Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1870-12-10
Washington, D. c., Nov. 4, 20.
DEAR WAssoN: Newspaperi j

Washington, D. c., Nov. 4, 10.
DEAR WATSON: Newspapering it
again, 1 see. I believe if you could
get it checked through you'd take
press along with you when you "shuf-
he off," &c Well, l am glad to see
you are at work in a good cause. We
all want to see Mccormick back here,
for no man ever better deserved the
endorsement of reelection than he,
and I doubt not that long before this
reaches you he will have received it.
Of course there is not much news
here now that would interest your
readers. Congressman are beginning
to make their appearance, and they
come with quite different aspect from
at the opening session of Congress.
Then, to most of them, the situation is
new; they feel the Importance of their
mission, and are on the lookout for
the sights. They have no business
pending, and reckon with some anxl-
ETY. the approach of the day when they
are to stand up in the capitol and take
the solemn oath which lifts them at
once from the common herd and
makes them privileged characters,
whose persons are supposed to be sa-
cred from the assaults of ordinary
mortals. Pat Woods proved it when
he pummeled Porter, of Virginia, and
was lodged and fed three months in
the old capitol prison gratis. Not the
first time Pat has suffered from pun
ishing porter. But when congress-
man comes here on his second session.
he is different man. You can see
he is on biz. No foohshness now.
The description some one has given of
widow hits him plump-"a person
that knows what's what, and is well
pleased" In some cases, it is said
the parallel might be extended, but
'that were to inquire too curiously."
The coming session is the closing one
of the 4lst Congress and there will be
hot work. 1t lasts but three months.
and there much work to do-all the
unfinished business of two sessions
and all the unconsummated schemes
OF Lord knows how long date.
Washington air seems the very food
OF hope. Once the lungs of schemer
are well filled with it, he never de-
spairs. Next session he'll get his bill
through sure. "Hepe springs eter-
naP' and claims never die. There are
men here still pushing claims arising
out of the Revolutionary war, and
suppose will be when the corroding
tooth of time shall have finally con-
quered her, who in the greatest scan-
dal that ever was uttered, was pro-
nounced to be the only incorruptible
woman in Washington, the woman on
the dome Of the capitol
CABINET CHANGES.
Secretary Cox, of Ohio, retires from
the charge of the Interior Department
and Columbus Delano of the same
State succeeds. 1t is said that great
changes will be made in the corps of
the Department, and that among 9TH
ers, the commissioner of the land Of
flee, Joseph S. Wilson, will be invited
to send in his resignation. This news
the public will receive with great re-
gret. There has been no more faith
full or able officer in Washington.
Amid all the complaints and charges
of ineficiency, carelessness, or corrup-
ton, no word of dissatisfaction has ev-
er been breathed against him, but
rather his name has been used to point
the shaft for others, his example being
held up to them as model of what a
government officer should be. His
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