The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
5000 INDIANA
DEMOCRATS IN
JOB STAMPEDE
Senator Van Mugs Has Only
Sixty BerthS That He
Can BeStoW.
HOLIDAY ON PATRONAGE
Awarding of Posts Held Up
Because of Emergency
Legislation.
BY WALKER STONE
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, March 30. - Five
thousand job-hungry Indiana Dem
Ocrats have written to Senator
Frederick Van Nuys asking fol
places on the federal pay roll.
Impatient for the spoils of victory
HOosier Democrats, like their party
colleagues in all other sections OF
the country, can not see why they
are not ushercd up to the pie coun-
ter, now that the party of Jeffer-
son and Jackson is in control at the
White House and the Capitol
Nevertheless. Senator Van NuyS at
present is poWerless to respond tC
these please for patronage. Nor
viii he, at any time in the near fu-
ture, be able to satisfy more than
one out of one hundred applicants.
Moratorium on Patronage
The new Roosevelt administra-
ton, centering its attention on
emergency matters, is operating UNI
der partial moratorium on patron
age. And even when that mora
forum is lifted, there will be avail
able for immediate distribution to
Indiana Democrats only approx
mately sixty jobs-federal positions
over which Senator Van Mugs will
be the supreme arbiter.
When the administration lifts the
patronage floodgates, the first In
diana appointment to be made will
be for the positions of United States
attorney for the southern and
northern federal court districts, and
collector of internal revenue for
the state.
Senator Van Mugs already has in
formed the White House that he
desires the appointment of Val No
Ian of Evansville as United States
attorney for the southern district;
Jim Fleming of Portland, as United
States attorney for the northern
district; and Will H. Smith, of In
dianapolis, as collector of internal
revenue. Each of the United States
attorneys will have under him two
assistants and one clerk.
Wishes to BE Granted
It is known that President Roose-
welt and Postmaster-Gen James
A. Farley patronage car of the new
administration. have assured Sena-
tor Van Mugs that his recommended
tions will be followed.
Under the collector of internal
revenue are fifty-eight deputy COL
lectorships, not protected by civil
service laws. These deputy COL
lectorships comprise the bulk of the
sixty-odd jobs that will be availa-
bic in the near future.
There will be no vacancy in the
two offices of United States mar
shall in Indiana before 1885, unless
the Republican incumbents are
forced to resign. 1t is believed, how
ever that their designations will be
requested as soon as the emergency
legislation has been passed by con-
greSS.
Makes His Choice
Senator Van Mugs announced
several weeks ago that he would
recommend Omer jackson of Green
field, for the United States mar
Shals post for the southern dis
trict, and Judge Al w. Hosinski, of
South Bend, for marshal of the
northern district.
Senator Van Mugs chief worry is
not how to distribute the sixty-odd
Jobs He already has made his
commitments on most of those jobs.
But, what can he do for the other
1910 deserving Democrats who
have asked for help? That is the
problem which keeps the new sena-
tor awake these nights.