Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-30
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
A SPECIMEN OF TREASURY RED
TAPE.
All for Twenty-Five DOIlars-Foreman
Dickson Brought up Short-Bruns-
wick's APPrOpriatiOn-The Whisky
Men on the Anxious Bench-A States

All for Twenty-Five DoIlars-Foreman
Dickson Brought up ShOrt-Bruns-
wick's Apprenticeship Whisky
Men on the Anxious Bench-A States
man Obscured-Windom's Ducats,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Judge Phister. who
represents one of the richest blue grass dis
tricts in Kentucky, has been having a little
experience with the great circumlocution
office. A few days ago the Sergeant Arms
in paying Judge Phister his salary. gave blm
a check on the Assistant Treasurer at New
York. The Judge sent this check to his wife
in Maysville, Kentucky. Mrs. Phister dis
patched her son to the bank to have 1t cashed
it had been duly indorsed bv
both her husband and herself. Younr
Phister lost the check. Judge Phister went
to the Treasury here to get it renewed. They
told him to wait awhile-perhaps the check
might be found. He waited awhile but the
check was not found. He then went to the
Treasury again, They gave him a long in
demnity bond to make out and sign. He
changed it so that it would meet his case and
signed it. He went back to the Treasury the
next day. He was told that he must get re-
sponsible persons to testify that he was
good for the amount involved Phister
went back to the House. He asked Proctor
Knott if he would certify that he was worth
S25. Knott said he would; if pressed he might
certify that Phister was worth as much as
$50. Representatives Caldwell, Rosecrans and
Musgrove were also willing, and certified that
Judge Phister was good for $25 Phister went
armed with all his papers to the Treasury,
thinking that he had the thing to a dead GER
tainty this time; but he was out ON that. He
was informed that he would have to
secure the certifcation of an internal re-
venue or other Federal officer in his district
Here the genial Judge broke down. He said
he had done all he intended to do in order to
rec0up that twenty five dollars. 1t could
just go, and he would try to keep the wolf
from the door without it. The next day the
Treasury Department relented, and sent him
another check on the Assistant Treasurer at
New York for the amount lost without enact
been prescribed. He sent the check
to his wife, and wrote her all
about the trouble he had contended with to
recover his money. After detailing his trou-
BILE he said: "But we must not complain. In
view OF the millions which are annually
stolen from the government we ought perhaps
to be thankful that we ever recovered the
money at ALL
A DISAPPOINTED MAN.
Mr.. William Dickson, of this city, is one of
the most dOwncast and disappointed figures
that the national capital now presents.
Dickson, you will remember, was the boss
fXer, who, according to popular belief, caus-
ed the late star route jury to disagree. He
was foreman of that Jury. DicksOn's case has
Indictment. Three nights ago it was given
out that the jury had unanimously decided to
refuse to find a verdict against him. Thereat
Dickson did greatly rejoice. He went around
smiling and receiving the congratulations of
his friends. He ''set 'em up' for all with
whom he came in contact. The next day he
was dined by his intimate friends, and
happy speeches over the happy finding of the
grand jury were made, and fattering toasts
were drunk in the rosy. Yesterday the grand
jury brought in an indictment against Dick
son, and the penitentiary stares him in the
face. Truly, the difference of day often
makes an entire change in mans prospects
and future.
BRUNSWICK.
Mr.. John 7. Collins, formerly Collector of
Customs at Brunswick, Ca, has been in the
city several days. He has appeared before the
House Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds to favor an appropriation for public
building at Brunswick. He made very good
presentation Of the case, and presented the
needs of Brunswick fOrcibly. From the
that there is but very little chance
of Brunswick getting an appropriation this
session. At the same time it needs no prophet
to say that she will have her demands attend
ed to at the next session.
THE WHISKY INTEREST.
The gentlemen who have been working ever
since the first Monday in December last to get
a bill passed extending the time that whisky
may be held in bonded warehouses without
the payment of the tax thereon, are
lions of money and do work very
industriously. They sometimes when they
get very ueBDOnuenb l10DlDe q little too much.
and then hurt their cause by talking too much
around hotel lObbies. Every once and q while
their bill, which has passed the Senate, bobs
up serenely in the House; and then, the big
opposition just knocks it on the head and
bangs it around some. In fact, the opposition
seems to delight in this little banging pastime.
But still the whisky men come up smiling.
FeadY t e be of They stand d
that the bill will 60 through and then viii be
seen how deceiving were their cries that unless
they were given relief there would be panics
and financial disasters.
ONCE VERY PROMINENT.
Yesterday a newspaper man in the report
er's gallery, who by sight knows almost every
member as he rises in his seat, asked me
"WhO is that?" | told him it was
Bland, of Missouri. The question made me
think a little. ! was at first surprised to
think that there could be any one at all ia
miliar with the personnel of the House and
yet not know Bland. But there was really mo
cause for surprise. Bland has hardly been
heard from in the past four years Five or six
years ago he conceived an idea. 1t was the
free unlimited coinage of silver. He started
the silver agitation. For years the talk of
financial debate-and financial discussion in
the press was never complete without some
reference to twas the "Bland silver dol
lar" Bland was abused and praised.
There was no name better known
IN the country m fyo than his, and no face
the silver bill passed in 1878 Bland disap-
peared from the public view. His name went
out OF the newspapers. 1t has seldom ap-
peared in print since then. He is man of
one tdea. The agitation of that idea having
ceased because the reconciliation of silver
had been accomplished, Bland disappeared
also. It's somewhat suggestive, isn't it?
CONVERSE ON WINDOW.
As we rode up in bob tail car this morning
on our way to the capitol Representative Con-
verse, of Ohio, glancing up from a morning
paper, said sit looks as if Window would not
get reelection doesn't it?" | said it looked
that way. "NOW," continued Mr.. Converse, II
don't think Window has been treated just
right. What he is charged with most extep-
sively and what hurts him most in his fight to
be returned is that he is rich-that he came to
Congress poor and is now worth million or
two. People believe that he secured his
money by dishonest methods. l don't. l
know something about WINDOWS affairs. He
made Investments here that more than dou-
bled-in many cases they quadrupled. He
was equally successful with other investments
in the West and Northwest Every venture
he made seemed to double his capital. He did
not get his money by dishonesty or chicanery."
POTOMAC.
MIXED GRAND JURIES.
Important Decision by the Supreme