Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-11-02
IRON Our RssuI.r oorre.pOudent.l
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON. d. c., Oct. 20, 81.
Many senators who hi We been here dur
ing the extra SESSION have gone home to
prepare for the longer stay in Washington.
which will begin with the regular session
on December the 9th and end,-when ~
probably it will end in June. but it is the
biennial long session, and, If revision OF
the tariff should be seriously undertaken,
or a change in the revenue laws, in order
to reduce axation,-measures which seem
to be Justified by the rapid accumulation
of surplus money in the treasury.-there
is no telling how long the regular session
may last. With some senators and MEM
bers, a change of residence to Washington
is very easy transition. Senators Came
ron, Pendleton. B ward, Hlle, Representa-
tive Robson and others have houses of
their own here. and are really more at
home in Washington than in their respeo'
tive states. A number of members and
senators are building houses, and it will,
doubtless, be more common in the future
than it has been in the past for the repre-
sentatives of the different states to have
permanent residences at the capital. Sem
ator Window is building tiue house near
SCOTS Circle. Senator Vance Of North
Carolina, has bought lot on Massachu-
sets avenue, and is about to put up fine
house. Mr. Blaine has not suspended work
on his house, which will be one of the
most commodious and best fitted for re-
ceptions of any in Washington. Building
enterprises are being pus ed with great
energy. Hundreds OF houses have been
built during the summer, but | an told by
real estate agents, that nearly all Of them
are occupied, and that they have never
before known such demand for houses
as there is at present. Ii must be admitted
that the roots of Washington are growing
more rapidly and deeper than the senti-
ment tn 1t demands removal of the capt.
tai to the scientific centre of the union, and
it is probable that they are already too
deep for the capital on the Potomac to
suffer extirpation. Indeed, the city has
already grown to such proportions rs to
make speculation relative to its removal
truitless and impractical. The amount of
money sunk in erecting the capitol, treas
ury department, patent Office, war, state
and navy departments, and host OF other
puplic buildings and monuments is 80
enormous that. even the financial resources
of this great and fourishng republic
would feel the strain of throwing such u
sum away. Into the bargain, the private
residences erected along the paved aven-
ues which radiate from the capitol have
entailed such an outlay upon senators.
members of congress and citizens who
built them, often at lavish expense. that
it is impossible to regard as practicable
the trans'erence of the seat to another
state. No city of the union has grown
more rapidly or improved more substauti-
ally since the war tn IN Washington. and
the winter season attracts as many fashion
aole families O tho nlnks of the Potom &c
in December and Jlnutry as Newport,
5 Saratoga and Long Branch can boast in
July and August. The die is cast, as far
as the legislative city of the union is con
cerned; and, with the rem oval of the
m tlaria breathing mrshes of the POto-
mao, nothing will be lacking to make the
city a summer as well as a winter resort.
A senate committee has under consider
alton bill for the removal of the Potomac
marshes, and it is work which every
citizen proud of national capital will wish
to see accomplished.