Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-13
WASHINGTON LETTER,
SPECIAL ioaREspospEsor oFrHEMoN1Toa.
WASHINGTON April 9th

MIR. Cleveland has Deen at tno helm
for one month. His exceedingly in
dustrious habits, and his accessibility
to common as we'll as uncommon peo-
pie, has been commented upon fav-
orably everywhere. Since his inaug-
uration he has made one hundred and
seventyfonr nominations to office.
The senate has confirmed one hum
bred and fifty-three of them, rejected
two, and adjourned on Thursday
sine die, leaving thirteen Enacted
upon.
The senate spent its last hours in
secret session, and various views are
entertained by senators as to the
meaning of Thursdays events, re-
garding the failure to confirm certain
presidential appointments. The issue
that arose was tenure of office under
the civil service law, republican SEN
ators holding that certain officers
were not liable to removal. Still a
number Of them insist that there is
no policy of antagonism against the
administration, and that the nomina-
tons will be confirm ed when the SEN
ate re-convenes. 1t is understood
| that the commissions will be issued
to all those whose nominations were
| not confirmed and that they will at
once enter upon the duties of the
offices for which they were named.
Should the senate fail to sanction
these incumbents when it convenes
next winter, they will be displaced by
other appointees.
The fourth of April was the first
pay day of the new regime. To the
president it brought the sum OF 3d.
166. 1t costs good deal to live in
the white house, but in view of the
Jeffersonian simplicity that is to mark
this administration, it is thought Mr..
Cleveland will not spend more than
one-half his wages. This reminds
me that some one asked the other
day how the president was paid. ]
mean from what official of the gov
ernment, and in what manner he re-
ceives his salary, whether by check
or in hard cash, as most of the SUBJ
ordinates of Uncle Sam. The presi-
dent is paid by the United States
treasurer's draft, issued on the war
rent of the secretary of the treasury
The draft is based on an account
audited by the first auditor and first
controller of the treasury.
The record of the extra session now
ended shows that, with respect t.
Office holding, the policy of the new
administration is conservative ant
moderate. Relatively, the change.
have been few. There would hav,
been quite as many, had Mr.. Blaine
been elected. Of course many other
will follow, but the statistics present
ed, as we'll as the character of tn
selections, prove that Mr.. CLEVELAND
inclines toward conservatism. Th
new officials, as a class, are men o
conservative tendencies and are no
identified with active machine politics
1t is a common complaint that tn
"workers" have been left out, AM
, one has only to refer to the files O
+ newspapers of the dates following tn
fourth of March, and read the col
umns of hopes and claims in the pc
litical gossip of the hour, to see hoy
much ground there is for thes
q lamentations. In scarcely a singl
i instance has a man who was ''prom
o nently MENTIONED "well hacked
: or "strongly pushed for place
got it.
The most significant political inc
dent of the week was the renomin;
r ton of Mr.. Pearson as postmaster ;
Il New York. This COMPOUNDED pol
It ticians of both parties and temper:
p rlly called forth much indignatiC
y and excited language from the den
i ocratic senators. The act prabab
IS meets with the approval of these ell
rs ments in the voting population wi
% which Mr.. Cleveland was identifie,
le The senate confirmed Mr.. PearsC
y without contest or division, eve
~ those voting for him who had BET
a loudest in their denunciation of b
e. appointment.
25 Owing to the critical condition
re Gen. Grant, President Cleveland b
~ postponed the reception to the publ
g which was to have been given th
e. evening. The white honse where t
C dying man lived for eight years cou
ep not appropriately be the scene of
w reception or large gathering, VIII
,ir his life hangs by SO slight a threa
A. His approaching death is deeply fl
h in many households here, and all
on tended movements in official socie
X on that inevitable event.
~ The size of the congregation at t
ba new, so called, ''president's churcI
"a on the last two Sunday morning
has demonstrated the fact that SON
ne thing besides a revival can fill eve
w pew in the church and leave the w
80 thule full of eager faces. Ma
strangers were in attendance, a
% they all wanted the ushers to sc
25 them near the presidents pew. II
kind of magnetism is very distastet
~ to man of Mr.. Cleveland's unoste
,et tatious ways, but he must pay t
of penalty of greatness in the peopl
at own way during the next four yea