The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-13

take your place any day at half the pay.
know it isn't an agreeable: sort OF work Tor
YOU, but it's got to be done. Yes or MOI"
The General Of the Army groaned.
sDon't take on so, my dear young lei
low. I'll prepare the general orders ana
send them over and you can sign them, anu
after that you can 60 on writing memoirs
and enjoying yourself and I'll run the
army" j.. =,
Some conversation in lower tone fol-
lowed, and then NJ. Chandler walked out,
singing merrily =. .en..
Zachary Chandeliers bossed Tccumseh! q. &,
"NIr. Secretary! !" said I.
"Ah, Mr.. Ferguson !" he replied.
"Want to see me? Awfully busy, but meet
me at the Department Of Justice in half an
hour s.f
In half an hour was at the Department
| OF Justice, and announcing my engagement
was ushered into the interior waltlnS-room.
There was nobody there but the keyhole,
to which addressed myself first with the
eve and afterwards with the ear. Mr.. Taft
and Mr.. Chandler were seated by the table,
the former agitated and flushed, the latter
calm and confident. Mr.. Chandler was
speaking: l.1 =. -.
GLOW about that opinion?" he said.
| "I can't write it, Zachary" answered the
Acknowledgement. "Fve thought it over,
and ayed-to our Father, which is in the
| Protestant Heaven, of course-for guidance,
and read all the authorities, and / can't
write it. TO do so would bring down my
gray hairs with illcgality to the grave" "
"And not to do so will bring down your
gray hairs with regret, as Grant said to Bel
KNAPP under similar circumstances, to prl-
yate life. Why can't you write it,"
sit isn't constitutional. 1t isn't legal. 1t
isn't right. Look at Evarts's opinion; you
can't ret round that. Look ut the Supreme
Courts decision; you can't get round that.
Look at the fourth plank in the Republican
platform Of 1860; you can't get round that
"My God!n exclaimed Mr.. Chandler,
f'and have we thrown away Williams and
Munson for man like this-a man who
doesn't know that the whole duty OF an attor-
ney-generalis to get up opinions. Why, bless
your stupid soul, il the southern business
was constitutional, legal, or right, what
would want your opinion for?"
81 don't know, l don't know" sObbed
Mr.. Taft, clasping his trembling hands
round his old, gray head, and bursting
into tears; "but 0, / do wish / had never
left my peaceful home at Cincinnati"
$50 do /. But you will get up the opin-
ion: If you prefer it, will send my coach
man over to write it for you, and save you
any wear and tear OF your conscience"
Mr.. Taft was still moaning inarticulately
when Mr.. Robson came briSkly into the
room through another door, and addressing
Mr.. Chandler, said:
"Sec here, Zach, I'pe got all due respect
for you as head OF my department, but. amt
this sort Of running it into the ground-the
sea mean? The House has only given me
so much money for salaries and wages for
the whole year, and il, as you want me to
do, spend it all in the first three months,
what'll we do then? Besides, this is n case
where we can't cover up our tracks so
easilv.'' ..;...s .#.s.-tr. T. -. 8! +.
Delay there, George NJ. Robeson," re-
piled Mr.. Chandler sternly; "iust you go
and do as tell you. If you spend all the
appropriation, why there will be big def
cheney bills in December, and that will show
that the Confederate Congresses pretensions
to economy were false. II Grant-Hayes 1
mcan--is elected, you are O. H.; if he isn't,
your gone up any way; and ii the eX-Con-
fcderate brigadiers press you hard, just re-
sign, and then, as our fellows in the Senate
have decided, you can't be impeached." +.
AT this moment there was perfect irrup-
.UlSu VI puU IL W uS vi
to see how Mr.. Chandler received them
all, and dismissed each with proper an
swer. .a,.a tg.;;i e.Erit ~. .'#. a., !.
The first man was Mr.. :Tyner, the acting
Postmaster General, Mr. Chandler being, Of
course, the. real head Of the Department;
:" Mr.. Chandler" he said, ,"here are those
commissions for 1900 Louisiana negroes as
special agents to investigate the working of
the Post-Ofice Department in Indiana and
Ohio on the second Tuesday in October"
Mr.. Chandler read one commission, and
replied with an angry frown: ",Why, these
niggers are to receive five dollars day and
travelling expenses from: the time they
leave Louisiana till they get back! ~ =. :;
MIR. Tyner's knees smote together, and he
timidly said: z"Wh-why, wh-what's
wrong?" .r., ,.g,.,' .,g~gl- 49,.
"Sr," said Mr.. Chandler sternly, "you
have proposed to pay these men salary and
expenses from the. time they leave Louisi-
ana till they get back, instead OF till the day
after the October election" t.id3oi na84.
~ thought it would make no difference"
stammered Mr.. Tyner. fr,hGa&. f....l.f =
mo difference ?" retorted Mr.. Chandler
angrily. "To take those niggers back,
with their pay, would cost S2l6, 500; and
this moneywould be wasted at a time when
the people urgently demand reform and
economy. No. Get your $500 special
agents up to Indiana, and let them vote
early and often !; then pay them, with the
customary deduction for campaign pur-
poses, and turn them loose" tl9aa Il Dr.,
"But thought we would want their
votes again in Louisiana in November"
said Mr.. Tyner. .,zsf,g.. NJ iitHgi 42ttsGb - \
srWith Returning Board in Louisiana,
SIR" said Mr.. Chandler, cit is more bless
ed TO count out than to vote in
Next came clerk with telegram. Mr..
Chandler read 1t and said instantly: "a
ssTelegraph MIR. Bristow to pitch into me
more strongly Reform Is the leading issue
Of this campaign. The same to Schurz, II
will see about the draft" a4.gs) 4 Il
u Then came the Presidents secretary, who
said: Mr.. Chandler, il you please. ga
would like to pardon the whiskey thieves"
Buck" said~the Secretary, kindly,
g tell your father it can't be done, at least
till after. the elections! Then, no matter
how things 60, the goose hangs altitudi-
num- rs we used to saw: And let him UNI
aerstana that am, running this Admins
lration, and That II there Is any trouble the
senate won't beitroublsd by any questions
OF Jurisdiction when he is impeached. You
hear me ~ -sllslf4l iii 1914 fii:.d tif3Gat
- And, OH Mr.. Chandler, Mr.. Hayes /
wants to know II he can come In and see
pa p2lHqfai4aaf ~ tGJti;f9sl 49, "
!" Notitiil latter the election and then lie
Won taWant teano matter how It. goes. Tell |
Etle man who has Hayes in Charge Ito keep d !