The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-08-07
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER..
From our Regular Correspondent.
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WASHINGTON, August 81, 1885.
There is very little going on In Washington just
now. The hot streets are deserted, and even the
office seekers who have fingered about with pa
tence greater than Mary's little lamb have gone.
The White House has been closed except TO those
who call by appointment, and at the departments
little besides routine business is transacted.
On next Friday the President and his Cabinet
and Col. Lamont will leave for New York to at
tend the obsequies of Gen; Grant. The President
will not return direct to Washington, but will go
from New York to the Northern part of the State,
where he will rusticate until September. Col.
Lamont Will accompany him, and telegraph
wire will keep him In communication with Wash
The President, however, is not going to be idle
during his absence. For five months he has been
constantly denied the opportunity he seeks to
ponder carefully many important TOPICS and to
study the national questions which are some
what new TO him..
The Cabinet. at least majority Of 1t, will re-
main in Washington. The Secretary Of the Navy,
Mr., Whitney, is making himself pretty solid"
here. lie has just bought a home for $4,000 and
will soon move TO it. 1t is pretty place outside
of the city limits, commanding fine view, and is
altogether as attractive summer residence as
one will see in a days journey.
Senator Logan, too, unmindfu of the melan-
choly examples OF e1-Senators Window and PEN
deton and Mr.; Robson, who built grand resi-
dences In Washington and failed OF reelection,
has bought $4,000 suburban place. But Sena-
tor Logan has been reelected for six years from
the 9TH OF March and he can say with the Irish
psalmist, Let fate do her worst, there are rel
les OF joy six years in the Senate in spite of the
Olu DOy.
Gen. Logan has always heretofore lived very
plainly and his wife has never before had field
or background, what shall say, large enough
for the display of her brilliant politico-social
strategy. This house has four immense parlors
on the first floor and II is probable that it will be
q rendezvous during the next four years for the
unterrified-by- civil-service- reform Bourbon Re-
publicans. Gen. Logan and his wife have the
Presidential bug in their bonnets and in their
nightcaps too; it will be entertaining to turn the
lorgnette upon them in the coming three and a
half years of Cleveland's administration.
1t is said that Secretary Whitney has also Pres
idential aspirations. He is certainly laying a
broad foundation for solid frame. The house
he has bought. however, is too far from the GEN.
tres of society for him to work the poiticosocial
racket" 1t is not the situation that would
strike an ambitious aggressive politician as a IA
vorable base. II is more like the home Of a re-
fined ascetic who would get away from the
world
This, however, is not the time to speculate about
the Presidential aspirations of any one. All eyes
at present are directed to Virginia, New York
and Ohio, where the elections will go far to decide
whether we are to have reform Senate during
the present administration.
The Senate of the Forty-Ninth Congress will
contain forty-two Republicans and thirty.four
Democrats that is If Republican is elected or
appointed from Oregon. This will leave the Re
publicans majority of eight. To overcome this
| majority the Democrats will have to hold their
present number and gain four additional Sena-
tors, this would make tie, but with the casting
vote of Vice President Hendricks party measures
could be carried through.