The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-04
MAAHlNGToN LETTER.
Prom our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, August 81, 1885.

WASHINGTON, August 81, 1885.
1t is repoI Ithat the President will
arrive in Washington before the tenth
of September, this is earlier than he
was expected, but it is quite probable
that he is now resigned TO forego the
hardships of a fishing camp for the lux
uries of the Executive Mansion, and
the ear piercing music of the mosquito,
for that of the Marine Band.
There will be a big cleaning out soon
after the President returns, said an
official in the Treasury department yes
terday. The committee that are ex-
amining things here will recOmend many
dismissa!s. There is a great deal of
dead timber that will be cleaned out.
The notion of this Administration is
that things shosId be run in a sim
pie and economical way, and that no
more people should be employed than
are necessary to do the work.
One of the officers of the United
States States Senate who is in town at
present, probably because it is paying
or something of that sort, is of the
opinion that when Congress meets in
December there will be such a shaking
up of the pay-rOlls and so much re-
trenchment generally that the attaches
of that luxurious bed will be greatly
surprised. More than this, many of
them will be compelled to walk. During
the closing hours of the last Congress
the usual flood of resolutions authoriZ-
ing the appointment of all sorts of COM
mittees for junketing trips during the
summer, with an unlimited right to
draw on the fund were introduced.
Some of them, whose promoters were
sharp enough to get them in early, we're
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sure was so great that the whole thing
was turned into farce. The debate
which sprang up over the various reso-
lutions of the dignifed Senators who
were making frantic efforts to put some
prOtege on the pay-rolls for the sum-
mer with nothing to do was ludicrous
at first, but before il was over it be-
came disgrace to the United States
Senate. Some of the cooler headed
Senators Whose clerks were already
provided fOr) were smart e.. ugh to see
it, They called caucus and after two
or three angry meetings smothered all
the resolutions. They went even far
ther. They appointed a committee
whose duty it should be to hold meet
ings during the summer and 90 over the
ground in relation to sinecures abont
the chamber with view TO making a
report in the fall, which would bring
about great many remarks land much
retIenchmeEt all around. This COM
mittee has been hard at work ali sum-
mer aud its report will be the basis of a
little Ietrenchment and reform side
show in imitation of that which the
Administration is carrying on upon
such large and thorough scale. 1t
will also furnish Republican Senators a
needed opportunity to worship their
species of reform most eloquontly with
their lips, to put themselves on record
and to roar through the Congressional
/ Record that they are the first. sole and
original inventors of Civil Service re-
form, and that they have a broad patent
on political virtue, and that the reform
I of the present Administration is but a
/ spurious imitation 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 upon the bloody shirt for
a political issue. The Democrats do
not believe thatthe masses in the North
1 can be stirred again by sectional ap-
/ peals. An Ohio Democrat said to-day:
/ If the Ohio canvass is fought out in ac-
( cOrdance with Senator Sherman's KEY
/ note it will disgust many members of
/ that party so that they will stay away
/ from the polls. SectiOnalism was buried
/ in General Grants grave. Why, at the
! recent Grand Army reunion ex-con-
! federates were present by special in
/ vitation. The people Of Ohio consider
/ the war over, and if the Republicans
make their fight on old war issues we
/ will beat them certain. Other Demo
Gratis talk in the same strain. Tkey do
/ not conceal their qualification at what
/ they consider blundeT on the part OF
/ Republican leaders of Ohio and Iowa.
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