The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-07
LONGSTREET'S OFFICE
MAY DIE WITH HIM.
Position of Railroad COmmissiOner
May BE Abolished.
Rv r nj Tarper
By r. NJ. Larner.


Washington, Jan. 6.-President
Roosevelt has announced that he will
be in no hurry to appoint a commits
sioner of railroads to succeed the late
Gen. Longstreet. The Secretary of
the Interior has recommended
that the office be abolished. be-
cause the actual work of that officer,
never large or important, has been alb
| sorbed by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
This will be discouraging information
to a large number of Southern men who
have learned to regard the office as
one of the perquisites of Southern vet
Grams. Gen. Wade Hampton held the
| office for several years and he was sue
! ceeded by Gen. Longstreet
The President has been looking into
the subject and he finds that the office
! pays $1,000 a year and the duties are
so light that the commissioner is sell
dom required to be at his desk.
1t is unquestionably a sinecure, and
the President is inclined to adopt the
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cock and dispense with the office.
Crum VIII Bob Up Again.
Mayor Rhett of Charleston is ex-
pected tomorrow to confer with
members of the Senate Commerce
Committee in opposition to the con-
firmation of DR.. Crum as collector of
the port of Charleston. 1t is not prob
able that any action will be taken by
the committee on the Crum case until
Senator Hanna returns from Ohio.
Uncle Mark is at home just now
looking after his senatorial fences in
the Ohio Legislature. Republican
senators are in no hurry to force a
fight on the Crum case Just now,
when they are engaged in dickering
for Southern votes in support of the
administration "Panamaniac" policy
After the treaty is ratified the Repub-
licans will be found lining up solid
ly for Crum, not because they love
the negro, but because party policy
demands it.
Latimer's Maiden Speech.
Senator Latimer has given notice
| that he will at an early day deliver
his maiden speech in the Senate in
support of his good roads bill.
Wants Quartermaster's Depot.
Representative Hardwick called at
the War Department to-day to inquire
what action, if any, has been taken
On the proposition submitted by the
| Chamber of Commerce to establish a
military supply depot at Augusta. The
subject is still under consideration by
the general staff, which in a few days
will report on the Augusta case and
similar cases in various parts of the
| country.
Leonard for Examiner.
Representative Livingston and the
| business men of Atlanta are urging
the appointment of Henry Leonard
as national bank examiner in the At
lanta district, vice George R. DeSas-
sure, resigned.
In presenting the name of Mr.
Leonard to Controller Ridgely to-day
Col. Livingston seemed to be under the
| impression that bank examiners are
selected on account of their residence
i'll the district to be covered Without
any disparagement to Mr.. Leonard S
prospects Controller Ridgely said he
has received several applications for
the vacancy from various sections of
the country. 1t is possible that new
appointment may not be made, but a
transfer made from another district to
Atlanta, a practice frequently resorted
to in locating bank examiners, who
are, in fact financial detectives.