The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-12-26
5 &Intelligencer
Nd, December 26, 1884.
LETTER.
, Regular CORRESPONDENT.

~ Washington, Dec. 81, 1884.
THE Inauguration committee of fifty has at
r last organized and gone 10 work, and the result
OF its labors is seen in the appointment Of sub
committees, aggregating 800 men prominent In
business, in politics and In society here. 1t has
been the object of the committee to appoint, as
far as possible, to the subcommittee those who
are not aspirants for office. Republicans as
we'll as Democrats have been appointed, and u
is the desire of the management that the whole
country shall rejoice in the redemption Of the
United States, and feel that they are In their
. fathers house when they visit the Capital OF
y their country
here on the fourth of March, mostly Democrats,
of course, but there will be host Of gloomy
Republicans resident here to furnish foil TO
their joy. committee OF "Pubiic Comiort
has been appointed, whose business 1t will be
to know more about where you want to 90 than
you know yourself Ifyou are millionaire,
you will GO to Wormley's, to Wizards, or TO the
Ebbitt House and pay your Dill without LOOK ns
at it. But if you have round trip ticket and
twenty dollars in your pocket, you need not
have u bad time in Washington. VERY filling
meals" can be had for prices ranging from %
to IS cents Bed and board need not cost Inoe
than one or two dollars per day. Many military
and civil organizations have already engagea
quarters a large number will come, and lodge
In Pullman cars during their stay. A pro)ect'
ed feature OF the inaugural procession Is mill
tary company from every State Of the Union,
each marching in the order OF the date OF ao
mission of its State to the Union, the thirteen
original States coming first:
Congress has been quito busy during the pas
week, and the House and Senate are 10 quar-
rel over the Naval appprSpTsto nT D ssssic
bids fair to SssidSsrssTsA s 10 nS%nsi ssss
through - the House = efase so TO
new ships Of Wa The House replies
Senate, We can md if if Won cam
TX IN sass,o I'M MA. 9rum of both houses
sen ~ Wa.i Christmas week.
IA M g@s Antar ~. agton for thirteen con- |
~ t ., " lave never seen so luguori-
,S SCI IN as the present one. There
III ~ ual preparation purse strings
sflt 9lss lines are boarded where dol
'4sN AZ sgse An. ~ The Republican government
z 1870 tprodigal when he could borrow
ISL Nv economical from stress of cir
II ms w The Shylocks who were wont
< Giodate him for five per cent. =
.&s l are themselves ruined by the 1
s3I III ~ y money loaned at this rate to bet on
Twelve months ago at this season 1t
go ticult 10 find standing room In the holi
\ Ss4 }ores on Seventh street and Pennsylvania :
sRue, now these stores are almost deserted, |
IN the few who enter them, come to gaze
N 4her than to buy.
8 Ut looks now not unlike Mr.. Cleveland's sd-
ADMINISTRATION will be under the necessity of !
assuming an active foreign policy-that is, If
anything that concerns the North American {
continent can be called foreign to the United {
States. 1t is impossible for the American peo
pie TO look on without concern while powerful a
maritime powers cut water way between the
two oceans and secure quicker passage way
for ships to San Francisco and the Pacific States
than we can command. France has, al this lime,
apowerful fleet in Chinese waters, against which
our puny navy would 90 down like lead. But {
If we had navy equal to that of France, we
would be at great disadvantage compei led to go
around Cape Horn, while France could reach
either the Atlantic or Pacific coast on an inte 1
rior line. If the United States should dig ship
canal across the Isihmus al Tehauntepec, she
would hold strategic position, with which no
European power could cope. With an extern
sion of our railway system through Southern {
Mexico, we would be able to throw an army of
hundred thousand men upon the isthmus be-
fore France or any other power could land ten
thousand there. Both France and England op-
pose the control of an Isthan wa'er way by
the United States, but their opposition will be \
the strongest argument in its favor. On this con-
tineut, at least, we must, Crusoe-like, be mon !
arch of all we survey, with none to dispute our
realm.