Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-12

nation whatever, it is to defeat legislation of
all kinds. They are a disgruntled and dsap-
pointed lot, and since they cannot rule the
play, they are determined TO break up all the
toys. don't believe there viii be a tariff
Dill passed, or that anything will be done be-
yond appropriations
DEPARTMENT CLERKS HusTLING.
There is wonderful hustlng around the de-
partment now by democratic officials who
expect to 20 out OF Office soon after the 4th
OF next March. They were so confident that
they would be continued in Office that they
made little or no provision for the future.
They were prohigate, and spent nearly all
OF their salaries and laid no ground work for
business connections outside. Now that they
realize that they are confronted with private
citizenship they are Fastening to secure
other employment.
An old clerk in the treasury department
tells me that more tnan one-half of the
chiefs of divisions there, and other high
grades of officers who are not protected by
the civil service, arc now, or have been since
the election, away from their posts, notwith
standing the fact that they exhausted their
regular thirty days leave of absence, which
is granted every year Several have made
arrangements to go away indefinitely. These
extraordinary leaves are granted on full pay.
1t appears that the administration which
came INTO power with such barc OF trum-
pets about economy and reform, has no scru
pie whatever about the allowance of salaries
without the rendering of service II will be
remembered that few months after Mr..
Cleveland took possession of affairs, Il lot of
horses and carriages used by department
officers were sold, and it was announced that
the Jcffcrsonian principle would dictate the
use OF legs and the patronage of street cars
There are Just as many horses and carriages
now used for pleasure and official business
round the capital as there have ever been
before.
THE CONSULAR SERVICE.
There is activity among the consular and
commercial agents of the United States in
the various foreign countries. The consuls
expect very early decaptaton. AS stated
in these dispatches number of times during
the campaign, the consular service has been
for more than year used as a base political
machine Instructions were issued from the
state department more than a year ago by
which the consular and commercial agents
of the United States were to bend their
etfords towards free trade-that mild free
trade proposed by the Mills bill. The CON
suls were to make such reports in writing to
the department of stateaas would educate
the public mind to the support of the
are now in the service, and
in their eagerness TO act in conformity with
their instructions they wrote some ludicrOus
reports, teaching protection rather than free
trade. Since The people at the polls last
month relegated the administration and its
free trade principals to the rear, there is
nothing left for the consuls to expect except
removal during the early days of the next
administration. To avoid this many of them
have written to their frinds in congress and
elsewhere to work up influence for their re-
tention.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Charles T. Goldsmith and w II. Hart, of
Sac City, Sac county, Iowa, were to-day ad-
mitted to practice before the interior depart
ment