, 1874-09-03
WASHINGTON.
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rHptib1c Officer.
.sptc,at Dispatch to The CHICAGO Tribune.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 1-In oyerhauling
tho revised Btatntos to-day m ominont lawyer
hero on business found, as by accldont, tue fol-
lowing lar, which was passed III 1890, which
seems to possess peculiar Significance just now.
THO extract IL Sec. 179G Of the revised statutes,
aud llay bo found in Vol. OF tIo United States
stasuteu, page l30, aud roads as follows:
All oalees attached to the scat Of doyernment shall
bo exercised n tho District Of Colunln nnl not cl1a
where, cxcepta as otherwise provided by Law.
The President has been in Washington but
twice or three times since tho adjournment Of
Congress-, aud yot tho routine business Of his
Office has gone as though he was at the Wliito
House all the time. Tho postal treaty with
Franco vas nent to Saratoga. whore it received
his ottlcial signature while tho commission Of
Poatulastor~Gen. Jewell was signed ak Long
Branch, and tho commissions OF hundreds Of
minor officers havo been .Bigned at different
Martins Vineyard canaE-nleoting: In hrlof,
very insignificant part Of the official business
pertaining to tho ofco Of President haa heen
transacted Mt the scat OF Government Whilo no
elsewhere. It is hold that mono of these olflciRl
acts nro legal that they arc all void ut law. II
thiB construction Of tue law should be put to tho
tcst and bo sustained. it will involve His Excel
lency to worry embarrassing extent.
AN INcoRHurT1DLE OFFICER.
Quito pretty liltlo fight III in progrosa hore,
caused by the determination of tho President to
renioye kennott n. Cobb. Supervisor Of Internal
lleyonuo. and put ono Valley, Of Now Orleans,
Into Clerk OF tho United States District Court, In
his place. Cobb iAn brother Of Clinton /. Cobb.
member Of Congress- from North Carolinn, and
Inns supervision OF tho StateH OF Kentucky. North
Carolinn, Aabumn, Tennessee. mississippi. and
I.ouiHinna. 11o llna noyor boon regarded ns q
1rst-class ofllcor. and m oifort was mado
OF him, but lie stuck like burr. Az
his brother was thon 4 candidate for Congress
on tho Republican ticket, it was doomed best by
tho Administration not to rcmoyo him agninBt
ILLS protest. Now, however, an opportunity
oiTors. and aB his brother was defeated for Con-
gress ut tho Into election, hc will no Het atloat.
lie is nlnking vigorous light, bRokcd up princl-
pally by the brother and Gov. Kellogg, Of Lou'si-
ana It appeats that Valley is a pinchbac|t
| politician, mud this sudden yeoring iudicntea
| TINT PiNcl,baoH's turn las come. Cobb altcges
! tho tsters at Now Orleans. He BayA
| that thoy offered him Sd, 900 month to allow
them to do I'LL illicit business, but when they
+! found that ho wah incorruptible they became ELI
| ragged, and got about 70 bonllro hih removal.
| IliA sNtcment docs not receive TINT crelencc
| TINT ho doa!res In official olruloH. However,
| Copb has been worry thrifty ohleor, aud Inns had
bis vito bornc on tile rolls If lliH ollco ~ clerk
at 31.600 o yoar until quito racoutly, but It
| looks now ~ though he would have to go 70
| work for a living.
| E15Me Aasociat<d Pre4s1
| APPOINTMENT.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.---SAmuot Dloomor llas
bccn appointed Gaugor for the Second District
| Of AiuloHOtA.