The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-16
Washington.

PARTMENT--THE SPEECHES OF Governor
CAMERON; HE DEMANDS AND SECURES TIL
FEDERAL. PATRONAGE IN yIRGINIA-wHA
SECRETARY CHANDLER AND POSTMASTER
GENERAL HOWE SAID-PERs0NAL NEW
fTENS-THE ASHLAND POsT-OFFICE-MR
BECK'S SPEECH on THE wHIsKEY BILL
BRIEFS.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May lj.-The correspond
ent Of the Boston Herald sends the follow.
ing dispatch tonight TO that journal: On
Saturday last Governor Cameron, OF Vir
ginia, who has been here for some days, &C
companied by Senators Malone and Rid.
dleberger, called at the Navy Department,
the Mecca nowadays of all southern Adj
mnistration men. General Malone PIE
scented Messrs. Cameron and Riddleberger
to Secretary Chandler, who received them
with his usual cordially. He commented
iocuarly upon Governor Cameron's boy
ish appearance. but turned the remark of
gracefully when Cameron responded, 81
may be boyish-looking, Mr.. Secre-
tary, but the man who picks me
up for a boy will drop me quick" The
Governor proceeded to say in plain terms
! that, n the representative Of one OF the par
ties to a coalition based on bargain, he
had come TO Washington to find out who
ther the other party proposed to carry out
its half Of the bargain. 1--WE in Virginia."
he said, ''have done our part; gse have
carried the state; we have elected liberal
United States senator; we are preparing TO
increase the number OF liberals in the Vir-
ginia delegation in the House Of Repre-
sentatiyes; we want TO know whether the
party Of the second part proposes to keep
It's word. II il does not, we cannot
fully execute our share. IL is abso-
lutely necessary TO the future sue
cess Of the liberal movement in Virginia
that we should control the Federal patron
age OF that State. The absolute control
must be in our hands. That is what
we were promised. That is what we cX-
pect to have il you Republicans keep your
word" Governor Cameron gave Secretary
Chandler the number OF Federal Offices in
Virginia. "We ought" he concluded,
- TO control every one of them, the biggest
and the littlest. There is no one so insig-
nifcant that il is beneath our notice; no one
50 great that we should not have it in our
control. They are all important. We want
not SO much the offices as the moral effect,
the influence, resulting from absolute con-
troll Of the Federal patronage Of our state"
Secretary Chandler replied that Governor
Cameron's position was sensible, and that
so far as he could speak for the Admins
tration the bargain would be carried out
under the construction put upon it by the
ReadiuSterS. lie suggested, however, that
inasmuch as he was not POstmaster-Ge
raj. it would be well for the Governor TO
see POstmaster-Generm Howe about the
Virginia post-ofiices. The party drove to
the Post-Onicc Department, and General
Malone once more made the presentations.
Governor Cameron once more did the
talking. lie repeated to Howe all he had
said to Chandler. "You have already
had a good deal under that bar
GAIN" said the Postmaster-General.
- know we have" responded the Gov
ernor, "but we have not had enough We
want it all. We have, it Is true, displaced
some Bourbons with Liberals, but we want
to Dust every Bourbon i'm the State and TO
replace him with Liberal. We don't pro-
pose to disturb any good officer who is
Winding his own business, but we do pro-
pose, if we have the power, TO superscde
every Bourbon who interferes with the
Liberal movement; and the power to do
! this, we contend, was guaranteed TO us by
the Republican party" Dwell, Cover
nor" began Howe, slowly. "you came
here so strongly backed" "Now, M.
Howe" interrupted Governor Cameron,
il you please. don't come here backed
at all. am here as the Governor OF Virgil
mia, elected by the Liberals OF Virginia,
and authorized TO speak for them. My
senators have kindly introduced me, but |
don't need TO be backed by them. / speak
for Virginia, and ask only what is just"
Well, Governor" said the Postmaster
General slowly. 81 think you ought to
have what you ask. SO far us / am con-
cerned, you shall" every WE'LL" said
the Governor. "Good morning." The
party then left.
Personal NEWS ITEMS.
The announcement at the Capitol that
Mrs. James, the postmaster at Ashland
Va, had been removed. and either Mr.. OF
Mrs. Humphrey appointed to her place,
was not pleasing TO Republicans. They
with Arcadian simplicity discussed among
themselves the Union and Republican re-
cord Of the James family. and thought that
ought to have saved Mrs. James. Cover.
nor William Smith was on the floors of the
Senate and House to-day. John b. Davis
Of Richmond, was here yesterday
Judge Keith, Of Fauquier, was thi.
afternoon at the Capitol. James ii
Clements. OF Portsmouth, who was strong
candidate for the Republican gubernato
rial nomination in Virginia in 1869, wa
/ here yesterday en- route for home, after ;
three-months' trip in the West and South
west. He found that few western pioneers
now own the farms on which they reside
West Virginia members OF Congress say
that recent developments prove that tn,
coal lands Of their State are richer thar
they have ever been represented. Hon
George ID. Wise returned from Richmouf