant
colonel; Capt. S. p Joselyn, Twenty-frst
Infantry to be major; First Lieut.. G. H.
Bonesteel TWenty-first Infantry, to be
captain; Second Lieut.; E. L. Butts Tween
ty-first Infantry to be first ~ lieutenant !
Second Lieut. j. b. Haynes, Third Artil-
lery, to be first lieutenant.
The Senate to-day confirmed the follow
ing nominations: Soren Listoe, Minnesota,
consul at Rotterdam, Netherlands; T. A
Roseberry, Susanville, Cal, register of the
land Office at Susanvlle, Cal Postmasters:
h. p. Wheeler, at Rockport, Ind; I. Bailey,
at Portland, Ind; w. NJ. Mills, at Ladoga,
Ind. Also the military and naval cadets re-
Gently graduated.
Harry L. Burnhart. a colored campaign
orator from Muncie, Ind, has been APP
pointed to a clerkship in the Washington
City postofice on the recommendation
of Perry S. Heath.
DR.. J. S. Smith, of Galveston has been
appointed a member of the board of medi-
cal pension examiners for Logansport, on
the recommendation of Congressman Steele.
Frank Riley formerly city editor of the
Logansport Pharos, has been reinstated in
the Government Printing Office, from which
he was relieved because he was a Democrat.
Charles Williams was to-day appointed
fourth-class postmaster at Magnolia, Craw-
ford county, Indiana, vice Christopher Col
gate, resigned.