Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-01-23
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.
AeHINGToN, Jan. 10, 1885.

author and tire!"ss advocate of the
bill, may we'll congratulate himself
on this achievement. Last session
he was at deaths door with an in
sidious disease, and no one believed
that he would live to see the triumph
Of his bill. He then said that he
would be willing to die but for the
incompieteness of this work There
are few more powerful, more ready,
OF better equipped debaters in the
present Congress than MIR. Reagon,
Of Texas.
The beginning of the New Year
has been charterized by a resump-
ton o. the social entertainments of
the season, but there is lack of
the splendor, the eayety, the chic,
of former years. The hard times
may have something to do with the
social depression, but hard times
do not pinch Office holders whose
salaries are as certain as taxation.
The causes of depression are multi
pick. 1t takes money to make tue
social machine go, and many of the
social engineers lost their money in
waSers on Blaine. Then, again
they realize that it is prudent to be
provident, and save money to buy
tickets to Ohio after the fourth of
March.
Col. Lamont has been in this city
for two days, looking over the field.
Very few knew that he was the pri-
waite secretary of the President-elect,
and he was not annoyed by office
seekers and interviewers. He went
to the White House, yesterday after
noon, and met President, Arthur,
who introduced him to his private
secretary, who in turn presented
the clerks about the " throne" and
explained to him briefly The daily
routine of official work at the Presi.
dental Mansion.
Last night the Chairman of the
Inauguration committee had LONG
talk with Col. Lamont, who remarked
that Governor Cleveland was averse
to show and Ostentation, but that on
the other hand he did not wish to
appear ostentatiously simple or aus.
terc. The details Of the inaugur.
alton will therefore be left entirely
to the committee.
Left to the committee, the inaugur-
alton promises to he a grand affair,
with a grand march to the Capitol
IN the forenoon, grand pyrotechni.
cal display in the evening, and q
grandbal. ut night. Think of a ball
room of capacity for twelve thous
and persons, and with floor sutfi.
GENTLY spacious for two hundred
and fifty cotilions dancing in tune. 81
At night Pennsylvania Avenue will
be as light as day with gas, electricity
and calcium lights. y firm has
offered to decorate the streets by sus.
pending inc wire from the Navy
Department to the foot of the Capt..
tol, aud suspend globes of differen,
colors twenty-four inches apart; the
same line passing up Louisiana aven,
ne and around the City Hall to the
Pension building. 1t is the inten.
ton of the committee to make on
on the occasion the grandest display
of pyrotechnics and decorations thai
has ever been seen in America, and
from the estimates received there is
no doubt whatever that it will be
done.
The military parade will be the
largest that has been seen in Wash.
ington since the war. General Fitz
Lee will appear at the head of eigh.
teen hundred men from Virginia and
North Carolina. All the Southern
States will be represented in the
procession. Two colored military
companies, one from Norfolk, and
tho other from Baltimore will be il
line with the colored companies o.
this city.
Some of the troops will sleep il
the Pullman cars which bring then
here; others will he billeted in no
tells and halls where they have al
ready engaged quarters. A few
companies will be quartered in Alex
andria, where they will be within
half al hour of Washington by raj
or boat. If the proverbial inaugur
alton weather prevails on the fourtl
of March, tie military will have
taste of the horrors of war. TIL
last three Inauguration days wer
extremely disagreeably. Congress
ought to pass an act extending tn
term of President to six years an,
inaugurating him on the fourth O
July. Then the military companie
could have a picnic and see Wash
inston arrayed in green sward, fol
iage, and flowers. Dem.
Mr.. Geo. Starritt, of Walla Walla
last week, shipped 100 pounds O
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