Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-09-05
Washington Letter.

tne hardSnlpS OF nShlng camp lOr
the luXuries of the Executive Man
sion, and the ear-piercing music of
the mosquito, for that Of the Marine
band.
"There will be a big cleaning out
soon after the President returns"
said an official in the Treasury De
partment yesterday. 1.-THE commit
tees 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 eco
nOmical way, and that no more peo-
pie should be employed than are
necessary to do the work.
One of the officers of the United
States Senate who is in town at pres
ent, probably because it is payday
or something of that sort, is of the
opinion that when Congress meets in
December there will be such shal-
ing up of the pay-rolls and so much
retrenchment generally that the at
taches 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 authorizing the appoint
ment of all sorts of committees for
junketing trips during the summer,
with an unlimited right to draw on
the fund, were introduced. Some of
them, whose promoters were sharp
enough to get them in early, were
passed. But before many days the
pressure was so great that the whole
thing was turned into farce. The
debate which sprang up over the va
rious resolutions of the dignified Sen
atOrs who were making frantic efforts
to put some prOtege on the pay-rolls
for the summer with nothing to do
was ludicrous 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
a caucus and after two or three angry
meetings smothered all the resolu-
tons. They even went farther. They
appointed a committee whose duty it
should be to hold meetings during
the summer and go over the ground
i'm relation to sinecures about the
chamber with view to making a re-
port in the fall, which would bring
about great many remarks, and
much retrenchment all around. This
Committee has been hard at work
all summer and its report will be
made the basis of a little retrench-
ment and reform side show in imita-
ton of that which the Administra-
ton is carrying on upon such large
and thorough scale. 1t will also fur
nish 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 Ser.
vice reform, that they have a broad
patent on political virtue, and that
the reform of the present Admins
tration is but spurious imitation
and infringement.
In political circles here the Demo
Gratis are highly pleased at the course
of the Republicans Of Ohio and Iowa
in calling back upon the bloody
shirt" for a political issue. The Dem
Ocrats do not believe that the masses
in the North can be stirred again by
sectional appeals. An Ohio Demo
crat said today: "If the Ohio can
vass is fought out in accordance will
Senator Sherman's keynote it will
disgust many members of that part,
so that they will stay away from tn,
polls. Sectionalism was buried il
General Grants grave. Why, at tn,
recent grand army reunion eX-cOn
federates were present by special in
vitation. The people of Ohio con
slider the war over, and if the Repub
J licans make their fight on old war is
, sues we will beat them certain
Other Democrats talk in the sam
strain. They do not conceal thei
qualification at what they consider
blunder on the part of the Republi
can leaders of Ohio and Iowa.
Manchester Times: During the pas
eight years thousands of Democrat
have moved from Tennessee to Taxa
, and other States. while large maiOri