New-York tribune., 1901-11-12
GODDARD OPPOSES BIDWELL
VIII. OPPOSE CONFIRM IF THE
COLLECTOR Is REAPPOINTED.

Information reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel
last night which makes 1t appear to be practi-
cally certain that George r. BldWeH toHectoT
of The Port will fail of reappointment at the
hands of President Roosevelt. whether TINS
means also the passing Of Appraiser Wakeman
and other Federal offlceholders remains to ne
sAen The indications last night were that more
than the Collector and Appraiser would go one
of them admitted to a Tribune reporter that II
looked like a case Of ''One go all 60
Friends of Collector Bidwel held on to the
bo,,a last night that in some way the opposition
% The Collectors reappointment would be with
drawn and that both he and Appraiser Wake
,,, ,.o,,1d he allowed to hold on to their places
Il also developed last night that a somewhat
cIumsily planned attempt TO drag Governor odell
into the strife had failed. Inc "oFerho'
friends at the Fifth Avenue Hotel nade lne
rosi+i,.e statement last night that the Governor
wac kaaning his hands off the fight, and that
statements to the contrary were untrue
Annraisar Wakeman was seen last night at the
v-alaorf Astoria. but he was averse to talking
about his tenure of office. Mr.. Nakemah mas
told his friends of late that he did not know
,,.ha+bAr he was to be retained in office or not
A delegation Of his friends saw the President
-. r-aa1x and while they did not bring back
-,ucb announcement for the Appraiser they
assured him that If he was compelled 20 resign
there would be other designations.
One of the somewhat unexpected deNeiop
n,ents in the coectorship Of the port Sl'ud'o'
Yesterday was the announcement thdt oap'"'ii
F. Norton Goddard. the Republican leauer Vi
IN. XXth Assembly District, who is regarueu
as q personal friend of President t'oo9eNei''
would onnose the confirmation by the Senate OF
the Presidents nomination or George H. ~
u,eu should the President send Bidwells name
to the Senate
CAPTAIN Cioddard's friends are confident 'hat
Mr. RidwelIs name will not te presented to the
Senate and that there will be no occasion Tor
r,.1,inp an omen fight against his reappoht-
uent Mr. Bidwels friends are reported 10 De
a good deal agitated over the stana taken
by Captain Goddard. as they are larry wen
convinced that he would not engage III any
fight before the Senate committee against AF'
Bidwell unless he had a number OF pertinent
things to disclose. Just what the line OF altach
will he captain Goddard. when seen yesterday
afternoon by a Tribune reporter refused 10 us
cuss. He admitted in his customary frank man
ner, however, that he was oPposeu u NIL D
wells reappointment
Cantain Goddard rather tartly denied story
,,,b,;sbed Yesterday saying that his hostility
toward Mr. Bidwell was owing to Captain GOD
dard.s desire to be Collector of the Port The
story made it appear that Captain Goodaro hao
presented certain proposition to Collector Bid
we'll which the Collector had declined to accede
TO and that this also had a bearing on MS atti-
tude toward Mr.. Bdwell. When captain COO
dard was seen last night he said
hardly know whether that story is worth
dipnjfvjne with denial not II IT Is or any
interest to the public am willing to say that
7 never had the slightest desire to be collector
of the Port AS to any proposition ever maze
- NJ R.dyeu Governor Odell or District At
tornev Gardner as set forth in the story. al!
/ can say is that 1 know absolutely nothlng OF
any, nronositon made to the gentlemen named
and the assertion that any proposition concern
Ing the transaction of business in Collector
Bidwelrs office made by me 10 any Oh uaese
.1aa+,a,,sn is absolutely untrue. If the state
ment had said that l had made a propositioh
TO Mr. BidweN alone. / might reaohy cohcTi.e
behalf of some Republican who wanted place
in the collectors office, but when the names