Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1885-05-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent
Washington, May 9, 1885.
Consumption Cured.

Washington, May 8, 1885
Consumption Cured.
Your correspondent did not hav
his usual six hour confidential tall
with the president of the UniteC
States this week, and is consequent
lY unable to grve you news repor
hot and steaming from the lips O.
the administration. 1t may be tn,
reason why I did call on the presi-
dent was because my friend did. ]
have a wild western friend who
found himself in Washington last
week with two whole hours at his
disposal. He decided that the time
was not quite sufficient for him to
see and talk to everybody in Wash.
ington, though he could come as
near 1t as any living mar, or even
woman, and inasmuch as he had to
draw line somewhere, he called
only on the president, Secretary
Lamar and your correspondent /
will not attempt to tell all that he told
me for he talked without punetua-
ton. But to the president he made
| the original remark that he had no
no friends to reward, no enemies to
punish and no fayors to ask. The
mo favors to ask clause seemed to
please the president, and he replied,
81 am nearly worried to death by
thosewho have only favors to ask. "
Myfrlend then called at the interior
department upon Secretary Lamar
and told him that he wished to see his
bath tub. The saturnine secretary
at once set down my wild westerner
for crank, but a glance at his
clothes and his face painted red with
intelligence convinced him that he had
stuck character rare. So he showed
the little zinc bath tub and the two
S4 rugs, to buy which he had sold
the $4,000 worth of government
carriages and horses.
The president and the members OF
his cabinet have gone to Gettysburg
to celebrate the anniversary of the
battle. This is the first respite that
that Mr.. Cleveland has taken since
the 4th of March. MISS Cleveland
is away in New York. Col. Lamont
and family, consisting of his wife
and two little daughters, have NOV
ed into the White House, at the ur-
gent request of Mr.. Cleveland, and |
will soon accompany the president |
to his country residence at Soldiers
Home. The Presidents cottage at
the home is about three miles from
the White House and about a mile
and half from the northern bound
ary of.the city. 1t is situated on a
commanding elevation with fine
view of the city and the Potomac
river. Surrounded by trees and
acres of green sward it will have all
the advantages of summer resort
with the additional advantage of
complete retirement from society and
fashion that can not be obtained at
Long Branch, Saratoga or Newport.
The illness of the presidents pri-
vate secretary has revived the old
talk about the peculiar Washington
malaria. Every ill that the flesh is
heir to in this city is attributed by
non-professional writer's for the press
to malaria. A senator can not eat
or drink too much but that his indis-
position is malaria. One of these
inexperienced writer's went so far as
to attribute the accouchment Of
prominent woman to the same pro-
life cause. Washington. as its sta
tistics show, is uniyeI Isally healthy
city and it's death rate shows as
small percentage from malaria as
any city IN the union.
What will the administration do con-
cerning official changes? is ques-
tion that is being very earnestly ask
ed at this time. There are in ronnd
Numbers about 102 900 offiee-holders
under federal government They are
the regular army of politicians, for 1T
means their bread. Their discipline
enabled the Republican party to
keep itself in power for more than q
quarter of century. Nine-tenths
of these officials are still in position.
What is the president going to do
about it? A gentlemen who holds a
very responsible and prominent APP
poIntment under Mr.. Cleveland, and
came from a powerful state occupy
ing most important political and
geographical position, spoke very
plainly the other day respect
ing the matter of changes. He said,
s'No one better comprehends the ne
cessity for a complete change in all
the commissioned officials than does
the president. He is perfectly aware
that the people, in making the change
in presidents last fall, did not. mean
simply to pnt one man out and an
other man in. They meant the en-
tire system should be altered and
renovated, and you may depend up
on it that that is precisely whDt the
president means to do, but he viii