Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-11-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrOm Our Regular Correspondent,


fFrom Our Regular CorrespondentA
The week has been one Of close con-
nnement to the President, who is at
work on his first message to Congress.
he has had frequent consultations
with different members OF his Cabinet,
out has seen few other people than
those having the most urgent business
with him.
The present week will be one of
equal seclusion, as he expects by the
close of it to complete this doeument,
and have it ready for the printer. The
message Is pretty well under way, and
parts OF 1t are now being copied on
the typewriter. 1t Is said he has
touched upon many points with his
characteristic vigor. A good deal of
space has been devoted to commercial
relations and the steamship controver-
sy and it is believed the President
VIII sustain the Postmaster General.
The Navy will also be given due con-
sideration, and Congress will be urged
10 appropriate largely for new vessels.
a Democratic Congressman who has
| Just returned to Washington was asked
what would be the tendency of legis-
lation this session. He replied, ave
cannot tell until we see what the Pres
ident will ask us to do in his message"
Still he thought there were several
matters that were certain to come be-
fore Congress for action. 1.-THE Army
and Navy" continued he, "both require
a good deal of legislation" There is
sentiment among Democrats that this |
Administration must re-create the |
Naval Service, and that it must be re-
stored to the position it occupied in
the worlds feet before the war.
1t is easy to note upon the faces of
Republican Congressman, as they
gather in Washington, an expression
OF Encouragement They feel that
the party in power will stay. The
Republican party has had taken away
from it the power of its Federal Off
GERS and it's ability to raise assessments
from ofice-holders. The Democratic
party came very near beating it with
all of this artificial strength, and the
recent elections have proved that the
Democratic party can stand alone, and
needs 40 Federal patronage to back it
You hear no more now about war in
the Senate, and nothing about Demo
cratic revolt even from Republican
Congressman.
The Presidents order excluding Of
fee seekers and public men from the
White House except when they have
public business with him Will proba-
bly, be revoked at the end of the month.
1t was made to give Mr.. Cleveland
time to prepare his message, and he
has said that he feels no inclination to
restrict public men in their visits to
him or to require them to specify their
business IN advance. A few days ago
some prominent Congressman were
protesting against the order in the
office of Private Secretary Lamont,
Presently they were admitted to see
the President, and finding him alone
once was such an unexpected conve-
nience, that they went away thinking
well of the late order.
The event at the White House on
was the arrival of its long I
absent hostess, Miss Cleveland. She q
has been at her home in Oneida coun-
ty, New York, and returns to resume !
her social duties here.
The White House was thoroughly
0verhauled and cleaned during her
absence, and now it is IN order again !
or the coming season. Carpets pic h
ures, and brlc-a-brac were all taken /;
'ut and subjected to the processes ia
niliar to good housekeepers, and re-
placed. The windows are draped IN
ace and damask as Of cid, and the only "
:hange in the whole arrangement from II II
hat of last year is the substitution of a a,
ull length portrait of ex-President te
Arthur for that OF Gen. Grant in the X
Red ParlOr. The portrait Of the latter ~
las been placed in a conspicuous posi- fa
ion in the corridor. t
During the week several Republican d.
ficiaEs here were relegated to private C
lie. Nearly all the higher officials in
he Treasury Department now are
ew men and Democrats, and the good r.
FORK of the new broom goes on stead ali
y if not rapidly. Il
Secretary Manning seems to grasp
is whole complicated Department,
nd his energetic business methods
re felt through every branch of it. ~ ~
lie spread CONSERVATION among Treas II
ry clerks last Friday by issuing an an
rder that the names of all clerks who da
lme late to the Department should n
2 reported to the chief clerk. The III;
oor-keepers at the Treasury were yo
med with trblets, and took down the WI
lmes OF tardy clerks as they arrived. N No
he result Of the first days catch was
s. delinquents. >
Washington, Nov. 16, 1885. the
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