The clarion., 1885-01-14
WASHINGTON j
From our Regular Correspondent. !
January 10. 1885

WAsHISGToS, January 10, 1885.
The interstate commerce bill has been
passed in the House after long and
able debate. Mr.. Reagan, the author
and tireless advocate of the bill, NAV
well congratulate himself on this
achievement. Last session he was at
deaths door with an insidious disease,
and no one believed that he would live
to see the triumph of his bill. He then
said that he would be willing to die but
Tor the incompleteness of this work
There are few more powerful, more
ready, or better equipped debaters in
the present Congress than Mr.. Reagan,
of Texas.
The beginning of the New Year has
been characterized by a resumption of
the social entertainments of the season,
but there is lack of the splendor. the
gayety, the chic, of former years. The
hard times may have something to do
with the social depression, but hard
times do not pinch office holders whose
salaries are as certain as taxation. The
causes OF depression ere multiplex. 1t
takes money to make the social machine
go, and many of the social engineers
lost their money in wagers on Blaine,
Then, again, they realize that it is pru-
dent to be provident, and save money to
buy tickets to Ohio after the fourth of
March.
Col. Lamont has been in this city for
two days, looking over the field. Very
| few knew that he was the private secre-
| tary of the President elect, and he was
! not annoyed By office seekers and inter
viewers. lie went to the White House
yesterday afternoon, and met President
Arthur, who introduced him to his pri-
vate secretary, who in turn presented
! the clerks about the throne" and ex.
planned TO him briefly the daily routine
of official work at the Presidential man.
sion.
Last night the Chairman of the Inau
gUration Committee had a long talb
| with Col. Lamont, who remarked thai
Governor Cleveland was ayerse to show
and ostentation, but that on the other
hand he did not wish TO appear ostent
tiously simple or austere. The detail
of the Inauguration will therefore b,
left entirely To the committee.
Lett to the committee, the inau gura
ton promises to be grand affair, witt
u grand march to the Capitol in tn,
ofenoon, grand pyrotechnical display
ia the evening, and a grand ball a
night. Think of ball room of capacii,
for twelve thousand persons, and witt
floor sufficiently spacious for two hun
dred and fifty cotillions dancing il
tune!' At night Pennsylvania Avenu,
will be as light as day with gas, elec
tricity, and calcium lights. A firm ha
offered TO decorate the streets by sus
pending line wire from the Navy De
partment to the foot of the Capitol, ant
suspend globes of different colors twenty
four inches apart; the same line passing
up Louisiana avenue and around th
: City Hall t. the Pension building. |
is the intention of the committee Z
make on the occasion the grandest dis
play of pylotechnics and decoration
that has ever been seen in America, an,
from the estimates received there is II
doubt whatever but that ii will be done
The military parade will be the larger
that has been seen in Washington sine
the war. General Fitz. Lee will appea
At the head of eighteen hundred me
from Virginia and North Carolina. A
the Southern States will be represente
in the procession. Two colored militar
companies, one from Norfolk, and th
other ir0m Baltimore viii be in lin
with the colored companies of this city
a Some of the troops will sleep in tn
Pullman cars which bring them here
others will be billeted in hotels an
halls where they have already engage
quarters. a few companies viii b
quartered in Alexandria, where the
!, will be within half an hour of Washing
ton by rail or boat. Ii the proverbl,
{ inauguration weather prevails on th
fourth of March, the military will hav
taste of the horrors of war. The la.
three ina iguration days were cxtremel
disagreeable. Congress ought to pa,
an act extending the term of a Presider
, TO six years and inaugurating him o
the fourth of July. Then the militar
companies could have picnic and st
Washington arrayed in green swar,
foliage, fountains and flowers.
c.. A. s.