The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-02-19
Washington letter.


weather is making preparation, for
the coming event, the 4th of March. |
The democrats are preparing for a
great demonstration and the repub- |
licans are preparing to grin and
bear it. Hotel and boarding house
keepers are preparing to pack their
guests like sardines in q box, and
various military and civic organiza-
tions are preparing to entertain
their brethren from abroad. Presi
dent Arthur is preparing to vacate
the white house to the political
successor of James Buchanan, and
while Messrs. Blaine, Reed, Hoar,
Sherman, ct al, may be preparingf or
death, they are not preparing to adj
nit that the war which their mslice
and ambition has prolonged for
twenty years beyond its heroic
term is now thing of the past.
Society, also, is preparing to recon
struct itself on different lines and
different women. The Frelinghuy-
sens, Blaine's, Brewster's, Chand-
ler's, with their satellites and para
sites will go. The new society, I
imagine, will be composed in part
of the ancient regime, the old resi-
dents who have lived in seclusion
during the long ascendancy of the
light fingered vandals of the Grant
era and the psalm singing hypo-
critics of the Hayes usurpatlon. The
social tone will depend much on
the Cabinet of Mr.. Cleveland, for
society here takes it cue and hue, to
a great extent, from those high in
Office. 1t is the general impression
that the next will be working ad-
mlnistration, it certainly has task
before it, and it would not be sug-
gestive of work to see the houses of
the Humans, Bayard's and Gar
lands of the next administrator
given over TO the mid night rsvels
as has been TO much the case oflate
years in Washington.
An extra session of congress is
thought to be very probable, but
whether there is a extra session or
not there will be something going
on here after the 4th of March. It
is not expected that one hundred
thousand office holders will be i'm
mediately turned out, but a new
cabinet with Aew chiefs OF bureau,
new chief clerks and new foreign
ministers will be appointed with as
little delay as possible. There will
be some fifty thousand postmasters
to appoint general and judicious
cleaning out of the idle, incompe-
tent, superanuated and the merely
political rats and barnacles who
have industriously drawn their sal
aries from the public treasury for
years and years.
! Many clerks in the departments
have been trying to have their pa
pers, which show that they were re-
!, commended by prominent republi-
cans, Withdrawn from the files.
Secretary McCullocb, however, de-
MED their requests and says that
he proposes to turn over the files OF
the treasury department intact
This, of course, is right and moth
} ing more. If clerk has been re-
commended by Senator Kellogg oil
Leuisiana, Mr. Blaine or Senator
Hear, for no better reason than that
he is a republican and has done pc
litical work for his patron, it is oil
interest to the country and to the
coming administration to have it on
record. When an examination OF
the appointment files has been made
it will be found that majority oil
the male employees have been APP
pointed for political purposes, and
that many females have been ap-
pointed for reasons and purposes
not of record.
The house had its usual row Mon
day. Mr.. White of Kentucky, q
disturbing element, was ruled out
of order by Mr.. Black burn, the act
ing speaker. The sergeant alarms
was sent to seat him. That officer
forgot his mace. Mr.. White resist
ed, as the officer had no badge of
authority. The mace was secured,
and, when it was no longer needed,
Mr.. White was seated. For an hour
there was turbulence and wrangling
over this, but Mr.. Blackburn tri-
umphed. The supporters of the
River and Harbor bill were not able
to hold the floor after IL o'clock
This is interpreted to mean the de-
feat of the bill. There was a mark
ed determination To pass the gener-
al appropria ton bills. The post
Office appropriation bill was ia
ken up.
There was another diserderly
scene in the house of representatives
on Tuesday over the White Incl
dent of the day before. The repub-
licans insisted that the personal
rights of a member had been in
fringed by an officer without a
badge of office and that the jour
nal did not accurately state that
fact.
Efforts have been made by the
republicans to show that the River
and Harbor bill this year is an al
most unprecedentedly bad one and
that it is the first grab of the solid
south upon the treasury. AS mat
ter of fact, the most indefensible
items in the bill were those erased.
They we're much more in the inter-
est of Capt. Eads than of the solid
south. The worst River and Har-
Dor bill in the country's history was
passed by a republican congress
and vetoed by President Arthur.
Cotton Planters Convention.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 15.-The
Cotton Planters convention adopt
ed resolutions urging congress to
increase the efficiency of the signal
service and establish system of
experimental farms in every state,
in the interest of agricultural edu-
cation. Thanks were rendered
President Arthur for his great in,
terest in the Worlds Exposition.
1t was also resolved that in the
event the bill row bending before