The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-11-06
The EgiS & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, November 6, 1885.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. I'd,

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. Nov. I'd, 1885.
The head of the nation and part of his official
household have gone to their New York homes &c
vote. The ninth ward of Buffalo is the spot
where the President will cast his vote for the
Democratic State ticket. Private Secretary La
mont will vote in Cortland county: The Secre-
tary of the Treasury will vote in Albany and Sec
rotary Whitney in New York city. They will re-
turn TO Washington on wednesday and the Cabi-
net meeting will be held as usual on Thursday.
in New York before or after the election, but he
planned this voting trip so as not to neglect pub
lie business any longer than was necessary.
When he returns, he will begin work on his
message to Congress, the first message from a
Democratic President since 1850. and a message
which the whole civilized world will await with
interest. More than for any other reason the
President issued the order excluding himself
from office seekers for the purpose of giving him
self time to prepare this message. He does not
expect to deny himself to Senators and Repre-
sentatives while Congress is in session and he
hopes by this month of secusion also to get ready
for his winters work with them. The chief OBJ
ject of Senators and members in going to the
White House Is to seek patronage, and should
they would have but little motive for visiting the
President.
The Cabinet officers are also secluding them
selves as much as possible for the purpose of
preparing their annual reports. 1t is certain
that the Administration will take very, positive
grounds on financial questions. Mr.. Manning,
and the new U. 5. Treasurer, Mr.. Jordan, will
recommend in their reports the suspension of
his report that $45 600 900 have already been lost
in the attempt force silver into circulation 1t
is held that 1t is not good financier1ng to reduce
the National debt which bears interest of only
three per cent. when the current rate is six per
cent.
Treasurer Jordan is a man of very pronounced
views, and has very plain way of stating them.
He says II Thurman had stuck to the greenback,
he would now be President of the United States.
Senator Sherman, MIR. Jordan declares. would not
dare to make such statement on the floor of the
Senate as he made in his Petersburg speech. If
he were TO advise such thing in the Senate as
the application of silver currency to the !iquda-
ton of the public debt. it would kill him forever
politically, and send him back to private life like
Thurman was sent back when he changed his
base on finance. Sherman, he says, blames the
administration for not doing thing which he
himself would not dare to advocate.
Mr. Jordan is the first Treasurer who has any
reputation as writer on finance. am told that
he has spent four or five hours day for the last
blazing brightly in his room at the Treasury as
late as two o'clock in the morning. He sleeps
there as exaTreasnrer Spinner used to do and
be called the watch dog of the Treasury" In
his treatise on currency Mr. Jordan intends to
give Congress some information which that body
will do well to study.
1t was an able retort that citizen of Washing.
ton who had been disappointed in getting local
Office, made to Senator sherman Il have always
told you said the Senator of bloody shirt pro-
clivity, THAT the Democrats do not know how to
run this government. They will leave our Re-
publican friends in until their being put out will
do the Democratic party no good. Only the Re-
publicans know how to run the government"
The disappointed Office holder spoke up bravely
for the Administration. Said he: Mr.. Cleveland
and his associates know how to run the Govern
ment, but not their party. They are running the
Government to-day at the expense of their party.
The difference between the two parties is that
the Republicans ran the Government solely in
the interest of their party"
You may not hear much said about the Agricul-
tural Department of the Government, since Com
missioner Coman has taken char4e of it. He is
q practical as well as q theoretical farmer and
has made great improvements in its organization
and work in all directions. His ornamental pre-
decessor, who misapplied the funds of the De-
partment, announced some time ago that if the
Government really thought he owed it $4,000 he
would pay that sum into the Treasury. He was
given to understand that the Government thought
those figures about the right size. Still Dr. Loring
could not think the Government meant il, and
did not come forward with alacrity. Thereupon
suit was entered against him in Boston for that
amount