Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-27
WASHINGTON.

| WASHINGTON.
eho"GE COZ 4M'S G CsNDIDAc5' FOE
ShCisET3RF or TIE SEyfTE.
J Sensation Caused by the Recent Removals
Belief That Other Heads Will Fall Into
the Basket-Report of the Comptroller Of
| ,he Currency.
Especial Telegram to the G.obe.j
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-In an interview
! George G. Gorham SAYS:
Il cannot conceive of any excuse the
PRESIDENT could make. for not conyenipe
the senate In extra session. Should he fail
70 90 so there would be nobody between
MN and anarchy. There will be no presi-
oent pro tenn, no speaker, no anybody. If
IL were Democratic senate SHOULD favor.
under the present circumstances, an extra
session.,
speaking OF his candidacy for the sec
retaryship ofsthe senate, Mr.. Gor;a,n said:
! some OF the newspaper correspondents
here and editors of some of the LEADING
newspapers of the country. basing their
judgment upon the matter furnished by
| thelr correspondents, have said that there
were no Republican members OF the senate
| who would vote for me- when the fact was
| had been nominated in caucus. I think
| know my relations with the Republican
| senators better than anyone else. and am
saplshed that If receive the caucus nomS
| nation will be eleted. To beat me NV
enemies. if have my party. must do it in
| caucus. If they beat me there I am CON
| tent. Ii they fail in the caucus, they will
fail in the senate.''
'Mr. Gorham does not believe that the
| half breed senators will continue Will, +ha
Democrats for the purpose of deseat;rg
| him.
mere has heen common fee!in. that
the president was not wholly in earnest in
! his support of the prosecution in the star
route cases not that he sympathizea with
The guilty persons, but hat his regard for
dorsey as man and a politician preiu
dlced him so thoroughly in favor OF Dor
sey's innocence that he decide Typ eserred
an acquittal to a conviction. inc rep,oy-
ais OF yesterday and other evidence that
now comes to light show that this feeling
did the president an injury. Whatever re-
gard he may have had for Mr.. Dorsey, he
Is and has been determined that the pov-
ernment should have every opportunity of
procuring conviction if possible. Mr. RI.
Megrick says that the president desired
from the beginning that no stone be left
unturned to convict the guilty whoever
they might be. The removal of five Off
cials for obstructing the prosecution OF
,, the star route gang is a fair notice to all
concerned that a man must not draw a.
salary from the government and devote
his energies to obstructinc the govern
ment in its prosecution of its offenders.
! The five decapitations do not exhaust the
! black list. Those who are spared this time
! may secure immunity by prompt and
radical reform, but this is dou6tfai The
asso late counsel for the government have
,i1w got the upper hand and they want
; 0:Te t.ead3 thsi now are in TIE basket.
ar. - Z. Rounds. the public p.lu,er holds
| his office by Il very slender tenure.
| 1t is another case of TIE ''wicked
| partner" Nobody thinks Mr.. Rounds
would Go am hlng out of the way. but it is
! assumed that when he came here 10 get
| his place he was captured by the Eue,iro
Critic gang. Mr. Rounds ar.;ab;lity
makes him an easy man to woyi. and the
| CT'tac crowd Is hard one. 1t became sp-
parent to his friends that the gang would
! get him into trouble if he didn't get rid Of
them. warning to that effect seemed
at hrst to have some effect, but when he
| came back here, after getting his appoint
ment, Helm and Childs and others, known
generally as the Critic crowd, got around
| him and engratiated themselves with him.
and the result became Immediately appa-
rent after he took hold of the office, Childs
had been chief clerk and been dismissed.
He wanted to get the place again merely
to get the other fellow discharged and get
his revenge. Mr. Rounds accommodated
! him. The chief clerk was removed Childs
went IN and then resigned, and let Cadet
| Taylor, OF Wenona, ILL.,, in. Anger is re-
moved ostensibly for expressing his sym-
| pathes with the defense and attacking the
| prosecution in paper in Michigan owned
by him, but there are other reasons. Ain
ger, and Parker, his assistant were in the
the department at the time the star route
gang were r1oting around in expeditions,
and are believed to have not only known of
the pig stealing. but to have some of the
pork. Furthermore, railroad companies
that deliver to the Office here have in
CURED penalties, but have not been re-
ported as delinquent. This may get these
gentlemen into more trouble than rem oval.
The reasons for Spencer's removal are
known to everybody.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-The report of
the comptroller of the currency is made
public. The total number of private
bankers in the sixteen principal states is
1856; aggregate capital, $7A,44O. 500; aggre-
gate deposit, $1O9, TAG; invested in
United States bonds S10.016,ooe. The
number of private bankers in thirty-three
states and territories having a capital in
excess of 100000. exclusive of these six
| teen principal cities is 9 59O. .rororotc