Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
Of the Internal Revenue Office After
To-Day Until New Collec-
tor Is Appointed.
WARMCASTLE'S TINE HAS COME.
1t Is Only a Question Of Resignation or
Removal, and This Point Will Be
Settled in a Few Hour
THE CHIEF AGENT NOW IN PTTTsBURG.
Colonel Swords Talks on the Difficulty and General
Political Topics.

General F. D. Sewall Chief of the Reve-
nue. Agents, arrived in the city yesterday,
and stopped at the MonongaEela House.
The General is a small man with a
moustache and goatee as white as snow.
He was frank enough to admit that he
was here in connection with the Warm
castle case.
The Pittsburg Collector will know his
fate about noon to-day, He will be out of
Job, but whether bv removal or resigna-
tion nobody seems to know. As soon as
Mr. Warmcastle sewers his connection
with the office Secretary Foster will ap-
point one of the deputy collectors to run it
until a successor is named. Mr.. Warm
castles bond covers all his deputies, and he
will be resp onsible until the new Collector
qualities.
A Selection to Be Made.
1t has not been decided which one of the
deputies will be selected to fill the place
temporarily. It is claimed that General
Sewan is here to look over the list and pick
one out, but on this point he was silent.
The General was asked if he knew who
would be appointed to the Office, or if the
vacancy would continue for any length of
time
To the first question he replied that he
had nothing TO do with the politics of the
case, and he couldn't answer the second
He remarked that he had heard Mr.. Warm
castle highly spoken of, and he was sorry
for him
Mr. warmcastle states that the Govern
ment hasn't lost cent through him, and
the revenue agents admit this fact. They
one and all express sympathy for him, and
they regret the laws are such that he has to
60 The general impression is that Mr.
Warmcastle will return to his old place in
the freight department of the Pennsylvania
Company. Nobody will be happier than
he when the agony is over, for he made up
his mind from the start that he would have
to go.
The Position of the Collector.
Mr.. Warmcastle feels that all the facts
are known, and that the people understand
wherein he did not carry out the strict reg
ulations of the Revenue Department. Mr..
Warmcastle worked hard to have the Offices
on the second floor of the Government
building fixed up as soon as possible. His
successor will have elegant quarters, and
tie revenue Office will be moved this month.
Colonel H. i. Swords, Purch asing Agent
for the United States Treasury, reached
Pittsburg from the West yesterday morn
ing. He returned to Washington last even
ing. He stopped over to attend to some
delails in connection with the fur
nishings of the Pension and Revenue
Offices. He said he would be here again in
January TO provide for the Court rooms,
and he thought they would be ready for oc-
cupancy by April
All Express Their Sympathy.
The Colonel was sorry fo- Collector
WarmcaStle, but remarked that Ignorance
of the law was not excusabl-. The Co.
lector has done nothing wrong, but he
wasn't aware Of certain regulations that are
insisted upon rigid!y by the Department,
THIS is the sum of his SHINING.
On political subjects the Colonel had
more TO say. He had talk in Chicago with
Clarkson, and the latter assured him that
Minneapolis would be prepared to take care
Of the crowds The wealthy people of th-
town with large homes will remove their
families about that time and throw open
their houses to the delegations. He thinks
that whether Blaine or Harrison is nomi
02JeQ, the convention Will De very quiet
affair
The Colonel had chat with Blaine re-
Gently, and he says the Secretary is looking
much better than when he was on the stump
in 1888 He has healthy brown color, and
the buiging sacks under his eyes have dis
appeared. The only sign of advancing age
apparent is q slight stoop of the shoulders
Bfaine's Mind Not Made Up.
Colonel Swords believes that Blaine
doesn't know what he intends to do, but it
is only fair to the friends who are working
for him that he should declare himself The
Democrats and Mugwumps are more favora-
hlv impressed W jth him than thev we're in
1884, when they feared he would conduct a
lingo administration. The Secretary has
demonstrated that he is one of the most
conservative and reasonable of mcn
Wherever Colonel Swords goes he saws
Republicans admit freely that Harrison has
been a good President, and if Blaine won't
run there is a strong disposition to renom-
irate him. His administration has been
satisfactory to the people, but some of the
politicians are disgruntled. The Colonel is
inclined to think that the appointment of
Goff and Elkins is to be taken as an indi-
cation that Blaine will decline TO run.