The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-10-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Office Seekers-Tbe Presi-
dent Not In-Much Patronage
20 Dispense-But not 10 ChrOn.
nc Beats and BOres.

Sne MOI 1u-Mucn patronage
10 Dispense But not 10 Chron.
nc Beats and Borcs.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct, 7th, 1881.
The situation here is full of inter-
est, and not without novelty. Pres
ident Arthur will have to be credited
with originality, if not accused of
eccentricity. Who ever heard of a
President that would not live in the
White Housed And, yet, there may
be excellent reasons for preferring to
make q home of the elegantand com
modious private residence ola friend
ly Senator. The extra session Of the
Senate will assemble in two days.
The regular session of Congress will
convene in six weeks. The Ameri-
can plague Of office seekers is already
beginning to swarm about the hotel
lobbies President Arthur j, not ig-
norant Of their means and methods.
He knows that he will be less access.
able tothe Office seeking rabble, with
its influential backing, at the pri-
vate residence ofSenatorJohes than
If he were at the White House, a
place that the chronic office seeker
knows BY heart, and invades at pleas.
ure. But this is not the only de.
parture osthe President. After the
extra session Of the Senate, he pro-
poses to live at Soldiers Home until
mid-winter, when it is thought that
repairs at the White House will be
completed. The Soldiers Home is
three miles from the city, a most dis.
couraging distance for the average
office seeker, who is not able to hire
a conveyance. The President has
said that he is determined that the
time and energy which he owes to
the wholecountry shall not be wasted
upon a hoarde Of perti,ent, brassy
beats, many of them Of the type Of
Guiteau, who hang around the lob
bies of the White House, hungry for
a place in which they hope to be
paid from 5000 to $500, or at least
three times as much as they would
be competent to earn as employees in
any commercial or professional pur.
suit. He has said that the Cabine,
officers must attend to the official p.
pointments of their respective de.
partments. This will distribute the
burden that has been in a great part
on the President to the shoulders OF
seven different men, and the fact the
President is not in town, or not cat
home" to this class, will do much
toward. purging Washington of q
moral malaria from which the CAPT.
tai has long suffered.
President Arthur enters upon the
executive office with more patronage
to dispense than, has been the lot OF
new President in a great many
years. He has one justice of the
Supreme Court Of the United States
to appoint, and will have another
within few months. There are
three foreign ministers of the first.
class and two Of the second.class t.
select. There are many changes to
be made in consular Offices, and many
other important judicial aud civil
Offices to be filled. .
Preparations for the reception OF
the French guests are nearly com
plete, and nothing will be left I'm,
done to give the defendants of our
allies at Yorktown a favorable i'm.
preston Of the city and citizens OF
the Capital Of the United States.
..aeH C. A. S.
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