The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-20
The GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
MIR. WHITNEY AND THE IIPEACu-
MENT OF PRESIDENT CLEVE-
LAND.
How the Duke Passes His Time-The
ROthschiIds Think They Ought u
BE Popular over Here-IntcrestinE
Affairs in the Great Metropolis.

II
ROthschiIds Think They Ought to
BE Popular over Here-Intcresting
Affairs in the Great Metropolis.
Copyright
New York. Oct. l9.-Mr. Cleveland seems
never to be in position to quite dispense
/ with the services of Mr.. Whitney. Tho
| latest service which the latter gentleman
| Will undertake consists in squelching
| those noisy statesmen who propose TO
! discuss in the next congress the impeach-
ment of the President By a singular
coincidence, the members most active
| in this business are populists and demo-
Gratis. The republican attitude was de-
fined by Mr.. Reed when he was in New
York. According TO him an Impeachment
/ of a President should never be a party
/ question. He remarked that an impeach-
ment should never be undertaken unless
rendered imperative. Otherwise the dig
nifty Of the executive branch of the gov
eminent might be compromised. How
/ ard of Alabama, who means to fight
| iercely for impeachment, came to New
| York expressly 20 gather evidence of Mr..
| Cleveland's alleged collision with Wall
| street financiers. He personally inter
viewed many prominent men here and
| the accumulation of documents in his
| hands is simply immense Tillman is In
| sympathy with Towards scheme. as are
numerous other southern congressman.
| Whitney is alleged by the southerners
| to have done yeoman's service for Cleve-
land in the matter of hampering all their
/ Investigations. Mr.. Whitney is contempt
| uously referred to by Mr.. Howard as the
millionaire whose head is bigger than
| his whole body. At the same time there
| is no doubt that Mr.. Whitney has stood
| manfully by Cleveland in this crisis. The
trouble is not that Mr.. Cleveland seriously
| fears that he will be impeached. The
| only thing about it is that he would feel
| Inundated if congress actually began to
consider anything of the sort. Mr.. Whit
ney has enormous personal influence with
the southern members, and he is to be
relied upon to exert it in order to have the
| impeachment idea smothered.
| What with brilliant weddings and local
| elections, the impending congress has re-
! ceived very little attention in New York.
| From now on. however, 1t will be an OBJ
| jcct of great interest even if the first
Monday in December is some distance
away yet.
| of Marlborough is by far the most gem
| tlemanly and affable of all the titled for
/ eigners who have visited these regions in
| quest of the eVer-coronet-mad American
| heiress. Although his coronet title is your
| grace" he rather likes to be dubbed sir"
| and most New Workers say Yes, sir Or
| mo, SIR to him. Those who have made
| his acquaintance address him familiarly
as Duke, while In his own hotel he is
| known as Mr.. Churchill" He is pretty
! well-known by sight in New York, for he
| takes long walks through the streets ana
| goes in for all the sights. He has been
| up to the top of most of the sky-scrap-
! pers, and looks upon those architectural
eminences as veritable wonders. He re-
marked to o. II. p. Belmont that roof
1I hl q L. H.
popular because il would be thought that
he wanted to look down on the American
! people. Being the utterance of a duke,
| this conceit was found very witty ana
has begun to be repeated in club sman
talk. 1t is thought Significant that o. H.
p. Belmont should entertain the duke SO
much The former gentleman has been
much mentioned as a husband to be of
| the mother of the prospective Duchess
/ voted.
The Astor family thorn asserted its
! existence last week when the Drayton d.
| Norce case was called in court. 1t had
! been forgotten for time Young John
! Jacob Aston has been so gratified by the
! success of his imaginative novel that he
| is now engaged in the production of an
| other one. 1t is understood to be a wierd
| romance of the south pole. His other
book sold wonderfully. The French trans
! lation is now in its l4O00th and some 10000
copies were disposed of in this country
| Altogether Aston has cleared several thou
sand dollars by the venture, and he gave
the money to the New York library This
| generation of Astors is decidedly literary
Mrs. j. ]. Aston is as pleased as can be
book may be out this winter perhaps anon
| ymously, although the young mans wife
will not hear of It, He desired to issue
his other work without his name on the
| title page, but Mrs. Astor would not hear
of it, There has been some amusement
In New York at the expense of this young
ence to the lady Mr. J. j. Astor is said
! to be henpecked. His wife certainly has
a will of her own and she manages to as
Sert II very successfully.
Much astonishment is expressed by New
| York finanoiers at the simplicity of the
1 London tinanciers who insisted that Mex
lean bonds be guaranteed by the United
! states government before being placed
in Europe. This crude theory of the Mon
roe doctrine is stll chung to by the Euro
pean tinancier Our brokers have had
great difficulty for thirty years past in
making London and Paris bankers be-
! lieVe that our government only guaran-
tees its own Indebtedness, even in the
matter of Pacific bonds. The idea in
Europe is that we should guarantee the
| bonds of every republic on the continent
simply because we maintain the Monroe
doctrine. The Rothschilds, at least
should be better informed. Their favorite
method of turning down" South Ameri-
can bonds is to decline them until our
| own government guarantees them The
! Rothschilds now deem themselves the
financial protectors Of the United States
| Baron Meyer saying that he turned the
beams OF the sun OF prosperity upon our
/ ldNQ. he was not nIlleH surprised to
| learn that he is far from a popular char
acter in these parts. He thinks we ought
! to look upon him as a sort of national
benefactor because he took up our bonds
so readily when the syndicate shipped
/ them abroad.
Notwithstanding all the ontradictions
and misstaternents, it is a weli-understood
! thing in New York that Benjamin Harri-
| son is not a candidate for presidential
honOrs. To be definite. however, it may
| be stated that among those who have
! documentary evidence of this are Senator
! Quay, ex-senator Plat, Col. New and
John w. Foster. Mr.. Harrison has never
intended since the year began to be mixed
up with the presidential situation. h
IS simply out of the fight. That is all
there is about it. OF course he cannot
prevent the mention of his name by en-
thusiasts nor can he prevent a scramble
for its influence. Meanwhile he devotes
himself to legal business and to fishing
In the latter he is now an expert He Is
we'll known to the longshoremen of the
metropolis He wears a rough flannel
shirt on his piscatorial expeditions. a
rough cap and a belt He weighs his own
catch with his own scales and never
brags As a politician, he has placed him
self on the retired list. As a lawyer he
is painstaking and successful. It is posi-
lively amusing to those who understand
the situation TO observe how persisfenfiv