The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-11-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Nov. IS, 1886.
ON our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Nov. IS, 1886.
From our Regular Correspondent
Every day now Senators and Repre-
sentatives are coming in from their
recent battle fields. A few members
elect of the Fiftieth Congress are here
too, and have visited the House Just to
sec how it looks. A lively December,
when Congress meets. Members who
are not reelected will be trying to get
their best work in shape, great deal
of wire pulling will be going on, and
the session is expected to open up ac-
lively whether much business will be
&C accomplished or not.
Democratic Senators express them
selves as thoroughly satisfied with the
outcome of the elections, and consider
the party in good shape for 1888.
They agree that the Democrats did
not go to the polls as they might have
done, but where the Democratic vote
came out, the Democratic party more
than held its own. They retain a
good working majority in the House,
and in States where the Legislatures
have to elect new Senators the effect
of the elections win reduce, if not re-
verse, the Republican majority in the
United States Senate.
Should it prove true that the Demo-
Gratis have captured the Legislatures of
New Jersey, Indiana, and California,
as is now believed, the Republicans in
the Senate of the next Congress will
hold the majority only by the danger
ously narrow margin Of two. These
will be Senator Riddleberger, Of Vir-
ginia, and probably Van Wyck, of Ne.
braska, neither of whom is in harmony
with the Republicans, and both of
whom are uncertainties when it comes
to voting.
But however this may be, there is
no disappointment among Democratic
politicians with the campaign. They
expected nothing better in an off year,
and the few Democratic losses are in
no wise prophetic Of defeat in 1888,
On the contrary, 1t is thought, they
will serve q good purpose in showing
the necessity of organization and har-
action in the next Presiden-
tial battle.
The Republican press, in its deter
to condemn everything under
the new administration, has uttered a
great deal of abuse about the manner
In which Commissioner Sparks has
managed the affairs of the Land Office. |
They have expaciated on the outrage
Gus hardships he has imposed upon
the "honest settlers" upon the public
domain, and the vast injury he has
done to tho present administration by |
his policy, A most significant answer
to these charges came through the last
weeks elections. In the very States
and Territories where the effects of |
Mr.. Sparks decisions and rulings are
particularly and Immediately felt,
here were remarkable and unexpected |
Democratic gains, and the voting was
lone by these same much injured,
'honest settlers"
Another excellentrecord of retrench-
nent comes from a Government Bureau
,ince it went into Democratic hands.
It is that of Engraving and Printing,
where oil the paper money, all the
postage stamps, and all the stamps of
avery kind used by the Government
are made. The total expenses OF this
Bureau are more than 100000 less
his year than last, and less than in
my year since 1873. The same work
8 accomplished with greatly reduced
'orce of employees, 32s persons having
been discharged since March, 1885.
The amount saved from their salaries
md for labor and other expenses,
makes an aggregate saving Of 81 50, 1856,
which will be returned to the Treasury
unused,
The President is at work ON his mes
'age now, and will decline to receive
my move promiscuous private callers
until Congress meets, When he al
uded, at Boston, to the "silly, mean,
md cowardly lies that are found every
lay in the columns of certain news
,apers', which violate every instinct Of
American manliness," he had reference
% the barbarous gossip which deluges
he occupants of the White Honse.
The allegation of the Tribune, that,
'Whst CALLED him was the public crit
cism of his official acts,' was quite
Unfair and untrnthful. Mr., Cleveland
las never objected to any sort Of crit
cism of his official acts, whether de-
;ent or otherwise, What has disguised
lin is the determination, of what he
calls "certain newspapers"
hat he shall not have any private and
domestic life Of his own that the
walls Of his home shall be Of glass,
md that all that transpires behind
hem shall be reported in some form,
not correctly, then invented. His
Itterance will probably not do any
,ood, for certain newspapers to
which he aludes live on fictitious SEN
alions, and would cease to exist If
hey wero to abstain.
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