The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-11
HARD TO GUST WADE HAMPTON
BOSS BUCK KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT
HIS REMOVAL.

Gen. Longstreet Likely to Have to
wait Some Time Yet Before Get
ting His Brother COnfedernte's
Place-BOss Buck Not to BE ueady
to Sail for Japan on the 18th In
stnnt-An Inclination to Resent
Mai. HansOn's Activity In COnnec-
tiOn With the Patronage i'm GeOr-
gia.
Washington. May 1O.-Col. Buck was
among the callers at the white house to-
day. He says he knows nothing about
the reported removal of Gen. Wade
Hampton to make room for Gen. Long
street, beyond what he has seen stated in
the papers, and also what he has heard
from certain Georgians in Washington.
While not denying the story, Col. Buck
does not look for an immediate change in
the office of commissioner of railroads.
Col. Buck made a call at the department
of state to urge that Capt. Edmund Rice,
now at Fort Mcpherson, be detailed as
military attache of the American lega-
ton at Toxic, Japan.
The colonel says he will not be able to
get his affairs in shape to sail for Japan
on the 18th instant, and has applied for
two weeks extension of time.
He is unable to state when the Augusta
postoffice contest will be settled, and it is
evident that the colonel is growing weary
of the task of settling all the political dis
putes among the Georgia republicans. If
he had an unlimited supply of patronage
his job might be easier, but under existing
circumstances he has hard and a troub-
lesome road to travel. He could only show
one fourth-class postmaster as a result of
to-days labor, D. A. Smith, at Hulitt,
Carroll county.
Maj. J. f. Hanson of Macon was here to-
day, and he had a long interview with
the President in the cabinet room. He
went to the white house this afternoon
with Postmaster General Gary, and the
conference lasted over an hour After
leaving the executive mansion Maj. Han
son declined to talk about his visit to the
President further than to say that it re-
lated to Georgia affairs, which cannot be
spoken of now. 1t is unders TODD that Maj.
Hanson desires the new element in the
republican party in Georgia recognized
in the distribution of the patronage, and
the fact that he went to the white house
with Postmaster General Gary indicates
that postmasters in Georgia were discuss
ed. The Augusta postoffice is believed to
have been the subject of the conference.
Maj. Hanson is interested in the Macon
postoffce, but the term there does not
expire for some time. There are two lead
ing candidates for the Macon office-Wal-
ter p. Corbett and II. S. Edwards.
Maj. Hanson met his old friend, Perry
DeLeon, who is still here awaiting ap-
pointment to the consular service. He
also met Col. Buck and several other
Georgians, and tonight he went to New
York.
Some of the Georgia republicans resent
Maj. Hanson's attempt to influence the
presidential mind in distributing the fruits
of victory in Georgia. They claim that
Maj. Hanson was given place on the
electoral ticket with the distinct under
standing that he would not seek to control
any of the patronage in the state. Mai
Hanson's friends deny this assertion and
insist that Maj. Hanson is simply trying
to aid the new element in the republican
party in getting recognition at the hands
of the administration.