Sierra County advocate., 1885-07-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

" ASIlIAGToN, June ~, looo. -
There IL no relaxation in the do
mand for places under the govern,
ment. Chiefs Of departments anc
bureaus still find their time almost
wholly cccspled ir.ccnsi,.oring ap-
plications for appointments The
Interior Department seems TO be
the objective points for most OF the
office seekers. The greatest crowd
may be seen there in the Office OF
Secretary Lamar They are seen
il all their varying moods. One
can make an exhaustive study OF
the genus in the Office of the Sscre-
tary Of the Interior. at Is really
the best place in the world to study
character SAID Representative
as he came from Secretary Lamars
Office on Friday. at is the place OF
all others where @ man makes an
effort to appear al his pest and he
generally appears at his worst |
never saw anything like it. 1t is
worse than the crowd struggling to
get to the ticket-wagon of a coun-
try circus
The next best ploce to study the
wiies of the oilice-seeker is across
the way ut the Post Office depart
ment. Postmaster General Villas
is on hand very promptly at 8
o'clock every morning, and from
that time till noon be is crowded
with callers. Some of them have
a story as long as your arm and it
don't amount to much when ii is
told. Such people seem to think
that the more of the Secretary
time they can take the better it is
for their ehaaces,' said one Of his
assistants yesterday, "On the 9th
Ell hand, there are a great many who
call in that way who would much
better have .led their papers and
wnlked away. they tire every
body out"
General A. J. Warner, the origi-
nator of the new idea about cessa-
sion of the coinage OF Silver, is a
several years ago, and his constitu-
ents have sometimes complained
that he has neglected them for his
hobby. | asked him last week
when he first through off his pres
ent scheme. 81 saw last winter
that there must be more time de-
voted to the subject than was then
possible, he SAID +: / nIatfo t.f, r. sss J !
mind that it must be worked up
during vacation and that consid-
cradle number of members must be |
committed to it before the opening
Of congress. So ! went at it and |
formulated nay notions, and they |
have been before more than forty |
Of the leading members of congress-
already. / hoped to get along a
little father before it wns publish
ed, bat no real harm has. been done.
[ believe it will be adopted by con-
gress.
Secretary and Mr.. Manning have
taken large house in the "West
End" Mr.. ard Mrs. Nelson Brown,
Of Philadelphia. occupied it for five
months last winter, and paid $400
per month for it. 1t has fine
grounds, with summer pavilion,
spacious salon, library and sleeping
lpartments. and has the finest To-
alton in the Army and Navy quar-
er. 1t was occupied by the i'll
'ated Senos Barca, Spanish Minis
er, whose suicide in New city a
ew years a go many people re-
From Neptune down, all marine
'otentates and worthless have had a
ancy for riding the dolphin, but it
5 doubtful if that frisky mmal
yer had harder rider than our
wn bran new Secretary of the
Navy. The report on the Dolphin
ubmitted to Secretary Whitney by
he naval board of inspection, if
rue statement of facts, justifes the
secretary in the stuborness which
q has displayed to the report,
yhich is very explicit in its state
lents, the ship is fraud and sham. !
I has faiisd to make fha contract !.