The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-08-19
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Aug. ls. lsst

WAsHINGroN. d. c., Aug. 16, 1856.
To the Editor of tile Herald:
Now that Congress has taken a recess to
recuperate for the responsibilities of next
fall, the President is perfecting arrange
ments to have a romp in the Adirondacks
for a month or more. 1t is probable that he
will Ileave Washington this week, and will
not return before Oct. LIST. He is now
engaged In the consideration of matters
which he wishes to dispose of before leav-
ing the city. The principal question is In
regard to filling vacancies existing in the
Civil Service, many Of which are due to the
failure of the Senate to act upon nomina-
tions submitted to it. In large number of
such cases the President has comm lssioned
the persons nominated to serve during the
recess of Congress, and it is believed that
this rule will be followed in all cases. Local
politics are much surprised and indignant
at the action Of the President In commits
sioning Matthews as Recorder OF Deeds for
the District, in defiance of the Senate's re-
lection. After all that has been said and
done to outwit Matthews 1T does not seem
hardfor the District Democracy to get the cold
shoulder from the President who has ex-
home offices. A large number of rejected
nominees have slready been renominated
and commissioned by the President, and in
consequence the air is full of rumors of what
the Senate Will do next fall.
There are still some forty members Of
Congress in the city and a few Senators.
These are mostly members who have been
renominated and have remained to en-
deavor to obtain the Offices promised for
support In the canvass for denominations.
Some of the members, however, are from
the Districts In which appointments had
been made ana either rejected by the
Senate or not acted on at all, and these
'.nice plums" the members are looking
after for faithful constituents. Some of the
most astute politicians suffered the Offices
to be filled by Republicans uatiI the adjourn
ment of Congress, and then asked to have
such officials suspended and Democrats ap-
pointed in their places. Such policy gives
the places to the new appoi tees for at least
i've months without danger of being de-
prived of them the Republican Senate in
less time than that. 1t is supposed toe
IL at when a removed official has been out
for six months he will lose some of his
thirst for revenge by the time Congress re-
assemblies, and will not trouble himself te
nave the new man rejected. He W IL
become used to being out Of office and
not care so much for It nor feel SO sore oyel
his removal.
heard a member of Congress say In q
street car one day this week that the day be
fore he had a plain talk with the President
and told him that he had received a Yenom
ination but could not be elected unless the
President would at once give him the Fed
eral appointments in his district. To lose
the district would be to lose Democratic
member. and the President should not per
NIT loss to his party when it is In his pow
or SO prevent it. The member said that the
argument was "knock down one" and th,
President told him TO make out his list ant
send it with the papers in support of eact
applicant and he would make the appoint
ments. Plain talk Is the aost effective #
| ter all, and as many members are usisg tn,
same argument, appointments In larg,
| numbers may be looked for before the Presi
dent leaves for his vacation. The offices be
| long 10 the Democrats by right of conquest
argue the petitioners. aud the evil is not ii
| appointing men of your own party. but IL
| not selecting the best men of the party Il
| fill them.
The work of remodeling the President
| country house on the outskirts of Washing
ton is advancing rapidly, and day by day 4
begins to look more picturesque and less an
tique. 1t is expected chat the work will b
| completed about October LIST, and the hous
placed in condition for immediate occu
pancy when the President and his wife re
| turn from their summer vacation. Mean
| while the grounds have been placed II
| charge Of a landscape gardener, who consult
Mrs. Cleveland as TO what she would Xix
and then plans to please her. Mrs.. Cleve
| land spends some time of every day at tn
| cottage, watching the workmen as the,
gradually transform the somber old mansion
| into a pleasant, comfortab and attraetiv
| suburban villa. TIL e features of the exterio
are the broad and pleasant piazzas surround
ing the house and the high and picturesqu
| roof of tiles.
| Two very interesting additions have bee
made to the National Museum lately. Mr.
Lila May Pavy, the widow OF the late ID
Octave Pavy, naturalist and surgeon of tn
| Greedy Arctic Expedition, has donated I
| the Museum the articles collected by he
husband on his trip to the Arctic regions
Among the articles thus donated are tw
| suits of eiderduck worn by the EsQuimau
women. fur suit, paper knives made from
walrus tusks footstool made of the skin O
black and white polar bears, a model of tn
sled used by DIR. Pavy In the south of G reen
land, whist counters made from walIus tusl
and piece of the flag of the Polaris, carrie
by DIR. Pavy TO latitude $50. The Grant rel
les, accepted in the last hours of Congress b,
| a joint resolution of both houses, have beef
| placed Oh exhibition in the museum, AM
/ will remain there permanently. They al
ready attract more attention than anythin
| else on exhibition. II.
The following patents were granted to Cit
zens of Minnesota, bearing date Aug. 10, 1881
Reported expressly for this paper by foui
Dagger Co, mechanical experts and solic
itors of patents. Washington, d. G. Advic
free: