The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-02-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

More Cabinet Gossip-Mr. Tilden's AL
legged views-What Congress is Doing
Senator Palmer's Maiden Speech Prep
arations for the Inauguration.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 10. 1885,
EDITOR CHIEF:
The week past has been especially fertile
in the production of Cabinets for Mr.
Cleveland, which like ghosts, disappear
into shadowy nothingness rs the day grows
rosy in the East. Some of these rumors
are worth consideration, because they in
dicate the game being played by the cool
est and clearest- headed members of the
party. The most important matter last
week was tale told by Senator and
member of Congress. The latter has on
joyed an exceptional degree of Hon. Sam
uel J. Tilden's confidence for ten years.
Mr.. Tilden is reported by this gentleman
as expressing himself with unusual frank
ness and earnestness upon tie appoint
ment of gentleman from New York.
"Among the Democrats pure and simple
in New York" said Mr.. Tilden, " could
not select. for they have all been true. You
know" continued the sage of Greystone,
ssthat last week some very important mon
ey friends of Governor Cleveland indicated
to him that Mr.. Bayard's democratic and
social record being of the highest order,
as Bayard was sound on the financial ques-
ton when he, Mcdonald ana Eaton we're
about the only faithful three left in the
United States Senate, and that" said Mr..
Tilden, rising as he spoke, "the country
could have at the head of its most impor-
tant bureau no truer Democrats or more
courtly gentleman than Thomas Francis
Bayard." My informant then proceeded
to tell me (soto roce, as it were) that the real
trouble in New York was not that there was
nobody to take the Treasury Department.
but the difficulty of selecting who should
have 1.-THE trouble being that if any
prominent man was selected his friends
would have all the good things the Treas
ury would have to give away and the rest
! would have to be left, whereas Mr.. Bayard
had no clique of bankers to satisfy, and so
everybody's chances will be equalized. This
appeared to be such good sense that my
rubicnnd faced, terrapin- eating friend was
delighted with it. One thing may be put
down as certain, which is that Mr.. Tilden
will, believe, name the New York Cabinet
| officer.
~ will tell you," said Mr.. Tilden, "who
I should like to see represent New York in
MIR. Cleveland's personal councils, and it
is Gsf Francis G. Barlow. | have been
asked" continued Mr.. Tilden, after seeing
a bottle of Burgundy of great age properly
decanted, "who would like in the Cabi-
net from New York, and have invariably
replied as / told you when we commenced tc
! talk. But have in formed Governor Cleye-
,and that Of all others | would prefer Gen.
Francis G. Barlow az Secretary of War. be-
cause he was brilliant young soldier, and
won his double stars by the most ogallant
conduct, and because he has the courage OF
his opinion. Then he is gentleman born. y
Under Mr.. Randall's programme this
week will be devoted in the House to three
appropriation bills, the post-office, legis-
lat1ve and sundry civil And other bills
will follow, occupying the time to Febru-
ary 25, or within a week of the end of
| the session of Congress. It is evident,
therefore, that no general legislation is to
be attempted further than that few small
bills may be squeezed through in odd mo-
ments and in the final furry. Never, per-
| haps, has there been 50 barren session.
| Senator Palmer's first speech in the SEN
ate, delivered on Friday, was also the first
set speech in favor of extending the right
of suffrage to awomen ever delivered in
Congress. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony and other leaders of the wo-
mans suffrage movement, who listened to
the speech, pronounced it the best that had
ever been made on this pet subject, and
Immediately ordered several thousand cop
| les for general distribution. Palmer was
heartily congratulated by all the Senators
who sympathize with the suffrage move
ment. There are about two dozen of them.
| The preparation of the Inauguration fes-
tivities is going on in good shape, and the
prospect is that the new regime will be
ushered in with becoming dignity. The
committees have much to do yet, but they
are taking hold Of their work with vigor,
and may be depended upon to fulfil their
duties well. 1t is evident that an enormous
throng of visitors will be attracted to the
city by the inauguration, but the people OF
the District will try to stow away their ma
tional fellow citizens comfortably.
The President will probably give his fare
we'll public reception while the city is
crowded with strangers who attend the
dedication exercises of the Washington
Monument. He will also give several pri-
vate dinners at the White House before he
turns the Executive Mansion over to his
successor.
| Yours truly, ALERT.
Mr.. Steinitz, the chess champion of Bal
timore, played four simultaneous blindfold
games of chess, and routed all his oppo-
nents within two hours.
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