Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-25
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Special Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 24.-The president
did not come down to the White house to-
day, but remained in his soldiers home
workshop, hammering away at the annual
message to congress. It is hard work to
make good message, and the president
is so determined to do it all himself this
year that he sits day and night with his
legs under the table, one servant filing up
his ink bottle at intervals and the other
bringing him beef tea to avoid the waste
of time occasioned by knives and forks
1t ought to be message as powerful and
full OF Importance as TO knock congress
cold as a wedge at the first reading, if ore
may judge from the amount of work
being put into it. In order that
1t may be more effective, the president is
making his seven clerks, known as cabi-
net officers, keep back their reports. He
wants his message-his powerful aggrega-
ton Of suggestions-to strike congress and
the country with the full fire of new reve-
lation. He is accused of being boss, and
he does not propose to have any cabinet
officer get what the newspaper CORE
sponaents call scoop Oh him.
MsNNING's SEAT.
Mr.. Manning, Of Mississippi, says that
all talk of the governor reconsidering his
action in granting Mr.. Manning certif-
cate of election is baseless, as The certificate
is now in his possession, and the governor
cannot reconsider, whatever change his
mind may undergo. What course he means
to pursue Mr.. Manning declines to indi-
catch he say she is in receipt OF many let
ters from his constituents and from people
in other parts of the state, and has talked
with many Democratic members Of con-
gress, and on every side he is assured that
he has as good case legally as be could
possibly have. Gen. Chalmers is in posi-
ton to sympathize with the bird whose own
pinion feathered tia arrow that pierced it,
for the law points involved in this case,
aad which Mr.. Manning insists on are the
points claimed only two years ago by
Chalmers himself, and affirmed by the
state courts in the litigation between
Chalmers and Lynch. Chal-
mers erected the legal barriers
and which he is now trying to destroy as
Mr.. Lynch tried to destroy them two years
ago. Mr.. Manning says further that tho
letters he gets from home assure him that
he had actually more legal ballots than
Chalmers, so that the equities as we'll as
the law are Oh his side, but it has never yet
been held that the letters to candidate
f,;n l. ~ l
undoubtedly elected, are conclusive as to
the title to an Office.
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
The ways and means committee room
in the house end Of the ca pirol is not in
the interesting place that it promised to
be before the committee decided to let its
work alone, and the room near by where
the money is appropriated is now the
buster of the two. The veteran clerk.
Maj. Stevens, is working away at the
formation of bills which shall appropriate
money to run the government for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1888. The ways and
means committee will have to rustic
around and get il as it can. More will be
demanded than last year, even leaving out
$1o,0OO,O0O which the chief engineer, &C
cording to regular habit, has estimated as
necessary for rivers and harbors. This
will be left out because Mr.. Secretary of
War Lincoln thinks he can make a better
reputation at large oy ignoring the chief
engineers estimate than by humoring his
$1O,000,O00 whim. The secretary of the
navy will nearly offset this popu-
ular economy by asking $6,0OO,O0O
more than last year, most of which
wi / be asked for on the ground that this
county needs new ships. Most of the
ships she has now are on the ground al
ready. The preparation of these bills in
the room of the appropriation committee
is a solemn and secret JOB, in anticipation
of the meeting of congress. The veteran
secretary of the committee has lot of
figures, which are supposed to come burst
ing freshly into congress after it meets,
which makes his work like that of the man
who writes criticisms of the opera before
the curtain goes up. It is in his case, how
ever, very necessary piece of anticipa-
tory work. Everybody who has anything
to do just now is applying himself solemn
IL and secretly.
AN OHIO MAN ABOUT TO RESIGN.
There is very good authority
for the statement that collector
of internal revenue, W. FL. Taft, of the
First Ohio district, has resigned, or con
templates doing SO at all early day. Mr..
Taft desires to return to his law practice.
Hewas at the postosice department to-day,
and reiterated, according to the statement
of one of the assistant postmaster genera S,
his desire to give up public Office and go
back to the law.
THE GARFIELD CHURCH.
Rev. DIR. Powers, the pastor of the
Christian church, of which the late Presi-
dent Garfield was member, has returned
fro m soliciting subscriptions in different
sections of the country for the, erection of
new church. He states that of the $52,-
coo necessary to the completion of the new
church edifce but $4,000 now remains to
be raised.
TT iS eynected tina the Indian apprCpria-