The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-03-27
vren eur Regular Couespondsnt.I
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGT0N, ID. c., March II, 1886.


\ WASHINGTON, ID. c., March II, 1886.
The situation In Washington is inter-
testing, and even surprising. 1t Is plain
that in the Presidential chair, around II,
lor behind IL, there is mind and will.
i will not say that certain fiery reform
|ers are happy In the realization Of their
impatient hope. And II must be said
that those most in need of reformation,
lhayc taken new heart and hold, but let
lalI wait with patience and prayer, aud
they will, think, see the glory of the
new dispensation revealed, with the ex-
Ialtation Of the right men, and princi.
piles with the confusion of thieves and
money changers who have 90 long preyed
upon the substance Of the country.
The 10 an old latin maxim, fdsfma Lense,
hasten slowly, and this seems to be the
rule OF the new administration. Reform
was very properly begun at the White
House. Four clerks swept from Office
with one swoop OF the broom. Five
thousand dollars per year and much desk
room saved. The example was taken up
In the Treasury Department where Sec
retary Manning has discharged forty
useless employees from one bureau.
Secretary Lamar has first applied his
broom to the stables adjoining the In.
terror Department. For years Of Repub-
lican ascendancy, carriages and horses
have been kept at extravagant expense
in all the Departments, and have been
used, not for the public service, but for
the convenience OF the families OF public
officials. The fine equipage that has
been used to convey ladies to receptions
late at night, has been ordered to be sold.
and the seven persons who have been
carried on the pay roll as drivers will no
longer have even tho semblance of .
right to. draw their unearned pay. or
course this 10 only beginning in all the
Departments, and in all the bureaus and
subordinate Offices superfiuous clerk are
stumb ling over one another. Turn the
loafers out and then II will be easier to
lind the rascals. Twenty thousand EN-.
pioyes can be discharged with result OIL
positive Improvement and expedition In
Government work. Get your little pen.
ell and multiply 2O,0C0 By 81, 500. and
you will have an idea, but not full one
Of the amount that will be saved for
you have not taken into account the Of
fee room and furniture OF this vast
army.
1t is not necessary to say that there IL
much uneasiness and alarm In all the
Departments. The reduction Of the
clerical force is an unexpected f1ank
and il has set thousands Of
clerks Quaking in their luxurious sine
cures. Turn the loafers out" is now
md terrifying sound.
There are many straws indicative OF .
lew era An order has been issued to
III the employees in the Patent Office that
here shall be no reading or talking dur.
ng office hours, and that those classes
md divisions which are behind with
heir work must work after Office hours
Intil II Is brought to date. The Patent
Jfiice has been conducted in lax and
iattcrnly way. In some classes of in
'ention, as textiles, harvesters, printing.
toves and furnaces, household furniture.
builders hardware, surgery, ETC., the Pat
mt Ofiice Examiners arc from three TO
welve months behind with their work,
nd applicants for patents have frequent
TO wait six months or a year before
heir cases are taken up. The recent or
Ter indicates that the new administra-
ION will introduce new order Of things,
ot only in the Patent Office, but IN 9TH
branches of public service.
The rush of Office seekers has abated
nd the new administration has more
me TO address itself TO work. II is a
act much commented on here that very
w Office seekers have come from the
outh, aud that many have come from
40 North and Northwestern republican J
ates. Since the President has ANNOUNCE !
! that be will not hear applicants for ).
flee personally, hut will refer all ap- !
to the proper Cabinet officers,
Q has been but little troubled. There :
i'll doubtless be important changes
lade, but policy and good business : :
would require that they
lould not be made until after the most
lreful delibcration, and thorough
ndy Of the needs and abuses of the y
'rvicc. Any person acquainted with y
Fairs will know that the work will be !,
| the better done for the caution that
recedes Ito inception. y
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