Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-03-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria t'asct''

WASHINGTON. ID. c.. March 5. 1895
The Senate which met in executive SEES
sion Yesterday in pursuance of proclama
ton that had been issued by ex President
Arthur, adjourned until noon to-day,
when it met again to consider such bust
ness as the President might send to it,
That business to-day was the nominations
for The Presidents Cabinet, which were n
follows: Mr.. Bayard for the Stale Depart.
ment Mr.. Manning for the Treasury, Mr..
Endicott for War, Mr.. Whitney for the
Navy, Mr.. Villas for the Postoffice, Mr.. Gar
land for the Department of Justice and Mr..
Lamar for The Department of the Interior.
Mr.. Riddleberger had publicly announced
beforehand that he intended TO oppose the
nomination of Mr.. Bayard in consequence
of his pronounced anti dynamiteism.
Whether he did or not is as yet only
reported but the fact is known that the
Senate, after session of three quarters Of
an hour, adjourned without con 6rming q
single Que Of the nominations. 1t was sup
posed that the esprit du corps of the Sena-
tors would have induced them to confirm at
once the nominations of the three who had
been taken from their own body, aud their
failure to do so provoked no little adverse
comment. Immediately after adjournment
each party in the Senate held a caucus, the
former for forming the committees, and the
latter for selecting from their own number
those who should hold the few positions as
signed TO them by the republicans.
The almost, if not quite, unanimous opin-
ion of the Presidents inaugural address,
now that every body here has read it, is that
it contains everything it should have con-
tanned and nothing that it should not. The
part that meets with less praise than all others
is that in reference to civil service reform,
but as regards that it is said he has recog-
nized party service by the appointment of
Messrs. Manning, Whitney and Villas, and
that while every one of those three gentle
men wants the offices of the government
conducted decently and efficiently not one
of them is particularly enamored of the
civil service commission nor of the way in
in which by it appointments are made. So
far as the clerkships in the departments are
concerned it is not expected that removals
will be numerous at first, for the reason that
if clerk be removed the Secretary can not
fill the vacancy with the man of his selec-
ton, but must do so from a list of names
sent him by the commission, of none of
whom, probably, has he ever head before
The fact that the last thing the republican
Senate did yesterday before adjournment
was to take away from the Vice President
the appointment of the restaurant keeper of
the SENATE, and, of all the numerous officers
of the Senate, leaving him the appointment
of only two, q messenger and private sec
rotary, will, it is thought by many, tend to
dissipate the mugwumpian ideas with which
it is feared the new administration may be
possessed.
There has been a great crowd at the
White House all day, distinguished and OBJ.
scure people, individuals and clubs, calling
to shake hands with the President and
wish him we'll before they leave the city.
In this connection it may be mentioned
that he has soft and shapely hand, and
that during the whole of the inaugural GER
emonies yesterday be was ungloved, while
Mr.. Arthur wore gloves the entire time,
and was necessarily lingering their buttons.
1t is understood here to-day that the