Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-03

WASHINGTON, November l.. Comptroller
John Knox, of the Treasury. will very likely
retain his place under the Arthur administra-
ton, but it will not be so without his having to
make fight for it. Comptroller Knox's Office
has to do almost entirely with the national
banks. He is the agent of the government to
make the banks obey the law, and the banks
like him. In fact they fairly dote upon him and
would have no other bat Knox in the place. 1t
has long been claimed that the banks owned
Knox. Certain it is that he has never given
an opinion to conflict in the least with their
interests, nor has he ever construed a Law but
to their benefit. He always does exactly what
the banks want. Whenever any legislation is
broached in Congress that tends to curtail in
the least the immense and dangerous power OF
the national bank, it is always managed by
the banks funds in Congress that Knox. shall
be called upon for a few views. He is always
ready to respond; nay, anxious to argue with
much abstruseness and many plausible-look-
ing statistics that the proposed legislation
should not be consummated, and he always
manages to put 1t that it would
ment that the proposed legislation
should not be enacted. What return he gets
nobody knows. Every year he is called upon
to address the Bankers Convention, and
does So The bankers make much of him and
print his addresses-which an old clerk in his
Office always writes for HMM handsome
DaInDQleG
a great f1uancier. when they know that they
manage him, and it is not he who regulates
them. The bankers and Knox have a great
mutual admiration. 1t is because Of the con-
dition of things noted that an effort is to be
made to secure Knox g removal Several efforts
having the same object in view have been made
in the past, but they have never amounted to
anything The latest Will very likely amount
TO the same in the end as the others. The In
huence of the national banks when they want
to do anything is mighty and generally pre-
walls.
LINDLEY MURRAY LOGAN.
Hon. John A. Logan, the stalwart Senator
from Illinois, and whose antipathy to Lindev
Murray is known the country over is by no
means small potatoes inst now. He was one
of the immortal 306 at the Chicago Convention
who could not nominate Grant. He was under
something Of a cloud for a long time after that
convention and kept himself very quiet.
But he does not now. He is just
making things hum. Many men under the
Hayes and Garfield administrations got into the
Federal pots in Illinois who were opposed to
Logan and the Grant crowd. There were also
many men of the anti-Logan stripe from Illinois
who got into the Federal service outside of the
State. 1t is among these gentlemen that Lo-
gan is preventing any dulness creeping in. He
is certainly making 1t lively for them. He has
scooped many heads into his basket, and is
longing for more gore. He is master OF the
situation now, and does things just as best
suits him. He is the boss Of the shop In
Illinois patronage. 1t Is to be noted. how
ever, the theS 1.,p in ch,opping on anti Logan
spares all of the friends of Senator David Da-
Wis, of Illinois In the present situation of
affairs, it is well for the Republicans to keep
the huge Senator from Illinois, now that they
have brought him into camp.
ANOTHER PosTPoNEMENT.
The star route cases have again come up in
court, and have again been postponed. 1t Is
true the postponement is only for a short time,
but still It is a postponement, and people who
hQ hnAO thinking a ha nno Of MO
months that the government cannot make out
it's case against the star route thieves
are strengthened in that belief The
people begin to believe the reason Wayne
MacVeagh is so anxious to get out of the Cabi-
net is because he cannot, after all his boastiDg,
make out cases against Brady ct al. 1t looks
very much as If he wanted to run after start
ing the row. The star route people are making
use of what is supposed to be MacVeagh's rea-
son for wanting to get out or the Cabinet to
saw with upturned eyes 1--WE have been try
been slandered; now you see MacVeagh prac-
tically admits all we have said" The star
route thieves are quick to catch upon every
thing that may turn to their advantage, and
use it for all that it is worth. Tney have some
what changed front. Instead of denouncing, as
heretofore, everybody connected with the gov
ernment,s proseculon OF them, they are play
ing little of the injured innocence role.
LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY
There was a little incident In the Treasury
Department the other day which carried with
it a lesson in geography. A quantity of money
was ordered TO be sent to Cape Vincent. Then
arose the question where Cape Vincent was.
Nobody in the cash room knew. Nobody in
the express office of the department knew. In
fact there was no one at all apparently who
could be found with knowledge as to the
whereabouts of Cape Vincent Two
or three men who remembered something of
geography, bethought themselves Of Cape st.
Vincent, which is on the coast OF Spain, and
volunteered that information. Cape Vincent
was finally hunted up on one Of the biggest
maps and was found to be a small totCn in the
United States near the Canadian border.
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