Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-04-12
WASHINGTON LETTER
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR.
WASHINGTON, x4priz 9Th

There is genuine feeling of SYM
pathy for Secretary Naming among
the employees of all grades in the de-
partments over which he has so ably
presided since the administration of
President Cleveland came into DOW
err. AS secretary be has impressed
his subordinates as just man and
no respector of persons. The poor
est and most humble man and wo-
man in his department received the
same courteous and kindly treatment
as the most prominent. All seem
to feel sense of personal misfor-
tune in the secretary's illness.
There is nothing marvellous in the
fact that there has been a good deal
of sickness among President Cleve-
lands advisers. Secretary Man
ming is a gentleman of plethoric ten
denotes, and his duties have been the
severest kind of tax upon his brain.
1t is, perhaps, not wonderful that
Mr.. Garland's physical resources
give out occasionally under the tele-
phone troubles to which he has been
subjected, and Mr.. Lamar accepted
office under invalid conditions.
The report upon the unsanitary
condition of the treasury building
was a startling documen: to the
thousands of men and women who
are obliged to spend seven hours a
day or more within its walls. Many
thousands of dollars from time to
time within the past dozen years have
been spent in attempts to improve
the ventilation of the building.
The subject has served for discus
sion among the clerks of that great
| department all the week. Nothing
new has been said because the same
subject has been discussed every
year since 1860. There is no rea-
son to believe that the building is
very trying to the health of its en-
ployes. There are too many very
healthy old clerks in that department
to warrant the conclusion that great
fatality attends employment in it.
There are men who have spent what
constitutes pretty long life within
its walls. Nevertheless, it is true
that the ventilation is defective. 1t
was designed and built at a time
when little attention was paid to the
Importance of sanitation, and the
style of the building is such that il
is probable that no improvement is
to be expected. The truth is that
the form of Greek temple is an i'm.
proper one to adopt for a great work
shop.
Two months ago a democrats
old Irish veteran-was appointed tt
be Waterman in the treasury depart
ment. He was assigned to duty a
the door of one of the rooms con
nected with the redemption division
Every one noticed his alertness o
the new Waterman, and the careful
scrutiny given by him to the .em
ployes as they passed in and out
Last week he took a Democrat
friend aside and told him that tn
republicans could not be as bad a
they were painted. 81 have bee
here" said he, "eight weeks, an
watched every one of 'em like a CO
: watches mouse, and niver a one c
them have been caught stealing
; thing"
The distance his home is frol
I Washington has good deal to d
S with the ease and comfort of a sen:
tors life during the session of col
gress. Those senators coming fro
a distance from this city are but Sc
q dom troubled by callers, while thos
Ii representing states within fe
IL hours ride of the national capt.
l. sometimes have to resort to all sor
! of subterfuges to escape Il
l. rush of constituents and Il
q consequent drain upon their tin
/ and patience. Mr.. German,
y Maryland, has more cards sent
y to him than any other man in t
e senate. On some occasions his co
T. stituents are so numerous in the l
4. ception room that he is forced
Ill take refuge in the cloak room,
le that the door keepers can say wi
L. perfect truth he is not IN the sens
Vi chamber, or to sit in some one elst
he chair in order that his callers may
ae told he is not in his seat. Mr.. [
eo gan, by reason of his candidate
ne for the vice presidency during
III last campaign. is-Or was-the
o' cipient of many cards. Most stral
ot ers, and especially those hall
from the states bordering on Him
ne have heard of and are anxious
er- speak with s'Black Jack" The Sc
so' torial representatives of Califor
al and other far western states are
VI seldom troubled by callers.
VI Strikes in the lower house and
est publican senatorial caucuses on
aio question whether they will live
n.y. to the letter of the Edmunds res
'lal tons about confirming presiden
uio nominations, have marked the !
eo' week on capitol hill.
OFF Senator Bowen did not dodge
the Edmunds resolutions. III,
w paired on all political questions
" Senator Jones of Florida. Eff
no have been made to induce him to
'up- clare il null and void. but he