The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-11-27
OUR WASHINGTONL LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON Nov % Il

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 1885.
The week has probably been the most quiet one
at the White House since the fourth of March,
message, and has had few Interruptions He has
seen cabinet officers, heads of bureaus and divi-
Sions, for whom he sent from time to time, in
order to consult them with regard to subjects
treated In his message. He also saw Mr.. Corco-
ran in reference to some local changes. Presi-
dents have long been in the habit of consulting
this venerable citizen and phianthropist on
questions relating to the District of Columbia -
Then the President received General Sheridan,
Indian question.
President Cleveland does a great deal more
writing himself than any President of recent
times. He says he can think what he wants TO
say on any important question better with his
| pen in his hand than in any other way. The
message was originally wholly in Mr.. Cleveland's
What will the President recommend in his mes
sage? is the inquiry of every thoughtful person
| throughout the country.
The message is completed. and the manuscript
Is in the hands of the public printer. The latter
| finished the copy and the type are returned to
him, and the type is dumped upon galley on his
desk AS fast as galley is full, proof is taken,
and the proof and type are locked up in safe to
which printer Rounds alone has the combination.
Mr.. Rounds does all of the proof-reading himself,
and there is no probability of the message being
stolen and published before its time, as was one
of the messages of each of the three previous
3.
President Cleveland's message it is said, VIII
be short and terse, unlike the annual Presiden-
| tia communications of the past.
Republican Senators have received an invita-
ton from the President which is calculated to
distrm those who have been talking war on his
nominations. He has asked those who intend to
oppose the confrmation of anyone who has been
| appointed to office during the recess of the Sem
ate to call at the White House and explain their
reasons to him before he sends nominations to
the Senate.
Those who refuse to meet MIR. Cleveland in this
way, viii have no excuse for making factious
opposition to his appointments. He says his only
desire is to serve the best interests of the coun-
try. If any of his appointees are unfit he wants
to know it, and if objections are well founded he
will not send their names to the Senate. He will
not recognize political antagonisms, but will in
vestgate charges, and will withhold the names
OF any who are proved to be incompetent or NOR
ally disqualified.
Since Speaker Carlisle has returned to the city
there Is marked increase in the arrivals of mem
bcrs of Congress. They have come to talk with
him about their places on the committees. Mr..
Carlisle has already begun to make up the COM
mittees. which he has a right to do, his re-eec-
ton as Speaker being foregone conclusion. He
will devote his leisure until the meeting of Con-
gress to this, and time will be saved by commit
tees being ready to work at the beginning of the
session.
Then it is to be hoped that the three weeks of
the session prior to the Christmas vacation will
be devoted to revising the House rules so as to
facilitate legislation. There Is a disposition
among members of the House of Representatives
to liberate that body from the letters that have
bound 1t for the past dozen years. These re-
strictive conditions extend so far that the last
Congress was only able to act in two ways-by
unanimous consent and by consent of the Com
mittee ON appropriations.
In reforming the House rules an amendment
much needed is this: that motion to adjourn
out OF respect to the memory of deceased mem
Der. or to appoint day for the delivery of obit-
uarics to him, shall never be in order.