Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-09-05
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


0OH UASu1NUiVN tAEA Etss
tFrom Our Regular Correapondent.l
II Although the President and fly
) members of his Cabinet are nbsen
: from the CITY, there is no hitch an,
) very little friction in the work OF tn
) Departments of Government. Th
Assistant Secretary of State, Ex-Go,
/ Porter, is in charge OF the State De
partment, while Mr.. Bsyard is spend
ing week at his Delaware home. Th'
Secretary of Treasury has left the De
partment for few days in the hand,
of Assistant Secretaries Fairchild an,
Coon. The able First Assistant P. NJ
General Mr.. Stevenson has charge o.
the Post Office Department during the
| temporary absence of Mr.. Villas. The
War and Navy Departments are IN
charge of their respective Chief Clerks
while Secretaries Whitney and Endi-
colt are taking brief rest. Secretary
Lamar of the Interior Departmental and
Attorney General Garland are the only
members of the Cabinet who remain
at their posts. STEPPED in the suns of
Arkansas and Mississippi, the dog days
neat of Washington has no terrors for
! them.
The hotel keepers of summer re-
sorts are much given to advertising the
| fact that Cabinet ministers and promi-
nent officials of all sorts are stopping
at their health-giving inns, where the
scenery is grand and the thermometer
at rs degrees. Attorney General Gar
land has been much annoyed at adver-
tising of this sort, and when it was an
nounced last week that he was at Rock
Enon Springs, he got mad and gave
notice that he had not been away and
did otintend to go. He tramps down
to his Office as early as seven in the
morning and seldom leaves until six.
When he goes out he rides in street
car, and lives as plainly as the lowest
grade clerk in his office.
Secretary Lamar also lives very
plainly. He is occupying for the sum
mer the house of Senator Mcpherson
of New Jersey, and he takes daily ex.
ercise in the saddle.
There are three members of Con-
gress who have houses in Washington
and at present are residing here and
making this city their regular home,
Notwithstanding their legal residences
are many miles away. Mr. @. r.
Breckenridge, member from Arkansas,
whose home is at Pine Bluff, has a |
house upon Capitol Hill, and with his
family has been there all the summer
and intends to remain. Hon. John s.
Barbour, of Virginia, lives in Wash
ington also, although Alexandria is his
legal residence Mr. Barbour also re-
sides on Capitol Hill Mr.. Benjamin
Butterworth, who, while Commission
er of Patents, took house out at LIE |
Droit Park, has had his family there
ever since, and has paid little attention
to his home in Cincinnati.
Mr.. w. M. King, the new chief of the
Seed Division at the Agricultural De-
partment, seems to be taking hold of
his work with real vigor. Mr.. King
was well known by Commissioner
Coleman before the appointment was
made, and it is said that Ae is pecu-
liarly well posted on the various soils
OF the country and the seeds that will
thrive thereip. The difficulty with
this Department in the past, and the
reason it has been brought into disfa-
vor,is because seeds were not judicious-
ly distributed. The department is
now sending out wheat and rye. A
new kind OF wheat, which Mr. King
calls the Houghton farm variety, he
expects great deal from. He thinks
it is one of the best ever distributed
He is sending out new variety of tur-
ZIP SCCQ lItO OOulIl dfSO. OuT
of Italian wheat have recent
" been received at the Departments,
which will be distributed to the exper-
Iment stations.
The reported breach between the
President and Mr.. Tilden has fallen
very fiat. Few persons took any stock
|
N its truth, and as was very likely the
of its author. Somebody
else will probably take Mr.. Tllden's
place in day or so as the bitterly
and vindictive," and so
he good work will go on until the
name of every prominent Democrat
hall have been dragged in. This is
lot very good campaign material, but
s as valuable as any the Republicans
AN now lay their hands on.