New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-20
HEADLESS DEPARTM ENTS.
AN "ACTING" ADMINISTRATION.
PARTIAL LIST OF OFFICIALS ABSENT FROM WASH
iNGTON.

PARTIAL LIST OF OFFICIALS ABSENT FROM WASH
iNGTON.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 Especially" For the
next ak weeks the ofco OF President OF the United
States will be practically vacant Mr.. Cleveland has
fed TO the wilderness after giving notice that no
official correspondence will be opened or read
by him until after he returns. and that
during his absence he will pay no attention
whatever to any official matter not brought to his notice
by a member of the Cabinet do not believe a single
one OF them would have tho nerve to invade his royal
secusion and besides than or two OF them
will be at their posts OF duty during the next SIX weeks
For my part discover that this Administration Is
any more Industrious or less fond OF Its ease
than the Republican Administration which preceded IT.
The foregoing remarks. from a prominent Democrat,
probably critical than they might have been
had IL not been that the who uttered them was dis
Amounted because he had failed to obtain favorable
decision In one matters OF considerable impor-
lance to politically IL is true that executive Dusi
ness Is at standstill 80 FAR as inc
President and his Secretaries and clerks are
concerned the big gray building west of the White
House the Secretary of State is at his post 1t said
that he feeds tho American Eagle daily with his own
hands on diet beef gunpowder and Is trying
to teach him to walk and talk Spanish. 1t Is barely
possible that official cares and his dn'ies
a. special correspondent OF Baltimore
newspaper will prevent Mr. Bayard from
taxi
the desk OF Mr. whitney and the new MAMMALIAN are
alike screened from dust and storm by aesthetic tarpau
Inns Commodore Walker is Acting Secretary vf the
Navy Further north In the same building Adlntant-
General Drum presides as Acting Secretary OF war as
sisted by Acting Chief Clerk and al Acting
Judge Acknowledgement, an Acting Adjutant.
General an Acting SurgeOnCenera ana an Acting Chief
signal Oice Here there Ia no sound OF warlike prep
aration and the scream Of the eagle is not heard
In the big gray building east OF the White House Act
ing Secretary Fairchd preses the Treasury De-
partment. assisted by an Acting Chief Clerk an
hcfnv Irersurer. an Acting Register and three
fonr actin
return OF Appointment Clerk Eugene Higgins was some
cornpensa for the temporary loss OF other members
OF the Administration.
In the red sandstone building north OF the Treasury
Solicitor General jerks Is Acting Attorney General;
and IN the big ofceroom the second floor the por
traits OF long line of Attorneys General.
none OF whom was Pan-ElectTic statesman,
look down upon the canvas-cOvercd desk OF Garland
ami nutey wonder If its usual occupant Will ever re-
turn from Homny Hi adorn the Cabinet and serve
living reminder OF the great Pan Electric truth that
Lamar Yesterday gave the Interior Department
time being Bu, Mr.. Lamar is lonely and
viii not remain long to keep better company
than that OF an Acting COMMISSIONER OF Indian Ahafs
an Acting Commissioner OF the General Land Once. an
Acting Commissioner OF Pensions, all Acting COmms-
siouer OF Patents an Acting Commissioner of Rail
roads. Over the way the Office Of Rcformer-in Chief
General Knott assisted by Ac ing Chief Clerk. an
Acting First Assistant POstmaster-GeOeral an Acting
Solicitor and Acting Superintendent OF Foreign
Mails An Acting Commissioner OF Agriculture per
forms tie duties which belong to Commissioner Col
man, who "A tour OF oficia. invesgation.
An OF the foregoing list OF Official absea.
tees incomplete though IL he VIII convince Impair
mind mat "reform is nourshing at great rate in
public has been exhibited rarely
If ever ia the history OF the Republic.