The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
thumbs DOWN
FOR DEMOS IN
REVENUE JOBS
sfject Appeals to Save Wilson Ap.
pointees In Illinois; Belgian
Immigration.
Washington News Bureau.
Rock Island A rr11s

Washington, D. c., Sept. 17-Sen-
stors Mckinley and Mccormick are
being beseiged with appeals from
doWn-state Illinois in behalf OF
pemocratic deputy revenue collec-
tors at Springfield. Peoria, Fast ST.
Louis. Rock Island, Decatur and
ether cities of the state, who are
about to be replaced by Republican
sppointees.
II was announced at the Office OF
senator Mccormick here this week
b. that the Illinois senators will fol-
inv their settled policy of recon-
handing the appointment of Repub-
IIcans for non-civil service jobs
ike the collectorships and that the
Democratic incumbents will be
onsted as rapidly as is consistent
With efficiency in the service.
One of the storm-centers of the
state is Peoria. Three deputy col
factors, william T. Dunno, related
m former Governor Dunno,
Theodore Peterson, and Robert l..
henderson. all appointed under
president Wilson, are attempting to
remain in office and their friends
snpealed to the Illinois senators
and TO down-sLate members of the
house this week in their behalf.
The pressure which is being
brought to bear on the senators is
evidenced by the fact that Repub-
Icsn members of the house have in
several cases interviewed in behalf
of the present incumbents, urging
their retention. Representative
Edward ]. King, Galesburg, wired
from his home at Galesburg this
week asking that Henderson be re-
tanned at Peoria. and Ex-Governor
Richard Yates, Springfield, now rep
observation-disclosures from the state,
has asked that William T. Dunno be
continued in office under the Hard
ing administration.
Senator Mckinley returned from
Stockholm, Sweden, this week,
after a month spent at the meeting
of the parliamentary union.
He passed through Washington
bound for his home at Champaign
where he will enjoy a brief rest be-
fore meeting Senator Mccormick
for a patronage conference IN Chi
cago next week. The conference
had originally been scheduled for
last week, but was postponed.
Springfield AK Next.
At Senator Mccormick Office
this week the policy being followed
at the Springfield revenue office
was cited as typical of the situa-
ton throughout the state. Revenue
Collector George Schwancr has
been furnished with the slate of ap-
rcintees agreed upon by the two
senator's but has been instructed to
make the actual changes only when
successors have been sufficiently
trained to relieve the incumbents
without detriment to the service.
OF the several hundred federal
Jobs which have been distributed in
down-state Illinois in the past six
months in the revenue department,
surprisingly large number of Sp-
plicants having failed to qualify. 1t
Is stated here that more than so
sppointees in Illinois to positions in
the revenue offices have been COM
PEELED to decline because they were
beyond the age limit of So years.
The treasury department officials
are strictly enforcing this rule as it
applies to revenue collectors.
illinois congressman are receiv-
ing many letters from constituents
urging their aid in securing the ad-
mission of immigrant Belgians to
this country.
One of the principal colonies Of
Belgians in the United States is in
the territory lying near Rock Is
King Albert made his American
tour he stopped in Moline to ad-
dress several thousand of his for
mer subjects
In recent months the immigration
authorities have been strictly en-
forcing the requirement that every
alien admitted to the country must
be able to read and write. Belgium
ranks as one of the most illiterate
nations of Europe and hundreds of
hlng Albert's subjects have been
refused admission within the past
few weeks.
e. D. DePauw, of the Kewanee
savings bank. this week asked the
commissioner of immigration to ad-
MT CAMEL Martens, Belgian, who
mas relatives in Kewanee. Martens
mas been barred for the present be
cause of his failure to meet the lit
efary requirements
Representative Loren E. Wheeler,
springfield. arrived in Washington
late this week, the first of the Illi-
nois members to return to the cap
Nai since the recess. He was &C
.ompanied by Mrs. Wheeler and
tAelr son, Waldo.
representative William A Roden-
Oerg, East ST. Louis, is expected to
arrive some time during the coming