Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The work of reorganizing the civilservice commission is found ’by President Cleveland to be one of great difficulty, especially as the salaries arc limited to $3,500 per annum. Among a number who have- declined to serve are M. L. Saltonstall and Charles Codman, of Massachusetts. The Louisville Courier-Journal publishes a lengthy interview with Senator Beck upon the Johnson-Grant-Depew matter. Mr. Beck was a Representative from Kentucky in Congress during Johnson’s impeachment, and all of his recollections are contrary to the theories of Mr. Depew. In regard to Johnson’s imbroglio with Grant about the Stanton matter, Mr. Beck says the President gave him a letter from Gen. Sherman, “which, together with his charges and Gen. Grant’s admissions, proved, as he and I thought, that Grant had agreed to turn the War Department over, to him, and not give it up to Stanton, and that Grant and Sherman, by their action on the 18th and 19th of January, virtually confessed this fact by insisting, for the good of the service, on the resignation of Stanton. ” This letter is as follows: No. 352 K Street, Washington. I neglected this morning .to say that I had agreed to go down to Annapolis to spend Sunday with Admiral Porter. Gen. Grant had to leave for Richmond on Monday morning at 6 o’clock. At a conversation with the General after the interview wherein I offered to go with him on Monday to Mr. Stanton and say that it was our joint opinion that he should resign, it was found impossible, by reason of his going to Richmond and my going to Annapolis. The General by his course will call on you to-morrow, and offer to go to Stanton and say for the good of the service he ought to resign. This on Sunday. On Monday I will call upon you, and if you think it necessary I will do the same—call on Mr. Stanton and tell him he should resign. If he will not, then it will be time to consider ulterior matters. In the meantime it also happens that no necessity exists for precipitating matters. Yours truly, W. T. Sherman. The President has appointed Frederick H. Winston, of Chicago, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Persia. Carl Schurz is said to have made overtures for the purchase of the Boston Post (Democratic), with a view to making it an independent paper. William E. Smith, of New York, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to succeed Charles E. Coon. Treasurer Jordan, in commenting upon statements made in a speech in Virginia by Senator Sherman, remarked that the latter would not dare to advocate the application of silver dollars to the liquidation of the public debt. United States District Attorney D. B. Searl, of Minnesota, has forwarded the following to President Cleveland: “If you desire my resignation as United States Attorney in and for the District of Minnesota, I hereby cheerfully place th‘6 same at your disposal;

1 provided no charges of any kind have been ■ made or are pending against me.” Thomas E. Heenan, of Minnesota, ■ has been appointed Consul to Odessa.