Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-09

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will not feel good when he sees the newspaper
men in that same lobby tomorrow, and the
Senators as usual coming out to converse with
them: The explanation is simple The private
secretaries OF Senators are allowed to 90 in
and out the lobby as they please. AS soon as
Logans resolution went through, the ever
active newspaper man, who must be fertile in
resources per force, arranged to be
appointed private secretary de fdctO
as 1t were to some Senator. And the
Senators were quite willing to encourage
the little ruse by which the sense of the reso-
luton is defeated. In fact, they only passed
that resolution out of a certain feeling of un-
defined Senatorial courtesy to one another
which exists. The fact that they were per-
fectly williug-yea, even anxious-to annul
the resolution, is best shown by the record,
Thus there Is not one of the popular Senators
who has not now a newspaper writer for a
private secretary. Some of them have even
as many as three or four Of them. Logan is
not supposed to be remarkably jocular at the
latest turn his warfare on newspaper men
poor, unprotected orphans as they are-has
taken.
THE COUNT OF THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
The final passage of the resolution prescrib-
ing simply that the electoral vote shall
be couated as heretofore, does away with all
apprehension of trouble that next Wednesdays
joint proceedings might be fraught with The
votes are TO be opened by the Vice President in
the presence Of the two houses and counted
The vote of Georgia, as repeatedly stated In this
correspondence. will not be counted. 1t will
simply be stated that If her vote had been
counted the votes for President and Vice PresI-
dent would have been SO and so. The proceed
be barren of any element of excite
ment. The speeches on Georgia's vote
which will be made will have been discounted
by previous efforts on the same subject that
have been made in the past week or SO. These
efforts have not evinced any great research or
originality ON the part of the delivererS there
Of. Of They % have been simply-when the real
mans opinion as to whether Georgia should be
included in the deal. Dr. FELTON,, however
went a little further He did not want the vote
counted under any circumstances, but wanted
it to go to the world that the vote of the State
had been lost by the carelessness and indffer-
ence of her authorities. The Doctor wanted it
to go to the world-be seems to be particularly
that he and ali the people of Georgia
were in favor, where there was a Federal
and State law on the same subject, of the
former carrying the dictum with it. There is
another point in the Doctors speech which l
seem to have forgotten. No, remember it
now. He wanted 1t to '.go to the world that
loyalty to the Federal laws and to the Union.
AS Georgia is one of the most law-abiding
States in the Union, her people should be truly
thankful to the Doctor for his endorsement,
when the fact that such an endorsement was
given carried with it the conviction in the av-
erage man they were dependent upon the
Speaker for certificate OF good character-a
sort of reference" from the last place
where employed.
THE INAUGURATION.
Preparations for the Inauguration Of Garfield
are not in that forward state that people who
want the affair to go off with great big boom
and ne end OF success could desire. The Chair
man or the committee having in charge the
arrangements is John w. Thompson He does
not carry with him the confidence of the peo-
pie Of this district Still, the inauguration and
the ball will be-like the large specimens of the
porcine laid out for sale in Cincinnati during
the summer months-big things on |
ice. The grand triumphal arch over
the avenue, which is to be q thing of |
beauty and to cost somewhere in the neighbor- |
hood Of 81, 5oO IS already being erected. The |
thirty.elght smaller triumphal arches-one for |
each State-under which the procession is to |
move will be commenced next week The |
decoration of the new National Museum build |
ing, where the ball is to be held, will be on a |
grand and gorgeous scale. The building will /
hold easily 10000 people, and fully that num- |
Der are expected to be there. The |
music for the ball is alone to cost |
$2.750 Other details. except the supper,
per will be a colicky affair-ham sandwiches |
and lemonade. There will be more troops here /
than there have been since the Federal army
There will be more people here than ever be- |
fore at any one time in the city's history. l |
know OF several people from Georgia who are
coming. Undoubtedly there are many who
will come to see the greatest show on earth"
Iwould give them small dose of advice Pro-
cure your quarters before you think of leaving
your homes. II you do not, you will be here
just like your predecessor, the Son of
Man, told of in the Scriptures who shath
not where to hide his headn Another word:
It will pc almost impossible for you to secure
beforehand quarters at any of the hotels
The propriet0rs thereof refuse to pre-engage
their accommodations. They want to catch
the wayfarer ia the rush, when they can de
mano almost any price for board and lodging |
Therefore make sure arrangements before
hand with private boarding house If Won
do this, you will enjoy your trip, and it will
r.-kwv l.
other small dose OF advice. which furnish
free OF charge: Do not order eggs If you step
into a restaurant for meal or lunch IL YOU
DO. you wiz surely be paralyzed by glance at
selling at seventy cents dozen, and will be a
dollar and over by the 4th of March. With
this much advice / leave the subject.
THE Ex-sECRE rARY OF THE NAVY.
George M. Robson, the rotund and ROSY.
who when Secretary OF the Navy played wild |
havoc with the governments millions is q |
candidate for the Speakership of the NEXT |
House, having failed in his bent for the Senate
TO succeed salisbury. The fact of his Speaker
ship aspirations are not at all surprising The
rotund would be candidate for Anything But
there is one thing rather surprising in connec-
ton with his candidature for the Speakership.
1t is announced that his chances are damaged
on account of his total abstinence principles
A certain clergyman, in New Jersey, has writ
ten letter lndorsing Mr.. Robson, because
he ts such temperance man in principle and
in practice His letter has peen actively cir
culated by Robeson's enemies who have sue
ceeded in arraying against him about all the
antttotal abstinence Republicans in the House
which, with possibly two exceptions includes
all the Republicans In the House. The sur
prising part of the business is that Robeson
should have any temperance reputation But
there is no telling what a man may not do In
these times of demagogisn1. Robson has |
from the face of the clergyman's letter re- |
putation as stern temperance man in his
native wilds How it could be thus is GER
taiDly perplexing question. In Washington |
he has ever since he dawned upon the national
purlieus been regarded as the prince of good
wine for each course. That his Washington !
reputation should not have invaded New Jer- |
sey Is certainly astounding: His very presence
carries with it the unmistakable marks of ,
champagne and terrapin. But New Jersey is |
as not in the Union. That probably
accounts for the fact that Robeson's fame as |
q good liver has not reached its shores. The | .
TACT, however, that he Is regarded as a tenn
perance man at home creates broad smile ,
upon the faces of the many members of both
houses who have put their legs under his ma
5und member who has face like a rosv and
innocent cherubim, must be full of guile in so
playing It upon his constituents that they re-
gard him as kind of a Henry Of Navarro In | J
Ihe temperance cause.
SENATOR HILL.
1t Is freely stated by those who are in a rosi |
,1on 10 know that Senator Hill is concerned by
ne expressions of dissatisfaction that have | {
= As.AAAA snS PoSo ACW 4aOubnS round uEteranC0
n Georgia against him His term does moi esr. I
olre uatll 1885, but he takes the rumblings that
nave been heard as an evidence that he is going
. have hard fight to be his own successor
7 Is s, stated that he is already at work TAX
ng the preliminary steps for an active cam
Daign in behalf Of his reelection It ia also {
Understood that Mr.. Stephens would not be at
LII adverse to being transferred from the
southern to the northern wing of the capital. {
LIKELY TO GO OVER.
There Is quite a number of the nominations
u Mr.. Hayes which were in part sent to the /
senate recently and in part sent in some time
ago. which viii not be confirmed. In other
words, they will be hung up" until after the
lth OF March next. The nomination of Stanley
as a Justice OF the Supreme Court
nay possibly be confirmed, though it looks now
Is IL that distinguished visiting stateman and {
lay Gould attorney would be among those {
hung up" The others who are to suffer a !
similar fate will be the anti Conkling nonina-
ions In New York. which will be killed by de-
ayed action, and the nominations of Hayes {
pets from Ohio to prominent places in the army
lnd elsewhere under the government Mr.
hayes has filled every available vacancy with
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