Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1885-09-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent.
WAsHrsGTos, Sep, z, 1885,.

| WAsHINGToN, Sep, z, 1887.
| It is reported that the presiden
will bein Washington before the 10th
Of September. This is earlier thar
he was expected, but it's quite prob,
able that he is now resigned to fore
go the hardships of fishing ca1up
for the lnxuries OF the executive
mansion. and the ear-piercing music
of the mosquito, for that of the Ma.
rine band.
"There will be q big cleaning out
soon after the president returns, !"
said an official in the treasury de-
partment yesterday. The commit
tees that are exanling things here
Will recommend many dismissals
There Is great deal of dead timber
that will be cleaned out. The notion
of this administration is that things
should be run in a simple and eco
nomical way, and that no more peo-
pie should be employed than are
necessary to do the work.
An officer OF the United States Sem
ate is in town at present, probably
because it is pay day or something of
that sort, is of the opinion that when
congress meets IN December there
viii be such = shaking up Of The pay.
rolls and such retrenchment gener-
ally that the attaches Of that luxuri-
nus bed win be greatly surprised
More than this, many of them will
be compelled to walk. During the
closing hours of the last congress
the usual food of resolutions author
izing the appointment OF all sorts of
committees for junketing trips du-
ring the summer, with an unlimited
right to draw on the fund, we're in
troduced. Some of them, whose pro-
moters were sharp enough to get
them in early, were passed. But
before. many days the pressure was so
great that the whole thing was turned
into afarce. The debate which sprang
up over the various resolutions of
the dignifed senators who were max
ing frantic efforts to put some pro-
tege on the pay-rolls for the summer
with nothing to do was lndicrous at
first, but before it was over it be-
came disgrace TO the United States
Senate. Some Of the collier headed
senators, whose clerks had already
been provided for, were smart
enough to see it. They called eau
Gus and after two or three angry
meetings smothered all the Feselp-
tions. They went even further, and
appointed committee whose duty
it should be to hold meetings during
the summer and 60 over the whole
ground in relation TO sinecures about
tue chamber with the view to maxi
ing full report in the fall, which
would bring about great many re-
marks and much retrenchment all
round. This committee has been hard
at work all summer and its report
will be made the hssls Of little re-
trenchment and reform side show in
imitation of that which the admins
tration is carrying on upon such =
large and thorough scale. It will al
so furnish Republican senators an
opportunity to worship that species
of reform most eloquently with their |
lips, to put themselves on record.
and to roar through the .'congress-
ionaI record" that they are the first, |
sole and original inventors OF civil
sevyice reform, that they have = |
broad patent on political virtue, and
that the reform of the present adj
is but spurious imita-
tion and infringement.
In political circles here the Demo-
Gratis ARE highly pleased at the course
of the Republicans Of Ohio and Iowa
in falling back on 1.-THE bloody shirt
for political issue. The Democrats
do not believe that the masses in the
North can be stirred again by sec-
tonal appeals. An Ohio Democrat
said to-day: ''If the Ohio canvass
IS fought out in accordance with Sem
ator Sherman's keynote it will dis
gust many members of that party
so that they will stay away fr m the
polls. Sectionalism was buried In
Gen. Grants grave. Why, at the
recent grand army reunion ex-cou-
federates were present by SPECIAL
invitation. The people Of Ohio con-
slider the war over, and If the Re-
publicans make their fight on old
war issues we will beat them certain. .
They do not conceal their gratifi-
cation at what they consider blum
der on Of the Republican leaders of
Ohio and Iowa.