The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
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From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
Nav Ia. 1884

(From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
May IA, 1881
The well known fact that our mil
itary service is o~vercrowded with
paymasters has recently been
brought forcibly to mind by the in
cident relative to Paymaster Tuck
Ell. Under the wasteful red-tape
system there is one paymaster in the
army with the rank of major for an
average of about three hundred men.
When a politician of influence and
capacity for intrigue has on land a
poor relation who will neither work
nor fight the custom is to put him
in the Paymaster's department, in
which there is always room for one
more, as in a crowded street car
With round salaries and little or
nothing to do, most of the paymRs-
tiers have an easy time. But this
life of idleness and ease at the ex-
pense of the country is apt to lead
them into mischief, as in the case Of
Paymaster William T. Tucker, SON.
in-law of Senator Logan. This in
teresting s~on-in-law and his estima-
BILE father-in-law were reported to
be in a scheme for gobbling up about
half the fertile lands of the Zuni In
dians, including all their water
sources. The timely intervention
of the government has saved the In
dians their land, but it has made Lo-
gan awful mad. After a term or two
as President it was probably the de-
sign of the Illinois senator to retire
to the beautiful Zuni reservation and
there indulge in pleasing contempla.
ton of the ownership of thousands
of cattle grazing on it's fat pastures.
That dream is over, but Logan's ma
ture is not to bear his disappoint-
ment and loss. He will be heard
from before the. next republican ma
tional convention. In the meantime
it will become one of the duties of
the next session of Congress to re-
duce the Paymaster's department to
decent proportions. The simple way
of accomplishing this is to strike off
all the latest appointments from civ
il life to the number of at least a
score. Then the remainder will have
an opportunity of earning their sal
aries.
1t is said that the President is pre-
pairing a small joke to get off on Sen
ator George Freezbie Hoar when
next he sees him, and it is asserted
as a positive fact that thirty V
democratic senators have a short
speech on the Tewksbury question
now in the stocks for Mr.. Hoar's ben
eft. Mr.. Hoar is never weary of
talking about the terrible state of
affairs in the "South," which he
twangs through his nose; his philan-
thropic soul is grieved nigh unto
death at the want of knowledge of
Bronson Alcott and William Ellery
Claiming, and even of the Boston
Iise,, existing among the best edu-
Gated people at the south. Philan
throphy is the senator's stronghold,
but he will be reminded that the kind
of philanthrophy which licenses poly
gamy and prohibits Sunday concerts,
which spends millions on missionar-
les while home paupers wallow in
filth and %starve, is not the healthy
sort.
Speaking of the President; being
a great fisherman he takes much in
terest in the propagating works of
the Fish commission, and steals
down there every o and them
The baby salmon evidently know he
is an enemy, and do not want him to
be elected again in 1884. They have
been told by their parents of seeing
a tall, stout gentleman, with side
whiskers, in a medieval coat, antedi-
luvian trousers and straw hat Of the
pal@ozoic period, fishing for salmon
in the waters of Alexandria Bay
and salmon, having q great deal
more sense than they are credited
with, know the President when they
see him, and they loathe him. If
Mr.. Arthur had only thought of it
he need not have gone oil the way
to Florida for a listle fishing. If lie
had walked straight up Pennsylva-
mia avenue, in front of the White
house, until he got to Seventeenth
street, and then turned towards the
river, he would soon have come to
the Potomac, where there is very
good fishing indeed. He could have
had a chair brought from the White
house and Secretary Chandler could
have held an umbrella over him while
he coaxed the fish to bite. Then he
could have had Mr.. Whatshishuysen
and the rest of the cabinet to admire
the scientific way in which he threw
his line to catch a picked salmon
which are very common around
Washington.
Once more work is resumed on
the Washington monument, and it
is expected that the shaft will be
carried one hundred feet higher by
the end of the season. That will
make a total of four hundred and
twenty feet and leave one hundred
and thirty feet still to be added
Stone-cutters have been for several
weeks engaged in dressing the mar
BILE prior to its being placed in posi-
ton. After a few more layers are
secured there will be no further use
for the granite backing, and the idea
will be carried out that the top shall
be as light as possible. The Balti
more firm which has hitherto fur
nished the marble for the monument