The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
AIMS OF AMOS.
WHICH HIS NAME is WEBSTER,


To Keep the Clerks, Controllers
and Custoiians of the Currency TO
the letter of the Rule IknOcked
Into N Cooked Hat by Knox and
Given the GO-by by GiiniIan, who
Dare 10 Hold Converse with rheir
wives and Daughters Instead of
with Some Other Fellows wife or
Daughter.
The atmosphere Of calm contentment which
has pervaded tho murky corridors OF the
Treasury Department for immemorlal years
has been so seriously disturbed In the past
few days that nearly oil the barometers In the
building have bursted from an excess of
bubblng activity. The peaceful brows erst-
while clad In aureoles of sunny smiles now
bend above the clerkly desks wrlnkled with
Tartarean frowns. The lips whence issued
the melodious music of happy laughter are
now compressed In angry resolution. The
hands which guided pens and pencils through
may chirography In the computation OF
Interest or tho manufacture OF warrants, now
viclOusly dash pothooks down instead of har.
monious curves. In fact there has been u
revolution OF the direst description. Clerical
Joy has been transformed at one fell swoOp
into menial misery, and desolation reigns
supreme.
The cause Of this unparalleled and horrible
state OF affairs is the order recently issued by
the Secretary enforcing an old rule of the
Treasury Department, which forblds clerks
and employees from receiving Visits or loailng
In the halls. Tho rule as 1t reads is very
proper one and looks to the prevention of q
system OF continual visiting or continued loaf
ing, but 1t happens that the great military
mind OF Ad1utant.GeneralCo Colonel-Chlef-Ole
Amos Webster conceived, after duo delibera.
tion, that there was something In the rule be-
yond the letter of II.
Adjutant General. Colonel Chief-Clerk Amos
Webster, 1t may be said, is regarded as one of
tho ablest thinkers what Is. His commanding
figure and martial appearance are well known
TO the citizens of Washington, and his military
10 n "A N IL lima
During the recent tin between some Southern
people and the Government A. g. @. @. @. Amos
Webster was upon the stan Of General Grant,
the campaigns of that renowned hero. 1t is
also said that
He Heated General Grans's Shaving
Water for Him,
but these rumors are perhaps merely the coin.
age of an idle brain. After the war, in recog.
milton of his valuable advice and In considera.
tion of the countless legion of gray-clothed
men who sank into the pathetic dust beneath
his destructive arm, he was placed In COM
mand of the Register OF Wills office in this
city, now guarded by the brave, but attenu-
ated, Colonel Ramsdell. He was also made
Adjutant-General of the District militia. Not
withstanding the numerous onslaughts which
rapacious enemies made upon the Registers
of1lce, A. g. O. O. q. Amos Webster success.
fully defended II, and the Wills, codicils and
other posthumous documents remain as silent
witnesses to his courage and strategy. AS Ad-
jutant-General of the District militia he has
BdiItu IL WuIm pldCb III INC HbhTL5 OF tn9
grateful people whose hearths and homes he
guards so zealously. His unlllnching courage
at the battle OF Swampoodle saved the day,
and in the Frogtown engagement, whom he
was so
dangerously Wounded in the TasseI
of His Hat,
the city would have been at the mercy of a
bowling mob had he not have jumped from
his charger and turned the enemy back by
welldirected shot from one OF Major Hahne-
mans guns. 1t will be seen, therefore, that
A. G. O. q. @. Amos Webster is man whose
convictions on the subject OF an official order
must necessarily be correct, aud that his
ideas regarding n rule are beyond the assaults
of argument. Last week, after the order was
Issued, A. G.lC. q. O. Amos Webster marShaled
the messengers In martial array, and, as their
knees knocked together and their teeth chat.
tered in awe of the great chieftain who stood
before them he told them that the order must
be enforced. He instructed them to carefully
watch the clerks and report to him eny EN-.
ployes who might be discovered receiving
visits, standing In the halls, standing on their
heads, sparring, pitching pennies, playing
keno, or any such action which clerks are
usually guilty of. He knew that discipline
was good thing, and that
A Discontinued Clerk
could do ten times as much work as one whose
lot was more happy one, and then, besides,
he had heard OF Adjutant General BUNS or
der, and he resolved that there would be a
pretty big chunk of ice In the nelghborhood
II he got left by any other Adjutant-General In
the matter OF orders. A. G. G. @. q. Amos Web.
bter also swept MS eagle eye around whenever
| he went out In the halls, and many unwary
| clerks have been reported by him and repri-
| manded by the Secretary. But he scared for
| higher game, and last week he reported Comp
| troller Knox and Treasurer Gilfillan for re-
| ceiving visits during office hours. MIR. Knox
| received his wife and Mr.. Gilnllan his daugh-
| ter. This was, OF course, reprehensible, even
outside of the rule. If the pernicious prac.
| tice of receiving ones own wife or daughter Is
| allowed to pervade high official habits chaos
| VIII be the result. Had Mr.. Knox received
| Some other Persons Wife
| and Mr.. Gilfllan somebody else's daughte,
| they would have been following an old and
| noble precedent which all the rules In the uni
| this. They trampled upon custom, and were
| very properly reported by A. G. q. O. y. Amos
| Webster. tits privately stated that Secretary
Folger administered to each of them a sound
| spanking. Numerous clerks were also re
| ported and rebuked by the Official toe on the
| spot where their panties are shiny, aud now
| discipline dominates whore once discord
| reigned. The clerks may growl and fume, bu
| Adjutant- General- Colonel Chief Clerk and ex
| Register of Wills Amos Webster continues tC
| protect our city; continues to keep Secretary
Folger IN the right financial path by giving hin
| sound advice upon bonds and business, ant
| continues to report clerks under the rule. HI
| Will enforce the rnle, even II he Is compelled
to call out Major Hanneman's entire park o
| artillery, and when Fame, standing upon tn,
mount of enternity shall trumpet out tn,
names OF the worlds great men, the longes
blast Except this one) will be given to Adju
| lister OF Wills Amos Webster.
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HRS. Reagan's Case.
| Mra Ranpan who Vcame In IIfaD Sund