The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-07-17
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
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WASHINGTON, July 18th, 1885.
The President, Secretaries Manning, Lamar
and z. Nj. General Villas, left the city on Satur-
day afternoon to spend Sunday at the Club House
of the Woodmont Rod and Gun Club. The dis.
tinguished party spent the Sabbath very quietly
in a wild sylvan retreat of 5000 acres owned by
the Club. On Monday President Cleveland de-
monstrated his skill as fisherman, and won the
hearts of all who meet him by his simple, unaf-
fected manners.
The President has been working too many
hours He has been sitting up too late at night
in order to dispose of the vast number of applica
tons for office that await his attention He is not
exhausted put he is very tired. Last week he
nesday and Friday and experienced considera
BILE relief from the pressure that had been put
upon him.
The appointment of Mr. Stevenson, of Illinois,
First Assistant Postmaster General, is one of the
most fortunate selections that the present ad-
ministration has made. He has attacked the
large arrears of business with such energy that in
the short space of a week over two thousand new
appointments have been made. To dispatch such
a bulk of details with such general approval, and
absence of ground for cavil, indicates executive
ability of high order. The position of First As
the immense growth of the service one of the
most important under the Government, and it is
pleasure to know that it is not filled by a Hat
ton or Tyner, but in way to reflect credit on
the country and the Democratic party.
Postmaster General Villas met Mr.. Stevenson at
the Chicago convention ti Each was strongly i'm
warm friends ever since. Mr.. Stevenson repre-
scented his district in the Forty-fourth and Forty
law in Bloomington, Ill. He is forty-eight years
of age. vigorous and able. Many public men
have been made his friends by his genial and at
tractive disposition as well as by his solid worth.
The ex-First Assistant Postmaster General Mr..
Malcolm Hay has gone to Colorado in the hope
that his feeble frame may be strengthened by the
climate. 1t is well known that after he was ap-
pointed four months ago, he went South tor the
benefit of his health: When he returned here 10
undertake his official duties the disbursing clerk
handed him his salary for two months Mr.. Hay
declined to receive the money, saying he had not
earned 1t, and by his direction the amount of his
salary for these TWO months of absence from his
desk was covered into the Treasury.
Secretary Whitney idea of reform is to reform.
He does not rest content with one good deed well
done. lie recently brought from New York an
expert accountant who has devised new meth
Department. Hereafter each item of the naval
appropriation will have its separate account and
by this means the balance remaining to each spe-
citic appropriation can be seen at glance. The
displaced system is no system at all, but an I'M
wieldy accumulation of different methods to
which each change of regime has added its quota
of confusion.
Secretary Whitney is giving the enemies of
good government great deal of annoyance. He
refuses to accept without question the worthless
ship contracts OF his Republican predecessors.
When he wishes to go to sea on the raging Poto-
mac he hires his boat, and does not use Govern
ment ship. He has abrogated the rule forbidding
officers to allow their wives to follow them to
distants ports. His reason for abrogatinR this
rule was, in substance, that the officers were not
able to prevent their wives doing pretty much as
they pleased.
1T is expected that Democratic officers Tor the
District Government will very soon be appointed,
but it is not probable that the appointees will
be residents of the District of Columbia.
A gentleman recently ventured to give the
President some advice as to the kind of man he
should appoint to certain district office. Mr..
Cleveland said II think know what is needed.
My own experience will be a guide to me. AS
the chief executive Of city government gained
the approval of men of both political parties and
acquired knowledge of what qualifications are
most needed in municipal governments. I will
give every appointment a careful consideration"