Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-12-12
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our Regular Correspondent. ]


WAsHrNoToN, u. e., Dec. 9th, 1884.
The last session OF the 49th Congress has
resssembled. but with little prospect that
any great amount Of beneficial legislation
will be accomplished before the time Of
ito final dispersion. Usually about three
weeks are taken out Of this short session
for the holidays, but during this winter
there are numerous other events besides
thosc intimately connected with intriguing
for Office, 10 distract the attention Of mem
bers. No sooner will the holiday vacation
be over than the time will be here for the
opening, counting and declaring OF the
electoral vote, which mua be had on the
second Wednesday in February. Right
upon the heels Of that comes the ceisbrs-
tion OF the completion Of the Washington
Monument, upon which the handful OF
workmen are putting the finishing touches.
And then the preparations for the inau-
guration ceremonies than which none that
have ever taken place were more com
pletely elaborate, to ssy nothing oi the
hand that members propose to take in
giving attention to the New Orleans Ex-
position.
Relative 10 the Inauguration, Am at a
lo" to know, and the people at the Capital
are puzzled 10 find out, how they are going
to lodge the scores OF thousands of rtrsn.
gers who are coming to nee the insngura-
tion Of the first Democratic President IN
almost thirty yesrs. The friends OF Mr..
Cleveland ara determined that his acces-
sion to office shall be more stilted than
Mr. Jefferson's. who rode to the Capitol on
her.e.hack, tied his nag TO a tree, took the
oath OF office, and trotted off Just as lie
had been in the habit of taking grist to the
mill. The Washington hotels nre all first
class. but they would he rated in Chicago
St. Louis or Cincinnati several degrees be-
low the first class hostelries of those towns.
Willarls l. an immense caravasnary, capa- :
hle of sheltering fifteen hundred people
and dining half of ih,t rumber at once.
1t has already rejected four thousand APP
plicants for quarters. The Arlington,
Ebbilt, Riggs, National and Metropolitan,
which can aggregate five thousand
guests, have already agreed to provide for
| all that they can possibly find room for
as have all the eating houses and other
places where refreshments for man and
heast is usually supplied. Alexandria,
(Va.,) Eve miles away, has also been drawn
upon for all the room that she can iurnisl,
and the prospect bids fair that Baltimore
full hours ride from here, will have to
succnmb to the universal demand for hos
ritality.
sse that the President urges upon Con.
gress the necessity of aiding in the con-
striction Of the Bartholdi pedestal, n work
which the people OF New York city alone
are interested in, and all other people are
not. As well might Congress he asked TO
help New York build her East River
Bridge or her Tweed Court House, or any
other OF her numerous Impositions. These
Bsrlholdi schemers are begging the school
children and everybody else for contribu-
tions to this pedestal fnnd, while they are
paying lazy tramp Of a Secretary six
thousand dollars \ year for keeping The
books, and a host Of other hangers OH who
Dc nothing under Heaven but draw sola
ries from the fund that these imposieri
are squeezing from the people. Congress
had best let the fraud severely alone.
DON PEDRO.