The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. ID. 6. June %, 1877.

Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. ID. G. June %, 1877.
NO POLITICS FOR OFFICE HOLDERS.
TheAdministration will promulgate
to the public in few days an order
strictly forbidding all Federal Office
holders from participation personally
actively, in political manifestations, as
well as being, or of becoming, mem.
bers of political committees, either ex-
o1iicio or otherwise, and holds that
while the enforcement of this rule
will probably work for a time against
his party, it will in the end benefit it,
and concluded by saying that if any
Federal ofiice-holders thought their
duty to their party required their in
dividual eXertions, he had no Objec-
tions to their rcsigning their offices,
but they must give up one or the other.
THE PRINTING BUREAU.
The report of the committee of in
vestigation wherein they condemn the
loose management of, as well as the
employment of two or three times the
employees more than necessary many
appointments being made of persons
friendly to the Presidential aspirations
of Mr.. Bristow is not at all relished
by the particular friends of the late
Secretary Bristow. who retort by as
serting that the report was made in
the interest of the Bank Note Co.'S. to
whom Mr.. Bristow refused to make
awards. At all events there has been
a big leak in this Bureau for the past
decade, and it is about time it was
corrected.
BEECHER AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Henry Ward Beecher called upon
Mr.. Hayes last Wednesday and pre-
vailed upon the Administration to re-
tain leading member of Plymouth
church, and a witness in the Parsons
Tilton- -Beecher adultery case, one
Freeland, collector of the Brooklyn
district, whose resignation had been
called for, but Rutherford B. did not
commit himself to the Parson, but
turned the matter over to brother
John" of the Treasury portfolio, for
investigation and report.
THE INDIANS.
From dispatches received here
through Army sources we are inform
ed that another big Indian war has be-
gun. We are inclined to believe. how
ever, that the picture is vastly oyer
drawn, as the main dispatch reports
only one hundred Indians on the war
path.
MAIL CONTRACTS.
The awards for mail service under
advertisement of April 10, give entire
confidence here in regard to accuracy,
impartiality and promptitude in every
particular, and complete the entire
mail service of every State and Terri
tory, and will go into effect on Sept.
1st, proximo, and continue until the
end of each term respectively.
THE WHITE HOUSE BEsrEGED.
The Presidential Mansion has for
the past few days been over run with
delegations, each one having some axe
to grind. Mr., Hayes listened atten-
lively, as usual, but they departed
without receiving any additional in
formation as to his intentions.
KENTUCKY RADICALS.
Considerable dissatisfaction exists
among Kentucky Republicans at the
non-appointment by Mr.. Hayes, to i'm
portant positions of Gen. Harlan and
Col. Bristow. Harlan wanted to go
in the Cabinet and Bristow gazed ca
yerly for the Supreme Court Bench.
Great complaint comes from kentucky
at the small patronage bestowed upon
them by the Administration, and at a
private meeting held at Cincinnati the
friends of Bristow determined to still
further urge him for the vacancy in
The U. S. Supreme Court.
GRANTS EXAMPLE,
Notwithstanding the repeated asser-
lions that Air. Hayes would spend the
in Washington attending to
he duties of his office. his good inten-
lions have broken down, aud he will
40 doubt spend as little time here as
lid his predecessor, Grant. His trip
through New England will consume
week or more, and then he proposes
rip South, winding up at the Green
orier White Sulphur Springs, Va.
The programme as at present mapped
out will undoubtedly keep him from
our city the best part of, if not all
This "circuit riding" dis
ease is evidently "ketchin."
GARFIELD's DISAPPOINTMENT.
Gen1 Garfield, aspirant for the
Speakership, through the overtures
made to him by Mr.. Hayes, now be-
walls his disappointment, and regrets
giving up his chances for the Senate,
being quite outspoken in his denun-
ciatory matterings of the treachery of
the Administrations. After all his sac
rificcs, he gets no fayors he asks for at
the White House. ana his influence
with the Administration amounts to
just nothing. The letter OF Mr.. Hayes.
promising him the Speakership, will
be made public at some time in the
future, when it will be more effective
than at present. Mr.. Hayes feels no
little embarrassment at this threat,
having been little more free when he
wrote than sound discretion would
dictate.