San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-09-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
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NAnhiNuioN Dope ~, iooo
Although the president and fiv,
members of his cabinet are absen
from the city, there is no hitch AND
very little friction in the work OF tb,
departments of government. Thu
assistant secretary of state, ex. Gov
Porter is in charge of the state do
partment, while Mr.. Bayard is spend
ing week at his Delaware home
The secretary of the treasury has left
the department for few days in the
hands OF Assistant Secretaries Fair
child and Coon. The able first as
sistant postmaster general, Mr.. Ste
venson, has charge of the postofiice
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 Endicott
are taking a brief rest. Secretary
Lamar, Of the interior department,
and Attorney General Garland are
the only members of the cob .,Jlnet who
remain at their posts. STEPPED in the
sun p ii II Arkansas and Mississippi, the
dog days heat of Washington has nc
terrors for them.
The hotel keepers of summer re-
sorts are much given to advertising
the fact that cabinet ministers and
prominent officials of all sorts are
stopping at their health-giving inns,
where the scenery is grand and the
thermometer ut rs degrees. Attor-
ney General Garland has been much
annoyed at advertising of this sort,
and when it was announced last week
that he was at Rock Enon Springs he
got mad and gave notice that he had
not been away and did not intend 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 Cur, and
lives as plainly as the lowest grade
clerk in his Office.
Secretary Lamar also lives very
plainly. He is occupying for the
summer the house of Senator Nc
Pherson, of New Jersey, and he takes
daily exercise in the saddle.
There are three members of con-
gress who have houses in Washing
ton and ut present are residing here
and making this city~their regular
home, Notwithstanding their legal
residences are many miles away. Mr..
G. r. Breckenridge, member from
Arkansas, whose home is at Pine
B uff, has q 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 Washington also, although
Alexandria is his legal residence
Mr.. Barbour also resides on Capitol
Hill. Mr.. Benjamin Butterworth,
who, while commissioner 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
department, seems to be taking hold
of his work with real vigor. Mr..
King was well known by Commits
sioner Coleman before the appoint
ment was made, and it is said that he
is peculiarly well posted on the vari-
Gus soils of the country and tho
seeds that will thrive therein. The
difficulty with this department in the
past. and the reason it has been
brought into disfavor, is because
seeds were not judiciously distrib-
uted. The department is now send
ing out wheat and rye. A new kind
of wheat, which Mr.. King calls the
Houghton farm variety, he expects a
great deal from. He thinks it is one
of the best ever distributed. He is
sending out a new variety Of turnip
seed into the south also. Four va
rieties of italian wheat have recently
been received at the department.
which will be distributed to the ex-
pertinent stations.
The reported breach between the
president and Mr.. Tilden has fallen
very fiat