San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22
Washington Letter.
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(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, February 20, 1883.

WASHINGTON, February 20, 1855
The last session OF this Congress mas
made desperate effort TO atone tor ,ho
mis.spent time Of the first ana long Session.
hut Il has been compelled TO realize Una.
the mill will never turn with the water 'na'
IL mast. An unusually small NUMBER Oh inc
nrssent Congress IN reelected, ana the com.
inc House will be composed in greater par'
OF new men than any previous congress ior
a number Of years. u I'LL
The Democratic incoming House wiz
have much larger average oil apie ana OK
perienced men than 1t had IN eitner ., Iue
found previous congresses, whiie inc nePuo-
lcans viii be weaker by the promouon 10
the Senate. removal, by DEATH anu retue-
ment of such men as Conger' RYE, iiaio,
Garfield, and Blaine. In the other chaihoer
~ nar,ocrats have decided advantage in
the ability of their senator's. Inc Places .,
Conkling, Blaine, Morton, carpenter, anu
ere men, certainly by men wanting the pow
err and prestige Of their predecessors
T, I, so;d SENATOR John Sherman contem.
n,atea retirement from the Senate and from
pa,;,;.s He oupht to 90 somewhere and
I ,,anorce for the remainder of his ill-spent
life The fate of the Wandering Jew could
not Ia too cruel for q conspirator OF 1879 In
.ho ;ns,ollment of HAYES. Washington and
tho Senate are not the paradise for Sherman
,hev we're once. He is not favorite at
conrt. he has no influence; he never had any
oh;I;tv except for chicane and promotion OF
h;s selfish ends. He has not the love, not
Az rosnect of any man who knows him,
ond be will display his wonted cunning II ne
cots ont of public life before Democratic
characterization with Democratic investiga-
tine committees 90 to the bottom OF SUD-
;acts that Republican committees have
merely SKINNED and CLOSED.
Notwithstanding law has been enacted
reoulatino civil appointments, and Civil
Serv;ce Commission has been designated by
the President to determine as to the quaiih-
cations of the applicants, the demand Tor an
enual division of Federal patronage, accor-
dino 70 political influence, is as great now as
Il ever was. Some of the congressman VINO
cried On loudly for civil service reform,
and denounced the system of appointing per
sons to Office without regard to their guam.
cations. but upon the recommendations or
nolitical bosses are to be seen almost every
dav in the Departments begging to have
rjcces made for some of their constituents.
iThe most persistent of this class are two or
three Southern Republican Representatives.
A white one is generally accompanied by
one or more colored politicians from that
section, and they never take no Tor an ans.
wer. They are a terror to appointment
clerks and heads of Departments,
Although the White House was elegantly
fitted up this season at a cost OF many
thousand dollars, Congress is asked to make
another appropriation for furniture ana re-
pairs of 1926, 900. 1t would seem as II the
White House needed q good deal OF repair
ing and furnishing, considering that we are
a people of simple tastes and averse to
much establishment.