The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-10
Shaw's Case Will Not be Called
For Some Time.
PROBABLY IN FEBRUARY
Cheatham is All Confidence
Over His Case.
.HAs THE DROP ON HIS MAN.
Why Butler is Allowed - Shoot On HIS
Lip in the Senate Every Day
Cleveland Will Not Sign
Revenue Bill.

now comes to pass that the case a
gainst Congressman Shaw will not be
called, at least, until the middle of
February. In the first place, Mr..
Shaw has to appear in three capital
cases during January, in one OF which
Mr.. Sutton, Thompson's counsel, is on
the opposite side. Then too Blocks-of-
Five Dudley came to Mr.. Shaw to-day
and said it would be quite convenient
for him Dudley to pass over the case
during January. Mr.. Shaw met to-
day Chairman johnson and remark
ing to him that he was one of john
sons victims, the Indiana chairman
appeared to be much hurt and told
Mr.. Shaw that he should not speak in
that bad manner, but rather say that
he SHAW was one of those gentlemen
whose cases were TO come before John
son for consideration. Mr.. Shaw ran
the smoothing and the fiuting irons
over his "indiscreet" language, and
there was an end of it. BY the bye, if
the lobby gossip has real foundation,
it was an unpleasant surprise to Mr..
Linney that the North Carolina cases
did not come before him. Moreover,
it is said that Butler and Pritchard
were particularly anxious that their
very particular friend, Mr.. Linney,
should be on the committee with the
North Carolina eases. And il is said
that Mr.. Linney never has yet been
able TO work out the problem why
not?" But he did go so far as to say
that his being placed on another com
mittee relieved him of very unpleas-
ant responsibility. At any rate there
are some contestees who are not
mourning the Bull of the Brushes be-
cause he is not. Cheatham was on
deck to-day and seems from his talk
to be all confidence, going so far as to
say that his opponent had the drop
on him in North Carolina, but that he
had the drop here" Another crumb
of comfort seems To come from the
fact that Daniels and Mccall. chairman
respectively of committee Nos. | and
:, are reputed to be judicial in temper
ament. and, therefore, it is thought
that their reports will have more
weight with the House than the re-
ports of johnson, who is reputed to
be partisan. And yet his party friends
maintain that in the place of a judge,
he is a very fair man.
| hear to-day from an inside source
somewhat of an explanation why Sen
ator Butler has not had his centre
board yanked up short before now.
The statement is credited to Senator
Chandler that the young statesmen
will be allowed to play ''skeeter" until
after the reorganization shall have
been perfectly effected, and then ii is
the plan to give him the ''shoo fly"
racket without more ado. The Repub
licans, it is said, are getting very weary
with the diurnal load of his remarks
which they do not yet dare to choke
off, and it is furthermore said that
they openly confess to the Democrats
of the Harris stripe that the joke is on
them good this time. it has been un-
derstOod that Senator Butler, having
demolished" old man Isham, of Ten
nessee, is hankering to climb Hill. 1t
is not yet known who will
put the screws on him, but readers OF
this will do well to remember that
there is some fun in store for them
at no distant day, when, no doubt,
the junior Tarheel Senator will, at
some chill blast from some unex-
pected quarter, be seen to wrap his
frost-bitten ambition up in flannel
rag to keep it from shrivelling up al
together. Mr.. Butler sits in the seat
formerly occupied by Pefffr, while
PETER is on tn front row by Quay. AS
soon as Buffers whiskers grow as long
as PETERS he, no doubt, will be moved
up next to the gilt-edged Republican
COLLINS, who viii yet git him if he
don't watch out"
/ neglected to say that General Cox
was present at the New Years recep-
tion of the President as well as at that
of the Secretary of War. The esteem
in which he appears to be held here
on all sides would be pleasant for oil
North Carolinians to contemplate. /
was told to-day by a gentleman who
knows him, and who by the by, is
Republican, that his POPULARITY with the
Republican side as well as with the
Democratic is amazing. The same
gentleman told me, speaking of the
queer sides of Senator Chandler, that
the New Hampshire statesman had a
feeling toward the General which
might well be called friendship. Yet
il is to be supposed that Chandler will
be helpless to consult his feelings. For
all that, the matter of hurry does not
seem to enter into the talk OF making
a change in the Senate officials. Ger
tainly, it is said, some of them at any
rate will be retained.
The putting OF Bailey, of Texas, on
Elections Committee No. 2 instead of
Harrison, of Alabama, whose seat is
contested, is well received by the Dem
ocrats, who think of him in connection
with his place on the Judiciary Com
mittee, and feel that they thus have a
strong hand for them in his substitu-
ton. And, too, here is another evil
dence of that weakness of which
have before spoken, which the Speaker
seems TO have for the rising young
Texan.
They say that President Cleveland is
sitting up late these nights going to
bed at three and going to work at