Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-01
Especial Telegram to the Globe.


the house regarding the whisky bill says
that while the ways and means committee
could not be persuaded to give way to per-
NIT debate on the bill during the day,
they will support Butterworth's motion
for a night session for this purpose, and
very decided in the opinion that they will
have majority vote on a motion for a
nights session, which will practically decide
the question. DIR. Rush, of Chicago, in
an interview with your correspondent to-
day says he has little hope that the house
will take any action on the whisky bill be-
fore next month.
KULoGY ON ORTIZ.
Congressman Davis, of Illinois, to-day
delivered eulogy in the house upon the
late Congressman Orth, of Indiana.
The address was interesting, and was
listened to with marked attention by the
house.
FOLGER's CHUM CABINET.
Secretary Folger has an idea that all
treasury officials who antedated his time
are proper objects of suspicion,
and he has organized sort
of chum cabinet, consisting of
Butler, the appointment clerk, Spelry, his
private secretary, and Webster, the ch ief
clerk. These gentlemen came in with
him and consequently know no. more
about the department. than he. This chum
cabinet think that all officials who have
been in Office for years are barnacles or
something worse, and the old officials en-
tertain the most contemptuons opinion of
the chum cabinet. His advisers knowing
as little about bhe customs of the depart
ment as he does, it is an easy thing to put
up job on the secretary. Somebody who
wanted half holiday stuffed the secretary
with the idea that it was customary to close
the department half day in memory of
deceased bureau chief. AS Mr.. Butler and
Mr.. Sperry and Mr.. Webster knew nothing
to the contrary, the treasury was closed at
noon yesterday in memory of Col. Irish,
late superintendent of the bureau of print
ing and engraving. Such thing as this
never occurred before. When Taylor and
Allison and Linderman died, though they
we're men of some eminence and were
nominated by the president
and confirmed by the senate, the treasury
ground out its daily grisSssju as though
they were merely messengers. The de-
partment is supposed to be in mourning
for Lot Morrill,, once its head, yet an eco
nomical chief clerk has limited the trap
pings and signs of woe to two or three
yards Of cambria, mere shoe string, over
each door. When other secretaries have
died the great granite pillars have been
festooned with black, and display Of
some impressiveness was made, but for
Mr.. Morrill, only a quarters worth of
black cambria is hung over each
entrance. Yet in memory of an official who
was only really clerk, as he was appoint
eddy the secretary, the whole treasury de-
partment is closed at noon. Being the
30th day of the month, the day when &C
counts are settled up-in fact, it is the
busiest day of the month-the closing of
the department was productive of great
inconvenience. The clerks could shut
their ledgers, wipe their pens on their coat
tails, and go off as conveniently as at
$3.50, but the treasurer's Office cannot stop
in that way. Any closing of this Office is a
great inconvenience to the departments
and the public. An Office of that kind can
not stop at the strike of clock. After pay
ments are stopped, the cash must be counted
up and the books balanced. Disbursing
officials from other departments arrived
at the treasurer's Office few minutes after
twelveand found the doors closed. The treas
urer's Office had to send the afternoon mail
with hand cart because Chief Clerk Web
ster insisted that the department. mail
wagon and its horse and driver should 90
into mourning for Col. Irish at noon.
Secretary Folger's young and
inexperienced advisers understood
the extreme inconvenience of closing the
department, as little as they understood
the usages of the department on mortuary
occasions.
HYATT SMITH ON THE TARIFF.
T Hyatt