Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-08-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

There is very little going on in
Washington just now the hot streets
are deserted, and even the office seek
ers who have fingered about with a
patience greater than Mary's little
lamb have gone. The White House
has been closed except to those who
call by appointment, at the depart
ments little besides routine business
is transacted.
On next Friday the President and
his Cabinet and Col. Lamont will
leave for New York to attend the obse-
quies Of Gen. Grant. The President
will not return direct to Washington,
but will go from New York to the
Northern part of the State where he
will rusticate until September. Col.
Lamont will accompany him, and a
telegraph wire win keep him in COM
munication with Washington.
The President however is not going
to-be idle during his absence. For
five months he has been constantly
denied the opportunity he seeks to
ponder carefully many topics, and to
study the national questions which are
somewhat new to him.
The Cabinet at least majority OF it,
will remain in Washington. The
Secretary of the Navy, Mr.. Whitney, is
making himself pretty solid" here, he
his just bought home for $4,000 and
will soon move to it. 1t is a pretty
place outside of the city limits COM
handing Il fine view and is altogether
as attractive a summer residence as
one viii see in days journey.
Senator Logan too, un-mindful of
the melancholy examples of ex-Sena-
tors Window and Pendleton and Mr..
Robson, who built grand residences
in Washington and failed of re-elec-
ton, has bought a $4,000 suburban
place. But Senator Logan has been
reelected for six years from the 9th of
March and he can say with the Irish
psalmist: Let fate do her worst there
are relics of joy six years in the Senate
in spite of the old boy.
Gen. Logan has always heretofore
lived very plainly and his wife has
never before had field or a back
ground, what shall say, large enough
for the display of her brilliant polit-
ico-social strategy. This house has
four immense parlors on the first
floor and it is probable that it will be
rendezvous during the next four
years for the Observation-Disclosures
vice-reform Bourbon Republicans
Gen. Logan and his wife have the
Presidential bug in their bonnets and
in their night-caps too; it will be en-
tertaining to turn the lorgnette upon
them in the coming three and a half
years of Cleveland's Administration.
1t is said that Secretary Whitney
has also Presidential aspirations. He
is certainly laying broad foundation
for a solid fame. The house he has
bought however, is too far from the
eenters of society for him to work
the politico-social racket" 1t is not
the situation that would strike an am
bilious aggressive politician as a favor
able base. 1t is more like the home
of refined ascetic who would get
away from the world.
This however is not the time to
speculate about the Presidential aspir-
atoms OF anyone All eyes at present |
are directed to Virginia, New York
and Ohio, where the elections will go |
far to decide whether we are to have
a reform Senate during the present
The Senate of the forty-ninth Con-
gress will contain forty-two Republi-
cans and thirty-four Democrats, that
is if Republican is elected or APP
pointed from Oregon. This will leave
The Republicans majority of eight.
TO overcome this majority the Demo-
Gratis will have to hold their present
and gain four additional Sem
ators, this would make tie, but with
he casting vote of Vice President
party measures could be
carried through.
Washington, August 8, 1885. !