Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-11
COLQUITT SCORES SPEER.
THE SENATOR TELLS WHY THE
PEOPLE OBJECTS.

Brown to Defend the Candidate To-Day
How Secretary Mccullough Showed
His Shrewdness on the silver CUES
uon-Views of Senators Lamar and
Pugh on the President. Elect.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1O.-Senator Col
quit was given a hearing to-day at a
special meeting of the Senate Judiciary
Committee in opposition to the confirma-
ton of Emory Speer. Tomorrow Senator
Brown will be heard by the Judiciary
Committee in favor of Mr.. Speer's con-
hrmation. Mr.. COlquitf occupied nearly
two hours to-day in presenting the objec-
tiOns to Mr.. Speer's confirmation. He
dWelt upon the significance of the pro-
tests OF bar associations and individual
lawyers. He said that Mr.. Speer's nOmi-
nation was displeasing to the great ma
J0rlty OF the citizens OF Georgia, ire
spectiVe of party. 1t was satisfactory
neither to Democrats or Republicans a 5
such, but only to Mr.. Speer's personal
friends. He pointed out the difference
between an office limited in term to
four years and an Office to be held for
life. He made no reflections upon Mr..
SpeeTs integrity, but he referred to his
youthfulness and comparative inexperi-
ence. He was not considered fit by
the people of the district in which he was
70 act as Judge, and he ought not to be
forced upon an unwilling people for life.
LAMAR ON CLEVELAND.
Senator Lamar saws in an interview:
"Mr Cleveland is plain and unaffected,
but he is very superior man. He has a
strong Will, is unassuming and fully i'm
pressed with the gravity of the position
he is about to take. There is really not a
frnf ,1. H. 4
quite long interview with him. but if he
had made up his Cabinet he did not indi-
cate the fact to me-" Mr.. Lamar did not
say in so many words that he was not
offered Cabinet position, nor did he inti-
mate that he was.
Senator Pugh, of Alabama, said that
Mr.. Cleveland impressed him most
favorably. His eyes," said the Senator,
''are not in the clouds, or fixed upon the
stars. He is looking right ahead of him
at the ground over which he must travel,
and Is preparing himself to overcome any
obstacles or difficulties he may encOun-
ter" i have not the least fear" added
senator Pugh, "abOut the success of the
next administration"
MIR. PUGH's CABINET FAVORITEs.
Mr.. Pugh said that in talking with Mr..
Cleveland he commended Senators Lamar
and Garland for the Cabinet as men Of
y naTlOnAI
reputation. He believed that in making
up the Cabinet private interests and per-
sOnal feeling should be subOrdinated to the
general good. He wanted the neXta d.
ministratiOn to start with the confidence
of the country. THAT is half the bat
tle," said the Senator, and he added that
the appointment of such men as Messrs.
Lamar and Garland would secure the
confidence of the country.
MCULLOCH'S SHREwDNss.
Secretary McCullOch gets out of the
silver tangle in a queer way. Stirred up
by the complaints of the Boston bankers
that the Treasury Department discrimi-
mated against Boston among other cities
IN regard to silver and silver certificates,
Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, offered a resolu-
ton, which the House adopted, calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury tor
all the information in his possession about
the alleged Determinations. This was,
OF course, designed TO call out formal
admission from the Secretary of the
Treasury to the effect that the Treasury
Department, in dealing through the New
York clearing house with New York banks.
was compelled under the clearing house
regulations, to which it had agreed to
pay either gold, gold certificates, or legal
tenders in settling its balances, the New
York Clearing House refusing to receive
having adopted this resolution the Secre-
tarY of the Treasury summoned Sub
Treasurer Acton from New York to con-
ference here which, under an arrange
ment made by Mr.. Acton, was also at
tended by representatives of the New
YOrkClearing House. At this conference it
was determined that on an after Monday.
Feb. 3, 1889, the New York Clearing House
should receive silver certificates from the
Sub-Treasurer at New York in settlement
of government balances. This involved
no new action on the part OF the Treasury
Department. 1t simply involved a change
OF policy on the part Of the New York
clearing house. So the ScOtch-Irish Sec
retary of the Treasury was able to say,
not only then but ever since, and even
to-day, that no new order had been or
would be issued by the Treasury Depart
ment as result OF that confer
ence. Nevertheless it was possible
for him to reply to MIR. BANDS
resolution to-day that there was now no
discrimination against silver on the part
of the banks in their dealing with the
government or the New York clearing
house, it having for the time being been
put on Il par with the other Clearing
Houses of the country. 1t is understood
that the new arrangement will continue
until March 4. The President-elect may
continue it in another way.
CHANCES OF THE POSTAL BILL.
The members of the Appropriation
Committee fear that all of the new legs
latiOn which was embodied by them in
the post office appropriation bill, except
the provision reducing letter and newspa-
per postage, will be ruled out on points of
order in the house. The provisions for
ocean mail subsidies, special city deliv-
cries, and the new method of cOmpensat-
in ailUaVc fOr mail CnrViaa oOd Ofbarc
of the same sort are all believed to be OBJ
nOXiOus to the points of order suggested
by the rule of the House which pro-
vides that new legislation in apprO-
priatiOn bills shall be ''such as be-
ing germaine to the subject matter
OF the bill shall retrench expenditures by
the reduction of the number and salaries
of the officers of the United States. by the
reduction of the compensation of any per-
son paid out of the Treasury of the United
States, or by the reduction of the amount
of money covered by the bill" Possibly
the new railway mail service provision
may be saved, even if the point of order be
made on the ground that it will retrench
expenditures for such service 1000, 900 a
year. But the subsidy and special deliv-
cry provisions will have to go.
CARLISLE SOMEWHAT WORSE.
Speaker Carlisle, who has been sitting
up I'D MS room IOr several uaYs, Dau 10
take to his bed again to-day. His illness,
however, is not thought to be serious.
Mrs. Carlisle is suffering so from an at
tack of rheumatism that she is unable to
perform her social duties.
FLORIDA POSTAL AFFAIRS.
Robert F. Horsford has been commits
stoned Postmaster at Goes Mills, Fla.
The following order was made to-day by
the Post Office Department respecting the
star service on the route from Games
Vile to JOella, Fla: "FrOm March l,
1885, a curtail service, to begin at La
Crosse emitting Gainesville) and end at
Newnansvile (Omitting Joella), de-
creasing the distance 2513 miles,"
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.