The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-08-28

lvron cur Regular Consspeadsnt.l
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHrNsroN, d. Q. Aug. 2oth, 1896.
Life IL comparatively easy In Wash-
ington just now. The heat Of last week
has subsided from fifteen 70 twenty de-
grees. Men have resumed their collars,
neck-ties and coats. Women have r.
sumed-but I can not 60 into PARTON.
lars. The President has taken 70 the
woods. The Cabinet IL divided 6eog.
raphically only. The Postmaster Gen.
eral II In Madison, Wisoonsin. The
Secretary Of war IL In Salem, Mas. The
Secretary Of State oscillates between hie
home In Delaware and the Department
in Washington. The other 6ecretaries,
I believe, are at their posts. but / have
Just returned to Warrington after two
weeks absence, and ! must make tho
confession, unparalleled IN journalism,
that there are one or two things that !
|do not know.
The work in AL the Departments has
mot been for years % well systemized
and pushed - at present This is tho
comment Of sll who have long bad busi.
Iness with Pension, Patent Land, Indian
| and other bupesus Of the Government
service. Methods have been improved,
abuses eradicated, barnacles have been
scraped of; competent men have been
| appointed In place Of dronee and shirks;
| new life, new energy, and old-fAshioned
| honesty have been infused into tho
complicated and labyrinthine system
through which the sflAirs Of 66QOo,Q00
| Of people are administered. That 20
much has been accomplished IN 1ve
months is remarkable; but then it must
be remembered that this has been done
Iby TRAITORS and @rebelS,n whose sole
Iobject, q predicted BY the only truly
good Republican party-was 70 dds.
rupt, paralyze and ruin
i The wonderful changes which can b
effected In q Government Once By the
introduction Of thoroughly businees
methods, in place Of the methods for.
|merly In vogue, is strikingly apparent
lin the Pension Once ct this time. The
!, working force Of the bureau IL ITO abort
: Iof the full number employed under the
j Iold Administration. Besides this, 2l4
|of the clerks are absent on their annual
leaves, and there are thirty absent sick.
Notwithstanding this decrease n the
working force, amounting altogethef %
j l36l clerks, the amount Of work being
81 done ct the present time, without any
: -Ilengthened hours or over.working Of
1.-THE force, IL q large e was done By the
! full staff Of clerks under Commissionor
Dudley, and it is rapidly augmenting.
n Recently there have been one or two
j clerks, both Democrats and Republican,
! dismissed because they relied TOO much
} Ion their influence and not enough upon
their record, but beyond this there have
been but few changes recently.
The loud and braggart glorihcati0n 9!
the Republican party, when the count
Iof money In the Treasury Department
Ishowed no loss, has not yet ceased %
81 reyerberate IN the land, but that y NOT
J. | the way the truly bad officials Of the truly
II good party have replontshed THUR ox'
M chequers. Investigations now pending
J, and others that the country will hear o.
3 soon, viii convince the most skepdca!
q that an examination Of the books, and
& an elimination Of the crooks, have come
) none % coon. The Republicans are Try
]. 70 take political comfort from the iact
y as they put Il, that the implicated ON
i cisls who were lately dismissed from
!, the Coast Survey Once are al Demo
Icrats. This is not true; but even if I
a we're %. Il 4 not easy % see how III
10 cause Of Republicanism is helped aul
J. lby the discovery. The fact remains ia
10 whatever Irregularities existed wer!
sr continued under Republican ru!es a.
10 that it remained for . Democratic AZ
y ministrstion to expose them and appl!
the necessary corrective. The countr.
10 Is not 90 much concerned just now abou
10 the politics Of individual raecale, = tt
J. lin having rascalities stopped. II Y Up
o ION the latter point that The record vi
>. be made up. .