The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-02
GENERAL BRDNkLEY
SUP7. PUBLIC
DOCUMENTS
MERIDIAN MAN APPOINTED TO
SECOND BEST POSITION IN
PRINTING OFFICE.
BOTH SENATORS FOR HIM
Congressman sisson Only Member of
Congress From Mississippi Not On
Hand for Opening Of Regular ses
sion-Speech Was Big Joke.

Washington, Dec. 2-The biggest |
job in the government printing office,
next to the position of public printer,
has gone to Mississippian. 1t is the
position of superintendent of public
documents and the appointee is Gen.
eral Joshua H. Brinkley, for many
years a resident of Meridian and a
thoroughbred Mississippian.
The appointment was based on
merit, but it shows that when Missis-
sippi's senators agree on man that
man has a good chance to land a
plum. Both Williams and Vardaman,
as we'll as the entire delegation in the
lower house, recommended General
Brinkley, and he was appointed over
several score of other aspirants.
In number of occasions heads of
prominent departments in the Wilson
administration have shown they are
willing to regard Mississippi for her
long and fruitless stand for Democracy,
but in most cases it has been impos-
sible because If man is endorsed by
either senator, the other usually OBJ.
jects and Mississippians are thereby
deprived of their just rewards.
General Brinkley has been in the
government printing Office for many
years and knows the workings of the
document division from first to last.
Many applicants were from states
which hold part of the balance of po-
litical power in the country, and some
of General Brinkley's closest friends
feared that he would not be appointed
for this reason. But Public Printer
Ford appointed him because he is best
suited for the position and because he
is one man on whom the two Missis
sippi senators have not disagreed.
Sisson Only Absentee.
With the exception of Representa-
> tive Thomas U. Sisson the entire Mis-
sissippi delegation is back for the
opening Of the first regular session o
the first Democratic Congress in six
teen years. Representatives Collie
and Witherspoon arrived Sunday, fill
ing out the entire Mississippi represen
tation except Mr.. Sisson.
Not only Mississippians, but rep
resentatives from other states regar
J Mr.. Sisson's speech criticising his CO.
: leagues for being absent as one of tn
biggest jokes of he season. Washing
tonians are used to demagogy of Gel
/ tain kind, but for man to make
speech on the floor of the House O
l Representatives criticising a certain
: action of three-forths of his colleague
' and then commit the same action him
r self in four days time is somethin
new even in this section and has ful
: nished several good laughs for group
collected in the lobbies and cloa
rooms. The humor of the situation
increased by the fact that Represent
tive Sisson is the last man in his deli
cation to return.
Williams Loses Hard Fight.
Senator John Sharp Williams lost
hard fight before the senate Thursda
when L. E. Pinkham was appointe
= Governor of Hawaii. President Wilso
sent this nomination to the Senate Q
three separate occasions, and on 9
many occasions the senate refused
confirm it because of a fight again
g the Hawaiian which was led by Sen
tor Williams.
o. Senator Williams opposed the a
pointment of Pinkham, 1t is unde
IL stood, purely on the ground that he
d. a dyed-in-the-wool, stand-pat Repub
W can, and that the appointment Of su
ot man to one of the most importa
he administrative positions in the COVER
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