Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-04-04
Washinton Letter.


very smoothly under the new manage
ment, and it is conceded on all hands
that more and bettor work is accomN
plished under the new regime. As
yet the heads of the different depart.
ment have been able to do very little
in the way of reorganization and reform
but the needlessly complicated systems
of the various bureaus are receiving
careful study, and it is expected that
from 1900 to 1000 clerks will be dis.
charged in Washington alone.
A large crowd gathered about the
stables last Thursday at the sale of
Government horses and carriages ro>
dered by Secretary Lamar. The ele-
giant equigages brought good prices,
but the money returned to the U. S.
Treasury is but small porlien small
portion of the amount that will be
saved. An elegant and expensive sta
BILE with grooms, drivers, and horses,
all costing not less than $4,000 or
$4,000 per year will no longer be
maintained at the expense of the tax
payer, and the example of honesty and
democratic frugality will be be felt in
all the branches of the service over
which the Secretary Of the Interior
presides.
1t appears that the example of econ
omy has already been felt by the Re-
publican majority in the U. S. SEN
ate, for the caucus has debated a
proposition to reduce the expenses of
that luxurious body SIS, 900 or $780,,
600 per year. In the first place, they
propose teturn to Gen. Ben Butler
the house for which the Senate has
paid an aunul rental of $4,000, and
next, to reduce the number of clerks
and employees, of whom there are
many more than are needed.
President Cleveland is maintaining
his reputation for a through worker.
He keeps cool, does one thing after
another, never attempts to do two
things at once, and has ample time to
look into and.examine all the questions
he is called upon to decide. His
habits Of hard work and long hours
will enable him to give the great
work before him conscientious and
careful attention. There is no doubt
that he is more or less bored by the
crowds of curious people who more
than mere Office seekers are anxious
to see the President but he does not
fret or worry. A friend suggested to
him the other day that a certain ap
pointment which it was known would
particularly please a certain newspa-
per might be advisable on that &C.
count. 1t would secure the friendship
of that paper for his administration alb.
solutely. His reply to this was: "Oh,
well, they have all got to come to it,
anyhow He does, in fact, believe
that every reputable newspaper in
the United States is bound to come to
his support, because he does not intend
to adopt any course of action as Presi.
dent of the United State which repu
table journals can succeed in persuade
ing their readers is wrong.
The dreaded Democratic. President
is in the seat SO recently occupied by
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur.
And yet things in Washington go on
very much as before. There is no
decline in real estate consequent upon
the dismissed government clerks hav.
ing their houses forced upon the mar.
ket. In fact there is no depression
anywhere, except in the minds and
hearts of those clerks who are conscious
that they have nothing to do'and have
no reason or right to draw salaries from
the public treasury.
prnhi hitinn