The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-15
COOK TO COME NEXT
Promised a Brigadier Gener-
aIship About the Time
the War Ends.
EWART TO BE NAMED
THE PRESIDENT WOULD NOl
HAVE COMMISSIONED HIM.
LNNEY AND THE CIVIL StRVlS
He Said That Unless it Was Repealed the
Republicans Would be Te'eated'-
Crosyenor's Prophesy.
Grosvenor's PropheSY.

Washington. ID. c.. July 14.-(Specla'l
If was stated at the War Department
to-day that Mr.. Charles A. Cook name
tbev call him colonel here would be
among the next batch of Brigadier cen
erals to be appointed. The delay III
the apontment of Col. Cook is sald To
he due to the Presidents desire IN
make a number of promotions among
men now in the service before dlStrlbut
ing any more big plums among cNIiiahs'
Senator Pritchard. just before leaving
here for home. was assured by lh'
President that Col. Cook would he ap
pointed a Brigadier General. There Is
no denying the fact that Senator Prltch-
ard is as close to the President as any
one i'm the Senate, and | am told by
those in a position to know that the
Senator from North Carolina has land
ed every plum he went after.
AS soon as the President gets time
he will announce the recess appointment
of Judge Hamilton G. Ewart. The
President has very high regard for
Judge Ewart and they formed clos
attachment for each other in the Fifty
First Congress. Had the Judiciary
Committee made an adverse report OF
Judge Ewart's nomination. the proba
bilities are the President would have
refrained from reapponting him during
the recess of Congress. Members OF
the judiciary Committee say they can
not recall such another bitter fight rs
was made on Ewart. 1t is not parallel
case to the fight made by Senator Hill
against Peckham and Hornblower, for
in those cases Senator Hill made thf
point that in the appointment of Peck
ham and Hornblower President Cleve
land violated the rule that says he shall
consult the Senators from the State to
which the appointments are accredited
When Congress met last December the
Republican spoil hunters in the House
were vociferous in their denunciations OF
the Civil Service law, and what they
intended to do to it would he Il plenty
General Grosvenor, of Ohio, who was
supposed to speak for the President.
gave it out that the days of the Civil
Service law were numbered and that
before another campaign rolled around
the bars would be let down 81
that the hungry and faithful would not
unduly crowd each other in getting rC
the public crib. Numerous bills were
introduced some to repeal the law out
right and some to modify it. They were
referred to the Committee on Reform in
the Civil Service. and Notwithstanding
the fact that that committee was com
posed largely of spoilsmen. no bill modi-
flying or repeating the Civil Service law
has ever been reported to the House.
Next to Grosvenor Romuus u. Lin
ney was most pronounced in his Opposi
ton to the Civil Service law. If | re-
member rightly he stated that unless
the Civil Service law was repealed il
would be all over with the Republicans
in the South. ! believe he introduced
several bills on the subject and if sc
they We're permitted to sleep in the com
mittec.
OF course if the Republicans in the
House had been sincere in their pro
fessions of what they intended to Dc
with the Civil Service. they could east
ly have passed a bill repeating outright
or modifying to a very large extent tho
Civil Service law. thus appeasing Il
n very large extent the appetite of their
hungry constituents for political pie.
The President has appointed Judge
Ewart The Judge will now enter upon
the discharge of his duties.