The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-30
CUSTOM-HOUSE GOSSIP.
AND THEY SAY THE WASHINGTON DEL.
EGATION WE'RE sNUBBED.

AND THEYsAY THE WASHINGTON DEL
EGATlON WE'RE sNUBBED.
where the Delegation went and How the
Press sounded Them in washington.
II IL almost certainly known now that the
Washington Returning Board Custom. House
delegation have been choked off in some way by
the powers at Washington, and are even now on
their way home. The victory achieved Is said TO
be equivalent to
DUTCH CONQUEST,
when the attacking force turns around for re-
treat before the enemy after having made a feint.
Anderson telegraphed TO = friend here on Mon
day night, "All right. Leave for home at once.
Arrive Saturday" from which IL IL supposed tina
he is satisfied that the Returning Board influ-
ence at Washington does not amount to much.
II lie said, too, that the long list OF Returning
Board candidates. names for inspectors. etc., has
not even been confirmed by the Secretary OF the
Treasury, while one name sent from here since
the list started has been
ACTED upon FAvoRABLY,
all OF which leads some TO the belief that Mr..
Elder CAN'T will not control the patronage Of the
building after all.
The name which was confirmed was that OF
the son Of ex.Gov. Heberts late member OF the
commission of engineers under Kellogg, whose
son, by the way, takes the place vacated by the
resignation Of Mr.. Davis.
In conversation with the Collector yesterday,
he stated that he had rece we'd the telegram al
luded to above but he could not tell what was
meant by the t'all right" or whether or not the
triumvirate had started ON the back track, or
whether Tomanderson alone was coming, and
from the very placid manner in which he seemed
to take the probable result it was evident that he
thought that his own
SCALP WAS SAFE,
or that Wells would not and had not succeeded
In Masking either the President or Secretary of
The Treasury believe that he was entitled to the
D sition Of Collector for his faithful, energetic
snd mastery solution of mathema ical problems,
which Sherman himself s credited with having
advised.
The DEMOCRAT has, however, on other coca
lions intimated that neither Hayes nor Sherman
jared much
ABOUT THOSE TRIPLES (2)
low that the status OF the National Admins.
ration could not be affected in any manner, and
he information coming by the grapevine from
Washington confirmed that belief when the Lou
sana trio reached that city. Now Tomandersons
elegram confirms that belief, and the Custom
House .ins" declare that they will ret be budged,
1t least for the present.
When the trio bought, on their departure, their
excursion tickets for Chicago via Cincinnati, the
DEMOCRAT gave Its readers to understand that
he party would hunt Sherman up, EVEN if they
lad TO 60 to Mansfield, Ohio, TO find him. That
he information tby the grapevine) given then
vas correct, the following telegram from Mans
ield to the Cincinnati Enquirer will prove. The
dispatch is as follows:
MANSFIELD, o., Aug. 25.-The reconstructed
Jol. CAN'T, with his two friends, Wells and All.
lerson, left last night on the GAG train for WASH
ngton. The ilustrious party had gone to Chi
,ago and from thence to Putin Bay in search of
after was iunketing on . government steamer
md could not be seen, they came to Mansfield
Ind found the lost Resumptionist. On arriving
hey registered at tho hotel In q scrawling hand
is Il. CAN'T and two friends, from New Orleans
The aptness Of the final part excited considerable
After dinner they secured hack and went to
,hermsn's residence, and rem aimed closeted with
him until o'clock, after which hey remained in
trict privacy until their train left. They seemed
o avoid recognition, and declined any interviews,
mt kept up close conversation among them
elves,
In the parlor OF the hotel at the depot Wells
emarked to Anderson that everything seemed to
% satisfactory. to which the latter replied in the
ffirInative.
The general impression here IL that they came
or the purpose Of demanding the fulfllment Of
previous promise to share the spois In the
louisiana infamy, and that the 5ecretary, through
fear Of damning disclosures, has granted them
II they asked for.
Sherman left this morning for Washington City,
nd no doubt the finale OF the meeting here will
70 known in q day or two.
Not single Republican was found to show the
amous trio reverence ON their exit
The DEMOCRAT stated also that Elder CAN'T |
Tould
GO FOR THE COLLECTOR,
8 lie was Judge Kings chief bondsman. and, |
Q given nearly, if not quite all Of the Custom |
ouse patronage, and this is borne out by the
, lowing special telegram to the Cincinnati En- |
ui,er:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-J Madison Wells, Gen. |
ON Anderson and Col. Il. CAN'T. the latter the |
rincipal bondsman Of Collector King, of New
orleans, arrived here tonight, weary and foot |
pre- Wells had with him his walking bat cry in |
ne shape OF a cane, which was taken away from |
i'm loaded in Dudley Fields committee room |
tst winter. He is not inclined to communicate |
ne object of his visit until he has had an inter- /
lew with Secretary Sherman, but does not deny |
nat he Ia not at all pleased with the manage |
rent of the New Orleans Custom House. He ]
ill either insist that Collector King m Ike GER
lin appointments recommended by him or will |
emaud his scalp.
1t appears that when King was suggested for /
he Colectorship that Wells reluctantly yielded, |
nd withdrew the opposition he first made to-
ard him, but on promise that he should be /
lscsted with numerous appointments 5h rmsn |
ssured Wells that his wishes as to minor ap- |
should be consulted.
Wells recently requested King to remove q
lrge portion OF the Custom House force, and he |
sfused on the ground that the authorities at |
Washington would not sustain him in making |
holesae removals, inasmuoh as the Admins |
'ation had committed itself to civil service re- |
,rm. We Is thereupon wrote to Sherman that |
ing was not living up to the contract. and SUBJ
lifted TO him the names of q number Of persons |
9 was DESTROYS of having appointed.
The letter WAS shown by Sherman tn Haves