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Show Venerating Position. When ai prominent federal official was informed ! yesterday that scnatcr Morton favored j the idea of sendiDg a commission ; to Utfch, his classical rep'y was: I "Oh, d n senator Morton; he's an old son of a b b; he would j favor anything." The amount of: veneration for position which those precious officials feel, when anything comes cro-graincd to them, Lj astonishing. aston-ishing. This is a nice way for a federal fed-eral appointee to talk of President Grant's right hand man. |