The Indianapolis journal., 1897-03-09
White House md Departments
ThronGed Yesterday with Congress-
men and Ambitious Constituents.
lNDIANIANS- ARE NOT ASLEEP
AND Will DE on HAND WHEN THE
PLUM TREE Is SHAKEN.
Several Postofice Appointments Sc
cured by senator Fairbanks
The Presidents Visitors.


WASHINGTON, March S.-Neariy every
Republican senator and representative and
half the visitors in the city are just now
engaged in a grand hunt for office. the con-
gressmen acting guides and introducers.
All day long the White House and tho
various departments were thronged with
place seekers. and the President and Cabi-
net officers had little rest.
Representative Steele called at the White
House to-day i'm behalf of A. l.. Lawshe,
of Converse. who is "A candidate for fourth
auditor of the treasury. Mr.. Lawshe is in
fiuentially backed for the place. and has
more than an even chance that he will
get il.
John L. Kennedy wss piloted 10 the White
House this afternoon by General Grosvenor
and Chairman Babcock, OF the national
congressional committed Mr.. Kennedy
wants the office of public printer. The
President received the applicant and his
two hackers with the greatest cordiality.
Mr.. Kennedy halls from New Jersey. but
is, in sense. an Indianian. having lived
in indianapolis several years. While en-
ployed in the Journal composing room he
was known "Reminiscences"
Senator Fairbanks has recommended the
appointment of the following fourth-class
postmasters in Indiana, and they will be
named: John NJ. Golden, North Madison,
Jefferson county; John ]. Kaufman, Ship
shewana. Lagrange county: Walter Wills,
Linton, Greene county.
Representatives Faris and Johnson. of IN
diana, presented DIR. Holmes, of Terre
Haute, to'the President this afternoon. The
doctor urged his own claims to the position
of minister to Norway and Sweden. He
has lived In the State three years and a
half and although admirable gentle
man, his prospects cannot be called even
fairly good. In strict truth, they are very
poor. +.s
Mr. Benjamin Franklin Peters. of Harris.
burg, Pa, to-day was appointed chief clerk
of the Navy Department, vice Benjamin
Micou resigned. Mr.. Peters was appointed
to one OF the lowest clerkships in the
Navy Department sixteen years ago by
Secretary Hunt upon the recommendation
Senator j. ID. Cameron. He now occupies
the position Of appointment clerk and was
promoted through the various grades on
the score OF merit, .
Captain Theo. a. Bingham, corps OF en-
gineers, has been detailed as superintendent
of public buildings and grounds in this city,
which was one Of the places filled by Gen.
eral Wilson before his promotion to the
head of the engineer corps. This post
usually brings a man into rather close re-
lations with the President. Captain Bing-
ham is a native of Connecticut, and gradu-
ated from the Military Academy i'm 1870 He
was for a time in charge of river improve
ments at Chattanooga, Tenn, and also
United States military attache at Berlin
and Rome. -"
The Missouri Republican delegation In
the last Congress have arranged TO call on
the President tomorrow and will urge an
early nomination to fill the vacancy in the
office of postmaster at St. Joseph Mo-,
caused by the failure of the Senate to con-
firm Mr.. Cleveland's nomination. The
State is divided into two bitterly hostile
Republican factions, and for this reason
the distribution of the patronage is a mat
ter of political interest. 1t is the desire OF
the administration that the factions come
together, but this seems unlikely. Most OF
Mssouri's Republican representatives are
candidates for office. Representative Hub
bard wants to become Pacific Railroad
commissioner ex-Representative Tracey
would like To become internal revenue COM
missioner. and Mr.. Burton is opposing
Robert L. Lewis, the gubernatorial can
didate in the last election, for district at
torney for the Western district OF Missouri
Ex-Representative Crowther wants to be-
come Korean minister, and ex-Represent-
atiye Treloar would like to succeed Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell.
who fills the fourth-elass postoffices. Major
Bittinger, of the st. Joseph Gazette, is op-
posing the aspirations OF ex-Presfdent
Leishmann, of the Carnegie Company. to
the Swiss mission.
to be appointed consul 10 Dresden, I'm recog-
milton of his work in organizing the
wheelmen's League in the last campaign,
and Robert Porter, formerly superintendent
of the census wants to go as minister to
Japan, a post much sought after.