The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D. c., May IL, 1888.
The well known fact that our military
service is overcrOwded with paymasters
has recently been brought forcibly to mind
by the incident relative to Paymaster
Thicker. Under the wasteful red-tape
with the rank of major for about three
hundred men. When a politicion of in
f1uence and capacity for intrigue has on
hand a poor relation who will neither
work nor fight, he cUStom is to put him
in the paymaster's department, in which
there is always room for one more, as III a
crowded street car. With round salaries
andlittle or nothing to do, most of the
paymasters have an easy time But this
life of idleness and ease at the expense of
the country, is apt to lead them into
mischief as in The case of PaYmaster
William T. Tucker, son il-law of Senator
Logan. This interesting son7in law and
his estImable father-in law were reported
to be in scheme for gobbling up about
half the fertile lands of the Zuni Indians. |
including all their water sources The |
timely intervention of the government has |
saved the Indians their land, but it has
made Logan awful mad. After term or |
two as President it was probably the de |
sign of the Illinois senator to retire to .he
beautiful Zuni reservation sad here in
6ulge in pleasing contemplation of the
ownership of thorsF1ds of cattle grazinei
on its fat pastures. 4 Aat dream is over,
but Logan's nature is not to bear his
disappoin' nent and loss He will be heard
from before the xtrepublican national
convention. n the meantime it w;'l be-
come one of the duties of the next session
OF congress to reduce the paymaste. s
department to decent proporfiors. The
simple way of accomplishing MS is to
strike of all the latest appointments from
civil life to the NJ nber of at least a score
Then the remainder VII have on oppor-j
tunity of earning their SO aries l.
1t said that the president is prepa ing
a small Joke to get off on Senator George
Freezbie Hoar when next he sees h n,
and it is asserted as a positive fact that
thirty seven democratic senators have
short speech on the Tewksbu question
now in the stocks for NJ. Hopr's benefit. 1
Mr.. Hoar is never weaIy of ta'F'ng about ~
the tenible atfair in he ''Saouth" which I
he twangs through his nose; is pI IAN |
throPlc soul is grieved nigh r1to dea-h {
at the want of knowledge of Bronson
A'cott and William, E Terry Cnanr'ag. and L
even of the Boston Tas5f,' existing among -
the best educated people at the south.
is the senator's s. ~onoboId. | r
but he viii be reminded that he kind of +.
which licenses polvgamy n
and prohibits Sunday concerts, which d
spends millions on missionaries while Fl
home paupers wallow in fiji End ste We
is not the healthy sort Il
SPEAKING of the President: being n q
z seat fisherman he takes much interest - n
Inc propagating works of the Fish COM
mission, aud steals down there every now n
ana then- The baby salmon evidently "
Know he IS an enemy, and do not want d
am to be elected again in 1894
iheY have been told by their parents of g
'eelng tall, stout gentlemf n with side
in medieval coat antedIluyiap m
trousers and straw hat of the palseozoic h:
!e ,' 1shsng Tor salmon in the waters of g
! ie4anuria bay-and salmon, having g
lea' aesd more sense than they ere cred ca
ted with, know the President when thew 70
zee him, and they loathe him IF M IN
Arthur had only thought of it he need NOT N
ave gone all the way to Florida for
ittle nshing- Ii he had walked STRAIGHT ps
Up Pennsylvania avenue, in front of the ia
' mite mousse, until he got to Seventeenth IN
lreet, and then turned towards the river. W
c "ouId soon have come to the Potomac al
mere mere Is vel good fishing indeed la
lie could nave had Ii chair brought from re
ne Wnlte house and Secretary Chandler an
ouId nave held an umbrella over him III
'hlle ne coaxed the fish to bite Then cd
e could have have had Mr. Whatsbisbuv
gu ano the rest of the cabinet to admire
le sclentlhc way in which he threw his
ne 10 catch picked salmon-whicb are ce
cry common around Washington. in
once more work is resumed on the Ell
!, ashlhgton monument, and it is expect. M.
j that the shaft will be cerrled one hun- an
req feet higher by the end of the season tn,
nat VIII make a total of four hundred on
40 twenty feet and leave one hundred no
no thirty feet stu to be added Stane- ed
utters have been for several weeks en- ed
ageu "a dressing the marble prior to its
eng placed in position, After n few he
lo[e layers are secured there VIII be no
=. '.el use Tor the granite backing, and
-. ~ ,uoa WIN be carried out that the top
.i az ne as ught as possible. The Balti-
loie hrin winch has hitherto furnished
he marble for the monument hoe has
Inoerold py Massachusetts comDanv til
nd the latter furnished their first jnStoI | WI
nent OF marble this week. Careful in it
shows that the massive foundo | vc
ION of the monument has borne ont tho 81
reelection of the engineer in CHARGE thatt
avoula not settle perceptibIy and no
ears are entertained for the ultimate
1ccess of this projected highest work of tn
TT IN the civilized world PuaNo IN;