New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-10
NATIONAL CAPITAL TOPICS.
CRITICISING THE ADMINISTRATION.
DISGUISED DEMOCRATIC Ex-coNGREssMAN-
WAITING FOR MANNING's RETURN.
TBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUNE.1


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON, April cit is the general i'm
preston that appointments in the Treasury VIII
be made until after Secretary Mannings return from
Albany, and he is roundly abused account OF his
absence by Of the hungry and thirsty and less
patient ofceseekers for weeks have been haunting
the corridors OF the Treasury building and cooling their
heels I'm its apterooms. He wants to out and
drive Washington said OF the discontinued
applicants to-day and another one replied; Well ne
cannot out I'll fight 1t out on this line III IL
takes all summer" A third remarked: Probably he
has gone homo to find few more New-York men for
fat Treasury offices. He wants New-York to get her
sbare Perhaps too he Is trying to fix things that
the appointment OF Hubert o. Thompson as Collector
will not send Tammany tho warpsth I hear that
the President his friends more badly worried
over the situation OF party in New York than they
are about anything and everything else"
AT this stage ~ the discussion Democratic ex-
Congressman broke in follows Well, I'll be blankedt
IL doesn't seem as though Administration Is bound to
make collective unsymmetrical BANKED fool OF ITSELF
Here we Democrats have been bowling for twenty years
about the corrupt and extravaganza methods OF the party
in power the neicency anu dishonesty OF the meu
It, has kept In Office. Our cries were: change?
Open the b0oksv Turn the rsscals outF Bit WHAT
does this Democratic reform Administration dof why
the Cabinet officers say they surprised to find how
efficient the men, how systematic the methods' anu
how thoro ugh the discipline in the Government SERVICE
on n pretext of civil service reform the biggest post
Office In the country is left In the haLds OF man whom
Garfield appointed four years ago, and only week
nterveues before this consistent Administration turns
out OF Office n pension agent-a woman at that-whose
official record Is every whit good rs Pearsons, ana
cooy informs her that fault is found With her official
management the very day Pearson Is reappolnted
tue notorious Higgins also receives his PERMANENT
appointment. Then look at the case or SOLICITOR
Chesey The Attorney General wants Chesiey 10 co.
and tells him but Commissioner Miller rushes 10 the
White House and President that the Internal
Revenue service viii To The demnitiOn DOw-w0ws
unless Chesey il retained, and Cbesley IA Republican,
one % oiicehOlders have been denouncing Tor
years inefficient and corrupt-s kept IN ONCE BECAUSE
spared Manning has kept expert busy with IN
Treasury accounts. and the first result Is new deDt
statement which the Treasury 10 be SiOOoVOVVV
poorer than Hendricks and ali e rest Onus asserted
TO he Then he has appointed commission 10 nVesu
gate and report what In the methods OF doing
business and what reductions Of force can prOnaoy 20
mae In his department, and OF tile three members
Of ns commission who have been IN Tie
Treasury for twenty years under Republican secretaries
Aud this famous commission Is TO De aded Dy inc
and suggestions OF the chief clerks ana chleis o.
divisions. all of whom appointed by republican
Secretaries Then look At the cheap attempts az
econumy.' Lamar and Garland advertise saving OF
hundred dollars troun OF horse ieed anu drivers
wages while the neads of the other departments follow
the example OF their Republican predecessors ana rae
and Lamar makes his pedestrian economy appear All
the more ridiculous by having fancy Oath-iOoh WIFI
expensive appointments lifted mp and pald Tor WIN
Government money. Pooh. such blaked ioolishhess -
disgusting. Ii makes Inc sick