Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-04
REPUBLICAN ROBBERS.
$1,25O,OOO IN MONEY ORDERS
VIRTUALLY CONFISCATED.

by Returns to Remitters- Blatant Bel
tord Returns with a BOund-DOr-
sheimer Not in Danger of Cabinet
LightniDg-Cassid Winter of Dis
content.
! WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Until within
the past two years it was the policy ofthe
/ fost Office Department to keep the money
Paid for unclaimed money orders without
attempting to find either the remitter or
/ the payee, but about two years ago. stirred
! up by some Congressional influence, the
/ department issued a circular instructing
/ pOstmasters receiving money orders ad-
/ vices to hunt up the payees of unclaimed
money orders. But the traditional policy
/ was maintained in so far that no attempt
| to lind the remitters was authorized, even
/ IN the not improbable event that the
| payees could not be found. Consequently
/ the fund to the credit Of the money order
/ office in the United States Treasury on
/ account Of unclaimed money orders now
amounts to about sl,250,000. This money
| has been termed by at least one official of
| the Post Office Department ''The capi-
tai OF the money order office"
Nevertheless. it is of course per-
fectly obvious that it is the prop
erty of either the remitters or the payees
of the unclaimed money orders, and not
of the United States government or anv
department thereof Moved by the reform
spirit which Mr.. Cleveland's affirmative
honesty has stimulated, the Post Office
Department has recently gone a step
farther and issued a circular to the post
masters who have issued unclaimed
money orders, notifying them that money
orders ISSUED by them remain unpaid and
instructing them to hunt up the remitters
and notify them.
RANDALL BREAKS HIS FAITH.
Nearly all of the delegates from the
different boards of trade who came here
! last Saturday to urge the passage of the
| bankruptcy bill, returned home to-day.
They left convinced that further attempt
to pass the bill in the present House
would be almost useless. 1t is said that
| the friends of the bill had a sufficient ma
Jority yesterday to pass it, if it could
have been reached, but owing to the tao
tics of Mr.. Randall it could not be called
up. There is great deal of ill-feeling to-
wards the Pennsylvania among the
friends of the bill because of
/ his action. He had promised that
he would not oppose the measure,
and virtually violated his pledge
by insisting upon the consideration Of the
resolution amending the rules. That
there was an understanding between
those who offered the dilatOry motions
last night which defeated consideration
from the fact that as soon as suspension
day" had passed the Randall resolution
was adopted without opposition. Mr..
Morse, who was to have made the motion
! to suspend the rules and pass the bill is
very much chagrined at his ill success.
He declares that more than enough men,
bers were pledged TO its support to have
insured its passage yesterday, but gives
up all hopes for it now.
Mr.. Collins, the most active advocate
| of the measure, is not over sanguine, but
| has hopes that during the last six days 0 f
| the session the bill may be reached and
! passed. Although the general belief is that
| Mr.. Randall is directly responsible for the
! third defeat that the bankruptcy bill has
sustained in the FOrty-eighth Congress,
1t is fact still that the negligence of its
friends was IN measure responsible for
us defeat. Having two-thirds of the
House in its support yesterday afternoon,
it was yet impossible to secure a quorum
last night. If this could have been done
1t would have succeeded i'll spite Of the
iiIibusters. More than one-half of the |
House was absent after 4 O'Clock.
NO PORTFOLIO FOR DORsHEIMER.
An Albany On. V special of to-dav's |
date says: "The occasional mention of |
Mr.. DOrsheimer's name in connection |
with Cabinet position eXcites some sur |
prise and amusement here, where it is |
known that Mr.. DOrsheimer has stood |
apart from the Cleveland movement ever |
since the Saratoga Convention. Were it |
not Ior no Otner reason Mr.. Dorsheimer's |
antagOnism to Tildenism would bar him |
from portfolio. The talk of William c. |
Whitney is much less VOciferOus than it |
has been, and it seems reasonably certain |
that Mr. Whitney will not occupy the |
Treasury building in March. The move |
ment for him has done him little good. |
N rIn ,k@0 H.,
Cleveland's conduct as Governor know |
that movements in any mans favor |
count for little with him"
THE BLATANT BELFORD.
The red-haired. brazeu-tongued BelfOrd. |
of Colorado, made his first appearance in |
Washington this session tonight. He |
wore the same careless costume, the same |
battered hat, the same rubicund express |
sion as when ne left for Colorado last |
spring. He was too tired to talk How !
ever, he managed to say that the recent |
silver convention at Denver was one OF |
the grandest assemblages he had ever |
known, and that the sacred cause of sill |
yer would ultimately triumph over the |
goldbags at the East. 1t is rather ex- |
pected that BelfOrd will begin speaking i'm |
the House tomorrow from the same old |
text, "Open the Treasury VAULTS" and |
Will continue to speak early and often |
until the close of the session to make up |
for lost time.
MR.. CASSIDY DISAPPOINTED.
Representative Cassidy, of Nevada, is a |
hardy young Democrat who was not re- |
elected at the election last fall. He has |
been working hard ever since to get the |
signatures of influential Democrats to an |
Endorsement of an application for the |
position of Director of the Mint. which he |
proposed to present to President-elect |
Cleveland. All went we'll until to-day,
when Mr.. Cassidy read for the first time
section 343 of the Revised Statutes Great
ing the office of Director of the Mint.
This provides among other things that she
shall be appointed by the President by
and with the advice and consent of the |
Senate, and shall hold his office for the
term of five years, unless sooner re-
moved by the President upon reasons
20 be communicated by him to the SEN
ate" The last ten words of this clause,
taken with the fact that the present Direc-
tor of the Mint, N-RepresentatiVe
HOratiO p. Burchard, of Illinois, was re-
appointed only last year, astOnlshed and
saddened Mr.. Cassidy. Mr.. Burchard is
an efficient officer, against whom nothing
can be said, and there is no reason to be-
lieVe that Mr.. Cleveland would remove |
him without cause any more than that in
such an event the Senate would accept
the reasons communicated to it as
satisfactory. Mr.. Cassidy's winters
work goes for nothing unless he can pick
out some other office to which his appli-
cation will TT.
CONTEST FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
SHIP.
The contest for the Attorney General
ship under President Cleveland's admin
istratiOn has developed considerable bit
terness. 1t is alleged that the attacks on
MIR. Garland's record as a constitutional
LAWYER have come from r. T. MerTick's
friends. The Washington lawyer has been
known for some time as quiet aspirant,
and, from his position at the capital, had
discovered that Garland must be pulled
down before any one else could be putup.
1t was from Merrick, it Is said, that Gen.
Van Manning, OF Mississippi, got the
''pointers" about Garland's speeches,
with which he afterward went to Cleye-
land, and also to the Southern Senators in
Washington. of the latter, MaXey, Coke,
Hampton, Harris, Vest and Butler are
now prominent in their opposition, al
though personally friendly TO Garland.
The name of Congressman Money, Of Mis-
sissippi, was a good deal mixed up in the
reports of the aRtagOnism to Gar
land. His own candidacy for Postmaster
General was said to be dependent on get
ting Garland out of the way. Mr.. Money
went to Mr.. Garland at Washington one
day last week, and told him that he was
in no way interested in or responsible for
any part of the attack on the Senator.
They had a long talk over the Cabinet,
during which Mr.. Garland said he saw
no reason for antagOnism between Missis-
SipOi and Arkansas even If a uVQltiOn Of