Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-24


Gained-BIIIy Malone at ZsrO-An
Apt Illustratfon-LIght Play.
ing Around the TreasurY-A Slave
Driver Under Fire-A SybaFite
Woke DP-Raum In n BOx-The
Great Army of the Unfed-NOt Half
of the Star Route Story Yet Told.
WASHINGTON, May s0-The Senate has ad-
journed sine die. It has accomplished since
the 4th of March last exactly what might have
been accomplish I'D in two weeks, at the fur
thest The carse of the useless delay is well
known. The Republicans in their greed to get
all the offices possible. first bought Malone,
Virginia, in order to get majority, and then
demanded that the changes among the Senate
offices should be made right away The Demo
Gratis were strong enough to successfully re-
sist such nice little arrangement, and did so
More especially were they opposed to the pro-
posed change, because it carried with
it the election of Riddleberger as Sergeant-at-
Arms of the Senate and thereby would have
stamped the word approval on Malone.
This would have been big card for the little
nonentity had the plan worked well; but it did
the Democrats managed their side of the case
well. The result was thorough laying before
the public eye of the bargain by which Mahone's s
vote had been gathered unto the ranks of the
Radicals. The Republicans, it should be ad-
mitted were really getting sick of their fight
for Malone and disgusted with him.
They would soon have thrown
him over and get to work, but that the resigna-
tions Of the New York Senators give the
Democrats the majority in the Senate made
such a cause unnecessary. Then they were
willing enough to go ahead with the work and
let Malone, Riddleberger ct. al, drop quietly
into the creek. The Democrats knew that
they were on the right side. They had the op-
portunity to play the same game that the Re-
publicans did, had they been small enough and
sufficiently unmindful OF the public interests
to have done so. The Republicans deman ded
an immediate change in the Senate offices
when they were in majority by
purchase. When by the designations of
Conkling and Platt the Democrats
could with just as much consistency have de-
m handed that The Senate committees be reor-
ganized under Democratic auspices it would
have been but following a precedent which
had been set them by their opponents. But
they did not act thus cap iouSly and without
regard for the public service They went on
quietly and promptly with the business for
which they had been called together in extra
session. They finished thst business in exact
ly four days after they became majority. The
country cannot fail to judge between the meth
DDS of the two parties, and to the benefit of
the Democrats After all their dead-locking in
the Senate the Republicans leave Washington
exactly where they started in, with the excep-
tion that the bI each between The two leading
factions of their party has been wldenei so
that it can never b5 brldged over. The Demo-
Gratis feel the advantage they have gained, and
are not slow in pointing it out. The whole ex-
ira session of the Senate has played most ad-
mirably into their hands. They geta the bene-
fit and come out with a clean record. The Re
publicans get nothing but what is disadvan-
tageous to them. Here let us insert little
story.
Once there was a man He went hunt
ing-as men will sometimes do He was
gone two days. When he came back to
but without even a small squirrel-his wife
asked sharply: well, what did you get?"
In Voice that spoke whole unbridged die
tionaries, our huntsman answered: Maria.
got home" Do you seize the connection |?
When the Republican Senator reaches home
from his long extra session in Washington and
his anxious constituency shall inquire what he
got by his deadlock and prOtracted session he
INSIDE RINGS IN THE TREASURY
Secretary Window is making a number of
investigations in the Treasury Department He
is doing this work very quietly, and in one or
two cases the men being investigated do not
know that there is a little mine under them.
Already sufficient has been developed to give
rise to the belief that there will be half dozen
changes among prominent officers of the de-
partment. One has been openly selected for
the guillotine. This is Col. o. H. Irish, Chief
of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Irish was formerly warden of penitenliary in
Nebraska, and brought to bear the same
qualities he exercised there in dealing with
the employees .of the Printing Bureau. He
is slave driver. Poor women too
sick to be out of bed have been
forced to work over tbs hot presses and in the
hot folding rooms. If they were absent an
hour their pay was cut of for that day He
forced the employees to enter the building by a
certain door and retire by another when there
are fifty doors that might just as easily be
used. He has for his assistants men who in
suit both male and female employees And
then Irish has been making something more
out of his Office than the mere salary. He has
also kept at government expense five horses
and two carriages. These, with their drivers
paid by the government, are much oftener
found at the door of his residence than
at the bureau building o. L. Pitney, custodian
of the Treasury Department, Is another officer
about whom unpleasant things are being devel-
oped. 1t is his duty to purchase everything
that is used in the department He has been
making very fat thing out of it, Officers Of the
should conciliate have had their houses hand
somely furnished by Pitney at no cost to them
selves. Handsome walnut furniture, velvet
carpets and costly silver ice pitchers were what
he most delighted to furnish those who could
help him. The way he did all this was
very simple Pitney ordered every-
thing, and the same Pitney receipted
for everything 1t is stated that members of
Congress have been treated to nice things by
Pirne but how true this is know not The
investigation of his affairs is now going on
There was found in his offices about barrel
of bay rum and any quantity of Lubin's ex-
tracts. What the Treasury Department could
want with these articles was mystery Then
there was also quantity of the finest scented
French soaps When asked about these arti-
cles, he said feebly that Secretary Sherman
used them. Upon looking at his receipts and
books 1t was found that the present invoice of
these articles had been purchased March
2sth. John Sherman went out
of the Treasury Department on the
4th day of March. These are samples of what
is being found out about Pitney. Then there
is Lamphere, the appointment clerk, Sixth
Auditor McGrew and one of the assistant sec
retaries. These three formed a little syndicate
Lamphere published certain book about the
operations OF the government 1t YVES worth
less compost on. But he wanted to sell as
many books as possible. Happy thought
Furnish a copy to the holders of Federal
offices and tnen approve their accounts
for them, get the money and di-
vide it. To do this it was necessary
to have them in the ring. Lamphere of course
was in Then there must be an auditor and an
secretary These were necessary to
approve the accounts. They were secured,
and many copies of Lamphere's book were
palmed on on the government in this way.
According TO all accounts 1t was very pretty
little close corporation, the stock of which has
been paying remarkably well. 1t is also I'M
derstood that committee is after Raum, Com
of Internal Revenue for irregulari-
ties Collector Andrew Clarke, of Georgi4, also
has his name connected with Raum in these re-
ports. From all of which 1t is pretty safe to
assume that times ahead in the Treasury De.
partment will be somewhat lively.
THE DISAPPOINTED ONES
The old fellows-and the young ones too
who have been hanging on here ever since the
4th of March, in hopes of getting places under
the new administration look decidedly blue
The Senate has adjourned and but few of their
number have been nominated for positions
When they first came here they boarded in
hotels. They went the downward grade until
now the Lord only knows how they eat and
sleep. What is very bad for many of them
and also very bad for the city, is that they have
no means OF getting out of town, and the
walkin2 is not at all good When it became
apparent that the Senate would adjourn in
few days, and the President began to send in
batch after batch of nominations, they were
very much excited. By the hundred they
swarmed the White House and sat arounI
there cooling their heels in hopes of an audi
ence and an appoini ment before final adjourn
ment The President was too busy to see but
few Of them, and too pressed by bigger in
huences elsewhere to appoint but a very
meagre proportion OF them. These men are
not dead-hea They are respectable citizens
and came here in confident expectation that il
would take but few short days for them to
be provided for. Once on the trail, they
did not want to call of until they
had struck something. They deserve pity
more than the ridicule and contempt that is
their every day portion There are plenty Of
Southern Republicans among them.
THE STAR ROUTE THIEvERY.
Postmaster General James continues his in