St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-29
Our Tim Constantly Besieged
by Men Who Have "Spe-
cial Cases."
Secretary Rusk May Make a
Record--Mrs. Ward Bur-
nett's Persistence.
Special to the Globe.

VIM VIII bC oCHs IL QSo UClOiC tliC
cruel war is over. Eugene Higgins
was merely an incidental circumstance
Ill politics, compared with Tim. He
blazed the way, as pioneer, for the
anabasiS of our MinneSotlan. 1t is not
especially pleasure for the colonel to
white off heads and cause Democratic
gore galore to flow and triekle all over
the marble-tiled corridors. That is not
the genius of Tins labors. His delight
is in placing official envelopes i'll the
hands of the smiling incoming Repab-
hcanS. 1t was mailman who claimed
pleasure in plunging Ibis hands adown
ones throat, to drag to life his beat
ing heart. and hold it up that he
might gloat to see the quivering
fbers start; yes. veritable mad
man; but the colonel isn't built that
way. When he has applied the keen
edged official knife to an honest DEM
ocratic throat, methinks have seen his
soft eyes moisten with manly tears; but
they are speedily brushed aside, and
succeeded by a smile, as he gulps down
the lump of sympathy rising in his
throat, and laughingly hands the subor-
dinate scepter to the predestinated Re-
publican who succeeds the late lament
ed for four years or during the war. 1
II .
He used a great big battle axe, but orr
Tim uses a keen
RAPIERLIKE RAZOR.
Higgins was C9ur de Leon, but
Timothy is a Saladin. Higgins
smashed breastplates and mangled his
victims. Timotheus sewers the floating
veil, and smooths the matted hair of the
fallen foe with soothing word or two.
Higgins grinned with ghoulish glee,
but our Tim merely smiles soIemnly as
he swipeS Off head. All these scenes
are hidden from the gaze of our secre-
tary. He is in another room, far re-
moved from the sound of the Squealing
of the herd and from the scent of the
slaughter pen. He theoretically knows
nothing of the terrible havoc which is
being played with the Innocents (?). It
is well for the glory of the republic
that it is so. What would foreign ma
tons think of US if one of our Erinees
were to stand close by while the sepoys
are punished? Go to, it is not So
One by one, like the leaflets of fall, the
Democrats are going out. and the fort
is being ''held by the enemy" The
teady has come and the toady is going.
Every subordinate official is more or
less Of smifker. He belongs to either
party. The cabinet minister usually
toadies to the president, and all en-
ployes toady to the higher powers. 1t
has been SO forever. OF whomsoeyer
we speak, even of our dearest friend, it
is true. The seeking of Office begets
low bowling, and the acceptance of it
produces salaamS. This may or may
not be reprehensible. The clerk, the
saleslady. the fioor-walker. or the hired
man in any capacity. "erookS the
PREGNANT HINGES
of the knee, that thrift may follow fawn-
ing" Why, by way of illustration,
may say that | have even known CORE
SpOndents to bow very low before their
managing editors. But it is especially
noticeable in official life here. But to
return to our mut-beg pardon, to re-
turn to the treasury department.. There
Is the place to find men from Mime
sofa. 1t is not that they love Window
more, but that they have hopes. Yet
there have been men there recently,
real. sure enough manly men, who came
merely to pay their respects and tender
their congratulations, without seeking
Office for themselves. But they are few
and far between. and seldom cast a
shadow. Our Tim has no small task
before him. He is besieged by
senators and representatives from
every state in the Union, and
each one of them has special ease,''
which must take precedence over all
others. Blessed is the civil service
law: for many especial case" goes
into the pigeon hole and dies there.
The poor widow can hold her place and
continue earning bread and butter for
her little flock, for the civil service law
prevents the appointment of another to
her place. No one is gladder of this,
verify believe, than the appointment
clerk, Col. ByrneS, for he is big-hearted,
is our Tim. But when it comes to
shocking the scalp of a really, truly
offensive partisan. you should see the
colonel beam with joy inearnate.
Secretary Rusk. of the department of
agriculture. is probably one of the best
and most efficient men in the country
for the position to which he was called
by President Harrison. He is strik-
ingly handsome gentleman, despite his
advanced age. and is possessed of the
physical as we'll as mental vigor to de-
velop to its utmost the growing depart
ment. 1t is absorbent, necessarily.
From time to time, as the congressman
see the necessity for so doing, the
geological survey. the signal service
and roast survey, and other Scientif-
ment. The weather and the crops are
so intimately related by nature that the
signal service will naturally become a
part of the new department. Chief
Clerk lockwood, one of Wisconsin's
editorial writer's, whose literary abiIi-
ties are conceded, says: II believe that
Secretary RuSk will make this institu-
ton one of the greatest and most valua-
BILE departments of the government. He
| is an organizer, and his executive abil-
Try has long been conceded. The for
native process will be wisely con-
Quoted by him, and by aceretion
the department will spread until
1t reaches every hamlet in the land as
effectively and practically as the post
Office department does now. He is con-
stantly at work deyiSing ways and
means for the accomplishment of the
| greatest good to our agricultural masses,
and we all know that he is tireleSS in
the public service" Secretary Rusk is
ably seconded, not only by his assistant
| secretary, Mr.. WillettS. but also by his
chief clerk. Maj. lockwood is well
equipped for the work before him.
One of the prominent characters at
the capitol during the past three or four
congresses has been Mrs. Ward B. Bur-
nett, widow of the late Gen. Burnett.
He was brave soldier. His life was
honorable, and upon his body were the
scars of battle. His widow was granted
| pension of S25 per month. She lob
bied bill through congress Increasing
her pension to $50 per month. and now
| she has done her best to bring it I'D to
500. She buttonholes members of con-
gress and dignified senators with ut
most pertinacity. Last winter Senator
Sawyer promised TO vote for her
bill on condition that she never
come to his house nor bother him again.
She then went to each member of the