The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 21st, 1885,
Senator Quay has said farewell to the
President and gone to his Pennsyl-
vania home, determined to take
good long rest. He and the Presi-
dent are on the very best of terms,
few long.tongued gossips to the con
trary Notwithstanding. And what
is more, they are likely to continue
so. They thoroughly understand
each other, and there is not the
slightest danger that the President
will refuse any favor asked for by the
Senator, because the Senator will ask
nothing that it would not benefit the
administration to grant.
1t is thought that the Ohio Repub.
licans have lost one or two very good
appointments owing to the lack of
harmony in the Congressional dele
cation. the President prefering to
select a man from some other State
rather than to decide between two
Ohio men. each backed by a part of
the Congressional delegation.
Charges have been filed with the
President against ex.Congressman
Smalls, of South Carolina, who is
candidate for prominent Federal
position in his State. One of the
charges against him is that he
secretly worked and voted for the
Democratic Presidential and Con-
gressional ticket last November.
A committee from the New York
Centennial Celebration has been here
making arrangements for the trip of
the President and his Cabinet. They
will leave here at very early hour
next Monday morning, arriving at
Elisabeth, N. j., at about s O'Clock,
where they will take breakfast with
the Governor of New Jersey, after
which the party will proceed to Els
abeth, where boats will await them,
and from there to the wharf in New
York City from which Washington
stepped just one hundred years ago
that day. where they will be met by
all New York, and take their parts
in the great celebration Secretary
Blaine has agreed to respond to the
toast, "The House of Representa-
tives," at the banquet to be given in
New York City on the evening of
the Both inst. to the distinguished
guests of the New York Centennial
committee. 1t is subject upon
which Mr.. Blaine is peculiarly fitted
to speak owing to his long connection
with the House, as Member and
Speaker.
The President is believer in the
benefits to be derived from doing
business in thoroughly systematic
manner. For instance, he assigned
one day of each week for the consid-
Grafton of business pertaining to one
of the executive Departments of the
lllG UuSluGSS
is unusually important it will not be
considered on any other day than
that assigned to the Department I'M
der which it properly comes. This
rule will work adyantageously all
around; it will enable the Cabinet
officer to so arrange the work of his
Department that on the day assigned
to it he can have all matters requir-
ing the attention of the President
ready for presentation to him, and it
will enable the President to rapidly
dispose of the business thus brought
before him.
The Department of Agriculture
and the Department of Justice hav-
ing very little business requiring the
attention of the President, have no
particular time assigned them. The
days of the week are assigned as fol-
lows; Monday, Navy Department;
Tuesday, / Postoffice Department
Wednesday, Treasury Department;