St. Landry democrat., 1886-05-01

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among the subjects that one hears dis
eussea on the streets here now. AT
the Capitol our lawmakers are talking
ahout Inter State Commerce, Secret
sessions, the fisheries question, and
appropriation bills.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
Wizards hotel few evenings since, at
which representative business men OF
baltimore and Washington discussed
the projected Expositionto be inaugu-
rated here in 1880. Az address was
presented, which is tc be scattered
broadcast over the country, setting
forth the plan of the great Worlds
Fair. Congress is to be asked to es-
sablish number of permanent Exhibl-
ton buildings in the city on the Mall,
for the Products of North, South, and
Central America, and the Empire OF
Brazil. The Mall is that extensive
area of parking extending from the
Capitol to the White House, including
the Smithsonian, Agricultural, and
Monument grounds.
It is the intention to strip the pro
iect of all local purpose, and to make 1t
national and international, politics be-
ing ignored in tie interest of all coun-
tries. For instance, it is suggested
that a building be erected for the dis
nlay Of working models IN the interest
of inventors, and that there shall be
A national art gallery sustained not on
Nv by the Government, but popularized
by beauests from private individuals.
It is expected that Que and perhaps
both Houses of Congress will take some
favorable action on the subject this
week.
A to Senators aBd their secrets,
those who have in the debate branded
the secret sessions as farcical, childish,
cowardly, and treacherous, are PIatt,
Logan, Butler and Riddleberger.
Senator Logan was wondering how
executive secrets leaked out. News
paper men always got them in some
way. Senate Riddleberger gave his
idea of now they were exposed l
have private secretary, said he:
walk down the avenue with him, he
asks me question or two, and being
smarter than l am, be knows more ID
five minutes than ! learn in a week.
Then he gives it to somebody else and
the newspaper fraternity gets it,
Hon. Mr.. Whitthorne, who has been
appoiuted to succeed Judge Jackson in
the TT, S. Senate, will need no intro
duction to the halls of Congress. He
served with distinction in the lower
House during the Forty Fourth, Forty
Fifth, Forty Sixth and Forty-Seyenth
Congresses. As chairman OF the Naval
Affairs Committee he was very earnest
and successful in exposing the rascali-
ties Of the Navy Department under
Grant and ex-Secretary Robeson.
There has been great Improvement
in the ways of doing business in the
Government Departments here under
the new regime, and there are evidences
of new life. Still further reforms are
looked for through the passage of a
bill that is exciting a good deal OF in
terest. 1t provides for reclassiiica-
ton and reorganization OF the civil
service at Washington, and its purpose
is to so arrange the force of the De-
partments that the same kind of work
will receive the same pay. Under the
present plan there are clerks drawing
s7a0 to $40 who are doing the same
work in regard to quality and amount
as clerks who get from $1,000 70 $1,000
n year.
The last classification was made in
1854 when there were only 719 clerks
in the departments, now there are
8,Osl. Under this arrangement there
are four classes class 1, receiving
81 1905 class 2. 81 400; class 8, $1,000,
and class A, $500. Clerks have been
employed and assigned to these classes
with bnt little regard to their grade.
Consequently there is great deal OF
waste to the taxpayers in the Depart
ments. Put as there is no fixed limit
to che revenues of the Government and
the burdens of the tax payers, the
waste is not perceived. While the new
is setting the Govern
house in order, it proposes to
subject the men and women employed
here to thorough investigation, weed
ont the incompetent, and redistribute
the others SO as to enable them to do