Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-10-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Eject Of the Fall Elections President Arthur at
Work ON his Messase-The Spenkership.
The Corean Embassy.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. Is, 1SSS.-Wash-
ington already feels the impulse of the
coming Congress. The air of con-
gressional season permeates the city,
and with it has come the reign of poll
ties and the social court. Activity is
manifest in all the branches of the
Government, at the political corners,
and in the parlors of society Official
life, from the Executive and his Cabinet
down to the fourth-grade clerk and
messenger, has settled in its easy chairs
for the winter, and, with long drawn
sigh in remembrance of their happy,
free-from-care summer respite, these
officials proceed to work the various
problems of their official capacities.
The clerical cares of the Government
clerk have not yet worn off his dormant
summer mein. He, at this time. wo rks
after the fashion of the conventional
languid-malarial style. But the fall
elections thrill him, and the first shock
of this year has awakened the force into
real activity.
The President is thinking over the
recommendation of his message to
Congress. Although he has six weeks
before him in which to prepare it, vet
he prefers to think in these compare
lively quiet days before the excitement
Immediately preceding the advent of
Congress. Much of the Presidents
message will be based on the reports
made to him by the Cabinet officers,
which must, therefore, be fairly laid
out before the message can be formu-
lated. Most of these reports are al
ready in course of preparation. The
report of the Secretary of the Interior,
| hear, is well advanced in the compila-
ton of notes to be considered in it.
The Secretary of State will make up
his in great part in the quiet of his New
Jersey home. The Secretary of War
must receive the reports of the heads
of the staff bureau and military depart
ment and division. commanders before
he can say to what he will call the
Presidents attention. The Secretary
of the Navy has just begun to think of
what he will say, and the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury is in almost
the same primitive condition. | be-
lieve Postmaster General Gresham has
considered many matters which will en-
ter into his report; it is stated that he
will strongly recommend the establish
ment of a postal saving bank system
similar to that of England. The Com
missioner of Agriculture sits in his little
department building, which is located
in the midst of an immense garden de-
voted to agricultural and Horticultural
experiments, and, though he is yet
denied the distinction of being Cab
met officer, in common with them he
is preparing his annual report one of
the most important of them ALL
The President said, on his return
from Newport, that he was very much
pleased with his visit there, and his
piscatorial excursion to West Island,
but that he was glad to get back to
Washington, ''for," he continued, 81
have never found a pleasantcr place for
residence than the Capital. Ten years
hence; there will be no city in the world
equal to Washington for beauty and at
Effectiveness. The White House is not
yet ready for the President, and he is
meanwhile enjoying the pleasures of
his suburban cottage ut the Soldiers
Home
The speakership question, civil SER
vice reform, the tariff, and the contest
of next year, were temporarily shelved
last week by the politicians now in
winter quarters here. Their minds
wandered in the direction of Ohio and
Iowa. But now that these events have
passed, the political ca,lldron will hum
and sizz as before, and the crowd of
politicians around will grow with the
near approach of the new Congress.
The Corean Embassy has been prom
inent in Washington the past week.
They have made q round of official
calls at the Departments, the Navy
Yard, and the White House. | saw
them, with their retinue of interpreters.
file into the Secretary's room of the
Interior Department the other day, for
an audience with Secretary Teller. A
more curious trio one rarely sees. Their
unique costumes comprise a circular
gown surmounted by conventional
BLACK hat with a very wide fiat brim
and a tall conical-shaped crown. The
Embassy took official leave of the Presi-
dent in the Blue Parlor of the White
House on Friday. 1t is their intention
to leave Washington this evening for
San Francisco, and there take the
steamer of the oath inst. for home.
Hc JUNIUs.
Henry Irving, the celebrated English
tragedian, arrived in New York on the
steamer Rritfanfe yaStardov with Mice