Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-14
They Exhibit Some Feeling at an
Executive Session,
A MARSHAL FOR KENTUCKY
Proved 10 be the Homo OF Contention,
Ana for n While There Was
A Very Merry Tlme.

Washington, Jan. l3.-There was n
sharp controversy In the senate execu-
tive session over the confirmation oc
y {, Sharp as marshal for the Eastern
district Of KenuCky. The two sena-
tols from Kentucky, Deboe, Hepub-
lican' and Blackburn, Democrat, took
opposing positions.
Senator Blackburn objected to con-
hfmstion on the ground that Mr. Sharp
had presided over d mass meeting held
In front Of the executive mansion IN
Frankfort IN 1879, while the Goebel-
Tay.oi controversy was at i,s height
ana few days before Goebel was as
sassinated Senator Blackburn char
acteriaed this meeting as an armed
hoD, ana SAID that il was composed Of
uncut 400 men who had been brought
from all parts Of the state Tor ne pur-
Lose of intlmidd'irL G)chel and his fol-
lowers lie sail tina. no man who
would cOnsen. 10 set as It's ioader
should be appointed to an Office whose
principal duty VAS 20 preserve The
peace,
Mr., Deboe retJIted that Of tbe en-
tire number Of people sata rol a very
few OF those assembled were
armed. These were, he said, from the
mountain dIstrlu'g IF the state, and ~
men there carried weapons no signll-
canoe could be attached 10 the tact
that they appeared at this meeting
armed, The meeting he added, was
quite as respectable as many over
which Mr.. Blackburn had presided, and
hau been held For the purpose II de-
LnanGng fair pldy
II was stated on behalf of the com"
mitttee on judiciary, which reached the
nomination, that the committee had
discovered nothing derOgatory to MI,
Sharp's character. The nomination
was confirmed by vote Of 80 TO Is.
The recent nominations Of II. Z. Still
son, as postmaster at Grand Rapids,
Mich Edwin Price at Grand Junction,
Colo, and W NJ, Sargent at South Roy
alton, VT, have been withdrawn by the
President. The first named was nomi-
mated last month but resigned before
confirmation was secured, and his nnmc
was Withdrawn several days ago The
South Royalton (Vt) office was lnvps-
tigated by postofIlce inspector just
after the nomination was sent in the
result being the withdrawal OF the
name and the designation Of Mr. Bel
KNAPP instead.
The Grand Junction (Colob case Is
the result Of an investigation OF IN,
Office by an inspector, who Subsequent
~ recommended to the post01lce de-
partmen( the removal of Postmaster
Price, who had been nominated De
cember 18th last for second term OF
four years.
The nomination oi David .. Baldwin
today to be postn1srec at New Orleans
Is reappontment. The case had beer
held up pendlng investigation oil
charges that postmagl"S Baldwin was
involved In the old Louisinn1 lottery
but these charges were dismissed as
unfounded. Two other louisiana post
office appointment August V, Bueiov
at Napoleonville and Thomas r. Morse
at New iberia, are significant as recog'
nlzing National Committeeman l.. S
Clark for the first time in the preslden.
tial postoiIice patronage, instead of the
kimberley element as heretofore, The
entire Democratic delegation backed
the kimberley Republican candidates
in fighting the Clark men, The Win
berley faction, however Endorsed the
New orleans appointment
Spokane, Wash, Is the home OF Sona-
tor Turner who urged the retention o.
the present postmaster there, George
w. Temple whose term has just eX.
PRED. The nomination Of Harrison was
in recognition of the Republican repre-
sentative from this district.