Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1885 — MEN OF NOTE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEN OF NOTE.

William L. Trenholm, Civil-Service Commissioner. Col. William L. Trenholm, of Charleston, 8. C., is about 50 years ot age, an active business man, and was recommended for the appointment by leading friends of the Civil-Service Reform movement North and South. He is the son of the late Secretary Trenholm of the Treasury of the Southern Confederacy, and haß been brought into prominenoe lately by his address before numerous bankers’ conventions on the silver question, and his writings on the same subject, which have attracted wide attention. An argument which he presented to the Secretary of the Treasury some weeks ago in behalf of the rice-grow-

ers of South Carolina was a model of logical statement. It was while he was in Washington to present the views of the rice-growers on the rice-duty question that the President sent for him and had a chat, with him, one afternoon, when no one could interrupt them-' Tlie President was favorably impressed by his visitor, and subsequently offered him the Civil-Service Commissionership, which was accepted. Col. Trenholm, like Mr. Edgerton, is a pronounced civil-service reformer—a eivilservice reformer on principle—and there is no doubt that he will do all in his power to carry out the views of the President on that question.