Show C 1 UT IS APPONTED I I The President Selects Him for a 1 I I V f r Member of the Commission j V HE SUCCEEDS SAUNDERS g Senator Faulkners Interest in the Affairs f Af-fairs of Utah Snscaroras Not in Favor with the Admin Istratlon Postmaster Naslis Case Proper Effort Will Induce the rowers row-ers That Be to Chop OS Ills Head WASHINGTON June 6Special V Secretary Smith had his way and today Colonel Lett was appointed a member of the board of registration and election for Utah This is especially reorganization V of the commission and Colonel Lett succeeds suc-ceeds exSenator Saunders of Nebraska t I Democrats generally recognize the importance im-portance of having Democrats in control of the commission and Congress at the last session so worded legislation as t make plain what the duties of members should be I has been thought here forBorne for-Borne time that Colonel Lett would be a member of the commission and the fact that Secretary Smith favored the appointment 1 appoint-ment was telegraphed THE HERALD Senator Faulkner was also anxious that jl be should be appointed and went to the White House several times t urge the selection In this connection it should be said that Senator Faulkner chairman of the Senate V committee on territories which committee was to visit Utah this month but which will be delayed until later in the year on nccount of the inability of Senators Hill V nnd Platt to accompany them to investigate investi-gate the condition of the territory that is knocking at the doors of the Union for r admission is a gentleman who not only r las made a careful study here of the f V questions a they have come before Congress Con-gress but he takes a kindly interest in the matter of forming several new states I at the earliest possible day In many ways he has shown an interest in Utah nnd is understood t be quite favorably inclined to the belief that Utah is justly 1 entitled to admission i His advice and influence have been sought here withiu the past two months by some of the most prominent Utah visitors t the capital and ho has repeatedly re-peatedly been t the White House with these gentlemen to say nothing of what r he has done at the departments whenever he thought his services could be of any assistance to the party in Utah 1 Of course Senator Faulkner has not proclaimed what he expects his impressions impres-sions to bo after he makes a visit to the territory but it having become known that hi had looked into some of the leading V lead-ing questions affecting Utah the president presi-dent has on several occasions consulted V him himFrom From all that can be learned here the 1 administration people confidently count on making Utah Democratic when the territory is admitted i the slowness With which the pr enL j as proceeded i due to a desire ja his p j to do the work carefully I To use a commoi every day expression the administration y iple are on to the socalled Liberal element in Utah who have been doing everything in their power to postpone the admission of the territory They are looked upon herewith I p j here-with suspicion and are regarded a disturbers dis-turbers and while the higher officials of the government do not care to do anything any-thing that will look like expelling any set of men from the party yet the talk is plain and i the Tuscaroras ever expect any recognition at the hands ol the present pre-sent administration they will have to fellow works of repentance They are certainly cer-tainly not in favor at this time Their aims and objects have been too Well known ever since the meeting of the Chic 3go convention last year They have also been trying to raise a row since the 4th of March and the repeated attempts of some of the shining lights in the band 1 to discourage statehood is viewed in J Washington as being anything but i creditable I had been supposed that nearly everybody in Utah from local pride Would like to see a new state formed but from the way some of the Liberals have been backcapping the movement it would seem that certain men are against any und everything that they cannot control Since the Presbyterian general assembly V has been in session here Miss Quillen who claims to have resided some time in Utah has been making speeches at the womens meetings in which she shows that she is terribly opposed t the admis i Cion of the territory She has endeavored to work up an adverse feeling and declares V de-clares that the very moment Utah gets Into the union polygamy will be revived re-vived Postmasters of the presidential class V are being removed on charges of less seriousness than those which apparently Icrousness apparenty can be brought against Postmaster Nash of Salt Lake I has been common talk hero among western people that Mr Kash circulated a great deal of offensive Republican literature through his office during the last campaign and i this fact can be substantiated and the Democrats k pica out their man it is believed that the president and the postmastergeneral X viII take hold of the case and appoint the successor of Mr Nash some time in the next few months It cannot be done right off because there are so many cases ahead of it awaiting action No one has made any charles against 17 Mr Nah that reflect on him personally but in a game of politics it i expected V that the Democrats will want what they WVI consider theirs and the fact that a shrewd trick a worked when Nash was appointed ap-pointed will go fa towards inducing the powers that be to chop off his head A month or six weeks ago the Indications were that the president was disposed to let most of the Republican postmasters servo out their full terms but lately prsnatire has been brought t bear and now there is a disposition manifested to r proceed against the Republicans ana get V them out ExPostmasterGeneral Dickinson V ir Michigan has done much influence sentiment sen-timent in this matter It is said that recently r re-cently he told both the president and the postmastergeneral that there was sot J so-t V V V much discontent because of the slowness with which removals were being made that he feared the Democrats would lose control of the next House of Representatives tives unless a different policy was pursued The president is known to have decided views about officials who have used their positions for partisan purposes as is reported re-ported that Postmaster Nash was guilty of in the last campaign Mr Cleveland and most of his cabinet officers are all right so far as the patronage question is concerned but they appear to want to do things in their own way and in their own time About the close of tme the fiscal yearJune 30it is thought there will be a shaking up all along the line An adjustment of the revenues has been necessary and the financial and economical policy of the government is being mapped out |