Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-07
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE QUESTION OF A PUBLIC BUILD
ING AT FAYETTEVILLE. N. c.
The Death of Hon. jefferson Davis
CHANGING at the Flagstaff Of the
War Department.
From our Regular Correspondent.

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som and Congressman McClammy. OF North
Carolina, have gone 20 work in earnest
already trying to get an appropriation TOT
n public building AT Fayetteville. Tho
Senator Yesterday introduced bill autho-
rizing an appropriation of 100000 for this
purpose. In the last Congress Major Nc
Clammy offered bill including an appro-
priation of the same amount, hut when the
measure went to the committee the sum
was scaled down 10 $4,000. There was
such large number Of bills of this charac-
ter and so general a scramble for the ap-
preparations that in the divide the majority
OF the committee thought that $40, 600 was
ample for Fayetteville. iDasmuch as the
court does not meet there and the only
public offices TO be provided for in the
place are the post-office and the Internal
revenue Office and Major McClammy will
introduce his bill on Monday in all proba-
bility. and will ask for Sl00.0O0 again. He
thinks that as the Centennial was held at
Fayetteville recently it ought to give the
place more prominence.
Mr.. Cowles. of the North Carolina dele
CATION. will have ready on Monday batch
of interesting bills to the people he repre-
sents. I" / shall take another dip at the to-
bacco question" is what he said to the Dis
patch correspondent to-day. Il want to
follow that matter mp closely, and the tax
on tobacco will be wiped out this session
think"
Mr.. Cowles will not introduce an educa-
tional bill this session. He says that his
constituents want national aid TO educa-
ton, but they are beginning TO feel-at
least great mauy of them-that If II Is
rendered it should be so arranged that the
States can control the methods of expendi-
ture. He will stand ready to do whatever
is to the best interests Of his constituents
when the question again comes up in Con-
gress.
SHOOTS CASE.
The Silcott defalcation was the absorb
ing topic of discussion at the Capitol to-
day. Nearly half of the representatives
were in the building at odd times. and
on the floor Of the House nearly every one
had something TO say about the matter.
The committee appointed 10 investigate
the case were hard at work, hut about the
only development this morning was the
discovery that Mr.. Leedam really has no
indemnity bond from Silcott. The time
had expired 50 tits said. and this makes
the thing look uglier. So far as can be as
ccrtaned up to this time. the steallngs Will
amount 10 rSj. 900 in round numbers. Iced
ANS bond TO the Government Is $4,000.
He has some property OF his own. and IT Il
said that friends will put up, and therefore
congressman who had money on depositin
the Office, after having actually drawn
salary from the Treasury, VIII not lose.
They will be temporarily incOnvenienced,
bnt that is all. Mr. Edmunls. Of Virginia.
lauchingly said 20 several Of his fellow
members in the House to-day that he as a
farmer unsOphistlcated IN the law. e1-
pectcd the lawyersot the House 70 get tnat
money back, and that he did not have m
idea that an honest farmer was going 10
lose his salary Farmer Lee. rs the
General calls himself is having lots OF fun
twitting his colleagues who had money
tied up, General Lee having been fortu-
nate enough to draw all OF his salary.
POsT-oFFICE FIGHTS.
There will be no more appointments be-
fore Monday. and none then if President
Harrison. who starts West tonight. does
not choose 10 have the papers signed.
Awful pressure has been put on him this
week to settle about a dozen post-oihce
fights. but things are so clogged inst now
that it may be two weeks yet before he
reaches any Of the Virginia cases. Malone
is still here. and nearly every day he IS
heard Of in connection with Recommended
tions Boss ClarksOn Is as thick with the
defeated eX-boss as ever, and they nave
some schemes on hand: but Malone has
been getting the cold shoulder from some
of the bic men in the Administration since
the virginia election. The papers in the
cases of the Abingdon. Danville. stanton.
| Winchester, and Alexandria pOst-Oiliccs
are well advanced. but there IL such
n fght going on that IL i hard
10 tell which faction IN Virginia Will come
out ahead Most of the applicants who
have heretofore trained under the Malone
banner appear TO be sticking 10 HIM and
pressing him to intercede in their behalf.
Others are beginning to talk a. If the time
had come for them 10 hunt other influence.
I They are hearing too much adverse crlti-
cism of Malone in Republican circles 20
make them hopeful Of his influence IN the
future. The Administration could not
render the Democrats of the South greater
service than to continue to recognize him.
but if Secretary Blaine can have his way
halt will be called, and q complete reOr-
ganization of the party in Virginia Will
take place.
THE WEATHER BUREAU.
President Harrison's recommendation
that the Weather Bureau be transferred
from the War to the Agricultural Depart
ment will reopen fight that has been
waged here during two Congresses. When
Mr.. Hatch. of Missouri, first got his De-
misunderstanding bill through the
House and sent 1t TO the Senate it was
amended in that body 10y adding section
that did the very thing that the President
now recommends In the last Congress,
thinking that the Senate wanted this
provision included the friends OF
the hill in the House accepted 1t.
Strange TO say. the Senate then turn
"a around and insisted that this transfer
should not be made. Strong social lnfiu-
ence was brought 10 bear to save General
Greely, who was one of Cleyelands pets.
Women worked for him. and Greedy got
mad and said he would resign II he was
transferred. The chances are that he viii
at least bc given "a chance within the next
wear to resign as the indications are that
the transfer OF the Weather Bureau Will
Ice made. Congressman Hatch wants II
done. and Others who have been equally
tf in If
culture
The Washington Post was about the
ONLY paper north of the Potomac
river which this morning had any ex-
tended account of the death of Hon.
jefferson Davis. president of the late
Southern COnfederacy The news came
too late for the regular editions of the
New York papers. which reached Wash
ingtOn on the II o'clock train. The death
of Mr. Davis was subject generally talked
of around the Capitol to-day. The Re
publican members of COngTess-even the
bitterest ones-had nothing TO say Of an
ugly nature. no matter what their thoughts
may nave been. All the earlier part of the
! dav people kept CHANGING AZ the War De-
psrtment building to see whether the flag
would be lowered, although nine out of
ten well knew that it would not be. but
curiosity prompted them to look. Many
| correspondents went to the departments to
| inquire If any action would be taken, ana
the only information they could get from
the officials approached was that no one
there had any official notice of the death
of Mr.. Davis. As q matter of fact whenever
an ex-secretary of any department dies
the newspaper account of the fact has
| heretofore been announcement enough of
the fact. and flags on the department have
been hung at half-nast. OF course in view
of the fact that Mr.. Davis was not citizen
of the United States. and never asked
that his disabilities should be removed, it
is not 10 be expected that Republican
Administration would show him any mark
of respect, even though history will show
that he was one of the greatest Secretaries
of War during the existence of the Govern
/ ment
When ex-Secretary Jacob Thompson
died Mr.. Lamar who was then Secretary
of the Interior. had the flags on that build
ing placed at half-mast, and for this action
the "bloody-shirt" organs of the Repub-
lican party raised lively howl, and Mr.
Lamar was soundly abused. But had Mr..
Davis died during Cleveland's Administra-
ton it is doubtful whether the War De-
partment flag would have been lowered on
! the day IF the funeral For this very good