The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-09-04

necessary to do the work.
One of the officers of the United
States Senate who is in town at pres
ent, probably because it is payday or
something of that sort, is of the opin-
ion that when Congress meets in De
cember there will be such q shaking up
of the pay rolls and so much retrench-
ment generally that the attaches of
that luxurious bed will be greatly sur
prised. More than this, many Of them
will be compelled to walk. During the
closing hours of the last Congress the
usual flood of resolutions authorizing
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,
were passed. But before many days
the pressure was so great that the
whole thing was turned into a farce.
The debate which sprang up over the
various resolutions of the digniied
Senators who were making frantic eff
orts to put some protege on the pay
rolls for the summer with nothing to
do was ludicrous at first, but before it
was over it became disgrace to the
United States Senate. Some of the
cooler headed Senators (whose clerks
were already provided for) were smart
enough to see it, They called a caucus
and after two or three angry meetings
| Al H.,
went even farther. They appointed q
committee whose duty it should be to
hold meetings during the summer and
go over the whole ground in relation
TO sinecures about the chamber with a
view to making report in the fall,
which would bring about great many
remarks, and much retrenchment all
around. This Committee has been
hard at work all summer and its report
will be made the basis of a little re-
trenchment and reform side show in
imitation of that which the adminlstra-
tion is carrying on upon such large
and thorough scale. 1t will also fur
nish Republican Senators needed
opportunity to worship the species OF
reform most eloquently with their lips,
to put themselves on record, and to
roar through the Congressional Rec.
ord" that they are the first, sole and
original inventors of Civil Service re.
form, that they have broad patent on
political virtue, and that the reform 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 that the masses in the
north can be stirred again by sectional
appeals. An Ohio democrat said to-
day :--"If the Ohio canvass is fought
out in accordance with Senator Sher
mans keynote it will disgust many
members of that party so that they vii
stay away from the polls. Sectionalisn
was buried in General Grants grave
Why,at the recent grand armyre unior
confederates were present by speca
invitation. The people of Ohio con
slider the war over, and if the Republi
cans make their fight on old war issues
we will beat them certain" Othe
Democrats talk in tho same strain
They do not conceal their qualification
at what they consider blunder on thu
part of the Republican leaders of Ohio
and Iowa