The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-06-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June % 1885.

WASHINGTON, June % 1885.
An eminent French statesman when
asked how he accomplished such pro-
digious amount of work each day, re-
piled 'sby doing one thing after an
other" President Cleveland seems to
unders and this art as we'll as ii he were
its inventor. He examines all the
papers in each and every csse that comes
before him. He will act on all the cases
only as he reaches them in the course or
his personal examination. 1t seems as
il he had an almost endless job before
him, but it is his way. and he seems de-
termined to go on as he has begun. The
candidates who depend largely OF en-
tirely on verbal recommendations orltn-
fiuence of outside newspapers will GER
tainly get left. The cases largely de-
pend upon the kind of papers that are
fiIed, and the President holds respon-
sible parties who recommend a man to
a strict account.
1t is to be feared that in the discus
sion of appointments to office. the great
and silent reform work which the new
administration is carrying on may be
overlooked. Though less than four
months in Office, and laboring under
advantages, the public plunderers are
being attacked and routed at every
point. Stealing cf the public domain
has been 20 a considerable extent
stopped. though much remains to be
done. Secretary Lamar has proved the
worst enemy the railway land -grabbeTS
have ever met, and he has had the earn
est support of Gen. Sparks the new
Land Commissioner. 1t is safe to say
that no more nEearned grants will be
patented to the railway monopolists, and
that as much as possible of the land al
ready stolen in one way or another will
be recovered and thrown open for set
tlement. The great Maxwell grant is
only one series or enormous frauds
which have been perpetrated through
collusion between the claimants, the ter
Titorial lard officers, and the rings OF
| Depar; meDt officials. There is every
reason to expect that this whole system
| of plundering will now be broken up.
Hon. Geo. jerks who has Just been
| appointed assistant Secretery OF the In
| terror and given special charge of al
| cases for the forfeiture of land grants
| shows that his work is to he undertaken
| in no half hearted way While on the
/ Judiciary Committee of the House Mr.
/ jerks showed himself to be thorough
/ lawyer and his argument before The
! electoral commission was not inferior
to the efforts of the great lawyer of Ma
tional reputation, Carpenter, Black and
| MeTrick, who vainly tried to meet con
spiIacy with logic in that depiorablt
| crisis
Mr.. Whitney, the new Secretary o
the Navy is steadily growing in popu-
lar;ty with good men of all parties
Both the Navy and the country hail hin
as a deliverer from the regime of ring
and corruption that has preyed upol
the country since the war and left ou
coasts in defenseless condition. Th,
exposure of the Dolphin fraud will
be to the Naval establishment of a
great Importance as were the Star Rout
exposure to the Post Office depaI tment
The action of the Post Master Gen
eral regarding the Pacific Mail steam
ship subsidy is very significant It will
be remembered that the Republican ma
jority in the Senate forced the passag
of bill giving S400, 900 to the Pacifi
steamship company for carrying tb
mails. Mr.. Villas finds that there is n
need of paying more for carrying Oceai
mails than is now paid. Since the &C
of Congress is not mandatory, bu
merely gives permission to spend tn
money, the Post Master will, with tn
approval of the President, take DO actio
in the matter, hut remit the subject {
Congress for more explicit legislation
1t is not probable that the Repu5licaI
agents of the lobby in the Senate vii
be able to again pass the bill and tn
sum of $400, 900 will be saved to the ta
payer. K.