Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-24
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
A SMART TRICK UPON THE AT
TORNEY GENERAL.

Longstreet's Vouchers-Pensacola's Pub
lie Buildings-Star Route Counsel Fees
The LaGrange Post Offce-The Gov
ernment After its Negro AppOintee.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23-Attorney Gen.
eral Brewster a short time ago discharged
his chief clerk. That clerk, Mulliken.
whether unwittingly or otherwise, very
likely the former, just before leaving the
department, succeeded i'll getting Mr..
Brewster into sixty dollar hole. The
drlVer OF Brewster's carriage is mes
senger IN his department. He is also
used by Brewster as body servant. This
individual wanted new suit of clothes
and urged Brewster to get him the de-
sired raiment. Brewster, who had noti-
fed his chief clerk of the latter's imDend
ing dismissal, went to him for advice He
wanted to know if he could purchase a
suit of clothes for his driver and have
it charged to the contingent fund of
the department. Mulliken told him that he
could. Under Brewster's authority the
driver went with him to first class tail
or and ordered made a suit of clothes, the
prlce OF which was sixty dollars, and
| directed that the bill be sent to the At
torney Generals office. In due time it
maze ITS appearance. Brewster directed
tnat 1t be paid. Then came the demurrer.
lie was told that under no law could q
SUIT OF clothes for one of its employes be
pald tor by the government. Mulliken
had by this time left the deDartment Al
though absent, Brewster i'm his usual
vigorous style, swOre several streaks of
blue at him. He could not get over nm
der or around the law, however. The Sc
quel is that he to-day had to pay for the
clothes out of his own pocket
VOUCHERS WANTING.
The accounting officers of the Treasury
are still in a mix over Marshal Long
streets accounts. There has been no re-
port yet of the investigation into this mat
ter now in progress. General Longstreet
does not account satisfactorily for the
money he has spent. He has been fur
nished large amount to defray the ex-
penses of the United States Court, now
sitting at Atlanta, which he has ex-
pended; and asks for more money to run
the court, which is holding an unusually
long session. He has furnished to the
government accounts of how he spent the
money so far given him. He re-
ports in form that so much went
/ for witness fees; so much for the paw of
his officers, and so on through the differ
! ent items of expenditure common to
| the office of United States Marshal. But
| these statements of his are unaccOmpa-
MED byvOuchers. There must be vouchers
to hnally settle an account with the Treas
ury Department. 1t therefore goes with
| out saying that Gen. LOngstreet's ac
counts are not settled. No one says that
| any of the money has clung to his fingers:
| but he has so far failed to show what was
done with it in the manner that the law
! requires. 1t is a Well-knOwn fact here
that had the present Marshal at Atlanta
! been any other than Gen. Longstreet he
would some time ago have been officially
raped over the knuckles.
/ GEORGTA post nrTNR..Rr
! A petition has been received at the
! White House from the citizens of La
! Grange, Ga, asking that Dr. H. II. Cary.
| OF that place, State Superintendent of
/ Fisheries, be appointed Postmaster. If
this petition had been received two weeks
/ previously, DIR. Cary would in all proba-
! bility have been appointed. When Mr..
Ball, Who had been Postmaster of La
| Grange since 1865, resigned some time ago.
| the President, upon the recommendation
/ OF Gen. Longstreet, appointed j. c.. Beall,
! colored man, from Hamilton, Harris
! county, as his successor. BealI had
dl1hculty in securing bond. 1t
! was only few days ago
that he gave the necessary securify,
Th9 Post Office Department Thought that
he lived in LaGrange, and mailed his
commission to him there, But he has
not at latest adviees appeared. In the
meantime LaGrange has suffered in her
] eACos lOl lEliCES cannot De regis
| Uerett andi a supply Of stamps and pOstal
/ cafdshas not been kept on hand. The atten
tloh OF the Post Office Department was to-
| day called to the condition of affairs by
/ your correspondent. The Postmaster
General Immediately directed that letters
be written to Beall at both LaGrange and
Hamilton, asking him if he intended 10
enter upon his duties as Postmaster AT
LaGrange, and if he did so intend to
| Immediately get to work; otherwise
! some one else would be aDpOint-
ed: 1t was also ascertained that
IL IS not the policy of the department to
appoint P0stmasters from others than
residents. If the facts had been known
before BealPs- commission had been sent
hlm, and the petition of the LAGRANGE
citizens had been received in time. DR..
Cary instead of j. G. Beall, colored, would
be Postmaster at LaGrange.
BIG FEES.
A Congressional resolution of inouirv At
the next session will be about the fees
pald hy the government to special counsel
engaged In the prosecution of the star
route cases. These fees will be found t.
nave been no very small things. The
Jumbo fee receiver is George II. Bliss.
Bliss went into the case year ago plus
about month. He has in that time re.
celYea in fees from the government the
! sum of $4,000. Bliss In making nm his
!
charged the government in addition to his
regular employ with his travelling eX-
| penses TO and from New York, his hotel
/ blils while boarding at the most eXpen-
siye hosiery here, his car fare
on the street railroads while
carriage bill when he took carriage
| which was generally the ease-and with
his stationery and postage stamp account.
| The total, 1896 for years work, is q
| very snug sum, better than the income of
/ the most prominent lawyer of the land.
| The fees of other counsel have been small
! er than what was given Bliss. but they
! are by no means intinitesimal.
FURTHER LEGISLATION RECOMMENDED.
! Mr.. James G., Hill, Supervising Archi-
/ teot Of the Treasury Department, has sub
Initted his annual report to the Secretary
I of the Treasury. That portion of the re-
! port which refers 10 the new public build
ing to be hUilt at Pensacola, Florida.
shows thai IL will be some time vet before
work is commenced there. Mr.. Hill saws:
s'Ihe act of June 10th, 1882, directed that
the site adjacentto the old building, which
was burned, be purchased for the new
structure, which will be larger.
and proposal has been obtain
ed for the sale of the desired site. The
price asked is, however, deemed unrca-
sOhaDle. The owner has refused to reduce
his price 20 a reasonable figure, and as
other suitable property can, understand,
be obtained at a reasonable price. recon-
mend that Congress be requested to amend
the law so as to authorize the department,
| should it be deemed advisable. to purchase
an entirely new site upon which to locate
a new building, and in the event Of such
purchase 70 sell the property now owned"
POTOMAC.
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