The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-01-02
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From our Regular Correspondent

crossed its threshold on that day. IL was
private residence, and the President Ell
loved the rights of private citizen y
next Friday it will be opened wide 10 W.
whole world, or as much OF 1t as can crow
In durinp the hour fr9m one to two T. NJ
The New Years day reception lasts iron
ten until two but it is the day on which tn
official world of Washington pays It's r.
spects 10 the president, and the Official pre-
gramme will consume the time untli on
o'clock. when the reception OF cltHehS p'
Gins The President will first receive Ia
Cabinet and the Diplomatic Corps. In
latter will wear the attire Of their respec
tive foreign Courts. Then the Justices 0
the Supreme Court Of the |, ,. viii come
and the Judges of the L. ). Court o
Claims. Senators and Representatives /
Congress are next in order, followed by III
judicial officers of the various Distric
Courts, ex.Members of the Cabinet, AM
eX. Ministers of the United States Officer
of the Army and Navy will greet the Pres
ident next in the full uniform of their rank
Then Secretaries and assistant Secretare
of various institutions, assistant postm ster
general, and assistant attorney general
heads of Bureaus, Associations Of soldiers
veterans, and the Oldest Inhabitants Asso
citation. With them the official reception
closes, and the peoples reception begins.
Washington has never known more
PROSPEROUS Christmas tide than the presen
one. Express companies report that In
number and value the packages sent from
the city this year are in excess of those
sent last year by at least thirty five per cent
The clerks In the Postofice say that the
number of Christmas packages sent from
here this year exceed those of last year by
nearly one.third. And the merchants re.
polt very greatly increased sales of fancy
goods for Christmas presents over last year.
The cause of this difference is in the policy
of President Cleveland. At this time last
year thousands of people here felt that the
source Of their incomes was menaced, and
looked TO the "ides of March" with dread
They we're too much perturbed to permit
themselves any expense that was not abso-
lutely necessary. A large majority of the
citizens here-whether they express it or
not-feel in their hearts that the President
is to thank for their happy Christmas.
The President is credited with having
said recently in regard to one of his ap-
pointees against whom some objections had
been raised and If the objections were JUS
titled, he hoped the man would not be con
firmed. 1t is due largely to the Presidents
directness and earnestness of purpose that
the Republican Senators have been forced
20 assume a more conservative attitude to
wards his nominations. An unfriendly
critic said something recently about Mr.
Ueveland's "incarnate common paceness
and his sturdy independence" which, he
SAID, many people imagined to be a kind
Of genius In reply TO this some one said
it was so rare u thing for us to have Il Pres
ident who has the courage topursue com.
mon sense policy that he does become, in
SO doing, u kind of genius,
The Speaker of the House Is spending
his holiday time busy at work arranging
the House Committees. Members mani
fest much anxiety to know where they will
he assigned. The desire to learn their fate
in this matter before an official announce
ment Of the committees was made, kept
Uany Congressman In Washington during
the holidays, who would have gone home
for their Christmas dinners had the com.
mittees been announced before the adjourn.
pent. Many questions of grave import to
the people of the United States besides
the tariff and silver will have to be consd.
cred by the committees that Mr.. Carlisle
will name. He is patriot, however, AS
well rs Statesman, and no public interest
will be sacrificed by him either through
the qualification of grudge or the indulgence
of partialIty. The changes in the rules re.
Gently made involve many changes in the
committees. One aim of the Speaker will
be to place very cautious and judicious
Members upon those committees that have
charge of the Appropriation bills.
The illusions that have been made tc
Senator Beck's recent speech on silver as
an attack upon the Administration Were
unfair He merely joined issue with the
financial policy of Republican Administra
tons for years past. He referred in terms
Of sympathy and eulogy to the views OF
the President and Secretary of the Treas
ury as whole. But the Kentucky Sena
tor Is an extreme silver man and will dc
all he can TO defer the suspension OF silver
coinage
VIM Greenlees, of your city, has beer
granted patent on snow cleaner, 5.
RucklIn's Arnica Salve