The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-11-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The cabinet and But eaUcrnry OF the
Present Administration Preparing
Tor ihc Funeral.
lFroN our Regular Correspondent

are cAllNasseu ny the returning boards
in those States In two weeks the
focus Of interest will be at the national
capital The last session OF the NLlVth
Congress will then assemble aud the
city will be alive with u busy legislative
aud political life; alive with states
men, politicians, fashion, aud the
demi.monde alive with social gayety,
though there VIII be less OF this in
official circles than there has been for
the hist eight Yeas. The present ad-
ministrauon, with its loud, character
Less Cabinet aud retinue OF shoddy
worshIpers, Is "in tho sere aud yellow
leafn They are one aud all desper-
ately sick. The ides of March The
political and social life OF Washington
are intimately interviewer, aud, while
the Cabinet ladies' and those OF the
Bureaucracy will make II desperate
effort TO 70 Oft with flourish of colors,
music, aud the glitter that character
1ed the halcyOn days OF Williams aud
Belkuap, it will be dismally laborious
TO appear gay Al their own funeral.
On the fourth Of March they must turn
their faces from the marble halls and
asphalt streets OF Washington, aud
read their doom in the face Of the
bronze goddess on the dome Of the
CapilolS The great MIchigander re-
uOwned Zach Chandler, Cabinet CAM
paigu leader and matchless organizer;
Attorney General Father Taft, distin-
guished for a short but sweet career,
and Postmaster General ryner, distin-
Suished for nothing, will make up M
interesting little procession towards
he setting sun, Don Cameron, who
carves with the sword of hia father
Morrill, OF Maine, the demagogical
minister OF finance In the interests
# politics; Robeson, OF the navy, aud
Flsh, of foreign affairs, will deploy
tuwarda the north aud east, or, az
Caesar would say, "dd soptrioncS 1t
oricHtem" General Grant, It is said,
@lll perlgriuuto the world after the
tn of March. "A for the lesser lights
aud parasites they ARE like the etc,
| etc, In IN auction list, too numerous to
mention. Among the Democratic
| nrltlammes of the recent campaign
new hrooms figured cOuspicuGusly
hey symbolized IA desire for more
thorough reform than could be hoped
for within the Republican party, n
change, IA clean sweep: nothing short
II this and fumigation will purify our
'ivil service, The whole thing is
infected, aud it must be reformed
altogether. This will cause much
0ocai distress, bat the surgery, though
painful 10 individuals, is kind and
necessary for the health OF the nation.
II nations right eye offend 1t, pluck
IL out. The distress will be
iniuitesmal compared with that
which the whole country has suffered
from the ruinOus and wasteful
misgovernmeut that these people
have helped to create and uphold
After the 4th OF March there will be a
general emigration from Washington.
Many OF the clerks have proprietary
interests here; others have bought |
property for which they have only |
partly paid. IL Is safe to say that they |
cannot now sell for much more than |
nalf the money they gave. Some will |
he able to rent or sell To those who |
come in with the new administration,
but the latter will not pay high prices;
they have not been educated In the
flush and shOddy school of the present
regime. They have been accustomed
to pay for their own furniture,
stationery and postage stan ps; in
short they are not used to travelling in
he government landaulet, and they
will not, can not, give for rents and
hoard us n uch as the dainty clerk and
clerkess OF this administration are
paying. Then the clerical force will
he still further reduced.
Mr.. Randall and the Democrats
were thwarted last winter in their ef-
forts to Top off supernuous mem bers,
but the Republicans will no longer OPP
pose, since their personal and political
friends are no longer involved. rhe
path for Democratic economy will be
smooth, and this great cumbrous. cor
rupt, civil force will be reduced until
the clerks will have elbow room to
work In, and each one Of them some
thing to do. Indeed, the reduction is
a political as well as an economical me-
cessity. The probable oustlng every
four years of ninety thousand office
holders, with half million souls d.
rectly or indirectly dependent upon
them, Is a strain and shock TO which
the country can no longer be safely
subjected. AT any rate the present
clerical force will go. If IL will take
my advice 1t will 20 South, and grow
up with the country. In Georgia they
would have the privilege Of voting tor
Alex. Stephens and Ben. Hill, or in
louisiana they might see how the Mis-
sissippi river aud the Gulf of Mexico
are not tlnged with the blood Of muir.
dered negroes, nor the cross.r roads
adorned with bloody shirts and deaths
heads.
The closing session Of the Forty
fourth Congress promises to be one OF
unusual interest. 1t 10 not improbable
that 1t may have to decide the result OF