St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-16
NEW ERAAT WASHINGTON
Coed Old Jeffersonian Simplicity TAX
ing the Place of Gilt-Edged
Snobbery
In Every Branch of Service - The
Barnacles Are to be Cleaned Off
the Pay Rolls.
Private Naval Excursions for Gov
ernment Officials.
rendleton Thurman and Mcdonald Booked
for Good Offices Gen. Blacks Case
Reform in the Army.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-The Democratic
administration having been fairly installed
begins to feel at home. Its first ten davs
mas been trying. Seekers filed the land and
bombarded the portal of every department.
The president and his cabinet have had a
seige of Office beggars and it has taken
fortnight almost to beat it into the brains
OF applicants that appointments to office
must be made with deliberation, so that the
personal fitness of candidates can be at
tested and also that the machinery of a great
government like ours may sustain no friction
by too rapid transition. It is creditable to
the new regime that amid the trials with
which it has been beset it has not neglected
to enter upon the issue of reform. It was
soon found by some of the cabinet
ministers that departments had in them
lotus eaters who drew pay for
no work. Already a score or more of such
sfipendiaries have been discharged. This is
but the beginning Of
WHOLESALE REMOVALS
yet to follow. The president being himself a
worker, he wants no drones on the public
pay rolls. 1t will take time, but the inevita-
Bile end viii be that all public servants will
have to give value received for value paid.
To-day for the first time since the 4th of
March Washington is itself again. The hotels
are no longer crowded with office expectants
1t was found that despite all the clamor
the new administration did not propose to
embarrass itself by going it blind 1t will
take care of worthy Democrats and will
eventually have a Democratic holding
class. In due time all the offices which are
not hedged in by the
PENDLEToN CIVIL SERVICE LAW
will be filed by those who can aid President
Cleveland in reforming govern ment which
had become under Republican rule an
augeau stable. Those protected by the PEN
dleton law will Of course be Republicans, but
even these will not be allowed to snIrk their
duty. 1t can be discounted now
that the administration is not to
be embarrassed with scandals. The custom
under Republican rule was TO allow each bu-
reau officer and chief clerk a carriage, which
was mostly used for private purposes. There
is to be no more of this. The president has
already put
HIS FOOT DOWN
and directed the discontinuance of the prac-
tice. Secretary Lamar has made the fir st
move by ordering the sale of all such eGui-
pages attached TO his department and
the turning Of the proceeds into the public
fund. The administration 100, will he one of
work. "There will be no summer fishing or
jaunts or private picnics Of naval vessels at
the public expense. President Cleveland ex-
poets to remain in Washington throughout
the summer and his cabinet will do duty at
the seat OF government rather than
AT THE SEAsHORE.
During this week there will probably be sent
TO the senate batch OF nominations of some
importance. The list will include the nomi-
nations of those selected by the department
heads to manage important bureaus in them.
1t is anticipated also that one or two diplo-
matte changes will be made.
II comes from undisputed authority that
Secretary Bayard has offered Mr. Pendleton the
Office OF first assistant secretary Of state,
made vacant by the appointment OF John
Davis To bc member of the court of claims.
Bayard did this in good faith because he re-
CARDS the place as second only to a cabinet
portfolio. PendlctOn, however, refused to
sccept, because he aims to represent the gov
ernment at
TIE COURT OF ST. JAMES.
The president, it is believed, is quite anxious
10 offer the English mission to Sena-
tor Thurman and doubtless will do so. He
IS also anxious to provide for ex-senator Nc
Donald. The latter Is now here If he will
take place he will be made solicitor gen
eral, an office of much dignity, having its