The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, DC.
April 6, 1885,

very smoothly under the new man
agement, and it is conceded on all
hands that nor and better work is
accomplished under the new regime.
As yet the heads of the different de-
partments have been able to do very
little in the way of reorganization
and reform, but the needlessly com
Pile ated systems of the various blu
reaus are receiving careful study, and
it is expected that from 1900 to q
900 clerks will be discharged in
Was hinglon alone.
A large crowd gathered about the
stables at the sale of Government
horses and carriages ordered by Sec,
rotary Lamar. The elegant equipages
brought good prices, but the money
returned to the u. S. Treasury is but
a small portion of the amount that
will be saved. An elegant and ex
pensive stable with grooms, drivers,
and horses, all costing not less than
$4,000 or SIS 900 per year will no
longer be maintained at the expense
of the tax payer, and the example Of
honesty and democratic frugality
will be felt in all The branches of the
service over which the Secretary Of
the Interior presides.
1t appears that the example of
economy has already been felt by the
Republican majority in the Z. S. Sen
ate, for the caucus has debated a
proposition to reduce the expenses
of thst luxurious body $4,000 or
100000 per year. In the first place
they propose to return to Gen. Ben
Butler the House for which the Sen
ate has paid an annual rental of$l5,-
600, and next, to reduce the number
of clerks aud employees of whom there
are many more than are needed.
President Cleveland is maintaining
his reputation for a thorough work
er. He keeps cool, does m thing
after another, eve attempts TO do
two things at once, and has ample
time to look into and examine all the
questions he is called upon to decide.
His habits of hard work and long
hours will enable him to give the
great work before him conscientious
and careful attention. There is no
doubt that he is more or less bored
by the crowds of curious people whit
more than mere Office seekers are
anxious to see the President but he
does not fret or worry. A friend sug
ges5ed to him the other day that a
certain appointment which it was
known would particularly please a
certain newspaper might be advisa-
BILE on that account. 1t would secure
the friendship of that paper for his
administration absolutely. His re
ply TO this was. "Oh, well, they have
all got to come to it, anyhow" He
does, in fact, believe that every repu-
table newspaper in the United States
is bound to come to his support, be-
cause he does not intend to adopt any
course of action as Presiden. of the
United States which reputable journ-
ais can succeed in persuading their
readers is wrong.
When our bilious Republican
friends recalls their gloomy auguries
of what would follow the election OF
a Democratic President, they must
be amazed at the inaccuracy oftheir
imaginations. A few weeks ago they
were INDUCING in horrid visions Of
long-haired tobacco eating bandits
who they thought would take the
Capitol by storm and rob the "truly
good" and saintily nice of their soft
seats and their salaries. No civil ser.
vice law, they predicted, could stand
between these long famished "outs''
and the long withheld good things OF
saunt and hungry grey coats. The
dreaded Democratic President is in
the seat 10 recently occupied by
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur,
And yet things in Washington 60 on
very much as before. There is DO de-
cline in real estate consequent upon
the dismissed government clerks
having their houses forced upon the
market. In fact there is no depres
sion anywhere, except in the minds
and hearts of those clerks who are
conscious that they have nothing to
do and have no reason or right to
draw salaries from the public treas
ury. Outside ofthis army of Republi.
can spoilsmen, loafers and creatures
male and female, who have been
appointed and upheld solely by Gin,
luence,"-all is peaceful and pros.
porous at the Capitol, and numerous
Republicans are now saying that the
change came not o. day too soon.
Tom.