Show i vAHINGTON HEWS March llThore was WVSIIINGTOX bout the usual rush of visitors at the Vhitc House today The President and at once betook himself e1l early arose L opening his mail which was unusually i Je As one of the clerks at the White large House put it President Cleveland re letters in a day us ex ceiVCS as man J week Arthur received mt sidnt that manyof the many fair inference r 7 0Vthe It IS VpWc appointments to oflice to > relate ll letters r L ran hurriedly through the The lrsident the reception of then began atid mail a1 of whom had been III visitors manY time Among the some titing for delegates from ConoTessional ongrCSSi0h1 callers were r ca North Carolllla llhn01H Iowa Kntuckv Secretary of WTar Floida The Secretaryrro aul Floi hall long conference and a noon an 1ono1 about called PresIdent At 1 oclock with the ence were White House of the the doors 0 and the Presi public the thrown open t lCCllWg callers for deut w 51 kept busy Cot Lamont said today over an hour in the clerical 1 force at dlICiion ilwt tie re House was made merely the White Therefore interest i of economy in the Is would be made to fill appointments 10 c3ni created He said there might auai changes in 5v b be one or two more POS II ollncl of the force but that would all Since President Clevelands in aiiniration It the entire clerical force including in-cluding I11 the private secretary has been buily engaged from 10 oclock in the morning until midnight It is expected that the rush of business will compel the continuance of tbese working hours for some time to come One of the regulations regula-tions of the house prohibits employees from smoking in the offices Edward D Clark of Vicksburg Miss today nominated for Assiptant Secretary of the Interior is a member in very high standing of the bar of Mississippi and has practiced before the Supreme Court of the Unted States lie is said to be a man of great legal learning and force of I character lie has also been so wedded to his profession that he has steadfastly declined to have any connection with politics although holding strong Democratic Demo-cratic opinion At the PoMoffice and Interior Departments I Depart-ments the rush of visitors continued today to-day without diminution and notices have been posted in conspicuous places by the PostmasterGeneral Secretary of Interior to the effect that only Senators Sena-tors and Repicsentatives would be received re-ceived in the afternoon This regulation is beginning to have a perceptible eCect and both those officials now find time to denote a small portion of the day to necessary neces-sary routine business The Secretary of the Treasury had a large number of callers today including tlneo large delegations one from Kentucky Ken-tucky headed by Senator Beck and Speaker Carlisle another fiom North Carolina headed by Senator Vance and a third from Virginia headed by Representative Repre-sentative Barbour Secretary Maiming appointed Eugene Higgins of Maryland chief of the appointment division cf the Treasury Department in place ox Trevitt of New York resgned Higgins is a I friend of Senator Gorman VicePresident Hendricks recently applied ap-plied to Postmaster General Vilas 10 have a friend appointed to the position of superintendent su-perintendent of the free delivery at the Chicago postoffice to take the place of the Republican incumbent Mr Vilas upon inquiry learned that the above named officer was usually appointed by the Chicago postmaster and so informed Mr Hendricks that he could not intenere Gen Black the newly appointed Commissioner Com-missioner of Pensions arrived here today to-day and called upon the President and Secretary Lamar He met with a cordial welcome and will assume his official duties du-ties as soon as confirmed by the Senate The caucus Of Republican Senators and its caucus committee which have been engaged early and late since the session bewail upon the allottment of places on the majority sides of the Senate committees commit-tees finished the task today but the remit re-mit will not be formally declaicd until tomorrow Senator Conger succeeds to the ehainnanship of the committee on post offices and post roads made vacant by uV retirement of Senator Hill Senator Sena-tor 1ike takes l the chair of the committee on Clam held by 1 Senator Cameron of V < M unsln Tenator Sewell takes Senator Leans place at the head of the committee com-mittee on military affairs Senator Erts is i made a member of the committee commit-tee on judiciaiy and foreign relations Senator Teller is made chairman of the committee on mines and mining and a iiKinVr of the committee on public lands The judiciary committee is increased in-creased by one and the commerce and public building committees by two members mem-bers each Many other changes were made in the membership of committees for the inn pose of equalizing the honors responsibilities and labors of the committee commit-tee rooms and the task of the caucus committee was found one of considerable difficulty its members are uuusuallv roticeut about their proceedings but it is understood that the feature of their work I lunch proved moit perplexing related to fie finance committee I One Senator it is said asked to be re hevell from farther service upon this committee unless its 0 > S composition was changed in some rajwrts lIe is cred ited wthi the yth impression that y New Eng land ideas wee dominant in the commit tee and is said to have given this as his reason for wishing to withdraw This it is caucT when brought before the full cauru tariff < p1CClpl t ate a discussion of the 1111 which wool and pIg ii 011 figured a thc leadinr elements Neither the caucus nor the > lJnc committee seems to chall < en its way clear to make the C1lflh1r0 for tte desIred ly the Senator from Ohio t f Il neo 3epubllcan membership of the if tlic committee as it stands tonight S > Ilat T as at thc last sossion Many lIPOlOt1t H T Urged Sherman to remain lIPOl 11 the fi finance committee upon the ro grou11 financial that his familiarity with the there be affairs of the government would e most His nlmo conspicuously serviceable 1 i n mittee name stands second upon the com list Hi t lie was not today i at the Capitol to and his further purposes in regard ° Ule matter are unknown 0 I |