The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-24
Frank l.. Campbell. Of the District of
Columbia, to BE Assistant Sec
rotary of Interior.
TREASURER AND AUDITOR
FOR THE ISLAND OF PORTO RICO
ALSO NOMINATED.
}. III. HoIIander Given the Former
Place and j. r.. Garrison the Lat
tcr-Meeting of the Cabinet.

WASHINGION, April GA meeting Oh
the Cabinet was held to-day. the President
having returned from New York for that
and other business to be attended to. The
Porto Rican civil government occupied
most of the two hours taken up by the
meeting. The President, with the aid of
his Cabinet officers, is trying to secure
men of prominence for the positions in the
island. If the bill pending in Congress
TO allow army officers to continue their po-
sitions is passed, the President will be in
no haste about the appointments, but if
this bill threatens to hang fire, he will
have to make the appointments by May 1.
At least two of the appointments are TO be
made now. These are treasurer and au-
ditor for the island. Secretaries Gage and
Root have. it is said, decided on men for
these positions. A native Porto Rican is
TO be nominated as treasurer, while an
American, who has seen service in the
island is to serve as auditor. He is un-
derstood to be an attache of the treasury
who has demonstrated ability and clever
ness in his work in the island.
The President has had a careful canvass
made of the Americans living in the island
with view of considering the wisdom of
appointing number of them to places.
1t IS likely that a good many of these
will be honored when the appointments are
all made Attorney General Griggs is
endeavoring to find for the President some
lawyers in this country who will accept jul
diciai places under the new bill. The sala-
ries are so small that few lawyers of note
can be found to consider the positions.
Another matter briefly discussed was
officers in Cuba. Attorney General Griggs
had been asked If any law had been vio-
lated. He reported to the Cabinet that
| there was no violation of law and that
| the action taken was warranted. Secretary
| Root then told the Cabinet the facts in
| the case. He said that soon after General
| Brooke was made governor general of the
| island he wrote to the War Department
asking to be relieved, saying that he could
not maintain family in the United States
| and run expensive establishment in Ha-
vana on the salary and allowances he re-
ceved from the government. He declared
| that he would become bankrupt. He
| referred TO the great amount OF entertain
| ing he was forced to do and to the fact
i that the people Of the island expected this
| The War Department officials, after Sc
rious consideration of the question, decided
| to allow General Brooke an additional al
| lowance from the Cuban funds. The same
| decision was arrived at in the case of
| General Ludlow, Colonel Bliss and one or
/ two others. The Cabinet members say
| that the explanation of Secretary Root
was satisfactory to the President
| The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the Senate: To be assistant
| quartermasters. with rank of captain,
| First Lieut.. Thomas B. Lamoreaux, John
i
| mander Herbert Winslow, to be a COM
mander; Lieut.. Edward E. Wright, to be
| lieutenant commander. To be Indian
/ agents: Morris t. Bridgeman, of Montana
for the Belknap agency, Montana: Oscar
| agency. Oklahoma. Frank l.. Campbell Of
| the District of Columbia, to be assistant
/ secretary of the interior j. III. Hollander.
/ OF Maryland, TO be treasurer of the Island
| Of Porto Rico; John r. Garrison, of the
l District of Columbia, to be auditor of the
| Island of Porto Rico.
| j. III. Hollander is an assistant pro-
/ fessor at Johns Hopkins University.
| General Davis requested that an ex-
| pert In questions of taxation be sent to
Porto Rico and Mr.. Holander was select
| ed upon the strong recommendation of the
| college authorities as a specialist on the
| subject of taxation.
Frank L. Campbell. who succeeds Web
| ster Davis as assistant secretary of the in
| terror, is fifty-six years of age. He was
born in West Virginia and left Washington
| and Jefferson College to enter the Union
| army. At the close of the war he opened
the first free school in West Virginia. In
| 1870 he came to Washington as an employe
| I'm the Census Office and rose steadily to an
| assistant attorneyship in the Office of the
| assistant attorney general for the Interior
| Department, which position he has held
for nineteen years, having by promotions
| become first assistant attorney. Mr.. Camp
| bell has always been an earnest Republic
an. 1t is understood that Secretary Hitch
hall . niv,trV
| as recognition of his sterling integrity
| and legal and executive ability and as en-
| bodying high conception of civil-service
| principles.
| John r. Garrison. nominated by the Pres
| ident to-day to be auditor of Porto Rico,
although native OF Virginia. has been a
| resident of Washington since the civil war
| and has been connected with the treasury
| for almost thirty years. most of the time
IN the accounting offices. For a number
| of years he was deputy controller of the
department until that office was abolished
| by the Dockery commission in 1894. Mr..
| Garrison was considered one of the ablest
| treasury accounting officers and year ago
| was sent TO Porto Rico auditor of Gus
| toms. He is now i'm that country The
| presumption is that in his new capacity as
auditor he will have supervision of all the
civil accounts of the island.
The ways and means committee, at a
special meeting to-day. considered the res
olutions of Representatives Tawney and
Grout, calling on the internal revenue of
| ficers for specific inforTnatio concerning
| oleomargarine, and voted adversely on
both resolutions. The discussion was quite
| brisk as Mr.. Tawney was emphatic in
the contention that as oleomargarine was
food product, Congress and the public
| was entitled to know it's ingredients.
| Against this, however, IL was argued that
the law forbade the internal revenue Of
ficials from disclosing private processes
and business secrets. This view prevailed
and accordingly the committee directed adj
| verse reports. Mr.. Tawney stated that
there would be minority report and he
would carry the contest to the floor Of the
| House where he believed the required in
formation would be ordered.
| The conferees on the Hawaiian govern
ment blu have agreed 10 that feature OF
the House bill requiring that the Governor
| judges, etc. shall be citizens of Hawaii.
Senator Morgan. chairman of the Senate
| committee on interoceanic canals. was in
conference with Chairman Hepburn, OF the
| House committee. to-day. discussing ways
and means of securing consideration of the
| Nicaragua canal bill at the present session
| OF Congress. The senator expressed the
opinion that his committee would accept
| the amendments suggested by the House
| committee and that II would act favorably
| on the bill, as amended. as soon as II
| should be passed by the House. He has nc
disposition to press the bill pending in the