The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-05-08
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, May s, 1885.
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.


WASHINGTON, May 4, 1885.
Your correspondent did not have his usual six
hour confidential interview with the President
of the United States this week, and is conse-
= and steaming from the lips of the administra-
ton. Maybe the reason why did not call on
the President was because my friend did. have
a wild western friend who found himself in
Washington last week with two whole hours at
his disposal. He decided that the time was not
quite sufficient for him to see and talk to every
body in Washington Though he could come as
near doing ii as any living man even woman)
and inasmuch as he had to draw line some
where, he called only on the President, Secreta-
ry Lamar and your correspondent. will not at
tempt to tell all he told me, for he talked with
the original remark that he had no friends to re-
ward, no enemies to punish, and no favors to
please the President, and he replied II am nearly
worried to death by those who have nothing but
favors to ask" My friend then called at the In
terror Department upon Secretary Lamar and
told him that he wished to see his bath tub The
Saturnine secretary at once set down my wild
westerner for a crank, but glance at his nice
and humor convinced him that he had struck
character rare; So he showed him the little zinc
bath tub and the two four dollar rugs, to buy
which he had sold the ten thousand dollars
worth Of government carriages and horses:
The President and members Of his Cabinet
have gone to Gettysburg to celebrate the ami
versary of the battle. This is the first respite
that Mr.. Cleveland has taken since the 4th of
March. Miss Cleveland is away in New York.
Col Lamont and his family, consisting of his
wife and two little daughters, have, at the ur-
gent request of Mr.. Cleveland moved into the
White House and they will soon accompany the
President to his country residence at Soldiers
Home. The Presidents cottage at the Home is
about three miles from the White House and
about mile and a-half from the northern boun-
Diary of the city,. 1t is situated on command
ing elevation with a fine view of the city and the
Potomac river. Surrounded by trees and acres
of green sward it will have all the advantages Of
a summer resort with the additional advantage
of complete retirement from society and fashion
that cannot be obtained Mt Long Branch, Sarato-
ga or Newport.
has revived the old talk about the peculiar
Washington malaria. Every i'll that flesh is heir
to in this city is attributed by the non-profes-
sonal writers for the press to malaria Sena-
tor cannot eat or drink too much but that his
indisposition is malaria. Washington, as the
statistics show is a universally healthy city and
its death rate shows as small percentage from
malaria as any city in the union.
What will the administration do concerning
official changes is a question that is being very
earnestly asked at this time. There are in
round numbers about 102, 900 salaried of1ice-hod-
ers under the Federal Government. They are
the regular army of politics, for it means their
bread. Their Discipline enabled the Republican
party to keep itself in power for half century.
Mine-tenths Of these officials are still in position.
What is the President going to do about it?
gentleman who holds very responsible and
prominent appointment under Mr. Cleveland,
and who comes from powerful State occupying
sition, spoke very plainly and fully the other day
respecting the matter of changes. He said mo
one better comprehends the necessity for COM
plete change in all commissioned officials than
does the President. He is perfectly aware that
the people, in making the change in Presidents
last fall, did not mean simply to put one man
out and another man in. They meant that the
entire system should be altered and renovated,
what the President means to do, but he will not
be hurried"