The Evening critic., 1882-03-22

Claims A number of clerks hnd agents,
who will be mustered out of service if this
bill is passed, and some claim agents, are |
opposing this action. Every citizen should
have the opportunity to present a claim
against the Government which is disputed
to a court where il can be properly adjudi-
Gated under the rules of law.
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THE Rochester Sunday Herald, speaking |
of proposition to elect certain Federal Off |
GERS, postmasters among them, remarks in.
terrogatively:
Does anybody suppose that under a popu-
lar election in New York such mau as
Thomas J.. James would secure tho position of
Postmaster?
Nobody is such a complete, double bar
relied idiot as to suppose yes to the foregoing
Interrogation. Yet this incompetent, ly-
ing, thieving Thomas l.. James was Post
master.General James
II THE Congressional committees on the
District of Columbia win only examine the
colored map showing the streets that are
improved and those that are unimproved,
they will see how the satraps of Four-and-
a-half street are doing great injustice. Let
them look at the map and examine the es-
nearly all the improvements in the past
have been in one section-that where the
satraps reside, and the estimates that six
sevenths of the proposed expenditures the
next fiscal year are for the same section.
OUR FLAG would not be worthy of respect If
1t would not shield an Irish-American visiting
the grave Of his mother as jealously as II would
guard one OF Minister LowelPs Harvard chums
on journey through the Orient-NdtiOnm
RtI,uNicdn (o,9on).
The dignifed and respectable "a surfeit of
dignity and respectability killed the Whig
party citizen of New Jersey who occupies
the seat once filed by Jefferson, Adams,
Clay, Webster, Marcy, Seward and Blaine,
should recall the snob who now misreprc-
sents this country at the Court of st. James
A man with side-whiskers will never make
good American diplomat.
THE scene was the bar-room of the Ar
lington Hotel, this city. The speaker was
Colonel George Bliss, Of New York. The
listeners were statesmen thirsting for
knowledge.
"Yes, gentlemen" remarked the gallant
Colonel, wiping his lips, 81 may tell you,
confdentially, of course, l had intended
to remove Colonel Corkhill-from Office, /
mean," he added hastily as he noted the
peculiar smile that dawned upon the
handsome face OF one of his auditors.
"Why, continued the Colonel, as he
again wiped his lips carefully, "do You
know that the District Attorneys office in
New York city is mere bagatelle to what
it is here, if the Office here was properly
worked? No? Well, l tell You, gentlemen,
it is so, and l know it,. As | said before, l
had intended TO go to my friend Chet and
have Corkhill removed Who would have
been his successor? Well, really, gentle
men, " protested the Colonel, lit would be
useless to tell you that now. 1t is enough
TO say that should have picked out o com
petent and experienced man.
But" resumed the Colonel, once more
applying his handkerchief to his lips as
came TO know Col. COrkhill better con-
cluded to let him remain where he is.
What, you won't have another? Well, good
evening, gentlemen; please regard what /
have said as confidential, as don't want to
seem presumptive, but you know my rela-
tions with Chet. Good evening"
Mr.. MURoH, of Maine, has risen in the
House to privileged question, because of
words used by THE CRITIC in regard TO
him in connection with the attempt THE
CRITIC is making to reduce the price and
improve the quality Of the gas furnished by
the monopoly which gives us more or less
generally less) light
From the array OF figures presented by
Mr.. Murch-from the elaborate resolution
Ii l. ell.
fed that so far from Mr.. Murchs having
been influenced in any way by the gas
company, his silence, of which The Critic
spoke, was only the silence of preparation -
the calm which precedes the outburst of the
tornado, and that the people of the District
have a friend in Mr. Mureh, who will lend
efficient aid to The CRITIC in breaking
the bonds with which the gas m monopoly
have bound it.
But why any member of the District
Legislature should object to the committee
proposed by the resolution offered by Mr.
Hnrch is more than The CRITIC can un'
derstand. Mr.. Murch supported his roso
luton with an array of facts and figures
the idea for which he properly gives credit
to TIE CRITIC, which, if true, and they
arc true, demands thst the Legislature o
the District shall speedily investigate anC
as speedily provides remedy, not only p
the extortions practiced on the citizen
and the city government, for Congress, a
well as the District Legislature has dut.
to perform in protecting the United State
Government from similar extortions.
As the resolution has been referred to th'
District Committee, The Critic feels con
fdent that il will be soon reported back
with a recommendation that it pass. Tina
committee cannot afford 10 do less. In tn
meantime, THE CRITIC will continue h
furnish facts for the use Of the special com
nittee when it meets, aud il rei0iees tha
its efforts have aroused Congress 10 action