The Ottawa free trader., 1885-07-04
w ashlngton Letter.
IRON our Regular Corrc'pond'n'J

From our Regular I"lIfhl'oL"'A"}
An eminent French Statesman when asked
how lie accomplished such a prcdigioua
amount of work each day, replied "hy doing
one thing after another President Ccye-
and seems to understand this art as well as if
he were its inventor He examines ell the
papers in each and every case that comes be-
fore him. He will set on all the cases only as
he reaches tEcm IN the course Of his pcrsonol
.yamination. Il seems a, If he had an almost
endless Job before him, but it is his way, and
lie seems determined to 20 on as lie has be-
gun. The candidate who depends largely or
entirely on verbal recommendation or !nIu.
.nce Of outside parties win certainly get left.
The cases largely depend upon the kind Of
uapers that are filed, and the President holds
-rsponsibie parties who recommend a man to
4 strict account
I, is TO be feared that If the discussion ofap-
aointmeut, to office, the great and silent rc-
form work which the new administration l. cay
wing on may be overlooked. Though less
han four months IN office, and laboring un
ler great disadvantages, the public pundcr
RS are being attacked and routed at cYcIy
point. Stealing Of the public domain has been
20 a considerable extent stopped though
much remains TO be done. Secretary Lamar
has ,roycd the worst enemy the railway land
grabbers have ever met, aud he has lad the
earnest support of Gen. Sparks, the new lana
Commissioner. 1t is safe to say that no more
unearned grants will be patented to the
railroad mOnopoliots, as much As possible
If the land already stolen in one way or
another will be recovered and thrown open
for settlement, The great Maxwell grant is
only one of a series of enormous frauds
which have been pcrpctrated through col
msion between the claimants, the territorial
land officers, and the rings of Department
officials. There is every reason to expect that
this whole system of plundcring will now be
broken up
Hon. Geo. Jclks who has Just been appoint
I'd assistant Secretary Of the Interior and
given special charge of all cases for the for
feturc Of land grants, shows that this work
Is TO be undertaken in no half hearted way.
While on the Judiciary Committee of the
House. Mr.. Jclks showed himself TO be II
lawyer and his argument before Tie electoral
commission was not inferior to the efforts OF
the great lawyers of national reputation, Car
penter, Black and McrriCk who vanly tried
10 meet conspiracy with logic in that dcplor-
able crisis.
Mr.. Whitney, the new Secretary of the
Navy Is steadily growing in popularity with
good men Of all par,ic,. Both the Navy and
the country hail him As dcliverer from the
regime of rings and corruption that has prey |
I'd upon the country since the war and left
our coasts in defcnsclcss condition, The
exposure of the Dolphin fraud will be to the
Naval establishment OF as great Importance
AZ were the Star Route exposures to the Post
Office Department..
The action of the Postmaster General re
garding the Pacific Mail steamship subsidy Is |
very significant II will bc remembered that
the Republican majority in the senate forced
the passage Of a bill giving SiOO,DO to the
Pacific steamship company for carrying the
mails. Mr.. Villas finds that there is no need of
paying more for carrying ocean mails than is |
now pad Since the act of Congress is not
mandatory but merely gives permission 10
spend the money, the Postmaster will, with
The approval of the President, take no action
in the matter, but remit the subject TO Con-
gress for more explicit legislation. 1t is not
probable that the Republican agents OF the
lobby in the Senate will De able TO again pass
the bal and the sum Of $1,000 will he saved
to the tax payer