Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1877-04-12
LETTER.

GOVERNMENT "FFIcEs. AND How
IT is RUN-G NEkAL NEWS, sc
Wsshroptcn. b. c..
March 81. 1877.
The contrast between the recep
ton given to Wade Himpton OF
his first appearance here, yester
day, and that gives to the ''tothe'
Governor" Chamberlain was mos
striking. Republicans an1 Demo
Gratis alike crowed round Ge:cra
Hampton, his appearances every
where creating adecided sensation.
while Chamberlain is not only no
a lion, but sttrects hardly any
attention known not be in favor a,
the White House. those DumrrGu,
republicans who crook tie pregnant
hinges Of the knee have kept sew
erely away from him. lie has
Y sited various officials, but he
Knows that their c%ivility ''meaDs
business and that their ore desire
is to have disappear IN The c1arac-
ter of q clsiment and reappear IN
almost anyother." We are CON
PEELED totender to the grant but not
because W. love it. The Commits.
sion to Louisiana being Lawrence,
Hawleyof Conf Brown, McVaigh,
and Harlan Of Ky. leaves on Mon.
day for New Orleans. If this was
a body of uen CT osen To heal q
braecb in the Republican party, it
would be a goodaenough Commits
sion; though without force. but a.
ite to discover the right as between
Conservatives and Republican, the
preponderance Of the latter seems
hardly what would be expected
from a President who processes to
be il doubt and wishes 20 act
impartially. However, second
rate men were to he expected, and
u non partisan Commission was to
be hoped far, and We can thark
heaven it is no worse. They h We
remained so long in tn. hope Of
securing speady action by the
President. The Pension Office was
awakened from its seven years
slumber the other day t. receipt
of a claim bearing this emphatic
endorsement.
81 desire that this claim recelvc
prompt attention. r. B. Hayes
Now the traditional clapof lhun
der in a clear sky j no so wonder
full as a suggestion of prOmptness
in the Pension Cfice. The rulers
in that Office, big and little, pu'
their heads together and Inquired
what manner of President 1t was
who thus interfcres with then
ancient rest. But finally se"ihg
that they were expected to settle
that case in q re- sonable time, sec
ton 10 of the Office being the clerl
from clerk 1901 TO clerk No 20Ol
we're aroused and detail to wrestle
with it. They are now W rkirg
night and day on it. The Com
missioner says if a settlement is
not reached by Tire time Congress
meets in De eur Der, he will lobby
through a bill giving him NOR
clerks; but that claim must AID
shall be settled Fearing that the
President may be deceived as to
the merit Of the claim. however
the forty extra detectives voted
the Commission by Congress las
winter have been set to hunting up
evidence against It. The Presidenf
judging by his endorsement, be-
lieves there may be unnecessary
delays at the Pension Office. He
NAV have heard-whst is tr e.
that every claim filed in that office
remains there. without final acti n
from eighteen to twenty months,
and that only half as many are
distressed Of as are filed. To the
injury and disgust Of every, Grip
pied soldier in the land the Pension
Office has long been managed on
the theory that the way to do a
thing is not to do it. The office is
an important circumlocution office
under the sun. In his last annual
report the ingenius Commissioner
sees but one way IN which his Of
fee can save itself from being
"swamped" BY too much work
His idea is something Ike Hprod's
Of old, he would get rid Of the
claimant.
There has been nc authorized
announcement OF what President
Hayes promised yesterday to do in
relation to South Carolina, but it
10 certain that Gov. Hampton ex