The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-04
DISNUKE TO GUST BUCK.
The OdiOuS Radical Boss Good for
Only a Few Days at Most.

The Gallant Pod VIII Step Right Into
the Marshalship-Dr. Obediah c.
Gibson of Jones to Let the Admins
tration OFF With a Paltry $4,000
Indian Inspectorship.
Washington, May Sat last the signs
point to the removal of Marshal Buck of
Georgia. No man outside of the inner
swim can get at the true facts but the
sudden temperance of Col. Pod Dismuke
in Washington means a great deal, al
though the surface indications do not
nan out very satisfactorily. 1t can be
safely surmised that the Hon. Dismuke
will succeed the colonel from Maine with
in a reasonable time 1t may be stated
bv way of codicil that Col. Dismukc has
made a heroic effort to preserve an incog,
but the newspapers are on to him.
A NEW AsPIRANT.
The latest Georgia aspirant is DR..
Obediah c. Gibson of the county
of Jones, who wants Secretary Hoke
Smith to give him a place as
an Indian inspector worth So, 900 per an
num- The doctor is Cleveland demo-
crat from brisket to backbone. He it was
who suggested that a Constitution re-
porter be thrown from the top story of
the Kimball house during a Cleveland
caucus of the Sixth district delegates at
the state convention in Atlanta last year.
Thedoctor says that Hon. Steve Clay is a
good fellow. Hon Bill Atkins is equally
deserving but his man for guhernatorial
honors in Georgia is Hon. r.. w. Patter-
son of Macon, and for the Senate in 1895
Secretary Hol1e Smith, he declares, has
by all odds the inside of the course. DR.:
Gibson is a handsome young man and is
as full of vitality as a vial of mercury.
To-day in this city is rated generally to
be the worst of a long season of very bad
weather, A cold rain storm is on and
the Potomac is on big spring lark.
MEETING OF THE CABINET.
Secretaries Gresham, Smith, Herbert,
Carlisle and Lamont resumed their Off
CiGl duties to-day and were OYerrun with
ofiCe-Seekers during the forenoon. A
special cabieet meeting this afternoon
gave them respite. At this meeting the
financial situation, the Cuban insurrec-
tion and other topics were discussed and
it is understood that severe measures to
prevent the fitting out OF privateers toad
the insurrectionists were agreed upon.
The revenue vessels along the coast of
Georgia and Florida viii be ordered to
exercise great diligence in holding up
suspicious craft
An interesting case has been
in argument before the
the court of claims for the past three
days, involving the decision oil a large
number of cases now pending. This is a
suit brought against the Greek tribe Of
Indians and the United States under the
depreciation act of March 3, 1891, claim
ing indemnity for property alleged to
have been destroyed by the Greeks in
Georgia and Alabama in 1886 during the
Greek war. incident upon the fOrcible re-
mOval of those Indians from their homes
Several points of interest to the legal
fraternity have been argued Two Of
these questions are whether there was
an actual Indian war i'm Georgia and
Alabama in the year named and whether,
II the Creek Indians were ever liable for
the depreddtiOns committed. Such
liability was not remitted by the treaties
Of 1886 and 1865, in which it is stipulated
that general amnesty is granted them
Tor all past Offenses The discussion also
involves thorough dissecting of the ven
cradle report of the Greek commission APP
pointed by President Van Buren, to make
an investigation of the claims referred to.