Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-01

the former, by the retention as his
private clerk of the one who filed
the same position for his predeces-
sOr, though the man is such a par
tisan that he refuses 10 show him
letters sent to the department con.
tanning information about prOmi-
nent republicans, and the latter, in
which he is so 10th TO let the re-
publican attorney general for his
department go, that the man is
forced to request him TO accept the
resignation he rendered long ago
and to appoint some one IN his
place.
The West Nirginlans are having
a bitter fight over the collector OF
internal revenue in that state. The
Democrats are urging the President
to appoint McGraw, whose name
was hung up in the Senate, aud
GUST Mccormick, the present i'll
cumbent, who was appointed by
Mr.. Arthur about nine months ago.
The case was made test case in
| the Senate, and the Presidents
nomination laid aside without ac-
ton. Mccormick is now fighting
McGraw with all his might, and is
said to be getting up charges to
show that he is not III person TO
be appointed. Among the charges
is one that he is an offensive partl-
san, and ought not To be appointed
to succeed man with a soldier
record. McGraw is supported by
the entire democratic delegation OF
| the state, and when his name was
sent to the Senate II met with the
approval Of all the democrats there.
/ McCOrm OK is holding on to the
place like grim death, insisting that
/ the President has 10 right to pmOve
/ him, and the case becomes very in.
/ teIesting as a test Of the right OF
/ the President to remove Internal
revenue officers who have no tenure
of Office and are out from under the
shelter of the evil service law
Mr. McGraw'S friends think he Will
be commissioned very soon. In
that case the fight will come up
again in the Senate when it meets.
The National Republican com
ments facetlously upon these Dem
ocratic quarrels as follows:
Replying to harsh remark IN
Editor McClure's newspaper, our
esteemed contemporary, the Post,
blaudly remarks:
1t was about eleven months ago,
we believe, that We took the pains
TO prove the Philadelphia lines to
be an unprinclpled liar.
The congregation will now join
in singing, to the tune of Aud
Lang Syne,' tue sacred song:
Behold how good thing IL Is,
And how becoming well,
Together such ~ brethren arc
In unity to dwell.
The count Of the money in the
Treasury began on Monday. A
Star reporter was taken to the
great silver vault by Treasurer
Wyman to ses the operation of the
count. Alter passing through two
or three rooms, protected by lrOn
grdtingS, The Star reporter was
conducted TO an iron barrel eleya.
tor and lowered into the immense
fre-proOf aud burglar.proofpatent-
time comOiuatIon.lOcked vault,
which is almost rs big as a house,
and will hold about fifty million
silver dollars. Sqnattcd down in
the aisle Of the vault, with n light
and pair of scales between them,
were the committee, with their
heads together like traditional
misers counting their money. One
man stood in cell, on one side of
them, passing out the bags Of silver
a thousand dollars in a bag which
were weighed and numbered and
then passed 10 the next man, who
slowed it away III the next CELL
There are about ten million silver
dollars thus to be counted or,
rather, weighed-a aud it will take
about ten days to get through with
II. Tue numbering of the bags Is
thing that Mr.. Jordan insisted
upon, and it delays the count con.
siderably. The clink, clink, Of the
silver goes on with a metallic mo
nOtony, and the men lean silently
over their tasks. OHce or twice the
numbers did not tally, and they be
gan over again, cautiously blinking
the daddy dollar
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The Wall Street News, which
may be fairly assumed to voice the
opinions generally entertained by
business men, thinks chat in view
of the threatening character of the
news from abroad and the almost
certainty that war will break out
sooner or later, our Navy Depart
ment ought to take immediate steps
to strengthen itself
The News says further that 1--WE
have very few war vessels that
could be used to protect American
interests, and it s idle to infer thai
our nation could by no means be
: dragged into the muddle. We need
lot Of frst.class war ships, and
the Navy Department should los,
as little time as possible in secur-
ing them
1t is not possible for the Navy
: Department to take q single step il
, the direction indicated without the
authority Of an act Of Congress.
, And this is one reason why al
extra session Of Congress is urged
A prominent democrat from
Washington county, Virginia, her,
recently, when asked WHOM his
party in his section of the STATE
e favored for their next candidate TO
, Governor, said they had no particu
q lar choice, but that as they had re
p ceived 80 little party recognition il
/ the past, they all thought the caudi
date should come from that section
8 and that there would be consider
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