The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-11
WASHINGTON LETT-E.
(FRoM OUR SPECIAL acoRREsPoNDENT.)
WASHINGTON. Nov. %, 1885

WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1885.
In less than a fortnight the repre-
sentatives of nearly sixty millions of
people will be law making on Capitol
Hill. The city is being rapidly filed
with it's winter population. Signs of
the coming season are visible ON the
streets, at the hotels, and at all public
resorts.
Senators and representatives may be
seen on the Avenue standing and
walking in pairs or larger groups, dis
cussing the probable issues of the ses-
sion, the tariff, silver, civil service
questions, the attitude of the senate to
the President, and the forthcoming
presidential message
Preparations continue to be carried
on at the Capitol, and quite number
ef workmen are engaged there. 1t is
no trivial undertaking to overhaul,
clean, scrub, polish and paint, inside
and outside, from dome to basement,
building of such proportions as the
United States Capitol In the house
of representatives, the desks and seats
of members, 333 in number are being
arranged for the biennial lottery The
members draw their seats in the hall
of the house by lot, at the beginning
of each new congress-, and the scene is
always watched with amusement
Some repairs are always being made
in the spectators gallery, and the capt.
tol telegraph and telephone lines are
being arranged. In the Senate wing
there is not SO much to do. The old
carpet is being relaid, although it
shows by its frayed edges and fading
colors that it has seen it's best days.
The committee rooms all over the CAPT
tol are receiving attention in the way
of new carpets, desks and other furni-
ture.
The week has been very quiet one
for the president. His order exclud-
ing Office seekers from the white house
has been effective The number of
callers requesting private interviews is
REDUCED to the minimum, and the
president has had time to write his
message. Public men who call on the
days allowed, understand that they
must restrict their conversation to busi-
ness matters. Some have been discour-
teous enough to violate thier privileges,
however Democratic senators and
representatives have failed on some
occasions when they called to respect
the presidents wishes. They have
broached the subject of offices by
diplomatic hints, speaking more freely
as they thought the president would
allow it.
President Cleveland feels very I'M
comfortable in regard to some appoint
ments he has made during the vacation
of the senate. A large number are
those of officers whose predecessors
were suspended before the expiration
their term. As to this class, there
will. or course, be discussion AS to the
legal rights of the executive, Mr..
Cleveland has just assumed an attitude
which he hopes will entirely disarm
those senator's who have been threaten
ing war on these and others of his
He has issued an infor-
NAL invitation to republican senators
call at the white house and explain
their reasons for objecting to his ap
pointees, before he sends his nomina-
tions to the senate This kind of an
invitation, which is something unpre-
cedented, was suggested to Mr.. Cleve-
land by an interview he had recently
with republican senator The SEN
a tor called at the white house to say to
Mr. Cleveland that he would be COM
PEELED to oppose the confirmation of a
man who had been appointed to a
prominent office in his state. The SEN
ator told the president that the man
was utterly unfit for the place, and
that he would be compelled to defeat
his confirmation if possible.
The president has much to fear real
ly from the senators his own party, as