Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-02-27
oUa WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1885

the coming event, the 4th Of March.
The Democrats are preparing for a
great demonstration and tho Re-
publicans are preparing to grin and
behr it. Hotel and boarding house
keepers are preparing to pack their
guests like sardines il box, and
various alilitary and civic organiza-
tions are preparing to entertain
their brethren from abroad. Pres
idens 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 preparing
for death, they are not preparing
to admit that the war which their
malice and ambition has prolonged
for twenty years beyond its heroic
term is now thing of the past.
The Frelinghuysen's, Blaine's,
Brewster's, Chandler's. with their
satellites and parasites will go.
The new society, I imagine, will be
composed in part of the ancieo re-
gime, the old residents who have
lived in seclusion during the Grant
sra and the Hayes usurpation. The
social tone will depend much on the
Cabinet of Mr.. Cleveland, for So
ciety here takes it cue and hue, to
a great extent, from those high in
office. Ii is the general impression
that the next will be a working ad.
ministration, it certainly has a task
before it, and it would not be sug.
gestive of work to see the houses OF
the Thurman's, Bayard's and Gar
lands of the next administration
given over to mid-nights revels, q!
has BEEN too much the case of lat.
years in Washington.
An extra session Of" Congress il
thought to be very probable, bu
whether there is an extra session o.
not there will be something gein.
on here sitter the fourth of March
IL is not expected that one hundred
thousand Office holders will bo i'm
mediately turned out. But a new
Cabinet with new Chiefs of Bureau
new chief clerks, and new forelgl
r ministers will be appointed with a
little delay as possible. There will
be some fifty thousand Postmaster
: to appoint, and general and iu
dicious cleaning out of the idle, in
i competent, superanuated, and tn
| merely political rats and barnacIe
who have industriously drawn thei
salaries from the public treasur
for years and years.
! Many clerks in the department
1 have been trying to have their ps
pers, which show that they wer
recommended by prominent reput
= licans, withdrawn from the file
Secretary McCullock, however ha
q denied their requests and says ths
he proposes to turn over the files G
tho Treasury Department intac
r This, Of course, is right, aud notl
O ing more. If clerk has been r
commended by Senator Kellog,
of Louisiana, Mr.. Blaine, or Sen
" tor Hoar, for no better reason tha
/ that he is a republican, and h,
st done political work for his patr Of
% it is of interest to the country an
6 the coming administration to ha,
it on record. When an examin
Il of the appointment files has bee
a made it will be found that majo
it ity of the male employees have bee
n appointed for political purposes.
. The House hal its usual row {
- Monday. Mr.. White of Kentuck
disturbing element was ruled o.
fe of order by Mr.. Blackburn, Il
is acting Speaker. The Sergeant-s
=. Arms was sent to seat him. Th
officer forgot his mace. MIR. Viii
40 resisted, as the officer had no bad
O. of authority. The mace was 4
a cured, and, when 1t was no long
70 needed, Mr.. White was seate
For an hour there was turbulen
= and wrangling over this, but N
ID Blackburn triumphed. There W
RS another disorderly scene in
lie House of Representatives on Tu
Of day over the White incident of
;, day before. The Republicans
% %, sisted that the personal rights O.
Ill member had been infringed by
h. officer without badge of Off
at and that the journal did not sce1
ur ately state that fact.
Efforts have been made by t
% Republicans to show that the Ri,
ed and Harbor bill this year is an
al most unprecedentedly bad one, a
.st that it is the first grab of the So
70 South upon the Treasury. A
, matter of fact, the most iadefen
no bic items in the bill were tht
'd- known as the Eads appropriate
d. and these have all been eras
do They were much more in the int
est of Captain Eads than of
Solid South. The worst River a
no Harbor bill in the country's /
tory was passed by Republic
vi Congress aud vetoed by Preside
ne Arthur.
IN Senator Palmer made his init
III. speech in the Senate last week, a
10 it is also noted as being the f
= set speech in Congress in favor
'Ve the cause of woman suffrage. /
'p- speech -7t cured at least one cow
ny 70 the cause, in this wise: Palm
en- Pike, of New Hampshire; Mand
- son, of Nebraska and Bowen,
Colorado, sit in The four seats VIII
In form the outer row on the Rep
ERE lican side of the Senate. This r
iy. is elevated above the others tri
raj Palmer, Manderson and Bow
have named it Pixies Peak,
vs. hoLor of the New Hampshire Sc
'ur tor. Like the men who sat on