The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-26
CUSTOM-HOUSE TALK.
NEW COMBINATIONS BEING EFFECTED
BY THE RETURNING BOARD
DELEGATION.

NEW COMBINATIONS BEING EFFECTEU
NY THE RETURNING BOARD
DELEGATION.
Beacon Blacksmith ana stanley Matthews
said to Have Been Recruited.
The bret mention in the morning dispatches
or the Returning Board delegation has given
the
sossIppEns Kew LEASE,
and those in and about the Custom. House are
conjecturing what plan Of attack the delegation
will adopt. The information that Wells s maxi
Ing break for The Collectorship Ia taken with q
grain Of allowance by some, and on the other
hand, his friends claim that he has had his math-
ematical eye on that position since the day he
found that he could not get all Of the Returning
Board clerks and defunct parish supervisors and
clerks into position. He kept his own counsel.
however, II he had such Intentions, and did not
even let his bosom friend Tomauderson
INFO HIS SECRET,
but kept his own counsel.
Il is limited now thai the delegation matured
something OF strategic plan for their raid, and
that the frat step was to take in Cincinnati and
Stanley Matthews, and while they gallivanted
about the Queen city they could 'infuenoe"
Stanley by sly threats to lend them his assist
ance In the little fracas they were about TO get
into
by grapevine II IL learned that the delegation
also saw, while there, Deacon Dicksmith, OF the
Cincinnati Gazette, who didn't get the postal card
printing contract, and II may be that he
LENT THEM HELPING HAND
in an Off hand promise that he would pitch into
John Sherman again, unless he granted their re-
quest that Champln should be placed on the
shelf. It is we'll known that Dieksmith has
been .riled" ever since he failed to get the con-
tract referred to, and for that reason some OF
those who profess to know of the delegation pro-
gramme assume that they would enlist the Oin-
cnnati Gazette proprietor in their cause even
before they called upon Stanley Matthews.
with him, however, they would first try coax
ing and failing In that, they might refresh his
memory and bring him to q realization OF the
situation with certain letters he wrote pending
the sessions OF the ex- Returning Board, in which
ABLE ADVICE WAS GIVEN,
and which, of course, J. Madison will take occa-
sion TO refer to, Rs he IL not particular when he
sets his head and heart upon desired object.
Considering for argument sake. that the del
egation secure all the Porkopolis influence. IL
may be safe to predict that half the battle 10 won
and that having obtained the open sesame to
the Treasury Department and White House they
can manage to devise some excuse for the secre.
tary and President to
AGREE TO A CHANGE
1 n the office Of both Collector and Special Deputy
should they desire such change.
That, at all events, is the logical view Of the
situation taken and expressed by both Gins and
''outs,n and by Monday or Tuesday next il ID e1-
pected that something will develop to show how
far the raid will be successful.
IL IL whispered about the Custom House that
Internal Revenue Collector Cockrem
HAS SKIPPED OFF TO WASHINGTON
TO attend to some important business, and the
rumors as to the real business are various. One
statement liz that he goes to assist the Returning
Board; another that he is afraid that John Burke
il getting too close to the President In Ais efforts
to secure Oockrem's place, and the third ia that
he was sent for to answer In person certain
charges that had been made against him for in
terfering with the duties Of Special Agent Temp
kins,
1t 10 known 10 the writer that charges
HAVE BEEN MADE,
but whether upon the grounds stated, or for other
reasons, time alone will develop. and 1t may,
therefore, be probable that the third reason IL
tnaG Whlcn caused MIR. C0cKrom 20 leave 30 sud-
denly for the national capatl.
Judge Billings is expected TO arrive on Sunday
night, and will open court perhaps on Monday.
As yet no applications have been filed with the
United States marshal for bonding the logs, from
which fact IL 10 expected that the whole matter
will be placed before the court.
Ii was limited in customs circles yesterday that
some OF the recently appointed officers were
rather slow in learning their duties, and an n-
stance was cited where the survey ors department
had received Information from the Collector, or
some one else In authority, stating that one Of
the inspectors on duty, or in charge OF ship now
being discharged.
WAS SLIGHTLY DBBELIuT
in several ways, and recommending that some
one else be placed In charge. which was DONE
The same letter, or another. was received
which limited strongly that the guager at the
same chip was not performing his duty as pre-
scribed by section 1875 Revised Statutes but per-
mitted others to do it for him. aud that, too, was
remedied. II will. of course, take the new crew
some time to get thoroughly posted "a to their
duties, and should complete change be made in
all the departments, as contempt ited by the
delegation" the muddle that will result during
the coming busy season will be anything but
agreeable to the business community, especially
those having business to transact at the various
Offices.