Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-13
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WARRINGTON LETTER.

Cay Chrfstmas...Clvil Service BILL.
The Wsrk On Territories to BE Made
states...Amended Revised statutes
for Tefrltsrlcs.-.Take Care ef the
Veterans. They Cared for Us...Let
Them Have Jollincatioa at Denver
Next June.
ESPECIAL TO THE posT-MTxLLI0KNCRR.l
WAsHMaroN, Dec. q.
With the gay holiday season at the
Capital comes fun for the children, re-
spite for the average Congressman (al-
though moro stinted this year,, and no
rest for the wicked clerk, save that De
partments are closed on Christmas and
New Years days-the first holiday week
for ten years that they have not been
given the halliday throughout the en-
tire week.
The streets of Washington were never
more gally filed with daily pedestrians.
From the window displays and over
loaded shops and stores, one would sup
pose that presents for the whole United
States were purchased here. Surely the
loaded express wagons and crammed
mail-pouches indicated percentage of
exits. Tho Congressman must send to
his wife and babies at home some SOU
venir f,om the Nations Capital, and
good clerks remember their old neigh
b0rs with even more care this year than
ever before; for the
CIVIL SERVICE HILL
is goingtO bring them up standing ON
the resi- aence business; and it is to the
interest OF the nondescript that he
have habitation and . name.
The PendletOn bill, 80 designated,
with notifications by amendments, has
passed the Senate, with only five nom
concurring (Democrats): It must yet
struggle through the House, and no
telling how many twists it will 90
through by the hands Of those wise So
Ions.
The telegraphic news makes it unne-
cessary to describe tho original frame
and its ''lean-to." but its reception and
local application by the people and the
kuuOu 0O00oH 0110 kuk0UIxx0I0tAJOO O1hEY
to whom it mostly applies, ID in the
correspondence. We venture to say the
misunderstood GLASS;" for certainly
among 5000 employees i any depart
ment Of industry now Il the country
stand at better average, taking them
as whole. Reporters and correspond
ents have made them butt of ridicule
because they must have something to
drive to the walt-and some Of them de-
serve il. But il il fair to presume that
every boy in school will steal q Jack
knife because ono was caught in the
act? So, too, need we infer that all wO-
men are mot worthy Of q position By
which they may maintain and educate
their fatheflees children, because. one
or two, or even 20 cut Of several hum
dred hold their places BY favoritism?
Would Seattle, or any thriving West
oEu city, think il fair that their entire
male population should be stiematixed
90 drunken debauohees because . half
dozen or dozen were ooen "bobbinQ
ar0undF' The most unreliable clerks
are the irresponsible young fellows from
college without families, and who most
easily pam examinations, being freah
from books. There ID . large cla8 Of
earnest men and women who are on
time ct duty, honest, industrious and
frugal. Tho best Of this clas are those
in middle life, who have had hard ex-
periences, reverses Of fortune, OF ssrved
| IN tho Rebellion and manned soldiers,
or soldiers' widows; clerks, Who. not
fresh from school, would shun the tech-
nical questiouin9s OF the examining
hnard ON long fofQotton ruloa IN evnkax