Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
WASHINGTON.
a Blaine BOOM BEING STARTED At
THE SOUTH.
A Republican Paper Severely Criticising
the Presidential Batch of Miscellaneous
Departmental News.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. I

eral Office holders in the South are endeav-
oring to get up Blaine boom. One now
in this city is quoted as saying: II find
remarkable Blaine sentiment growing in
the southern states, particularly during the
past ten months. Blaine has hitherto been
comparatively weak in the South, and
Grant has always been by far the strongest.
The natural hatred of New England men
in the South has initiated against Blaine.
His action while speaker of the forty-third
congress in assisting the conservative Re-
publicans and Democrats to defeat the
force bill has operated to his advantage
among some southern Republicans. While
he was secretary of state under Garfield,
however, he made many friends in the
South and he has steadily grown in favor
able estimation since. His connection
with business enterprises in the South has
brought him III personal contact with
southern men, and he has won their friend
ship by his tact and ability. Southern
Democrats as rule admire him. do
not think there is any particular boom for
him as presidential candidate, but he is
undoubtedly growing strong with the
southern people"
GOING FOR ARTHUR.
The Gazette, a Republican newspaper,
thus breaks out: "Not two years have
passed since Chester A. Arthur became
president of the United States. In this
short time he has succeeded in estranging
from him every friend upon whom he
could have called for counsel and unselfish
advice. In their stead he has gathered
about him men whose only aims seem to
be the destruction of the party who elected
him, and to serve their personal ends. The
friends of Mr.. Arthur are Republicans
only in name. They are renegades and
traitors in action. Honest men, if they be
Democrats, who differ with honest Repub-
licans as to the administration of public
affairs, are vastly to be preferred to the
fools and sycophants who surround the oc-
cupant of the chair of Washington, Jack
son, Lincoln ana Grant. No matter what
mistakes these presidents may have made,
their cabinets were composed of men of
brains and energy, not creatures whose
proper places should be asylums for the
mind. It is well established fact that
men who cannot govern their own affairs
cannot be expected to govern the
affairs of others, and least of all
great nations. 1t is ventured to say
that never in the history of the country
has there been such imbecility and cow
ardice shown by cabinet officers as is
shown by the heads of the treasury and
department.of justice. There are two
departments of our government that have
capable, honest men at their heads. These
are the Interior and War Departments.
The manhood of the two gentlemen who
hold these portfolios is too strong to be
contaminated by the influences which sur
round the weak head and cabinet control
ing public affairs. But all things have an
end, and on March 4, 1855, this state of
affairs will end.''
Western Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE president
has made the following appointments:
United States consuls: Francis Haugh-
won't, New York, at Naples; B. Odell Dun
can, South Carolina, at Catania, and Jas.
Fletcher, Iowa, at Genoa.
wAssoN's COURT MARTIAL.
The order for court martial of Pay
master j. R. WATSON to be convened on the
10th inst. will be suspended by Gen. Au-
| CUR, department commander, by direction
of the secretary of war, pending further
examination as to the extent of the defal-
cation. An officer has been detailed for
that purpose and the court martial sus-
I pended until his report shall have been laid
before the secretary of war.
THE CADET ENGINEERS AGAIN SMILE.
The court of claims to-day reversed a
unanimous decision in the test case of
Leopold against the United States. This
suit was brought nominally for differ
ence of pay, but in fact to determine the
status of cadet engineers who graduated at
the naval academy in the years 1881 and
1882. The navy department held they
were undergraduates within the meaning
Of an act of August last and were trans
formed by that act into naval cadets and
their pay cut down. As a consequence of
this they would have been compelled to re-
graduate, and most of them would then
have been dropped under the act as surplus
| krduudISb' Lie court QeclQ6S that they
are not undergraduates, hence they we're
not transformed into naval cadets but now
remain in service as cadet engineers. A
large number are interested in the decision.
WASHINGTON, May 14.-When the star
route trials resumed this forenoon, Judge
Wylie said he would dispose of the ques-
ton of the number Of counsel to be al
lowed to address the jury for the defense.
The rules of practice in different courts
were cited by Judge Wylie in the course
of the delivery of his opinion, at some
length, and the conclusion reached was
that chsdefendant should be allowed one
closing argument by his chosen counsel.
The members of the special panel jury,
excepting those engaged in the star route,
were dismissed, Judge Wylie expressing
the belief that the case would consume the
court until the beginning of the next
term, June Is. Wilson then resumed his
argument to the jury.
THE ARCHITECT HILL INVESTIGATION
In response to call by Representative
Murch. Secretary Folger replies that he
has supplied all the papers called for in hi:
department which can be found and ex
presses his willingness to give all informa