Veterans Appointed

Special Capítol News Co. Correspoiidence. Washington, D. C, Murch. 20, 1891. Congressman Gorman is at home engaged in the natural but well-nigh impossible attempt to harmonize the differences of opinión among his constituents so that he can select one man for the office several men are trying to get, without having all the others rise up in their might and cali him their enemy. At Ann Arbor, and two or three other points in his district, he finds this situation staring him in the Pace, which, in the language of President Cleveland, is much more than a "theory" that confronts him, it is a "condition." Mr. Gorman hopes, and has good reason to believe, that personal interviews with the candidates, would-be candidate and all parties concerned, will result in a satisfactory and harmonious agreement being reached. Mr. Gorman has just succeeded in accomplishing one thing in his district that is of considerable interest, or at least considerable anxiety, to several republican postmasters in Michigan. The theory or rule laid down by President Cleveland and Postmaster General Bissell has been :hat no matter how late in his term Mr. Harrison commissioned a postmaster, that commission must be respected and that republican allowed to go on holding office under a democratie administration until the f uil four years of the commission had expired. That has never seemed very good politics to those who were out and wanted to get in, and as a consequence democfats have done much vigorous and justifiable kicking against such a rule and its literal enforcement. Now, Mr. Gorman has succeeded in getting the rule broken in one instance, and he has other cases in his district in which he hopes to be equally successtul. It seems that a year and a half before Mr. Harrison's term expired the Blissfield office became a presidental office, because of the increase of its business, and Mr. Harrison promptly re-appointed the same man who had held the office then for nearly four years. It was tlie president's duty to appoint somebody, and as is always customary, he commissioned his new appointee, who was also the old, for "four years from date." Consequently that man has held on undisturbed until President Cleveland's administration has now entered upon its second year, and fondly hoped he woulcí be allowed to serve until Mr. Cleveland had nearly served out his term, simply because his commission had that long to run. That man's dream has been dispelled and a democrat has been appointed in his stead, although he held the office over five years, and so has no cause for complaint at being removed now. The new postmaster at Blissfield, John Rentz, is a G. A. R. veteran, a very genial, companionable man, of strictestintegrity. Congressman Gorman has recently been looking out for the interests of the veterans of the late war, not only in the way of pensions, but also in seeing that they get their share of the offices. The last three postmasters appointed in the second congressional district have been Grand Army men. President Cleveland seems now to have struck a gait that will no doubt prove much more satisfactory to Michigan democrats than his former tender and considérate care not to offend Michigan republicans. During the past week he has appointed more postmasters for Michigan than during any other three months of his present term, and yet of those appointed the commissions of three expired as long ago as December 20, 1893, and three more on the day following, while several others expired early in January last. The only wonder arnong democrats all over the state is as to why he didn't at least fill those offices with men of his own party as soon as the commissions of the republican incumbents expired, even if he did not succeed in finding a cause thatwould have justified him in making a change before. The list of new stamp-lickers appointed during the week is as follows: Chauncey E. Bker, Plymouth; John C. Bracken, Allegan; Thomas F. Carroll, Grand Rapids: Frank W. Cornell, Kalamazoo; John W. Genteier, Constantine; William A. Strong, Reed City; Abram G. Wall, Saginaw, east side; Henry D. Wilber, Howell; Cassius Alexander, Grand Ledge; Morris A. Bement, Mason; John H. Bourns, Vassar; Louis G. Clapp, Mendon; Frank A. Ells, Charlotte; Charles M. Gibson, Fremont; Alfred Hagerman, Oxford; William A. Lewis, Evart; Levi S. Rice, Bessemer; Edwin S. Smith, South Haven; Chas. E. Stuck, Otsego; Wm. E. Thorp, Hart; Thomas Thornhill, jr., Milford; Wm Wiegand, White Pigeon; John Rentz, Blissfield. With Congressman Gorman, Griffin and Weadock at home for short visits, as they have been for the past few days, the Michigan delegation has had a temporary increase of its republican majority. Mr. Aitkin has, however, done what he could to even up that discrepancy by going home to Flint. He did not go home at the time of the Detroit banquet, as the other banqueters did, and has gone now to look after business connected with the Grand Lodge of Michigan of the Macabees, of which he is the head. Congressman Avery is now fully recovered from his recent illness, md is again as regularly at his post of duty as any of the younger members of the House. Congressman Moon, with his wife and daughter, took a trip down the Potomac on one of the beautiful steamers recently, and spent last Sunday with relatives at Norfolk, Virginia.