Show THE UTAH COMMISSION r Their Sleps forrostmastcr Barratis Itenioral Washington April ii ° Ata late hour last evening alid after a long J conversation with fife Iresldeu Poslmastcr General Wanamak decided to apinlnt Irving AITcnto a otter nt bait IaUs tb Sue I cotti Mr BarrtU this present in bSl e il cumbenX The reason given by Mr Watiatnaiter for the selection of i Ir Beuton is that the oTlce has bee under Democratic control for the past four years and three months and under the dr er curafetmccs there was no impropriety i I priety in making the tirasnp It may b douuWd bttweWr If the admlnlstralrDh HVoUld have reached rehe this Conclusion but for the ptrskUu Jot of the several members of the I Utah commission now In the cIty > o later than yeitcrJay thceo gcullemei called upon Mr Wana upn maSer and assured him that Mr Buratl expected logo that hewsnr t etoit wanted want-ed to go and Urn itrvoVlldbe In born perronalfaVbr to him Woe permitted per-mitted to iitepdownandout The po < t Thept nustcrgrniral knew the commis sioners to b truthful men and he believed them and t today Mr BcntonB Domination was tent to the Senate and he will no doubt be promptly confirmed I mav be raid iu lasting that there I no truth In the suitem lit that tho report of the Inspector who recently visited rcnty viIt Ball Lake severely URI Mr IJarralt managejentofthe office The report I am assured contains rpr ar cntins no reflection upon Mr Barrett that would in the remotest degree furnish fur-nish a pretext for his enforced with drawal from the service Herald The idea Uiat Mr Barrat would consider It a personal favor to h allowed to step down and but and would cignify hb desire t the republican nrembtrs of the Utah C lon was too absurd fo tQ who know Mr Barratt to b lee I he wanted t retire he would hal pure the method bo lisa followed through 1e and would have presented hIs n resignation He Is le s willing to accept In good feeling UB changes o i tOC wheel of fortune but hardly cares to b clven credit for whatnot is what-not his With a view to ascertain tog how trustworthy are the stem btrsofthc Utah Commission who are said to h known to the Postmaster Post-master General as truthful men 1 Mr Barratt was asked by a XEWS reiwrtr today what foundation there was for such an assertion on Alon their part Here I his reply The quotation you have read me from the Herald t dispatch seems to state the matter very plainly and yet Colonel Page assures me that the Commission have persistently declined to join in petitions or ptton meddle in matters of the cluracter in question I do not know Mr Saunders Messrs Godfrey and I Robertson have seen considerable of the office and certainly know something of the disadvantages under winch I have labored nut no word has ever passed between us justify the statement attributed to them J tiny are quoted aright added Mr Barralt ironically Urlllrll cally I thojlJ I suppose b greatly obliged for their delicate consideration and cniderton thoughtfuluess in snatching the limn from their own duties to enter this pica for an overworked over-worked fellow official But a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind What I mot care to have tht Hibht understand is that it Is not the change I oljcct t s much a the manner In which I I made I was not ucccsan to Invent excuse or telegraph oVer the country vague and loose insinuations which no of licial report on ito office would iu Jie least sustain J the President or PostrnjwterGeueraldesired to take up my commission at the end > r two years instead ot running to its full extent four they might at cast have made their wishes known I should not have driven them to the necessity of a tangled and difficult diffi-cult mathematical calculation Now it will b in order for the three Commissioners named to e plain their conduit |