Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-09-05
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

YIN WASnANGAON LEA Fix
{From Our Regular Correspondent
II is reported that the President will
arrive in Washington before the tenth
of September, this Is earlier than he
was expected, but is it quite probable
that he is now resigned to forego the
hardships of fishing camp for the
luxuries of the Executive Mansion,
and the ear-piercing music of the
mosquito, for that of the Marine Band,
There will be big cleaning out
soon after the President returns, said
an official in the Treasury Department
yesterday. The committees that are
examining things here will recommend
many dismissaIs. There is a great
deal of dead timber that will be cleared
out. The notion of this Admlnistra-
ton is that things should be run in a
simple and economical way, and that
no more people should be employed
than are necessary to do the work.
One of the officers of the United
States Senate who is in town at present.
probably because it is payday or some
thing of that sort, is of the opinion
that when Congress meets in Deem
Der there will be such shaking up of
the pay-rolls and as 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 food of resolutions author
izing the appointment of all sorts Of
committees 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 farce.
The debate which sprang up over the
various resolutions of the dignitied Sen
ators who were making frantic efforts
to put some protege on the pay-rolls for
the summer with nothing to do was ludi-
crous 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 caucus and after
two or three angry meetings smothered
all the resolutions. They went even
farther. They appointed a committee
whose duty it should be to hold meet
ings during the summer and go over
the whole ground in relation to sine
cures about the chamber with a view
to making report in the fall, which
would bring about a great many re-
marks, and much retrenchment all
around. This Committee has been
hard at work all summer and its re-
port will be made the basis of little
retrenchment and reform side show
in imitation of that which the Admin
istration is carrying on upon such a
large and thorough scale. 1t will also
furnish Republican Senators needed
opportunity to worship this 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
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 failing 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 says: aft
the Ohio canvass is fought out in ac-
cordance with Senator Sherman's key
note it will disgust many members of
that party so that they will stay away
from the polls. Sectionalism was
buried in General Grants grave Why, |
at the recent grand army reunion ex
were present by special |
invitation. The people of Ohio con-
slider the war over, and if the Republi-
cans make their fight on old war is
sues we will beat them certain" 9th
or Democrats talk in the same strain. /
They do not conceal their qualification |
at what they consider blunder on the
part of the Republican leaders of
Ohio and Iowa.