The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-13
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Washington Letter.
from our regular Correspondent
WAsnsNGToN. June.l2 .'95

WAsnsSeroN. June.l2 .s5
The first impulse Of the tidal wave o.
renewal is being felt in the Depart
ments. Each Of the Cabinet officers has
requested the heads of bureaus in their
respective departments to furnish him
with list of clerks that can lie dis
pensed with, or whose places are to b,
filled by civil services appointment (.
These lists will be furnished before the
first of July. The communications Of
the heads of bureaus will he treated as
,trictly confidential, as the informant ion
asked for does not solely relate to the
clerical fitness of clerks, but includes
what may I've kaown in regard to "ot-
f"nsive partisanship," etc The design is
u use information in making removal
from the civil service class in order 10
open the way for appointments through
the Civil Service CAalnis, toner's.
order to give greater popularity to tn,
method of appointment by competition
it is seen that there must he some va
canclcs in order that there may he som.
appointments. A me,abr Of the Cabi-
net said yestta'd y that in the course of
the summer he expected to dismiss %
percent Of his force Of clerks. He II"
already more than enough to l@gi
with, hut he thought it best to max
une job OF it, aud won d put act ION OF.
until he got through with more press
ing business.
,iOne Of the heads Of division who's
rrsignation WAS asked for during tn,
week went Oh. Friday to see Secretary,
Manning, with view Of getting soni
mitigation Of his sentence, lie WAS re-
ccived by the Secretary who asked him
If Ire hud not all along anticipated re-
moval when II Democratic administri,
ton should cpme in. 81 really can
not SEES" said the Score AIRY, show
you could expect anything else" Tn
official de,nulred to this and said tia
lie had faithfully performed his duties.
wins not " politician, aud no one ha
calnpl,incd OF him. "Well, nos, AS t.,
that" said the Secretary, al will Let
you hc the Judge yourself. Here are u
nile of letters which have received
fr,m people in your district. Real then
o;er and let ME know if you think +.
Democratic Secretary ought to b
blamed for asking you to give way fo,
a Democrat" The ex-b,reau chief rea,
over the letters with anazement, HI
was pronounced by the writers to ~
cred hot" ia tbs politics; frequen
correspondent of Republican newspa-
pers, extracts from his letters bsn.
appended; lis Journeys home at election
time were noted; reports of his speech s
at town meetings were given, and his
immediate removal was demanded
the only thing that would pacify hi
Democratic ueighbors, When he had
got through with tho batch of letter,
he handed them back to the Secretary
al haven't another word to say" sal
he. 81 am sorry | troubled YOU. | m
All offensive partisan, but I'm blessed il
! knew it until now"
The Saturday evening Concerts il
the grounds Of the Presidential n
sion, which were discontinued b. order
of Mr.. Cleveland, have been resumed
and there were fully five thous,m
people there Saturday afternoon. tn
people sat on the infrequent bench' s
recined upon the grass under thu
spreading growth Of the foliage, an
promenaded across the grass plots ant
in the gravel walks. For the most par
the men enjoyed the music and thu
wom.n looked at each others clothes
The people looked prosperous and wer
all we'll dressed; if there were shadow
upon some faces, they could he attri
buted to the fact that life, to man.
people, seems not worth living, Nurse
came with their infant charges, ladies
with their pet pugs, aud men and maid
ens cams in companies limited Tn
music was somewhat limited, too. Friend
FROM the southeast part Of the cit.
greeted friends from the West En''
and "A events 10 in this world, every