St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-15
VIEWS OF STATESMEN.
The Policy of the New Administration
as Viewed Through Several
Prominent <Spectacles.
Republican Leaders Entirely at Sea-
Some Spicy Observations From
Vanderbilt's Attorney.
'orously-Probability of the Winnebago
Reservation Being Closed Again.
The Social Sphere Astounded at Cleveland's
Business Habits-The Blaines Call at
the White House.
Special TO the Globe.

Special TO the Globe.
New YORK, March 14-One of the princi-
pal topics among the politicians in this city
is the superabundance of employees in every
department at Washington. Ex-senator
Henry G. Davis of West Virginia, who has
Just come from the capital, says that Secre
tary Bavard mplains of having more help
in the state department than is needed and
that Secretary Manning has found enough
men in the treasury department to do all the
work on two-thirds time and spend the rest
fishing Secretary Whitney's department
has had short busy spell owing to the re-
sumption of work in the navy yards, conse
quent on the renewal Of operations. The
exhaustion of the naval fund had caused a
large number of men
TO BE TURNED OFF,
but after this squirt is over he expects to have
men falling over each other. Mr.. Manning
has begun his work by quietly sending word
here to lop off six special agents and eighteen
or twenty men who have been detailed onvari-
GUS special matters. The fact is that quar-
ter of a century's growth of barnacles and
sinecures is fastened on the bottom of the
ship of state. 1t is not surprising that this
ginning of a period Immediately
FOLLOWING THE WAR.
The departments have never in fact been
reduced to 4 peace footing. Some little
effort was at first made in that direction, but
the tendency of things was not only to find
new work for any of the old war attaches,
whose occupation was ruined by peace, but
to find new places for the growing genera
ton Of political workers.
Senator Plumb Of Kansas said to-day that
he had no doubt the Democrats could apply
the pruning knife to advantage in directions
whore the Republicans lacked the courage to
apply it.
JOHN J. KNOX,
ex-comptroller Of the treasury, was asked
what he thought Of Mr.. Manning's statement
that third Of the men in that department
are useless, and he replied that he held q sim
liar opinion. That the Republicans are wholly
at sea about the new administration Is MOTTO
able in all their talk. One of the shrewdest
observers in this state, and probably the wit
test in expression of his thoughts, is Chan
cey NJ. Depew. He is vice-president of sthe
New York Central, Vanderbilt's main legal
support, and could have had the United
States senatorship instead Of MIR. Evarts only
for the asking, but he was held back by
vANDERBILT's WISHES.
He said to day: "The new administration
will play goody-goody until after the guber-
material election in New York this fall. It
will hold the promise Of Office under the
noses of anxious Democrats like piece of
toasted cheese. 1t will say to them that they
must keep very quiet until the Mugwamp
votes are all corralled for governor and the
state and national eminent assured to the
Democracy for three years, after which they
will all be taken in and warmed. There is
nothing like the anticipation of a square
meal to spur a hungry man to exertion
Tilden always understood that Within six
weeks after the gubernatorlal election every
last office that can be made vacant by any
possible excuse will be filed by Demo
crat."