Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — WILL DELYE DEEPER. [ARTICLE]

WILL DELYE DEEPER.

Rich Fields for Investigation Reported in tlie Vicinity of the Scientific Bureau. [Washington special.] While the Judges of the Court of Alabama Claims are answering the charges made against them of unauthorized expenditures and general extravagance, it will be well for them to explain why some of the stinting economy they have exhibited in the employment of messengers and scrubwomen didn’t strike their salary list a little higher. Mr. Fessenden, the clerk of the court, gets $4,400 a year, and possibly has been able to make considerably more besides by miscellaneous fees, as his predecessor in the place did, but the clerks of other United States courts get no more than $3,500, and turn in all their fees. Mr. Walker Blaine, the assistant counsel, has drawn $3,500 per anilum, but no district attorney in the country has an assistant who does so well. While the Court of Alabama Claims was blind to this fact, it was not above hiring two messengers at S4OO a year, one at $360, and one at . S3OO, notwithstanding the lowest pay the same class of men get in any other branch of the Government service is $720 a year. Economy also came out strong with the charwomen, who have been paid $8 only a month, although everywhere else in the departments they get sls. The Alabama Claims Court was manifestly resolved to show that it could economize when it wanted to do so. The suspension of the accounts of the coast survey and of the Court of Alabama Claims is only the forerunner of a series of startling objections to be made by the new Treasury accountants. The fish commission, although under the management of so honorable a scientist as Spencer F. Baird, is drifting into trouble. Extravagant and illegal expenditures have been alleged, and are being quietly investigated, but there is no criticism or question of the value of the work performed. The geological survey and the weather bureau have also been so conducted as to justify severe Scrutiny, and there are indications that the auditing officers have found accounts sadly in need of defense at the postal department. JEvidently the end is not yet. Those who are pushing the fight against the court say that a charge of the most serious nature will be brought against the court when Mr. Cleveland returns to Washington. This charge involves the integrity of the court, and, if it is sustained, will compel the summary removal of at least one of the Judges. “If.” If Mr. Roach would construct ships with the consummate ability with which he makes assignments he would be a great and good ship-builder.— New York Graphic. Not in the Saddle. Murat Halstead is mistaken. The South is not in the saddle. At present it is occupying a spring wagon, and is on the high road to prosperity.—Mobile Register. The speech of Senator Sherman, delivered at Mount Gilead, is not a startling production. It is, indeed, no better than Foraker's speech. It is, however, the speech of Sherman, and people will want to know what this distinguished Republican leader has to say. He says nothing new; he refuses to recognize the close of the war. He preaches a threadbare sermon about Republicans not being permitted to vote in the South. He is one of the Republican “visiting statesmen” who swarmed in New Orleans when the electoral vote of that State was stolen from the Democrats by bribery of returning boards and the throwing out of Democratic votes.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. John Sherman opened the Ohio campaign with a partisan screech of the true Bourbon tone. Defeat has brought to him neither wisdom, nor moderation, nor breadth of vision, nor appreciation of the changing conditions of politics. He always was a political soap-chewer, and the only difference that we notice about him this year is the fact that he gets up a mc>i*e prepos- ' terous lather with a smaller piece of soap.— Philadelphia Record.