Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-05
WAITS FROM WASHINGTON.
Items of Interest Found at the Capital
BY News Correspondent

" q -NShs correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May 4.-Upon the first
of July next a large number of post offices
in the country viii be made money order
offices if the postmasters make the neces-
sary additional bond by that time. The
following offices in Georgia are among
them; Hampton, TallapoOsa, Cumming,
LaGrange, jackson, Spring Place, Nc
Donough, HerndOn, ThOmastOn, Waynes-
vile, Jesup and St. Mary's, also the fol-
lowing in Florida: Sumterville, Welaka,
Fort Meade, Clear Water HarbOr and
Archer.
During the week ended May 1st patent
was issued to Lawrence NJ. Alexander. of
CaNius, ;. c.. for cotton seed planter.
Patents were issued during the same
week to +. A. Mock and Francis E. Kemp,
of Jesup, Ga, for cotton chopper, and
TO Evan II. Lawrence, of Social Circle,
Ga, for medicinal compound.
Hon. SamuelJ. Randall was at the Army
Department the other day and had talk
with the officials there concerning the re-
cent decision rendered in regard to the
duty on rice. He expressed himself very
earnestly in opposition to that decision.
He said that he did not think it was the
proper decision to be made. 1t was a
tlon, and which it was clearly the inten-
tion of Congress to protect. There is no
doubt but that the question of the duty on
cracked or granulated rice will
be brought to the attention of
Congress at an early day of the
next session. 1t was pointed out in a
recent dispatch to the News that although
the decision of the Treasury Department
is, technically, only under the present
taken, be the same under the new law
that is, sO-called cracked or granulated
rice may be admitted upon the payment
OF duty Of 20 per cent. ad ValOrem. The
only recourse, therefore, for the rice grow
ers, is to appeal to Congress. This will
be done. The great brewing interests
OF the country, who principally
use the cracked rice in the
manufacture of beer-will stOutly oppose
a higher rate of duty than 30 per centum
With good work the planters can, how
ever, without much doubt get cracked or
granulated rice where it was intended it
should be in the new tariff bill; that is,
make it pay duty of 20 cents per pound.
Dorman b. Eaton is Chairman of the
present Civil Service Commission. George
William Curtis was Chairman of the first
Civil Service Commission. Between these
eminent refOrmerS, as it often happens in
is no very great love. Curtis
thinks Eaton knows nothing, and
Eaton thinks Curtis knows less. In get
ting up the rules for the new civil service
committee the present commissioners
naturally turned to the rules of the old
one. The latter were pronounced by
EatOn's two colleagues to be pretty good
rules which would without much change, !
do very well. Eaton said they were pret-
ty fair, but he did not think that they
should be revived. These rules were pre- |
pared by George W. Curtis, EatOn's civil |
service reform enemy. 1t would not do to
revive them, that would be giving |
Curtis too much of boom. Eaton
carried the day. The old rules,
with indications made necessary by
the difference between the two
civil service reform bills were, as gem
eral plan. made the basis of the new ones;
but the entire phraseOlogy was changed.
Not word was left standing. Eaton
would rather have been no civil service
retormer at all than to have acknowl-
edged, by copying one sentence Of'Curts',
that the latter was possessed of any
knowledge whatever of how things should
be conducted that the civil service may be
made pure.
1t seems to be the order of the day that
when a man is elected Governor or gets a
very prominent place under the govern
ment, talk Of him as a good man to be
President must begin. Examples of this
are Governors Cleveland, Pattison and
Butler, and Postmaster General Gresham. /
GeOrgia's new Governor, Major McDan- !
iel, has himself been given a little boom
observation-disclosures in New York State. A |
gentleman from Troy y-On-the- Hudson told |
me to-day that there were quite "A number |
of admirers of GOvernOr-elect Mcdaniel |
in that region. Two papers, he said had !
already come out for him for Presiden;.
He could remember the name Of but one
of these papers, the Albany Press and |
hRjckerbOcker, which he said few davs |
ago had half column giving Mcdaniel |
the warmest sort Of praise and urging |
him as the Democratic standard bearer |
in 1884. POTOMAC.