The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-07-17
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON LETTER.



Evidences accumulate daily that new
and better governmental era has dawn
ed upon the country, and that the hope
for purer and more business-like adj
ministration which expressed itself In
the election OF Cleveland will not be dis
II Is safe to say that Il has been long
time since the laws were 80 thoroughly
studied and so honestly enforced as they
now are, while the present generation
|sees for the first time sincere endeavor
Ito check extravaganza and the willful
waste Of the peoples money.
The Government receipts and expen-
Idifures for the months Of June, 1884, and
1885, are significant as showing how far
reform affects the balan-
ices. For the month Of June 1885, the
receipts were S27, l57, ,0l5.55; June 1884
SAG. 932. .Os8 80; expenses for June 1855
|S15,255. .658. IL; June 1884, Sl6,li6.ll3
|9O. The increase of receipts can large
|ly be placed to the increased vigilance OF
the customs service, under the spur OF
the new administration, In preventing
frauds In undervaluation. The reduc-
tion in expenditures Of over eight hun
dred thousand dollars is the immediate
result Of the initial passage of the Jack
sonian broom Of retrenchment and re-
form through the Federal service.
The claim made by the Democrats In
recent canvasses that 1t was high time to
have look at the books has been abun-
dainty sustained. In every department,
and In almost every bureau Of the Gov
ernmcnt Irregularities are coming to
light. Secretary Manning IL overhaul
ing the Internal Revenue Bureau, reor-
ganizing the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing and reducing this charity hos
pital to business principles, and be i
breaking mp the ring which has filched
fifty millions or 80 from the Treasury
department BY undertaking their i'm
portations. The Agricultural depart
ment has been overhauled with results
disastrous to the regulations Of mealy
mouthcd Loring. and his subordinates
The land grabbers have been checked
and on every hand evidences Of reckless
mess, and extravaganza are coming 4
light. The last bureau 10 be heard from
lie Coast Survey, the accounts Of whicf
Iare under suspicion aud investigation by
1.-The Auditor. The wholesome feeling
lmow Is that all these investigations will
lbe honest ones, that the innocent will b.
while the guilty will not bt
lwhi,ewashed. For such Is Democratic
reform.
Since the reorganization Of the Bureau
Iof Engraving and Printing over two
persons have been discharged
without their loss heing felt either Il
1.-The quality or quantity Of the work
Idone, and at . saving Of over elOOOOO
Iper annum. How can this be-! The ex
lplanation IL easy. Congress places IN
1.-The hands OF the chief OF the bureau
NEARLY a million of dollars annually
with absolutely no restrictions. Th'
bureau was filled with clerks many o
whom were assisting the others to dt
lnothing. Fifty or more were dischar
lged. and $4,000 was saved at on'
Iswoop. One matron and nine assistant
were employed to protect from thett
the clothes in the dressing room OF the fe
male assistants 10 the printers. Thes'
Item people read aud gossiped All day. ans
drew their salaries on the first Of th'
month. Now two women pass occa
sionallv through the dressing room ant
the same result Ia attained. Eight laz'
Colored men sat on bench 10 the cor
ridor; now only one is left to tell to-
tale. The Treasury Department corri
dors also were thronged with idle mes
scuoers. so much so, in fact, that II be
came a subject Of complaint to the Sec
retary. Now the efficiency OF few !
Increased by the discharge Of many.
The new administration isa little raw
as yet, has not got its hand IN, but In ~
initial work Of four months there
promise for the forty and four to follow
G. A. 3.