Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-09-29
LIST OF POSTMASTERS
EXPECTED THIS WEEK
President Soon to Send Nomi-
nation to the Senate.
BELLS In LINE IT'S SAID.
Attitude Of Postmaster General is to
Follow the Recommendations Of
Congressman.

Unless some objection not now
foreseen is presented, the patience
and perseverance of three members
of the Maryland delegation will b.
rewarded this week by the President
when he ends in his long list Of post
mastership appointments.
Representative Smith, OF the Fifth
district, and Covington and Lewis
are vitality concerned in the nomina-
lions about to be made. With the
exception of thr1e in Mr.. Coving-
toms district, these will be the only
appointmt nts made at the instance
Of the three House members.
Not an Office has been filled by a
Democrat in the Sixth district and
mot one in the Fifth, and while three
Democrats were appointed TO Office
in the First, they have lever been
confirmed and are, therefore, not yet
on the payroll. Only one vacancy
has occurred in the Second, which has
relieved Representative Talbot of
patronage troubles.
AS matters stand, only one postal
appointment in the State has been
finally made. That was in the case of
Sherlock Swami, postmaster at Bal
timore. A glance at the record of
nominations printed for the use of
the Senate shows that Maryland is
the only State in the Union of which
this can be said.
Postmaster-G sneral Burleson, who
has been going carefully into the
Maryland postal situation, has given
assurances to the three Congressman
concerned that he is inclined to fol-
low their recommendation in all cases
now up for appointment. This has
been the policy of the Postmaster
General in almost every case he has
had before him. With this situation,
il is regarded as certain that the
Annapolis plum will fall to forme T
State Senator Joseph H. BELLS.
The appointment of Colonel Swami
instead Of Col. Louis M. Rawlins at
Baltimore was an exception. The
naming of r. M. Self as postmaster
at St. Louis was anothe I, but the rule
has been to follow closely the recon-
mendations of Congre ssmen.
And the three Maryland Represen-
tativss have in turn laid down a pol
icy of their own in connection with
postal vacancies in their districts.
They are being guided by the indorse-
ments of local State Ce atrial Commit
teemen in recommending men to the
Postmaster-General and to the Presi-
dent.
The important Maryland offices now
to be filled are Annapolis, Cumber-
land, Crisfield, Hancock and Thur
mont. Among the minor offices are
fredericksburg, Ellicott City, Mount
Savage, Hurlock and Silver Spring.
As soon as these postmasters are
named-and they are expected to go
to the Senate this week the Con-
gressmen will have more time to press
the int rnal revenue collectorship APP
pointments. This matter will come
up at the second delegation meeting
tomorrow, which will be held in the
Office of Representative Linthicum.
In addition to the members of the
delegation, Mayor Preston will be
present. An effort will be made to
have Senator John Walter Smith on
hand. He did not participate in the
first conference, though he Joined in
the protest to she President against
the appointment of a Delawarean.