Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-19
MRS. BANCR0FT'S BURIAL.
PATHETIC GRIEF OF THE AGED
HISTORIAN.


DIR. Green Pleading with the Senators TO
Overlook the Shortcomings of his Son
Gen. Longstreet's Exouse for Not Set
Ting with his Deputies-Osculatln
Emma Makes the President Laugh.
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-The intimate
friends of Mrs. Bancroft were so many in
number that they quite filed the large
parlors of George BancFOfps house, at IL
o'clock this morning, when the funeral
service was read. Roses aud violets and
lilies were on the coffin and on the tables
in the room. Rev. DR.. W. A. Leonard, of
st. Johns Episcopal church, read the
service. George Bancroft was profoundly
moved. His slender form shook as he
bent over the open coffin. After the
friends had looked for the last time upon
the peaceful face in the coffin it was COW
cred and removed to the station. 1t was
placed on the 3 O'Clock train for Boston.
The members of the family were on the
same train. The final interment will be
at Worcester.
DIR. GREEN'S PATHETIC SENsIBILITY.
DR.. Norvln Green, president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, IS
deeply chagrined at the prospect that the
confirmation of his son, Warren Green,
as Consul General ct Yokohama Will he
rejected by the Senate owing to the young
mans dissipated and disTeputable habits.
DR.. Green had consultations yesterday
and to-day with number Of his Senator
ial friends in both parties in which he
begged that his family be spared the dis
grace of Warren's rejection, and promised
il the Senate would coatrm his nOmina-
tiOn that be would compel him to resign
Immediately thereafter.
MODEL DEATH DEALER.
Consul General Jussen reports to the
State Department that Mr.. Wendell, the
director general Of the arms factory at
Stye, Austria, has invented breech-
loading repeating rifle said to be vastly
superior to any in present use. The
mechanism is remarkably simple. 1t
will discharge forty shots a minute easily,
and owing to the simplicity of its con-
struction it can be manufactured at but
little more than the cost of an ordinary
single barrel gun. The invention is as
yet secret as to the details of its con-
structiOn.
GEN. LoNGsTREET's ACCOUNTS,
Gen. Longstreet has telegraphed tor his
former Chief Deputy Marshal, o. r.
Mitchell, to come on and help him settle
HIS dCCOuNib III bnb treasury AuC
Treasury officials say that they cannot
pay Gen. Longstreet until he pays bis
deputies, and that they do not understand
why he does not accept this arrangement.
Gen. Longstreet SAYS by way of reply
that he mas not the necessary money, and
does not want to borrow 1t for such pur-
pose.
CUTTING OFF sINECURE.
Gen. Robert G. Schenck, ex-M mister to
England, has held for several years the
sinecure of editor OF the laws in the State
Department at $4,000 per annum. 1t was
given him by President Arthur and Sec
retary Frelinghuysen upon the represen-
tatiOn that he greatly needed the salary.
Recently he was removed by Secretary
Bsyard, who has not, so far, filled the
position, the duties of which are practi-
cally executed by clerks.
EMMA EXCTTEs HIS RIsIBLEs.
The President celebrated his birthday
by gong tonight with Miss Cleveland,
Miss Van Xechten, and Col. and Mrs.
Lamont to the theatre to see Emma Ab-
bOtt's company in "The Mikado." The
President laughed heartily at 1t.
The Presidential party occupied pri-
vate box, and upon their entrance were
warmly applauded by the audience.
The President is 40 years old to-day.
There was no celebration OF the occasion
at the White House.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NOMINATIONs.
The confirmation by the Senate this az
ternoon OF some Of the nominations to
c0lectOrships OF internal revenue. made
in place of suspended officials is the be-
ginning of the end of the obstructive tao
tics of the Republican Senators. The ae-
tiOn of the Senate Finance Committee in
reporting favOrably nominations OF this
sort has been greatly misrepresented.
Some Of the Republican Senator'S have
tried 10 make out thatit was taken because
Secretary Manning had ''backed down."
or in other words mad formally admitted
that there were no charges against the
suspended officials, and that the suspen-
siOns were purely political in character.
Nothing of the sort has occurred. During
the present debate over the Edmunds
resolution the Senate Finance Committee
has continued TO send to the Secretary OF
the Treasury its circulars asking in
varying terms for the reasons OF the Presi-
dent for making the suspensions in the
internal revenue service referred TO.
SIMILAR RESPONSES.
To these inquiries the same response in
varying forms has been made-namely,
that the information asked for cannot and
will not be furnished by the Secretary or
hhG AANAehA III hht AaAtNA , AtBAAth W
the Senate Finance Committee, the mem
bers Of that committee have been respect
fully but firmly referred 10 the Presi-
dents special message. The Senate Fi-
nance Committee, and not the Secretary
Of the Treasury, has backed
down. IL has gotten no reasons
and no admissions, yet IL has
reported nominations made in place OF
suspended officials iayOrably, and some OF
these nominations have been confirmed
by the same Republican Senator'S. The
claim that this is because collectors Of in
ternal revenue do not come within the
protection OF the tenure OF Office act is
very slender. The fact is that the Repub-
lican ranks are breaking ana that con-
frmation will follow confirmation from
this time on. 1t il now very doubtful
whether the Edmunds resolutions will DO
adopted.
Committee Reports.