The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-04
Mr.. SMITHS REBUFF
Our Senior Senator Gould
Not Get a List of the
Office Seekers.
TOLD IT WAS AGAINST THE RULE. :
Republican Senator'S, However, II
Is Said, Have No Difficulty
In Getting them.
Especial dispatch to the Newark EVEN
ing NeWs.'I

Especial dispatch to the Newark t'Even-
ing NeWs.1
WASHINGTON, u. c., Aug. 8, 1884,
Senator James Smith, a few days before
Congress adjourned. visited Third As
sistant Secretary of State Cridler and
asked him for a list of persons who had
made application to be appointed from
New Jersey to diplomatic and consular
positions Under ordinary circumstances,
if a Republican Senator had made such
request, Mr.. Cridler would have looked
surprised and made answer that It's
against the rules to supply such informa-
tion,' but coming from such Well-knoWn
Democrat as Senator Smith, the request
nearly took. the breath from the Third
Assistant Secretary, and he gazed at the
Senator as If he believed that astute poll
tician had suddenly become bereft of his
senses. Thinking that he had not made
himself understood, the Senator repeated
the request.
Sorry, Senator said Mr.. Cridler, "but
it can't be DONE It's against orders. 1t
wouldn't be diplomatic, you know"
And 1 cannot ascertain this informa-
tion?'
NO." replied Mr.. Cridler; "the Presi-
dent does not permit the names of appli-
cants to be made public unless they re-
ceive an appointment.
Senator Smith withdrew, and went to
the office of Chief Clerk Michael, to
whom he repeated the request for list
of applications. Mr.. Michael hesitated,
thought little while, and finally said he
would see what he could do. He wrote
a note, called messenger, and in
mysterious manner sent him off with the
missive Five minutes later the messen-
ger returned aud handed a reply to Mr..
Michael, who read it and then politely an
nounced that the information could not
be given the Senator, ''for it is against
the rules of the department.
Senator Smith knew the ropes, how
ever, and after leaving the chief clerk
he sought an elevator and went to the
appointment office on the third floor Here
he found MIR. Mosher, and to him he re-
peated the request to have the names of
New Jersey Republicans and gold stand
ard Democrats who had looked for re-
ward from the State Department. Mr.
Mosher said he would be pleased to fur
nish the information required, but before
he could do so he must be 50 directed by
Assistant Secretary Cridler. The Senator
looked extremely disguised at this, ana
drawing his portly frame up, ne used
some very expressive ana 1orclpie IAN
guage.
The Senator should have been more pa
tient, for he was but one out OF hunoIeds
who have made such requests, ana II IS
positively known that no Denlocrat ever ,sl,
received the Information, although every
Republican Senator has list OF all the
applicants from the State he represents
1t may be that the lists did not come from
the State Department, the only place
where they are filed. but if they did not
come from there, the source they effldn-
ated from is a mystery.
BENJAMIN H. Kinds of Elizabeth today
applied to the Treasury Department to
lie appointed Assistant Appraiser OF New
York His application is endorsed ny
Congressman Fowler and Senators Will
lam p Frye and Eugene Hale Of Maine
Heretofore the President has IN nearly
every case required the Endorsement OF
the Republican Senators from the State
where the applicant resides, and ii this is
followed Mr. Hi4ds will have hard fight
to secure appointment, altnough ne IS
personally known to Assistant Secretaries
of the Treasury Spaulding and Howell as
en- expert on customs.
Acting Supervising Architect Kemper
will on August 10 receive bids for the
construction of the Paterson PoStofflce.
Nearly a year ago plans for this building
were prepared and submitted to Supervls-
ing Architect Aiken. who, after holding
them for a long time under consldera-
ton, finally threw the plans out and di-
has been done under the provisions of the
Tarsney bill, which makes the drawing OF
plans open to competition, and permits
the Treasury Department to select the
one which appears to be the best. 1t was
said yesterday that the contract will be
awarded as soon as possible after the
bids are received, and that work on the
new building viii commence immediately
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