The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-09-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON. August 3lst. 1885.
1t is reported that the President will arrive in
Washington before the tenth OF September. This
is earlier than he expected, but it is quite
probable that he is now resigned to forego the
hardships OF fishing camp for the luxures of
the Executive Mansion, and the ar-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 Treas
ury Department yesterday. THE committees
that are examining things here will recommend
many dismissals. There is a great deal of dead
timber that will be cleaned out" The notion of
this administration is that things should be run
In simple and economical way and that no
more people should be employed than are neces-
One of the officers of the United States Senate
who is in town at present, probably because it is
payday or something OF that Sort is of the opin-
will be such shaking up of the pay-rolls and so
much retrenchment generally that the attaches
Of that luxurious bed will be greatly surprised
More than this, many Of them will be compelled
to walk During the closing hours of the last
Congress the usual flood of resolutions authoriz-
ing the appointment. of all sorts of COM
mittees for junketng trips during the summer
with an unlimited right to draw the fund,
were introduced. Some of them, whose promo
tiers were sharp enough to get them in early,
passed. But before.many days the pressure was
so great that the whole thing was turned into
various resolutions of the dignified Senators who
were making frantic efforts to put some protege
on the pay rolls for the summer with nothing to
do was ludierous 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 resolu-
tons. They went even farther. They appointed
committee whose duty it should be to hold
meetings during the summer and go over the
ground in relation to snecures about the cham
Der with view to making a report in the fall,
which would bring about great many remarks,
and much retrenchment all around. This COM
mittee has been hard at work all summer and its
report will be made the basis of little retrench-
ment and reform side show in imitation of that
which the administration is carrying on upon
such large and thorough scale. 1t will also fur
nsh Republican Senators a needed opportunity
to worship this species of reform most eloquently
with their lips. to put themselves on record, and
to roar through the congressional Record" that
they are the first, sole and original inventors of
Civil Service reform, that they have broad pat
present administration is but q spurious imita-
ton and infringement
In political circles here the Democrats are
highly pleased at the course of the Republicans
OF Ohio and Iowa, in failing back upon the
bloody shirt for political issue. The Demo-
Gratis do not believe that the masses in the North
can be stirred again by sectional appeals. An
yass is fought out in accordance with Senator
Shermans keynote it will disgust many members
of that party 80 that they will stay away from the
polls. Sectionalsm was buried in Gen. Grants
grave. Why, at the recent grand army re- union
Ex-Confederates were present by special invita-
ton. The people of Ohio consider the war over
and If the Republicans make their fight on old
war issues we will beat them certain" Other
Democrats talk in the same strain. They do not
conceal their qualification at what they consider
bunder on the part of the Republican leaders
of Ohio and Iowa.