Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-01
SAID TO HAVE SELECTED FOUR
TEEN PERSONS OUT OF POS
SIBLE AZ PRESIDENTIAL POST
MASTERS IN DISTRICT.
SENATORS MAY DISAGREE
DONNA AND MERCEDES SAID TO
BE AMONG THE NUMBER. BUT
CONGRESSMAN REFUSES TO
DISCLOSE NAMES.
Especial STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 1.-Out
of forty-seven presidential postmasters
in the 10Th congressional district, there
will be approximately II vacancies
which the postof1ice department is likely
to fill soon. Representative Garner has
already filed at the department his
recommendation for several of these Of
fees but is not making his recommended
tions public till nominations are for
warded to the senate.
The Offices where Mr.. Garner has made
recommendations or will make them
soon are: Bracketville, Kinney county:
Uvalde, Uvalde county: HOndo, Medina
county; Floresvillc. Wilson county:
Pearsall and Dilley, FriO county; Co.
Kingsville, Nueces county; Aransas
Pass, San PatriciO county, and Mer-
cedes and Donna, Hidalgo county.
Most Texas members of the house have
made public their recommendations for
pOstmasters but Representative Garner
prefers not to do this until after he is
certain that his recommendations will
be hOnOred. 1t is claimed that i'm the
interim before the nominations are made
other aspirants might lombard the de
partment and likewise center their at
tacks upon the endorsed candidate.
There is considerable talk in Texas
circles here about the likelihood of
Senators CulbersOn and Sheppard being
unable to agree upon numerous federal
appointments. 1t has been suggested
that Senator Culberson will be more
kindly disposed toward the original
lanti-Wilson democrats in Texas than
Senator Sheppard will be. Just how
much foundation there is for such an
expectation can not be stated. In the
marshalShip for the western district.
Senator CulberSOn'S friends insist that
he really got the man he wanted in Capt.
Rogers. although originally Senator Cul-
bersOn endorsed another.
There has been some show Of boldness
among these conservative Texas demo
Gratis since the Capt. Rogers incident
They believe they can depend upon Sen
atOr CulberSOn within certain limits.
While these conservative members Of
the Lone Star delegation in the house
have been asserting that they would
have nothing to do with the general pat
rOnage, like United States marshals dis
trict attorneys. collectors of customs and
SO forth. one hears hints that the con
servativeS will none the less make il un-
comfortable for certain asprants for
federal offices. The protest by the dele
gates to the Baltimore convention.
which protest was presented to Presi-
dem Wilson of late. has angcred these
conservatives, who are asking whether
aSpirants for Office in that list of Balti-
better to abstain.
Now whether the democrats behind
these yelled threats can make good is to
be determined. Apparently they are
looking to Senator CulbersOn to help
pull their chesnutS out of the fire. u
timately he may be unwilling to do so.
The same conservatives. who feel most
friendly toward the senior senator, have
advised him not to get into too lively a
wrangle with Senator Sheppard but to
enter into some arrangement by which
they can endorse democrats for federal
Office. One of the plans suggested has
been that each senator shall have the al
ternate choice and that the other sena-
tor in each case shall o. k. the endorse
ment of his colleague. 1t is not certain
by any means that such an arrangement
will be made. But soon after the extra
session Of congress cOnvenes there will
be an effort by the two senator's to
agree OH patronage endorsements.