Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

In an interview on the Depew letter at Washington ex-Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch spoke about the reconstruction policy which had given Mr. Johnson so much concern, since, believing that the Southern States were still jn the Union, he •was naturally anxious they should have representation in Congress as soon as possible. He began to look upon some of the leading members of both houses of Congress as the real disunionists, and criticised their determination to prevent the States having representation on account of attempted secession. Mr. McCulloch continued: That is what we all understood his speech of August, 1866, to mean when he referred to Congress as "just -hanging upon the verge of the Government," said Mr. McCulloch. But Ido not see how I can discuss the question. It is nineteen years and over since the event is alleged to have happened, and I have not the slightest recollection of it in anv form. I never kept any memoranda of what occurred at Cabinet meetings. My time was so much occupied with the duties of Secretary of the Treasury that I did not have much time to devote even to sessions of the Cabinet, but always attended them, and remained only so long as the business of my own department required it- In regard to the allegations made by Mr. Depew, I can only say that they are entirely new to me. My relations with President Johnson were probably as intimate and confidential as those of any member of the Cabinet. I never heard a suggestion from him that could be construed as otherwise than loyal and patriotic. An offer of $55,000 is said to have been made by Carl Schurz for the Boston Post. ....President Cleveland has. appointed Frederick H. Winston, of Illinois, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Persia. The President has also appointed Wm. A. Mahoney to be Collector of Customs for the district of Fernandina, Fla.; Geo. A. Hessen to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Memphis; and Walter Goddard to be Collector of Customs for the district of Fairfield, Conn. W. E. Smith, of the firm of Smith & Weed, of Plattsburg, N. Y., has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the place of Charles E. Coon. This gives New York the whole Treasury Department, including three Secretaries and the Treasurer. The postmaster at Chico, Cal., was short in his accounts, and suspended. His assistant. Bowers, sent on a petition for the position, and an examination showed that the signatures had been gotten for his brother for an entirely different jmsition. Bowers was removed and J.,D. Sproul appointed to the place. D. B. Searl. district. attorney for Minnesota, has tendered his resignation,.