Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-26
CAPITAL NOTES.
Bishop Payne's GrieVance-FOIger
and Chandler at Outs-The ROW
In the House Florida Place
Hunters.

WASHINGTON May 23.-D District Attorney
Stickney of Florida, is in the city. He has
been here for some time. His business is two.
fold, relating as it does to his accounts and to
the Bishop Payne matter. Payne is the colored
Bishop who. you will remember, was put off
the cars in Florida for getting into coach to
which the ticket he held did not entitle him.
The charge against Stickney in this connection
Is that he did not Immediately prosecute the
railroad company for the election of Payne
from the car. A delegation of colored breth-
rem OF this city called on the Attorney General
and made demand for Stickney's scalp The
Attorney General told them that he would have
an investigation of the affair made l
am of the opinion that if the aforesaid colored
delegation had not visited the Attorney General
Stickney would not have come on here, 'ac-
counts" or no accounts" But that is neither
here nor there. The Attorney General has not
ordered an investigation of the Payne-or is it
Paineg-affair. StickneV has never had a word
conclusion to be reached is that no official
notice or the matter will be taken StickneV
has never been called upon to explain why he
did not enter suit against the railroad, and
probably never will be- He told me to-day
however, that the reason he never took any
action was be ;ause no sf1davts were made
that could be used in a suit. Bishop Payne
or Palne, refused to make affidavit, stand
ing upon his manhood" Officially the whole
thing seems to be as great farce as it was in
reality.
AN OFFICIAL DIFFERENCE.
Two members of the Cabinet. Secretary
Folger and Secretary Chandler, have to-day
collided In an official difference There is a
vacancy in the SUPPLEMENTARY of the Light
house Board. That board is under the jurisdic-
ton OF the Treasury Department, but the
Superintendent is detailed from the officers of
the navy. The other day Secretary Folger re-
commended to the President that Captain
Walker, or the navy, be made Superintendent
OF the board. The President referred this re-
commendation to secretary Chandler. The
latter got on his ear little. He to-day wrote
a letter to the President saying That he was
Secretary cf the Navy, and thought that any
recommendation as to where an officer Of that
service should be detailed ought to come from
him. He did not. he said, recognize the right
of the Secretary of the Treasury to interfere in
any way with the detail of the navy. He wrote
as If he were offended. After Cabinet meeting to-
day President Ar hur called the attention of Sec
retary FOlger to this letter OF Secretary Chan
dler Folger said that he had no desire to in
terfere in the least with the navy. He simply
recommended man because he had teen re-
quested to do so by competent people, and be-
cause the general management Of the Light
house Board was under his Jurisdiction The
President communicated in this strain with
the new Secretary of the Navy and the back
OF that Adroit politician. which Is now up, will
probably come down. 1t is just such little diff
ferences as this which give piquancy to even
high official life.
THE FILIBUsTERIEG, so CALLED.
The opposition united, by which the Demo-
Gratis are preventing the consideration of the
Mackey O'Connor election case, is called fill
clustering by the Radicals. As has heretofore
been shown in this correspondence, it is simply
an attempt TO prevent the conSummation of
precOnceived political crime. The pursuance
OF this course is characterized by the Radicals
and their organs as "f1lbustering" The boot
should be on the other leg. The Radicals refuse
to consider any business but that of the election
case mentioned. In this they obstruct national
legislation. They will consider nothing of i'm
portance to the country. In this way they ex-
pect to shove the seating of Mackey down the
ceed. The extreme partisanship is too appa-
rent. 1t is the Republicans not the Democrats,
who are filibustering. The latter are perfectly
are not. The country will judge between the
two
FLORIDA PEOPLE.
There is at present no less than seven Florida
office-holderS in Washington. They will re-
main here until the question of who is to I'll
their places is settled They all expect to be
again chosen. Two of them, by denomination
sent to the Senate to day, got what they want
ed. The others expect like good luck, AMI they
are here to secure, if possible, such luck. They
will stay until their matters are definitely set
tied In the meantime. it would seem that
there is not Federal officer left in Florida to
run things. PoToMAc.