Show ARINGTON NEWS March llThere was WSIIl GTO X usual rush of visitors at the All tie abOut House today The President White himself early and at once betook aroSe his mail which was unusually nening to opNling A one of the clerks at the White large Cleveland receives 5 it President < e put House 1 letters in a dayascx celwR us manv week CC1Uj received in a Vrtlmr Prosulcn Ar that many of the It i is a f fair inference appointments to office to appo letter relate hurnedly PI through the The lrNidlnt ran the reception of then hegm I mail and had been in whom of vno vnitors i mam o time Among the viitifl p for CoflgreSSb01tl some delegates from callers were ron Iowa North Carolina jrolina Kentucky illinois Secretary 01 Val rue ulll Floida 11111 hal a long confer called about noon resident At 1 oclock thc l ence with IIoufe were White the tht doors of flflI the Presl puhli thrown open tn th Ctlwg ttdrs for dent was kept bug Jullont iu SjJI l today over an hour iu the clerICal j force at that tile reduction House was made merely txe White of economy Therefore vsfi intrlst 1 atlW tuicnts would be made to fill t 3 created lIe said there might nctrl two more changes m 1w one or it i 1r > < jJOE Drll1el of the force but that would jlt tbe President Clevelands in we be all the entire clerical force including wmration has been > secretary the private eluding ed from 10 oclock in the lIlSulY engaged until midnight It is expected fflonrng will compel the that the rush ot business contmuanw of these working hours for some time to come One of the regulations regula-tions of the house piohibits employees from smoking in the offices l Edward D Clark of ickbininr liss today nominated for Assislam Secretary of the Interior is a member in very high standing of the Imr oi Mississippi i and has practiced before the Supreme Court of the Uirted Staler He is paid to be a man of Great legal learning and force of character lie has also been so wedded to Ins profession that he has steadfastly declined to have any connection with poitKs although holding strong Demo cratc opinion At the Pofrtofiico and Interior Department Depart-ment the rush of visitors continued today to-day without diminution and notices have boon posted in conspicuous places In the PostmasterGeneral and Secretary of Interior to the effect that only Senator Sena-tor and Representative would be received re-ceived in the afternoon This regulation is beginning to have a perceptible eLect and both those officials now find time to 3 dEnot a mall portion of the day to neces san routine business The Secretary of the Treasury had a I f f large number of callers today including thee large delegations one from Ken tuck headed by Senator Beck and Speaker Carlisle another horn North Carolina headed by Senator Vance and a third irom Virginia headed by Representative Repre-sentative Barbour Secretary Manning 1 I appointed Eugene Higgins of Maryland chief of the appointment division of the s Treasury Department in place of Treyitt oi vW York resigned Higgins is a inend of Senator Gorman VicePresident Hendricks recently applied ap-plied to Postmaster General Vilas to have a mend appointed to the position of su peuitendent of the free delivery at the Chicago posloffice 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 infoined Mr Hendricks that he could not interere ben Black the newly appointed Com ini < ioner 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 oi Republican Senators and its caucus committee which have been pipped early and late since the session lm upon the allottment of places ont L1 on-t majority sides of the Senate commit tN fmisjied the task today but the reF re-F win not be formally declaied until niorro Senator Conger succeeds toe to-e t > < harmmship of the committee ont f on-t ot i PS and post roads made vacant his tV utirement of Senator huh Senator Sena-tor lik takes the chair of the committee on cli nis held by Senator Cameron of Wise msui Tenator Sewell takes Senator LonnV llace at the head of the committee com-mittee on military affairs Senator Laris K made a member of the commit tP Oil judiciary and foreign relations s < natiir Teller is made chairman of the committee on mines and mining and a mmiiir of the committee on public lauds Th judiciary committee is increased in-creased hv one and the commerce and public building committees by two member mem-ber each Shiny other changes were m111lin the meinbership of committees for the 11 jOSe of equalizing the honors pol11lllIhhes and labors of the committee commit-tee rooms and the task of the caucus committee was found one of considerable ditliculty Its members are unusually tioent about their proceedings but it is unuwstood that the feature of their work Mluch proved most perplexing related to use iuuince committee Une Senator it is bald asked to be re lieve I from farther service upon this COmitee unless Hs compo ition was iiaiig d in sonic rcspects He is cred Jd I w t ih the iiiipresson that v New JO Eng tiUll Sand 11 1 wee dominant in the commit tee 4 > have given this as his ii 4 > amg to ithdiaw This it is rOI i when J brought before the full caul tarI Viecroilated a discussion of the as It I 1 J aicli wool and pig on figured n r lemenLs 1 Neither the raUII n vf IAV L411u JIt JItre a < > committee seems to Chat HC its y v clear to make the fort lejmed I n 1w Senator from Ohio fInance T berhiP of the t is I the 1I Q Vl stands tonight i1ItC a sL lltsl session Many FPImflOrM haY ur < remaij urgei Klman to remain upon thl 111111ce eODlll Vtee the mi1e upon roulld that his 11llallcial amliarity with the there affairs of the government would be His 11103t cOllspiuoufly serviceable mttecl name list 7arnd8 84n upon the corn lIe Avas not < aL the Capitol tDday and to th his further 11rpOSe8 in regard matter are unknown |