Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1889 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Doling the first three weeks of the Administration little was done with the Postoffices, owing to the pressure of other matters of greater importance, but ‘ for the fourth, fifth and sixth weeksMr, i Clarkson has broken the record. Four ■ years ago First Assistant Postmaster i General Stevenadn made changes pretty rasHily, out Mr. Ciarkson.has distanced rfißhfs competitors. Jn the fourth week: of his administration of the office of First Assistant Postmaster General he appointed 719 Republican postmasters. • and the next week there were 687- ; changes. Last week, which was the ; sixth, the record was badly smashed, 923 postmasters having been appointed, making in all for the three weeks, 2,329. i There were nearly four hundred appointments last week, and there are no indications of a lull in the proceedings. The President made a declaration Tuesday which indicates that he has not "forgotten the civit service reform plank in the National Republican platform. A delegation, consisting of several members of Congress, waited on him to ask a further postponement of the application |of the civil service rules to the railway mail service. The President replied that it could not be done. The first postponement from March 15 to May 1, he said, had been made because of the inability ot Civil Service Commission to prepare eligible lists by the earlier date, but there was no excuse for any further postponement, and none would be made. ‘•We should be disregarding the pledges made to the country,” said General Harrison, “if we did that.”

Ex-Senator Saunders, Russell Harrison’s father-in-law, is mentioned for a place in the Utah Commission. He wants’to be Collector of the Internal Revenue for the Nebraska District, but the place is desired by the delegation for somebody else. An effort is therefore being made, it is said, to have him accept a Utah Commissionership, which ia worth $5 OQO a year, -As-it won hl necessitates residence in Utah there is some doubt as to whether he wii I seriously consider the otter. There are on file in the Pcstoffice Department a large number of applications for appointment as Postoffice Inspectors. These applications are now being returned to the senders, with the information that all appointments to this service must be made after examination and certification by the United States Civil Service Commission. The names and addresses of these appFcants have been sent to the clerk of the commission, who will notify -therm when and where examinations will be held. Representatives Houk and Alfred Taylor, of Tennessee, have asked the President to amend the civil service rules so as to permit the restoration to the service of men who were dismissed for politics! reasons by the last administration, without regard to the length of time since they were dismissed. The President said he would give the matter very careful consideration. Since March 4 about five hundred changes have been made in the personal of the Railway Mail Service. First Assistant Postmaster -General Clarkson, in speaking of the matter to day , said it has been the policy of the department to displace incompetent clerks and to appoint experienced and thoroughly efficient men who left the service during the last administration, wnere such were available and desirions of reentering the service. The President Wednesday appointed Robert P. Porter, of Now York, super intendent of the census and Major W. H. Calkins, es Indiana, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory. X . . Eb Henderson, of Indiana, Tuesday retired from the position of Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue and was succeeded by George Wilson. The resignation of General Frans Sigel as Pension Agent at New York City has been received by Commissioner Tanner. * The President has appointed Jos. A. Sexton to be postmaster at Chicago. He is a well known business man of that aty-