Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-17
WAITS FROM WASHINGTON.
Mrs. Brewster's Youngsters and Arthur's
New Turnout.

WASHINGTON, July 16.-You already
know how all vacancies in the several
departments were filled so as to avoid the
provisions of the civil service act which
went into effect to-day. But that was not
all. Saturday there was a grand scrim-
mage in all of the departments. PEOPLE
with influence, and possessed with the
knowledge that they would be unable to
satisfactorily pass an examination, were
pressed most vigorously upon the heads of
departments for appointment before Mon
day. All the places had been filled.
There was but one way to accommodate
the influential. That was to make vacan-
cies. Every chief of division in the
service in Washington was notified
by the head of the department
IN which he served that
vacancies were wanted, and that they
were wanted badly. They were told to
send in list of those who could be spared.
Nearly every head of division sent in a
list OF one or two. Mr.. Wyman, United
States Treasurer, refused to recommend
any one tor dismissal. Promptly upon re-
ceiying the lists of those who could be
spared dlsmissals followed and new ap-
pointments of influential applicants who
1t was grand rush. The clerks in all
the departments were in state of excite
ment. No one knew what great execu-
ton the axe would do in its work
OF making vacancies. Those who at the
close of the day found themselves without
places were cOndoled with by the more
unfortunate who received dismissa1s
10 make room for influential noodles and
Tor no other reason. For DESTROYING for
some time to come, the practical 0nera-
tion of the civil service law the admins
tratlon is beyond doubt a success. Said
Assistant Treasurer Graves, who was
chief examiner of the old civil service
board, to-day: . You mark nv
words: there won't, when appointments
have to be made upon the recommends
ton OF the civil Service Commission. be
any great rush to fill vacancies. Oh. no:
there Will be then only merit to reward
not faYorItes. 1t will be just the same as
it was under the old board. When sue
ceSsful examination was then the prere-
qulsIte to appointment and not sheer favor
ltlsm, vacancies were allowed to go un-
hlled for long time. l have known as
many as sixty vacancies in the Treasury
department alone. No necessity was
then felt for their being filled. 1t was, of
course, difficult under the system of ap-
pOlntmentS without examination. When
the new civil service recommendations
can, in the future, have effect it will be
found that there is not much alacrity in
making appointments. 1t will be discov-
cred that the service can get along lust
as well with a number of places not
filed" Civil service reform is a great |
thing. 1t don't seem, however, to reform |
very much.
1t would appear that
MRS. BREWSTER.
the wife of the Attorney General. is quite |
as arlStocratlc as her picturesque hus- |
band. Mrs. Brewster has two bows who |
were born to her by her first husband, |
One of these cubs is about twenty-five |
years old, and the other about eighteen. |
One OF the first things she did when she |
arrived IN Washington was to see that |
they both got good places in the Depart |
ment of Justice. They do not do any |
work. She did not get them ap- |
pointed for that purpose. But the |
regularity with witch they draw their !
pay is certainly cOmmendable. But Mrs. |
Brewster was not satisfied with the con- |
ditiOn of things. She wanted something |
more. The two boys told her that the |
clerks IN the department treated them lust |
as they did all other employees. They |
were not shown any Difference. and in |
their few visits to their desks were not /
made anything of. Mrs. Brewster did |
not like this. So the other day she t
formally demanded of the ATTORNEY Gen |
eral that he instruct all employees of the |
Department of Justice not only to ac- |
knowledge the superiority of the two cubs |
when they saw fit to come to the |
department, but also to raise their hats
when meeting them on The streets. Brews- |
ter has not issued such an order. He has |
sense enough not to issue it. But the fact |
that the demand was made upon him has !
gotten abroad in the department, and the /
al0 in fboi,
cubs about the same as they do the man |
who cleans the spittoOns.
THE COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVE-
NUE.
has sent to the Collector of Internal Reve-
nue. at Atlanta, Walter johnson, blank |
form upon which to execute a new bond |
as Collector for the whole State cOnsoli- /
dated. The bond is for $1,000 the same |
as required when Mr.. Johnson was Col
lectOr OF the Atlanta district alone. He
will be allowed to use the same sureties
in the new bond as he did in the old
one. The new bond is simply a form
that is necessitated by the consolidation
OF the two Georgia districts. There is no
doubt felt here of Mr.. JohnsOn's ability to
give it.
THE PRESIDENT
has got a new turnout for his trips be-
tween the White House and the Soldiers
Home. 1t is light Victoria and will
seat two passengers. The driver sits up
above the body of the vehicle, which
is low. The horses that pull it are two
big bays, whose ears are just visible to
the driver. Behind is a dickey, in which
the groom sits. The President spanks
into the city and out again at about 20
pace. His is the only turnout of the kind
here, and naturally attracts a good deal
of attention. Added to that is the
fact that it bears the President.
So it may be said to create a
sensation. The driver does not gradu-
ally pull in his horses when he drives to
the White House porch. They come rat
Ting up, and in stopping are thrown back
on their launches. Quick as light
ming the grosm is down from the
dickey behind and the President assisted
out. The groom then takes out the Off
cial papers which the President brings
with him and hands them to a messenger.
who has already run out of the house to
attend its master. The President, cool
and dignifed, goes in and stays a little
while and then drives back to the Sol
diers' Home. The horses in the mean
while are walked back and forth by the
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