Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-16
BREWSTER'S BIG CASES.
COSTLY TRIALS WHICH TAX.
PAYERS WILL GRUNTBLE AT

Fifteen Thousend Dollars Expended
Printing the Star Route Speeches Alone
An Indiana Scheme-WiIliard's Ro-
dent BOarders Migrating for the SUM
mer-The Union Pacific Case.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-Another ap-
preparation for the Department of Justice
has been exhausted. The usual appro-
priation for printing for that department
is $4,000, all Of which has not as a general
rule been expended. The Guiteau trial
necessitated larger apprOp Opriation. The
star route trials also made good deal of
printing necessary. So for the two fiscal
wears ending June Both next. Congress
gave the Department of Justice $2O, 600 for
its printing. Now that amount is exhaust
ed and the department is about s., 900 be-
hind hand. The star route trials have
gobbled up most of this money. The
printing for the Guiteau trial cost $4,000.
The star route trial printing has absorb
ed at least $4,000 of the $20. 900
appropriated. Everything in the
tar route mess Is printed
on the government side. That six day
speech Of Lawyer Ker is gotten out in
book fOlm. The other speeches of the
the4Aswih be inarveis Of breVity. ftfs, or
course, usless for all this truck to be
printed, but everything about the star
route trials is conducted on the scale of
''bleed Uncle Sam all you can" If these
trials last much longer, the tax payers
VIII begin to wonder if the prosecution
is not more costly than the original trans
actions of the indicted men.
The other day an Indiana politician.
resident 70
the Post Office Department to talk
with Postmaster General Gresham. The
resident politician had scheme
OF which there was In his eyes much
beauty. 1t consisted of the reason WHY
a certain clerk i'll Greshams department
should be dismissed and another man ap-
pointed in his stead. He had the whole
thing mapped out. He explained it all
to Gresham and asked that the. change be
made right away. Gresham replied by
asking the question: "Do you think |
came here from Indiana for such work as
thlsE' The question was asked in such
way that it carried with it very in
dignant answer to the scheme of the resi-
dent politician from Indiana. The resi-
dent politician from Indiana left without
dellneatlng any more schemes,
There has been peculiar and quite
interesting hegira going on in Washing
Ington for several days past. Wizards
Hotel, very large caravansary. was
closed last Tuesday. On Thursday the
'hegira commenced. The pilgrimage con-
sisted of migratory rats. Above and be-
low Willard's Hotel, on Pennsylvania ave-
nue., and opposite it, there are number
OF restaurants. Back of it, on f street,
there are others. The rats at Willard's
great big fellows most of them,
finding provender running short in
the abundant hOstelrY, have been
to look out for other
pastures. They go with sagacity to the
adjacent restaurant. They can be seen
daily in their journey. Made bold by
hunger they come forth in droves, as many
as twenty or thirty sometimes being
together, and scamper away to new quar-
ters. Lately young men who have a fancy
for rat terriers have brought their pets
forth, and enjoy the sport of rat killing in
the streets. The keeper OF the eating
saloon right above Willard's told me
to-day that every year when that hotel
closes the rats came upon him in num-
bers, and when the hotel is opened in the
fall most of them go back to their old
quarters.
The attempt making to compel the
Union Pacific Railroad Company to pay
to the government what il owes NAV fail.
But 1T Will at least have served good
purpose. 1t has attracted public atten-
tiOn very forcibly to the subject of mo-
nopolles. There is very large anti
monopolist community in this country.
1t is about the only thing that is left on
the public mind Of the very comprehen-
sive set of principles ,oluminOusly
launched few short years ago by
what were known as the Green
hackers. The Greenbackers got
the idea from the grangers, but
exaggerated it,Or they did all other things
with which they had to do. The anti
monOpolistic feeling has outlived both
Grangers and their imitators, the Green
hackers. That shows it STABILITY. Every
opportunity to advance the interest of
anti-monOpoly is quickly seized upon. The
attitude of the Union Pacific Railroad
forms very good fighting ground for the
anti-mOnOpolists. They see their vantage
and are using it. Such good use has been
made of the case in point that it is a GER
tainty that one or both of the political
parties viii have to make anti-mOnOpolv
really working plank in their platform
instead of an ornamental one. The Dem
0cratic party seems to quicken on
this subject. So does the Repub-
lican party, but not with a quickness
that is self-bOrn. They are a lazy horse
that heeds slowly the spMr. Their feel.
ings and past history are on the side of
the mOnOpolists. The history of the last
railroads is recent burning example of
what the Republican party's principles in
dealing with ever-spreading monopoly has
been. 1t is difficult for them to show a
front in the really awakened public senti-
ment in regard to this evil, but they are
trying it. The Democrats are not slow
either to see how the public approves of
the course which does not mean financial
destruction to monopolies. but the use of
a OF fpaf fuin hot
pei them to recognize the rights of the peO-
pie. The fact that the attitude Of parties
upon the subject will form, with the tariff
two leading questions for 1884 is being
grasped on all side. One sure sign of
this is the springing up all around of small
men, who are Fastening to announce with
ferocity in every way equal to that of
Simon Tappertit, death and destruction to
all corporations.
You have, doubtless, heard a good deal
of how Maryland Is going to flop right
into the arms of the Republican brethren,
rebuke BourbOnism, and Join the New
South?' There is certainly a good deal
of such talk just now among the Republi-
cans. The Republican newspaper here
has got it all figured down finely Just how
the unbeatable differences in the Demo-
cratic party of the State are going to bring
it all about. You may remember
just how Georgia. Mississippi, Ken
lucky and other Southern States did
the same thing. Maryland is going to
act just like them. In other words con-
versions will he accomplished just the
same way-that is on paper. l have
talked with many Republicans and Demo-
Gratis from Maryland on this subject.
The Democrats say, and show why, that
it is impossible to wheel My Maryland
into the Republican line. Some Republi-
cans say boastfully that it will be done.
Many say they hope it will be done, and
the shrewdest of them admit that it will
not be done but that it is good thing to
boom on general principles. AS the time
draws nearer for the test it becOmee more
evident every day that the Maryland agi-
tatiOn is but of a kind with that In GeOr-
gia two years ago. No Democrat need
fear otherwise. POTOMAC.