The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-16
FAT OFFICESOF THE HOUSE.
Herr, Of Pennsylvania, Pretty Apt 10
De Reelected Clerk.

Bt hc-titlltl lltlh.
A Feeling That the Place Should so 20
a State That Does Little Better
Than Boiling up Big Republican
Majority Georgia Not Apt to Secure
Anything Worth Having Under the
Now omcs-s Senator Gordon 70 Lee
/ ture -Goodyear's Experiments.
Washington, July l5-The democratic
/ members OF the House viii meet in caucus
/ on Saturday, Aug. 5,to select their o1icelv,
/ a clerk do1rkeepcr. etc a pcunsylvau-
I ian by the name of Kerr, who was clerk
I of the last House has no opposition for
/ that position, although he has proven
/ himself TO be VIGOROUSLY incompetent
man for the place. The equity of
| electing a Pennsylvania clerk by
a democratic house may be better under
stood whcn it is mentioned that that state
| has supplied an incumbent for this Office for
about eighty years since the government
was begun, and further that the state
| rarely fails to give less than 1900 rcpu6-
lican ma jority in national elections. You
may make record and you win be
apt to discover most of the southern
members casting their votes bliudly for
| Pennsylvania at the forthcoming cleo
/ ton.
THE DOORKEEPERsHIP.
| A tall dark man by the name Of Hart
/ who belongs III Mississippi by nativity
and who served one term as dOJrkecpcr
/ of the house unde" Mr.. Carlisle is can
! didate against the Tammany candidate
Iccman Turner, for the doorkcepers
! place. Turner has no particular qualifica-
tons for the position and neither has
Hart, SO that it will make little difference
! who is selected. Hart entrance into the
| fight at this late day has upset a good
/ many calculations and the formidable ma
ture OF his competition is admitted lie
| has the backing of The Mississippi, Lou
isiana, Tennessee and Alabama dclega-
| tons.
TIE Observation-Disclosures.
The situation with regard to the other
! house officers remains unchanged. The
/ fight over the Office of nt-at-arms
/ is generally considered 10 lie between the
/ incumbent, Mr.. Yoder Of Ohio, ana sam
| uel q. Johnston, the corr 0OndcuU Of the
| Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. oder is max
/ ing hard fight, but he Is finding some
! difficulty in explaining his failure to keep
! certain promises which he IS said to
| have made prior to his recent election,
! Many of the Ohio members have left
/ him for this and other reasons and are
! supporting Mr.. johnston. who now claims
! to have amajOrlty Of the decoration from
| his state pledged to him. II has been I'M
| dersjoOl all through the fight that who
! ever got the majority would receive the
entire vote OF the delegation. If Mr.
| Johuston'5 claims are well founded, Mr.
! NOdCr would appear to have been knock
ed out, for without the support OF his own
/ state he would cut but poor figure in the
! Caucus.
GEoRGIA's POOR SHOW.
1t viii make little difference with
! Georgia who is elected to these Offices in
! the house. for under the present system
| OF ballotin" for iucumbents TO Jhe poor
! places the STATE happens to get, there is
do guessing at results. Mr.. BlOUut intro
| duced his picaYune programme when he
was here, and when he had an eye
singly to his district, and the CON
sequence is that the state Of Georgia
has enjoyed no patronage under the hose
officials for some years beyond one beg
carly clerkship held last session by Nor
! gan RaWls, ana few Snidc places under
the doorkceper worth anywhere from 81
a day up to 81 900 per annum. Now tha5
Mr. Blount is in Hawaii, il is to be hoped
thst more generous policy will be inaug-
IRA ted in the forthcoming divide.
ONLY ONE AUTHORSHIP LEFT.
Theirs is only one authorship left Il
the treasury and Senator Gordon is pueA-
ing his brother-in-law Hugh Hard, son,
for that. "A negro, Lynch OF Mississippi,
| holds the odice Just now and it remains 10
be seen if Georgia comes in as a winner.
Al first Mr.. Hardeson was entered FOR
the place of sixth aIaiJOr but that Office
Once went TO Ohio and he has now chang
ed his application Among the many ap-
piiclnts for the place are several negro
I editors of NneIhNsD DliFg inns
GORDON To LECTURE.
BY the way, speaking of Gen Gordon,
it may be stated that he has about decided
TO enter the lecture field with a view Of
lettering mis- fortune, and he will deliver
a starter at thcAcaacmy of Music il. New
York some day next month. I he general
is fluent speaker, and his experience in
the army viii be apt to engage big audi
ences when it is understood thar he pro
poses to talk of army times and army life.
GooDYEAE's EXPERIMENTS.
The war department people are watch
ing the Goodyear dynamite experiments
on the Brunswick bar with interest. Il
will be recalled that Mr.. Goodyear was
empowered by the last congress to deep
en- Brunswick bar at his own expense and
in the event that he secured a permanent
depth of water sufficient for the needs of
the port he would be entitled to a nice
little fortune. He appealed to congress
to let him blast out water way by
dynamite and the scheme WAS faVOrably
considered. The bar at the season the eX-
periments were begun, measured only
twenty-five feet at high tide Under M.
Goodyear's contract he is to receive
$4,000 for each additional foot attained
and So eco for any depth in excess of
jwenty-siX feet he may permanently
maintain. The experiment for it is an
| experiment, - has been stated, is being
watched with interest by those inter
osted in harbor impro scments.
Or. J. S. Baxter, a well-luoWn Macon
capitalist IS in he city to-day
A PEORIA BANK CLOSED.