Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-10-16

From our Regular . ,respondenoe.

meats ut Washington. The heads OF
division, the chiefs Of bureaux and the
cobinet officers are preparing their am
nual reports. The president is writing
his message. The Governmental his
tory OF the year must be epltomized,
the balance sheet must be struck of
and the chief executive must suggest
by way OF recommendation, the meas
ure he will sanction, provided they re-
ceive the approval Of legislation. All
the members OF the Cabinet, except the
Secretary Of State, have returned. Mr..
Bayard was shrewd enough to post
pone his vacation until Autumn and is
now resting away from the city during
the season which, in Washington, is
most trying to the corpus huaanis.
Extracts from the reports OF various
Government officials prove by irreputa-
BILE figures that the present administra-
ton has saved the Government millions
of dollars. That the public offices are
bette kept and that public work is bet
Ter done is not so susceptible Of mathc-
NAUTICAL demonstration; but 1t is fact
patent to every one acquainted with the
public service. During the past two
weeks over five hundred useless EN-
ploys have been discharged from the
Government printing Office alone.
Notwithstanding this great decrease in
the force, the work in the Office has not
been at all impeded. The public land
commissioner, General Sparks, says in
his annual report. "The development
of the past year under the agencies OF
the new administration have justified
every word said in my report for last
year in regard to widespread persistent
land robbery" The report states tfat
the total area over which fences have
been or are to be removed either with
or without resort to the courts is 2,7f4,-
926 acres, mostly in Colorado. The
Recommendation for an additional force
OF not less than one hundred special
agents is renewed, AS is also that in. re-
CARL to adequate means for protecting
the timber on the public lands. About
10000 acres OF land have been restored
for public settlement; / ,4S5 cases, in
volving 225, O00 acres, have been held
for cancellation.
President Cleveland is more sparing
than any of his predecessors we're OF the
appropriation made by Congress for the
contingent expenses of the White
House. The contingent fund covers
stationary, kilograms, books for library,
purchase vi new carpets and furniture
cost OF keeping carriage and horses, etc
The appropriation for Grants last Pres
idential year was only $4,000 and Grant
spent every cent. Hayes, at the end o.
his first year in the White House had
an unexpended balance of 10 cents ou
out OF a contingent fund of $1,000
For his last year he had contingent
fund OF $4,000 out OF which he saved
500. Arthur managed to save only
$3.50 out Of the $4,000 contingent fund
of his first year, and that was the lar
gest balance he had on hand at the enc
of any year while he was the occupan
of the White House. Mr.. Cleveland
saved $3,348,8 during his first year GU
OF contingent fund Of $1,000.
Without an act of Congress the Sec
rotary OF the Navy cannot abolish 1
bureau or organize one. But he Car
distribute the work and transfer som,
OF it from one bureau to another. On,
of the main features of Secretar,
Whitney's plan Of reorganization, a
submitted by him to Congress, would
be bureau of supplies, that is,
bureau which would do all the purchas
ing for the entire Navy Department
Another would be to amalgamate sew
eral bureaux so that every care in
volved in the construction of ship,
would be confided to single bureau in
stead Of being distributed over fou
bureaux, as at present. Inste,d o
eight burea0x acting separately and in
depentently, he would have fou
bureaux, with central council. A
present each bureau advertises seperate
ly purchases whatever it wants. Each
for instance, goes 10 the market sepa
rately for the coal, the ice, the timber
the stationary it wants. This plan re
suits in unnecessary advertising and il
higher prices charged for Smaller pun
chases, During the past year Nj
Whitney has had his own Office pun
chase the coal, the ice, the stationar
for all the bureaux with the result, a
an experienced official estimates, of
saving OF $4,000 on these article
alone. The plan Of concentrating tn
purchasing power will be extended t
other articles, and the purchasin
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