Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1885-10-03
From Our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 80. '85.

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Another comparatively uneventful
week has passed. Nothing of special
interest has occurred at the White
House or in the Departments presided
over by the different Cabinet officers.
Exciting political contests are going
on in Virginia, Ohio and New York,
but owing to the policy of the Aminis-
tration to avoid interference in State
politics these contests do not excite
their usual interest here. The Presi-
dent said recently in conversation with
some intimate friends that he had re-
fused and would continue to refuse to
take any active part in any state CAM
paign, and the members of his Cabinet
have pursued the same course, but not
without some hesitation. 1t is easv to
see, and the President recongnizes, that
it is a difficult task for such men as
Manning and Whitney to keep out of
the New York canvass. Still, Mr..
Cleveland said with satisfaction, that
Secretary Manning declined to visit
Albany this summer, although his
private business required his personal
attention, lest his presence there might
be misconstrued and connected with
some political movement. Secretary
Whitney remarked, just before the
President left Washington, that he was
quite convinced the Administration
had larger matters to attend to than
looking out for state political connec-
lions. You may put it down as GER
tain fact that the administration will
not bother with the local politics of
the states, and all talk about Hoadly
being renominated in Ohio to please
the President, is without foundation in
fact. The President recognizes that
keeping the State machines well in
hard is no part of the business Of the
Administration.
Representative Morrison is in the
city and in a conversation yesterday
said that there would be an effort made
in the next Congress looking to re-
duction of tariff taxation As far as
he knew there was no concerted effort
or combination with this end in view,
but undoubtedly some would offer
such a bill. If his plan for horizon
tai reduction should not find favor
probably perpendicular scale might
be presented and adopted. One thing
was certain, however, there would be
some tariff legislation by the Forty
ninth Congress, but just what plans
would be formulated he must decline
to answer at present. Some of the
persons who had been growing at him
for Lis views on the tariff would be
given an opportunity to suggest some
thing better, for this question could
not be evaded by the lawmakers of
the United States.
Secretary Lamar's clerks very much
regret the Secretary's illness. 1t has
doubled their work By being at home
under the care Of his physician, he es-
capes all interviews that take up most
of his time in the office, and consequent
ly gets through vast amount Of real
work. During the few days he has
been at home he has gone through
small wagon load of official papers.
He has kept his stenographer and half
a dozen type-writers busy, late and
early. BY the time the Secretary re-
covers he will have wiped out most of
the work that had accumulated on his
hands before his illness commenced.
Prof. Alexander Agassiz, of Cam
bridge, who has been offered the posi-
ton of Superintendent of the Coast
Survey, is the richest scientific man in
America. with the possible exception
of Alexander Graham Bell, and if he
accepts the place it will be at much
sacrifice to his personal comfort.
Prof. Agassiz has been magnificent
benefactor of Harvard College, giving
hundreds Of thousands of dollars to sus-
tain that institution when its revenues
have been reduced from time to time.
The source of his great wealth is the
Calumet and Hecla mine, in Michigan,
which has yielded him millions. He
has recently taken much interest in
the Coast Survey, and in the columns
of the New York Evening Post has
defended it management in a manner
which shows that he has the interests
of the public services entirely at heart.
Senator Edmunds has forbidden his
architect and builder to give any i'm
formation to the papers about his new
house on Massachusetts avenue. 1t is
an odd looking affair, and neither the
exterior or interior arrangement would
suit the average taste, but the Senator
made many Of the designs himself, and
is very well pleased with his success in
architecture. The entrance appears to
be the most Objectionable feature and
would be more suitable for fortress
than private residence, as it lacks
the suggestion of hospitality.