The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

pointments. The insurgents have been
informed that their recommendations
for the appointment of postmasters
will not be acted upon.
The boycott has gone farther with
insurgentv senators. For several
days appointments recommended by
senators bearing the stamp of radicals
or insurgents have been held up. In
instances where there were candidates
for federal positions in state where
there were two kinds of senators; as
in the Kansas case, the president,
while he has made no announcement
as to decisions, has made it plain that
he intended to ignore those Of the in
surgent.
This was manifestly SO in the case
of Senators Curtis and Bristow. fhe
former recommended to the president
Harry /. Bone, district attorney OF
Kansas. be reappointed while Senator
Bristow recommended that a man
named Higgins be appointed. Presi
dent Taft has made no selection as
4 yet. but it was stated on excellent au
thority that the president would re
appoint Bone. Several other appoint
ments in Kansas will be disposed o!
in the same manner.
Appointments Held Up.
1t was through Postmaster General
! Hitchcock that the organization
showed its hands today. 1t came about
when the insurgents went to the post
master general and insisted upon be
ing appraised of the reasons for delay
in the appointment of postmasters
This is the story, in substance, thai
/ the postmaster general told the in
surgents who interviewed him on tbs
Esubject:
aMr. Cannon and his friends have
/ brought the strongest kind of pres
sure to bear to the end that the In
surgents shall be ignored in matter!
/ Of patronage.
..In the meantime" said the post
master general to one of the insur
4 gents. Il am sorry to say that M
faction can be taken on your recon
mendations."
Representative Miller, of the Eight
Minnesota district, said he told tn
postmaster general he intended to car
Try the thing to the open floor of tn
sI house, but this Mr.. Hitchcock urge,
him to defer any action until the ae
ton could be further considered
whereupon Mr.. Miller agreed to avail
q further developments before precipita
i ing an open fight.
Miller Taken to Tast.
AS soona the congressman stat
ment became known, the postmaste
general called him on the telephon
and took him to task for not havin
regarded the conversation as kconf
Dental, to which Mr.. Miller reptile
that he had not understood it. and fe
that he had violated no confidenc,
Representative Miller said tonight tins
a month or more ago he compile
V Will d TequSbb4 from tHSs VUSLOulGe q
partment to forward his recommend;
fions on several postmasterships
Minnesota. After wait of sever;
weeks, he called at the department
he says, but could get no satisfactor
explanation and was for long tim
unable TO see the postmaster genera
He succeeded in gaining an andienc
Yesterday Afternoon, and it was durin
that conversation, according to M
Miller, that Mr.. Hitchcock informe
: him OF the existence of situatio
which had made it impossible for bit
to act as yet upon his recommend
tons.
Hitchcock is Silent.
Mr. Miller insists that he had n
idea that the interview was 10 be CO
sidered private, as there we're thre
other callers in Mr.. Hitchcock's offit
at the time who might have hear
the conversation. Representatis
Humphrey, of Washington, was one
the three present. and one or both
the others were congressman.
Before making the matter publ