The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-17
REPUBLICANS GOING.
Rapid Progress In Filling the Offices
With Democrats.
ADVOCATING POSTAL SAVINGS BANKs-A
CHANGE PROPOSED IN THE SUB.TREAs
URY SYsTEM-ARTHUR AND CLEVELAND
SOCIALLY CONSIDERED.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-The republi-
can clerks, postmasters, internal revenue
collectors, etc, who have been discharged
during the last four months to be replaced
by democrats, are more numerous than Is
generally known The changes have
been so gradual that the casual locker on
has failed to note their total. Inc NUNS
Der of revenue collectors is eighty-fve;
since the fourth of March about sixty
democrats have been appointed to take
the places of the republican collectors.
Each collector has under him from fifty
TO one hundred employees and all these are
being constantly changed. 1t is the same
with the custom offices and postofhces
1t is no exaggeration to say that fully
25. 900 democrats have been appointed TO
Office during President Cleveland's short
administration. At this rate only about
sixteen months will be required to change
the entire personnel o the government,
but the probabilities are that changes
will proceed much faster now that the
new heads of departments, bureaus and
divisions have begun to know their
ground and teel less dependent upon the
old and trained, but tricky republican
Office holders.
The closing session of the conference
of charities was held here Wednesday
night. The conference las held its
twelfth annual session here during the
past two weeks and it has brought to-
gether many distinguished philanthropists
and specialists. Its meeting on the mans
agement of prisoners was attended by
President Cleveland and it is remarked
that this was the first time he had attended
any public gathering, church excepted,
since he came to Washington. The as
sistant secretary of the treasury, Fair
child, made an address before the confer
ence strongly urging the establishment of
postal savings banks. He drew from his
experience of four years in the district
attorneys office at New York the terrible
tale of suffering which followed the whole
8 lie closing Of private savings banks, and
declared it to be his belief that it was
| impossible for state or national govern
ment to 50 supervise private savings
banks as to insure safety to depOsitors.
But there was no good reason why the
national government should not receive
small deposits through It's postoffices, sf>
| fording to poor men absolute security for
| their earnings, as is done by almost all
the civilized governments of the word
In reply to inquiries by delegates Mr.
Fairchild expressed the opinion that the
amount deposited should be limited to a
comparatively small sum, stating that the
largest sum received by any government
from single depositor of this kind was
| 81, 900 in England.
Secretary Manning has under consider
alton plan for recognizing the system
upon which the different sub treasures
are now conducted. There has been a
good deal of dissatisfaction with that sys-
TEN in the past. not only on account IF
the defalcations which have from time to
time occurred, but also because it results
in Withdrawing from circulation and
keeping locked up vast sums of money
which the commercial channels OF the
country might utilize. The scheme
which has been proposed by Treasurer
Jordan is TO abolish the sub>treasury so
far as concerns its functions as a strong
box, and to distribute the government
money among the first class banks of the
cities in which the sub>tressuries are re
, spectively located Security will be ex
acted of the banks in the form of United
States bonds, in the same way as the ma
tional banks guarantee their circulation
2 and upon a scale that will give the gov
f eminent hundred or a thousand time
the protection that it now enjoys.
The advantages Of the scheme are oh
yious. The chances of defalcation ar
: reduced TO minimum. The government
p is relieved of all the enormous expens
and risk of keeping charge OF the money
In addition. the operation of the plal
will be to confer conspicuous advantage
S upon all the cities involved by addini
many millions to their active capital
o Furthermore. it communicates to com
merce and industry a powerful impetu
in this infusion of commercial and indus
trial life>blood -mOney-and thus slimu
lates every useful and benefcent enter
prise.
One could hardly meet in a month tw'
b more different people than Presiden
Cleveland and ex>Presidept Arthur, ant
affairs at the White house are correspond
= ingly changed President Arthur wa
. proverhially procrastinating in privat
matters. He never made up his mind un
- til the last minute, and then he wantet
- everything done in rush, and the lcas
delay worried him greatly. He took
great interest in all social matters con
nected with his office, and all his enter
u taInments were of the most hospital an
s lavish character. Nothing was too goo
for his table. Yet In making arrange
ments for dinner those who had the de
tails in their charge were always at los
how or where to begin. The stewar
a would learn that there was soon to be
dinner, and that perhaps would be tn
> extent of his information. He. woul
" make incessant inquiries to learn the da
Il and the number of guests, and when thes
= two points were fixed everything else wa
plain sailing. When the dinner came o.
= it would be very unfortunate if every
y thing was not just as it should be. Pres
dent Arthur had no regular hours, an
this fact necessitated his setting apal
Monday as his private day or dies mol
| 40 ~ was hhO"h aOOut bbC w nut ubuSt
= He retired at any hour and rose when
best suited him. The meals at the Whit
u b ouse were consequently very irregular
Often the breakfast table was kept wait
u ing for him for four hours. He nearly al
ways had one or more guests at dinne
and as frequently intimate callers in til
evening, who always staid until lat
, hour. just as likely as not suppt
would be ordered at nearly midnight an
. Chief Forth was constantly on the OF
we! In the evenings President Arthr
always ordered up wine and cigars, an
particularly pressing the latter upon h
v guests, urging them to take another or t
I put couple in their pockets. As h
q cigars were of the best imported brands
a the cigar bills were pretty steep. H
n never objected to the table expenses {
% the White house, however large, but h
, couldn't understand why his cigar bill
footed up so much. He delighted to lin
ger with his guests at the table after til
n conclusion of the meal, and enjoy
IS smoke after the English fashion. The ne
&c regime is almost a reverse of the above