Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-20
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The Anxious 0fics-Sesksrs and
the Presidents Backbone.
IT WILL NEITHER BEND NOR BREAK.
General Grants Physicians viii Gain But
an UnenViable NOtOrety
at Best.
GRANTS CASE SIMILAR TO BENsoNs.
SpociaI 20 iAs Rsqider.

"AShiNGtON, hprll III am going
home, said prominent Democratic Sens-
tor to your correspondent, q day or two ago.
Il don't propose to waste my time here any
longer. am satisfied that the President
does not intend to make any appointments
while We stay here, and i have no more time
to waste here, anyhow. 1 am going to
throw up the sponge and quit"
What are the others going to do. Win
they give up, tooY'
Most of them, ! think. They all begin
to see it now. The President wants Us to
GO and is determined to freeze US out, and
as be has the advantage in position and
plenty Of time, he is entirely able to accom-
phsh his purpose. So we might as well 60.
Really think l can do as much at long
range anyway, for after get home and see
what the sentiment of the people is, can
write him"
do you think he is going to make any
changes in Offices after the Office seekers
and their friends are goneT
Il don't think he intends to remove many
people for the sake Of their politics. When
an office falls vacant he will probably ell it
With Democrat or q mugwump, and in
the internal revenue Offices and others where
there is no fixed term of Office he will pro-
badly make removals in q good many
cases and appoint Democrats for the places.
But he viii not do that until we get away.
He is evidently determined on that. and |
for one am going in order that he may
have q chance to settle them without being
bored to death about it.
The Presidents Backbone.
This is fast becoming the general senti-
ment with the men who have been staying
here for many weeks past waiting for Presi-
Dental action, They see that the President
is determined not to act until they either
agree or let up on him in some way. In
cases where there is hot contest over any
particular position the President often urges
a compromise. why can't you agree on
somebody and save me the trouble of set
thing this thingY he often says to the men
who are pressing rival candidates for some
position. why not lay aside these csndi-
dates over whom you are qusrreling,
the appointment Of either Of
whom would cause much dis.
satisfaction with a good many people.
Why can't you drop these men and agree on
somebody? This advice seldom results in
q solution of the problem, for when your
average politician sets his heart in any par
tieular scheme be is never willing to give it
up unless he sees something better in easy
reach. 1t is pretty easy 10 tell what the
Presidents general policy is to be in regard
to offices. He will appoint men to places
when the terms of the present incumbents
expire, and will slowly make changes in the
offices which have no fixed terms refusing
to remove men except for very good rea-
sons, and leaving very large number Of
I1.,sS;;:hliHeans y the smaller offices. That
this viii make some heart buruiugs aud
Ia.ty dissatisfaction goes with the sang.
but that it will make him popular with the
people generally is quite certain
General Grants Physicians.
at is the worst thing that ever happened
TO those PHYSICIANS" said an old medical
man here Yesterday, that they ever vet got
in to that Grant case They could be
vastly better of now if they never had
touched it.
"How so? Doesn't it give them sddi-
tional reputation
Yes, in one sense but il makes them q
target for the jealousy OF other physicians
and for the press generally. 1t is easy to
find fault, you know, and to say this ought
to have been done and that ought not to
have been done. II is the history Of al
great medical cases that the physicians
taking part in them suffer for 1t. Take the
case of President Garfield, for instance.
See what become of the men who struggled
through that receiving the criticisms OF the
press and the public. One of them died from
the overwork attendant upon it; another be-
came gradually worse, and finally took his
own life; another Dr. Hamilton, has never
recovered from the serious affection to his
health which il caused; DR.. Bliss has never
recovered and is not able even to give very
much attention to his practice, which, oi
course, suffered greatly during the time ne
was engaged on the case. Dr.. Agnew Is,
believe, the only one of the entire lot who
got through without being the worse of for
Il So it will be with Grants physicians
They are worse of to-day than If they had
never Leen heard of in the case.
One Man Who Saved His Money.
Ii is s common thing to say that Govern,
ment clerks do not save their earnings and
this statement is probably true in a major
ity of cases But there are exceptions to
this as TO all general rules. A clerk IN the
psusion Office who has been there ever SINCE
the close Of the war, getting salary rang,
ing I'D TO 8, 900 per year, has Just resigned
his position with q snug fortune OF SOO,OOO,
the result of his twenty odd years OF labor
there accompanied By judicious manage
mept of the money which he received as
salary He has lived very economically
and invested his earnings as he got them IN
a way that they brought him good returns.
and The result is that he now retlreS with su
The money he viii want for the balance OF
b;s bfe while other fellows who sat beside
him during Office hours and spent their time
on3 money afterwsrd, would not have
eaough to decently bury them II they were
10 die to day.
Grants Case Contrasted With Benton's-
The earnest desire Of Gen. Grant to con-
rls,e his history of the war and the earness
Sssire of the people that he may do 50 calls
- mind the way in wh CT Thomas q. Benton
S,isbed his Thirty Years in Congress
NJ BENTON. il will be remembered, died
ne d Years ago the present month a. the
80 80 Of 7S years. For the last ten years Of
Tsa he devoted himself TO literary par
--,;.s -; wbich were courre led even before he
had entirely closed his active political ca,
-ssr - In this period be completed bis great
Great s work, thirty Years NieE.' wrote
sEtmSrksble paper on the "Dred Scott Deci-
-" and commenced the hsreuleAn task
SiTSr oScondensins the debates Of Congress, which
- SnsIIy completed down to the eoupTo
mise measures Of 1850. -,
ID Daring his last winter death daily stared
L. n tSe face, and was only kept at bay
a. SD, - . almost inyincible viii Of Benton SUIT
-, ;nteusely at times from eomphcs-
d;ssase he nevertheless retained bis
tII,;ss Gou - pniupairei to the last, and on the
~ a his death sat propped up IN bed
md read and corrected with ms Own nAnG
Ire closing proof sheets Of the eonasnseo