Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-05
PLEASANT'S BAD BOND.
THE OLD WOLF DRESSED IN
SHEEP'S CLOTHING.

Judge MeCay Approves the Rejected In
strument Under Misapprehension-
Secretary FOlger's Action in Doubt-
speer and Longstreet Striving to Sc
cure the Prize.
! WASHINGTON, June A new iiooer
ON affairs has been turned in connection
with the Internal Revenue Collectorshin
at Savannah. A private telegram received
here yesterday stated that Judge McCav
Whlle at savannah, had approved Pleas
ants oond. Such bond as that of Pleas
ants has to be either approved bv the
Dlstrict Attorney or the Judge in that
jurisdiction, and then finally approved
Oy the Secretary of the Treasury. Pleas
ant Dond, as approved by Judge McCav.
was to-day received by the Internal Reye
hue bureau. To say that its reception
created surprise would be but to exnress
IL very mildly. 1t was known thatDar-
inat5 men, ihe district Attorney, had twice re-
Jected the bond, and that his reiec-
uon was in keeping with the re-
ports on the subject which have
Deen made by the Internal Revenue
of1cers. The fact that Judge McCav ap-
proved bond which had been rejected nv
Darnell twice, was credited to the influ-
ence of Emory Speer, who has been to Sa.
yannah recently in the interest of Pleas
ant or White. as against Gen. LOngstreet,s
recommendation of Wimberly. When
Speer and his colleagues saw that their in
dOrSement of White to succeed Pleasant
would not avail on account of that rebate
business they busted themselves to secure
Pleasants retention. They got their work
IN upon Judge McCay and succeeded i'm
inducing him to approve a bond which
mad twice been rejected by the District
Attorney, Darnell. The bond which was
received to-day is the same old
thing. 1t will be referred to
the secretary of the Treasury.
1t Will carry with it the report of the off
GERS of the Internal Revenue Bureau. who
Will say that the bond of Pleasant has
been rejected both by them and by the
Secretary of the Treasury, and they do
not see why it should be now accepted be-
cause United States District Judge
mas, under misrepresentation, approved
1t. Secretary FOlger will return to-mOr-
row from New York. What action he
VIII take there is, of course, now nothing
to predicate prediction upon. Mr..
Phillips, the Presidents private secretary,
to-day told me that during his stay i'm
New York the President had received a
telegram warmly and earnestly recon-
mendlng Wimberly as Peasants success
sor. That telegram was signed as fol-
lows: L. f. johnson, 5. A. Darnell, R.
y LOCke, Il. !. ade, l.. McLaWS and
David Porter.
The Civil Service Commissioners held
meeting to-day at which a num-
Der of questions of detail relating to
the examination of candidates for places
In the civil service, and to the appli-
cation of the new rules governing
appointments were discussed. The most
important of the questions was what
meaning should be given to the words
zone family in that clause of the civil
service reform bill which provides that
when two persons of one family are en-
plOyed in the civil service of the govern
ment no other member of that family shall
be eligible to appointment. As the Com
mssiOners do not care to examine
persons who are ineligible they wish
to have this question definitely settled,
and VIII ask the opinion of the ATTORNEY
General upon it. They desire to know
whether one family means only parents
and their children, or whether, taking
into consideration the intent of the law,
which was plainly a prevention of ne
pOtism, the prohibition Is to be under
stood as extending to nephews and nieces,
brothers and sisters, grand children,
cousins, and the relatives by marriage of
persons holding places in the civil SER
vice.
The Mexican mail service from New
Orleans and Galveston has been resumed.