The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-08-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, August "a, 1885.

WASHINGTON, August "A, 1885.
Although the President and FIVE
members Of his Cabinet are absent from
the city, there is no hitch and very lit
tie friction in the work of the Depart
ments of Government. The Assistant
Secretary of State, EX-Gov. Porter is in
charge of the State department, while
Mr.. Bayard is spending a week at his
Delaware home The Secretary of
Treasury has left the Department for a
few days IN the hands of Assistant Sec
TetaTies Eairchild and Coon. The able
First Assistant p. NJ. General, Mr..
Stevenson has change of the Post office
department during the temporary alb
sence of Mr.. Villas. The War and
Navy departments are in charge of
their respective chief clerks, while Sec
retaTies Whitney and Endicott are tax
ing a brief rest. Secretary Lamar of
the Interior department 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 heat Of
Washington has no teTroTs for them.
The hotel keepers of summer resorts
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 at Is de-
grees. Attorney 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
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goes out he rides in a street car and
lives as plainly as the lowest grade clerk
in his office.
Secretary Lamar also lives very plain
". He is occupying for the summer
the house of Senator Mcpherson, of
New Jersey and he takes daily exercise
in the saddle.
There are three members of Congress
who have houses in Washington and at
present are residing here and making
this city their regular home. notwith-
stanaing their legal residences are many
miles away. Mr.. G. r. Breckenridge,
member from Arkansas whose home is
at Pine Bluff. has house upon Capital
Hill. and with his family has been
there all the summer and intends to re-
main. Hon. John s. Barbour. of Vir-
ginia, lives in Washington also, al
though Alexa ndria is his legal resi-
dence. Mr.. Barbour also resides on
Capital Hill. Mr.. Benjamin Batter
worth. who. while Commissioner of
Patents, took a house out at lie Droit
Park, has had his family there ever
since, and has paid little attention to
bis home in Cincinnati.
Mr.. w. NJ. King, the new chief of the
Seed Division at the Agricultural de-
paTtmeut, seems to be taking hold of
his work with real vigor. Mr.. King
was well known by Commissioner Cole
man before the appointment was made,
and it is said that be is peculiarly well
posted on the various soils of the cOun.
try and the seeds that will thrive there
il. The difficulty with this depart
ment in the past. and the reason it has
been brought into disfavOr is because
seeds were not judicOusly 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 a great deal
from it. He thinks it one of the best
ever distributed. He is sending out
new variety of turnip seed into the
South also. -Four vaTiiJies of italian
wheat have recently been received at
the department, which will be distTib-
uted to the experiment stations.
The reported breach between the
President ard Mr.. Tilden has fallen
very fiat. Few persons took any stock
in is truth. and as very likely the ex-
pectation of its author Somebody else
viii pObably take Mr.. Tildeu's place in
a day OF so. as the bitterly djsap-
pointed and vIndictive Democrats. g"
and so the good work will go on until
the name of every prominent Democrat
shall have been dragged in. This is
not very good campaign material, but it
is as valuable as any Of the Republicans
can lay their hands on X.