Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-21
GE0RGIA'S WAR CLAIM.
MIR. LAWRENCE PONDERINC ON
THE $35,555 APPROPRIATION.

Popular Prattle and Legal Lore on tn,
star Route Trial-Tilden's PresitIen
tial Prospects-The Sage of Gramerc,
Park Not i'm FavOr-IngersoII Routs 4
Methodist Dominic
WASHINGTON, April 20.-Judyc Law.
renee, First Comptroller Of the Treasury
Department, said to-day that he expected
! TO render his opinion in the Georgia case
I in few days. He was at work on il. he
saids and sit being an important question
ithas TO be carefully considered" While
it is not known how the decision will read.
/ there is good reason for believing that
Georgia will get the $S5,555 appropriated
to her at the last session of Congress.
The decision in the case will be lengthy
one. All Of Judge Lawrence's decisions
are lengthy. He takes particular delight
i'll reveling in the law. When he lets him
self loose on legal question Coke and
blackstone take to the woods.
The long drawn-Out star route trials are
drawing to close. The trials this time
have attracted but little attention outside
OF those directly >Qr indirectly interested
III them. The testimony has been dry and
Ter the most part uninteresting. Spats
between counsel have been all that was
OF any general interest. Opinion is di-
vlded in predicting what will be the re-
suit Of the trials. There arc many people
who say that the government has not
made out ease and that there will be no
convictions. The prosecution is certainly
a little weak i'll its course. 1t is making
an attempt to create the impression that
the jury has been "fiXed' again. This
looks as if there was preparation for ex-
cuSe IN. case the jury does not convict.
The trials certainly will have cost enough
to warrant other than impOtent con-
clusiOns. Mr.. Merrick, who is the brains
of the prosecution, says that he cannot
see how the jury can do other than con-
Wet. Other lawyers not employed in the
case say there will be no convictions. At
any rate the trials will be ended. That is
at least a consolation to a long suffering
public. The closing speeches on either
slue promise to furnish evidences of deep
legal research and some display of ora
tOrical fireworks.
The talk of again running Hon. Samuel
j. Tilden for the Presidency does not
seem to be very agreeable TO such Demo-
Gratis as | have heard express themselves
on the subject. | have heard no one say,
however, that they doubted that Tilden
is an active candidate. The way the talk
of him was put atloat is peculiar to his
method of doing things. 1t commenced
outside of New York and in very
quiet, unobtrusiVe manner 1t is
in keeping with Mr.. Tilden's well known
still hunt line of tactics. But there has
been no warm Outburst in his favor: On
the contrary, the politicians do not talk
as if they wanted Mr.. Tilden any more.
have heard shrewd party men say that
his name at the head of the ticket in 1884
would mean certain defeat. If the Tilden
talk was put OutNs a ''feeler'' by the sage
of Gramercy Park, and if the expressions
heard as to the advisability Of again max
ing him candidate are the same else
where as they are here, the man once
elected President cannot feel much en-
couraged. The general Democratic senti-
ment seems to be ''NO more Tilden,"
While was listening to Brother Inger-
soil cross-eXamine witness i'm the star
route trial to-day nephew of his told me
an anecdOte about his uncle. The place |
was on board ship, and the time when In |
gersOll was returning from his last trip to /
Europe. There was on the ship Metho- /
dist minister, who took delight in de- |
the peculiar religi0us-sacr- /
legious would be better, perhaps-views |
OF InSersoll. Whenever he got the slight !
est opportunity he would light into |
Ingersoli forthwith. 1ngersoll did not say |
but he was mad. As the /
steamer came into New York harbor. the |
ninister-therc was crowd around him |
asked IngersOll how he was going to
get his things through the custom house.
lngersOll replied, in an insinuating voice:
We'll, as am an iniidel, expect to pay
the regular customs duties. / don't know |
what you Christians are going to do"
POTOMAC.