The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-12-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondence
Wash iputon nao 18th n

Washington, Dec. 10th, 1884,
1t is now pretty well understood to Congress
will not do much legislation outside the appro
priaton bills at this session The Republicans
are making frantic effort to have Dakota I'D
mitted to the sisterhood of States, but the Demo-
Gratis feel that the Republicans count already
more than their legitimate strength in the Senate
and in the House. Nevada with only about
900 voters. most of them mere squatters at that,
sends two Senators and one Representative to
Washington, and counts three in the electoral co..
theme she would be for Mr. Blaine She would
answer better even than the solid South for an
Augusta speech
There should be constitutional amendment
to remand State to the territorial condition
when her population and wealth have deteriorat-
ed as in the case of Nevada until she is poorer aud
less populous than an average county in the more
thiekly settled States
7 ere is great deal of talk just now as to the
policy of the incoming President, especially as
concerns the offices.
1t is conceded that Mr.. Cleveland may without
offence dismiss Mr.. Frenghuysen, MIR. Chandler,
Mr.. Lincoln, Mr.. McCulloch, and other Republi-
can Cabinet officers, but when II is suggested that
Messrs: Bayard, Thurman, Garland, and others
whom Mr.. Cleveland may appoint to his cabinet
will want friends instead of enamies in their
official households-the independents jump up
frantic gesticulatlon they point to the legend
Civil service laws. Well, the legend is good as ar
as it goes, but Cleyeland's cabinet will have the
same need for clean sympathetic personnel In
their several departments that Cleveland will
have fora Cabinet Of his own choosing at the
reform or Democratic administration from the
politicians with whom Republican Presidents and
Cabinets have for twenty-five years stocked all
the government offices. These men were not ap-
pointed under the Civil Service law. They are
not In Jfice because of fitness, but because they
have done good work for the Republican party
Civil service reform can never be carried out
long as those men are in the departments ana
the sine qua non of reform in any form will be to
get rid OF these corrupt idle. ghtfingered appon-
tees of Hayes, and Grant. When the Augean
stable has been cleared, it will be proper to
apply Civil service rules broadly and rigidly
than Mr.. Pendleton has conceived
A committee of fifty prominent citizens with
out political aspirations have been appointed to
take charge of the inauguration on the fourth of
March. This will be great disappoi tment to
a number of chronic office seekers in the city
who have been endeavoring to push themselves
to the front of the management and the process
son hoping to attract the attention of the Presi-
dent, and get appointment to the District offices.
The President of the United States appeared in
the role of telegraph operator to-day, when in
the midst of brilliant thrnng of ladies and gen.
tlemen he touched Off the machinery of the New
Orleans Exposition, 1900 miles away. The Cabinet.
Diplomatic corps, and distinguished invited
guests assembled in the East Room where the in.
stri,ment had been placed and the President, who
had rehearsed his taps on dummy, the day be-
fore, did 1t very neatly
Washington society Is languishing. She has the
blues. and mourns the days that are more
The days of monopoly and shoddy milionaredom
have departed. Society is all broken up" shall
l say. busted" She will have to reconstruct
herself on lines of simpler manners, purer laws
L'Empi,e c'est mort. ViUe le Denpocr atic..