Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-24
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
FURTHER CLAIMS FOR FLORIDA
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
The Senate and the Banks-Maekey
va. O'COnner-Mr. Stephens, Great
Big Bee-Arthur Not a Traveller.

WASHINGTON, May 22.-when the river and
harbor bill reaches the Senate Senator Call
will offer the following amendments to it:
Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and
Florida, $15O,OOO. Improving harbor at Pen
sacola, Fla, and channel to Milton Fla. $780,
600. Improving Carrabelle river at its entrance
into Dog Island harbor, $1,000 Improving
Wacissa river. Fla, $4,000. Improving the
channel to Freeport, Fla. S., 900. Improving ST.
Johns river. Fla, and the shoals near Palatza
and the opening :of Matanzas river to
Indian river $780, 600. Continuing
Improvement of Withlacoochee river, Florida,
$1,000 Improving entrance to Crystal river.
Florida. S5,OUO. Improving channel between
Cedar Keys and suwannee river, and continu-
ing improvement at Cedar Keys. $4,000
THEY WILL STICK.
Mr.. Calkins, of Indiana, with the aid of his
big watch chain, tried last Saturday to have
taken up for consideration the Mackey- O'Con-
nor South Carolina election case. The com
m1ttee's report is, Of course, to unseat Dibble-
who was elected after the death of O'Connor-
and put in Mackey. This decision was reached
upon forged testimony. The minority report
or the committee proves this. Ignoring that
fact. the Republicans, to increase their ma
Jority in the House, have commenced an eff lrt
TO unseat Dibble. They have been met on the
first flush by united opposition from the Demo-
position. Randall is the most successful leader
OF minority in fight like the one pending
that Congress has ever produced. He has
fighting crowd back of him too. Beyond the
shadow of doubt the right is with the opposi-
tion to the Spolation Cf one of South Cardinals
seatslin the House. The Republicans cannot put
their man Mackey in if the Democrats hold out
They predict that the Democrats will not hold
out. They say that the history of the past six
years in Congress shows that holding out
is not one OF the characteristics of the De-
in hn To- hat klAwvA Aorl
their prediction on. Everybody knows that on
certain momentous occasions there has been a
very perceptible weakening in the backbone of
the Democratic Congressman 1t is not so in
this case. They will stick. They are uuani-
nous in the determination that the seat of
Dibble shall not be stolen, and his constituents,
who elected him after the decease of his prede
ceSsor, O'COnnor, shall not be robbed of the
fruits Of their elective franchise. There is no
division this time. Every means will be re-
sorted to to prevent the contamination of the
proposed political crime. And those means
Will be found successful. The contest may
prolong the session, but at its end Dibble will
sit in his chair just as natural
MR. STEPHENS CANDIDACY.
The fact that Mr.. Stephens is candidate for
the Governorship of Georgia, and full fl adged
candidate at that, goes beyond saying There
is no use dickering in such matters as these
about what the people want and 'if they
insist" and so on. The day for such talk has
gone by. Politics nowadays are treated ma
K0Qly, JneY permit OF no SuCn glOSSlnR as mas
been put forward recently in several instances.
The bare fact is that Mr. Stephens is a candidate
for Governor, and wants to be Governor
without one dissenting vote from any part Of
his human frame. There has been great deal
of talk about Mr.. Stephens attitude towards
the Liberals" the independents, and what
not. Mr.. Speer in his telegram told the truth
when he said that Mr.. Stephens would accept
the support of the Independents Mr.. Speer
spoke for Mr.. Stephens by authority. The
question that has been discussed most fire.
quently here is that if Mr.. Stephens is such
thoroughly organized Democrat why should he
hum around the disaffected? The answer to
that question is very simple. Mr.. Stephens
wants to be indorsed by everybody. He wants
to be the Democratic candidate. the "lnde-
pendent candidate and the candidate of the
syndicate. In other words, MIR. Stephens wants
to come as near as possible to being a unani-
nous Governor OF Georgia. That's Mr.. Ste
phens' point, and please paste it in your hat for
future reference.
SENATE OBJECTIONS.
1t is certain that the bill extending the
charters of the national banks, which
passed the House a day or two ago, will
suffer considerable amendment at the
hands of the Senate Finance Committee, to
whom it will be referred before it is taken up
for debate by the Senate. There are number
of points in the bill to which members of the
Finance Committe object. There is one in par
tcular. 1t is the amendment which makes
national banks liable TO be sued in the State
courts This amendment is one Of the best
that the House put on the bill as it came from
the Committee on Banking and Currency 1t is
known as the Hammond amendment, having
been offered by the Georgia member of that
name. The Republican majority Of the Senate
Finance Committee favor its erasure from the
bill. They look on it as concession in some de-
gree of the old cry of States rights. They regar1
it as a matter of downright holy horror
TO concede that national bank shall be sued
in State court think in Difference to this
old political feeling that there should be big
n and big used when these pets of the Re
publican party and contributors to its cam
paign funds, the National Banks, are spoken
of.
ARTHUR OVERWHELMED.
The White House mails are Just at this sea.
son overwhelmed with invitations for the
President to go here or there. The colleges all
over the country are inviting him to be present
at their annual exercises ;the managers of racing
MEETINGS are asking him to visit their tracks;
soldier reunions are begging him to be their
guest; the summer resorts are putting forward
to him the attractiveness of themse Ives; and in
upon the President He is wanted everywhere
AS they say in the advertisements, the most
fiattering inducements are held out to him.
Arthur is not much Of a man for indiscriminate
affairs He prefers to select his own company,
which is generally of the convivial kird and
includes the boys" except when he does the
formal thing. Then there are not many of
''the boys" around. Beyond accepting posi-
bly, one or two invitations to soldiers reunions,
Arthur will not do much gadding about this
season. Possibly that may prevent to a GER
tain extent, the usual fall overflow of invita-
tions to agricultural fairs. PoToMAC