News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. I
Nav &c, 1884.

in the past few days in favor of the
nomination of President Arthur at
Chicago in June, and many who few
weeks since believed such action i'm
possible, now admit its strong proba-
billy. 1t is claimed that the Ed
munds, Logan and Hawley men will
surely come to him, while not q lew
Blaine men can be relied upon if an
emergency arises. One happy sign
of the times is the dying out OF the
bitterness engendered in the early
days of selection of delegates and Re-
publicans are all coming to the posi-
ton that whoever the convention may
nominate will receive the earnest,
hearty support of the whole party.
A number of government clerks in
Washington suffered in the financial
panic of week before last. They had
been inticed into sreculating in stocks
on small scale, and through their
brokers getting a superficial knowl-
edge of the ways of Wall Street, and
winning at first, they got notion
that they had the financial world by
the heels and a down hill pull, and
ventured their all on "margins." The
consequence was that when the tum-
BILE in prices came they could not "put
up any further, and what they had
invested was swept away. Your cor
respondent is acquainted with a num-
Der of clerks, several of them women,
who suffered in this way, most OF
them having invested in Pacific Mail.
The great number of department en-
ployes engaged in stock and bond
speculations is q matter of real sur
prise. Their histories ip-these mat
tiers are pretty much the Same. they
make money hand over hand for
while, and suddenly, and with one
swoop they lose all.
For a couple of weeks past the
Siamese flag, red sheet with the
representation of white elephant in
the center, has been flying over one
of Washington's prominent hotels,
the occasion for it being the presence
there of the embassy from the King
of Siam to the United States. Sever
al members are of royal blood, and
all are as homely as stump fence.
They have been grandly entertained,
and seem to take to American ways
quite readily and as though they en-
joyed them. The entire party has
just left for New York where they
will spend few days, maybe for the
purpose of acquainting themselves
with the ways of producing financial
panics, with view of importing the
methods to Siam, so as to create ma
tional excitement there, by which the
sale of the daily newspapers will be
helped and the printing of them en-
couraged.
Like most international commits
sions, the French and American claims
commission is now coming in for a
goodly share of abuse, and appar-
emily there is some reason for it. This
commission has been in session nearly
four years, its expenses have been
1926. 900, the awards to French citi-
zens have amounted to 1925 1855 and
to Americans S2,731. 1t appears the
Frenchmen on the commission did not
understand English or Spanish; the
Brazilian did not understand English
or French, and the American did not
understand French or Spanish, and
the just logged along, drawing their
pay and running their expenses up to
more than 80 per cent. of their
awards. No one seems satisfied with
the commission except the commission
itself.
On Wednesday of last week COL
lossal statue of Martin Luther was
unveiled in Washington. The occa-
sion attracted great interest among
Christians of the Lutheran denomina-
ton throughout the United States,
and most of the prominent divines of
that particular faith were here to wit
ness the ceremonies attending the I'M
yelling. This is the only statue of
Martin Luther erected on this CONT
nent.
The success of the World EXPOSE
ton at New Orleans seems now to be
an assured fact. The exhibit by the
government will be equal, if not SUI
perior, to that of the Centennial al
Philadelphia, while the States of the
north will exert themselves to pre-
sent displays that in friendly compe-
tition will outrival those of the south.
This is the south's great opportunity
to display her grand resources and in
vite the attention and cooperation OF
the emigrant and capitalist in building
up all her material interests. Direc-
tor General Burke, who has opened
headquarters here, seems to be pos
sessed of a hundred horse power o.
energy, tact, and business abili Y, ant
is organizing his scores of assistant;
with LIaster hand.
The construction of the Washing
ton monument, which was begun July
4, 1848, is again under way with pros
poets of completion in the course o
the year. Workmen quit it last fal
with 410 feet of mason work abov,
the foundation completed. Abou
two feet are being daily added to it
height. 1t has been planned to pu
up 500 feet of marble mason work
and to crown that with fifty feet 0
iron work, making it $50 feet high
and by far the tallest structure of tn
kind in the world. That its heigh
compared with the other great monu
ments of the world may be better un
derstood, it may be stated that Bun
ker Hill monument is 221 feet high
the dome of the Capitol at Washing
ton, SOC; st. Peters church dome a
Rome, 457; the spire of the Stras
burg cathedral, 468, and the pyramid
of Cheops, Egypt, $50. B.