Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-07-15


Washington Letter In n. Y. Tines
The Administration looks upen
Section 1854 Of the Revised Statutes
as q dead letter. It rarely misses an
opportunity to show its hostility TO
the soldiers. The discharge Of vet.
Grams in the different departments
Is steadily going on, and their places
are filed BY ex Rebels 10 defiance OF
all justice, decency and law. There
Is no attempt 10 disguise this. The
officers OF the Grand Army Of the
Republic have protested against it In
vain. They have repeatedly cd
dressed letters 70 Secretary Lamar,
Postmaster General Villas, Assistass
Secretary Smith, Commissioner
Black and others, but received no
satisfaction Recently thay appealed
to the President IN q letter, enclosing
list Of soldiers who had been dis
charged from the departments The
communicative was handed to the
President in person. He promised
10 give the matter bis attention and
declared that he would see that Sec.
ton 1854 Of the Revised Statutes was
enforced. Bus there the matter seems
70 rest The officers Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic sent 3 second
communication 10 the President.
again drawing his attention 70 the
subject. and experimenting their
statements By q new list Of dis
charged soldiers. This communica-
ton the President treated In the
same manner. Il remains IN
answered TO the present day, and the
law is a. openly dened by the heads
Of departments as ever.
One Of the ex-Confedera' who
got into Office By violation Of the
spirit Of the law laid down In Section
1854 OF the Revised Statutes Is the
Chief Clerk Of the Supervising Ar
ehitect's Office His name Is Fisher
and he Is q Pennsylvania Democrat
Educated Al public expense at the
Naval Academy, be found no better
way Of discharging the obligation be
had incurred TO bis country than by
helping 10 capture the Harriet Lane
10 Galveston haTboF, at the outbreak
Of the war. This exploit be com.
memorates today by the wearing of q
scaFf-pin which be boasts was made
from the skull of Odd Yankee
From this ig can readily be inferred
what kind Of q man Fisher Is. His
manners toward the employees Of
the Office SAVIOR Of the quarter deck
rather than Of the cOunting-room.
Recently he discharged the lsck.
smith employed by the Department
to look after all the locks of the
Treasury. IL so happened that soon
after the man was discharged Treas
urer Jordan found one Of his CON-
plicated time-locks out of order. He
sent for the l0cksmith but was in-
formed that the latter had been dis
missed. There was no other man In
town competent 20 repair the lock.
Jordan was furious. He WeRt 20
Assistant Secretary Smith and said:
"What kind of fool have you in
the Architects Office, any wayf"
Mr.. Smith sent for Fisher, who be-
gan 10 stammer: 81 could never find
my locksmith; the fellows in the
other offices were always sending for
him, aud / never had"-- stop
right here said Treasurer Jordan
There are no fellows 10 the Treas
uFer's office, and that Office wants .
locksmith at once, and there and
then Mr.. Jordan read the 'Galvan.
lied Yankee, as Mr.. Fisher Is called
By his Southern friends. 3 lecture
which that gentleman Is not likely 90
forget. The upshot Of It all was the
discharged locksmith had 10 be sent
for again to do the job. much 70 the
modification, no doubt, Of Mr..
Fisher.