McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, March -, 1855.

"o"oe ""CehCi w dShiuStou SOCi
ETY. will be able to survive one of Mr.
Cleveland's innovations upon the Gus
toms of the Capital, which is the get
ting up in the morning, eating
breakfast, and at work by 8 o'clock
The White House has known no sucl
plebian way of doing things in the
last half century. Arthur did hi:
executive work by the midnight oil
and his sleeping through the first hal
of the day. He was rarely TO be seer
before twelve o'clock, and OF course
was inaccessible to those Congress.
men who make their daily rounds OF
the departments before the meeting
of Congress at noon. 1t was the ex-
ample set by the occupants of the
White House i'll times past, that has
made all Washington 60 to bed in the
morning and get up at midday. So
that the eight o'clock breakfast that
President Cleveland has regularly ia
ken since entering upon the official
duties, has set us all SO badly by the
ears that the President must be i'm
portuned to fall in with the estab-
lished precedent and take his break.
fast in bed.
The House performed very COM
mendable piece of work in its last
hours by putting General Grant on
the retired list, where he will pretty
certain to be placed beyond the reach
of immediate want, if he will only
keep his family and himself aloof
from the financial sharks Of Wall
street. The pay and the perquisites
of retired General of this rank,
amounts to about nineteen thousand
dollars per year, which surely ought
to be enough to keep-a private family
in comfortable situation even in
New York City. The present pre-
carious condition of General Grants
health has aroused sympathy for him
and his family throughout the country,
and at the adjournment of Congress
last Wednesday more than half mil.
lion of people had forwarded to Con-
gress their appeals to that body to
enact the retirement bill.
John Quincy Adams became
member of the lower house of Con-
gress after having served a term as
President of the United States, be-
cause, as he declared, the one posi-
ton was equal in every way to the
other. Now, however, we have Con
gressmen and reverend Senators who
are not only willing but anxious to
serve their country in any possible or
capacity, SO long as they
can have their names retained upon
the Government pay roll. To day
some of the ex-members of the recent
ly expired Congress are applicants
fer mental positions in the next Con-
gress, just as the ex members of a
previous Congress have accepted SER
vice in this. Fifty of these members
have got to be provided for, though
why defeated candidate for re-elec-
ion should not suffer the consequent
,es of his own urpopularity is un-
In the admirable closing address
If Speaker Carlisle, he paid his par
ocular respects to the modern Con-
5ressmen who deem it his peculiar
mission to draft bills and introduce
hem. The Speaker said that from
he organization of the Government
o the close of the Twenty-Fifth Con-
,ress, period of fifty years, there
lad been but eight thousand seven
and seventy-seven bills in
reduced, while in the present Con-
.ress alone there had been eight |
thousand six hundred and thirty! I'll
his practice does not require some
or other treatment. | |
know Of no governmental abuse that
Ices. Hardly single appropriation
ill in the general class nowadays, is
Tot draft upon the Treasury for
more money than the appropriations
# ten years would cover fifty years
go, when the net expenditures for
unning the Government annually
lid not amount to as much as is now
equired to build an ordinary public
in New York, Chicago or
San Francisco. Dom PEDRO.