Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The resolution offered by Eugene Halo in the Senate, calling for a list of Postmasters removed and appointed in the State of Maine at the instance of National Committeeman Brown, is regarded as the preliminary attack which the Republicans propose making on the confirmations. The Republican Senators met in caucus at Washington on the 11th inst., and Mr. Sherman resigned the Chairmanship which ho has held so long. Edmunds was chosen to succeed him. It was voted to give Logan his old Committee on Military Affairs, and place

Sewell at the head of the Joint Committee on the library. All the rest of the time was spent in discussing the position to be taken toward the President’s nominations. There was much talk, and the extreme critics of the President’s appointments found that they could not bind all their colleagues to oppose tho confirmation of those good in themselves, although made td fill vacancies caused by suspension. Logan, Sherman, Hale, Hoar, and others are said to have made very vigorous speeches in favor of a determined opposition to the confirmation of all nominations save those good in themselves, and made to fill vacancies caused by the expiration of terms. Allison, Mandcrsou, Came, rou of Pennsylvania, Dawes, Platt, and Van Wyck are named as among those who favored the policy of considering each case on its merits, regardless of the status of the office when it was filled. Senator Hale is said to favor confirming President Cleveland's good appointments and rejecting the bad ones. This, it is stated, expresses the attitude of many Republican Senators.