The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-05-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.

waiting the result of the Presidents
wrestle with the Revenue Commits.
ionership appointment. The mum.
ber Of patriots who are willing to run
this whisky bureau" as it is called
is nearly legion, and the scramble
has been unusually sharp. At one
time it was said the appointment Of
New York man had been decided
upon, and now Pennsylvania claims
to have the lead. Just at this time
there is let-up in the delegations at
the white house. They have found
out that the President is to use a
common but expressive vulgarism, as
stubborn as mule, and in wrath and
disgust they are leaving him to him
self. Senator Harrison is angry with
him, Senator Logan could eat him
up-in fact all the professional wlre-
workers are weary of him and long
for the good old Grant days, when a
pour boire could accomplish almost
anything. Arthur has his intrigues,
but he is slow to act, and is looking
out for himself regardless of the rest
of them. A good deal of comment
has been caused by Senator-elect Gull
lom coming on to urge Mr.. David
Little, of Springfield, for the Internal
Revenue bureau. It's not considered
exactly the thing for a United States
senator-clect to begin place hunting
for his friends before he has taken
his seat; but the traditions which
fOrmely invested the office of United
States senator with a robe of dignity
are nowhere at all. There are, how
ever, signs of revival of some of the
ideas laid by for years. The sena-
tors-some of them-have got just a
little too frisky within the last two
years.
Somehow there don't appear to be
as much interest among government
employees in the civil service commits
sion as was expected. The new ma
chine is about ready to begin opera
tions, but nobody appears to care
anything about it here. One reason
perhaps, is the fact that nine-tenths
of the clerks are slowly and surely
accustoming themselves to the idea
that two years from now they will
be looking for something else to do.
Whether erroneous or not, there is no
expectation that this new arrange
ment will keep in the great bulk of
republican office holders when the
reins of government change hands.
In every mans plans for the future
the limitation of his service to the
continuance of the Republican party
in power is recognized. The speech
of Mr.. Conkling at the Saturday club
dinner had significance to clerks In
Washington which it did not possess
elsewhere. 1t put in plain words the
underlined but keenly felt idea which
had been growing since Gartield's
death, that a democratic suscess in
1884 was almost certain, and many a
man has pledged to himself
that every edge has to cut from this
time forth to save up enough to get
away with when the little yellow
envelope shall be left on his desk con-
tanning The polite information that
democratic head of department no
longer needs his services.
Between Mr.. Robeson's house and
Mr.. Pendleton's is large building
lot which has been graded and turfed
to preserve the effect of the two houses
1t is now offered for sale. That
means that Mr.. Robeson's house is
for sale. 1t would hardly suit the
aristocratic Secor to have a plebean
every day kind of a man at his elbow
but if he wants to sell to the highest
bidder he doesn't care who has the
next lot. The less aristocratic PEN
dleton may not object. Mr.. Window
has gone into the business Of money
making in good earnest and is scrap
ing in the sheckels, so people say who
know. Mr.. Window was always
credited with genuine financial abili.
ty-the power to make money by
bold combinations. He means to be
a richer man than Mr.. Blaine-be.
sides Mr.. Blaine has the grout-not
fthe French grout, but the English ar
ticle, which is admitted free of duty
just imagine what an agreeable pa
tient Mr.. Blaine! An Arizona COW.
boy would be milk-sop to him
Gail Hamilton is still at the Blaines's
and, with the sublime faith of woman
still believes that James G. is thu
coming man, not the man that hai
come and gone.
The rapid growth of Washington
away from the capitol building ant
in the directions of Georgetown
heights is plainly shown by tbe selec
ton of a site for the new opera hous'
and casino in the northwestern sec
ton, near the costly residence bull
by Governor Shepperd and recently
occupied by Thomas J. Brady. Th'
two theatres which the city now hal
are on or near Pennsylvania avenu,
between the capitol and the treasury
building. The new enterprise is fair
ly under way, for it is announced thai
nearly all of the first 100 shares o.