The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-04-01
Richmond in WASHINGTON.
HE PROBES AROUND GENERALLY
HOW THE. LAND LIES.
The Georgia senators-Visit to Score
tary Lamar-A Glimpse OF Secrcta-
~ neutrality-suspicious. Of Cleve-
lAnd-IlamOnt at his WOrkship-
Views ON the Whole Situation.

1Iac UeOrBaR iSlC I'd Sct'rc-
tary Lamar-A Glimpse of Secrcta-
~ Bayard-ImpressiOns Of Cieve-
lAud-IIamOnt at his WOrkshfp-
Views on tho Whole Situation.
WAsHINaToN, D. G., March 22.-Spend-
ing day here I have improved the OPP,
portunity to enquire into matters and
have looked around quite actively.
Things are quiet. The hotels arc not
crowded at all, though fairly full. The
congressman have nearly all gone home,
Mr.. Clements. Of the 7th, is the only
Representative from Georgia here that !
have seen to-day, and he proposes to
leave on Monday morning. This estima-
bic gentleman has been attending to
some business matters fol his constitu-
ents.
The busiest men are the Senators,
whose time is taken up with office ap-
Plications. met at the early hour of
$50 o. M, in the Metropolitan Hotel,
where he boards, the gcnial face and ia
milisrs frame of Senator Colquitt. in the
black slouch hat he wares. warmin.
himself in the hall stairway at the grid
iron register that supplies heat in these
Northern buildings. He had eaten his
breakfast at an early hour, and already
made a visit to II of the departments
with some Office applicant. The morn
ing was a freezer and he was thawing
out his numbed body at the gridiron
concern.
l found Senator Brown at breakfast
with his wife and daughter, and he had
already had his industrious young Sec
rotary, Mr.. Black, ut work. Senator
Colquitt's Secretary is one of our old
Georgia journalists Col. j.. R. Snecd.
Both Of our Senators are very atten-
tive to their constituents, and have
marked influence. Both are gentlemen
Of dignity and high standing. They
rank we'll in the body to which they be-
long. Senator Browns expenses must
6syery heavy here. They cannot be
less .dtah $1,000 year. H. has his
family with him and has a suite of rooms
and keeps a carriage. Senator Golquitt's
room is right opposite Senator Browns
rooms, so that the two gentlemen are
conveniently situated for consultation,
and while, Of course, as men Of their W
heads, they entertain, sometimes, differ
ent views Of men and measures, vet
there is a fine accord and a general har-.
mony between them. Both appear to
stand well. with Mr.. Cleveland.
Secretary Lamar has his daughter at
the Metropolitan, and often visits there.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, and
Senator Wathall, of Mississippi. stop ut
the Metropolitan. saw our old host
Of the Kimball, Mr.. W. H. Seldom. now
proprietor Of the Metropolitan, and his
pleasant wife. Mr. Selden has made the
Metropolitan the great central Southern
headquarters.
Senator Brown took CCeA-C. C.-But-
car, oLHnstah County, young Mr..
Zachry and myself to the Department
OF Interior, where Secretary Lamar
holds forth. Col. Lamar fills his new
roll well. He seemed perfectly at
home. His room was crowded. He
takes to the routine easily. gdispatchinp
business with ease and fine temper.
Mr.. Lamar has been supposed to be in
capable of detail and drudycry. He
has shown the fallacy of this notion.
The etiquette in the visiting Of depart
ments is very simple. y visitor is OK.
pected to condense his rcinarks, in the
fewest possible words and to leave when
he is through. There is an ipcisive
sort f way of getting to the point and
getting through business that takes a
rural gentleman's breath awsy. The
slow methods Of the rural district do
not suit. Mcn must put their matters
in n y she'll and then dro? them. The
departments all seemed crowded with
visitors. $
As Tar as [ was able tn learn the poll
cyo the new President 81 to leave de-
partment appointments and matters to
the heads Of departments. In this way
greater efficiency is secured. The Sec
retaries act with a knowledge of their
responsibility and have to bear tho
responsibility. Tho President escapes
annoyance and gets q better public SER
vice. The Secretary must pick his
agents to insure his work.
Tho departments will be run on n
purely business basis, with economy
and an eye single to the public interests
superfnous clerks ape cut off; compc-
tent employees, whose times have not
expired arc retained to, the ends of,
their terms; worthless or inefficient
men go ont; the tsst OF suecess in
seeking, office is fitness for the duties
and not endorsement except SO fur AZ
endorsement #eyidonoos qualification.
The carriages and horacs used for heads
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