Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington. July Ist.
The books of the government are
closed annually on June 80, and this
year the date was looked forward to
with unusual interest. The office
seekers about the hotel corridors
spoke confidently of the changes that
IN T--l.- any
how" Despite prediction to the con-
trary, the weighty day has come and
gone, and the number of department.
al changes have been surprisingly
few. The discharges were far less
numerous than even at the close of
the first fiscal year of Mr.. Cleveland's
administration. To say that the Of
flee seeker is hot is to put it too
mildly. He is wild, and he is not
cheered by reading the long lists of
new diplomats appointed. "Pie," to
the average office seeker, is to be
found in appointment to offices in
this country, and he is not to be con-
futed by the appointment of some
wealthy gentleman with his hair part
ed in the middle, to be envoy extraor-
dinary and minister excrutiatingly to
the court of Yarboo. The regular
office seeker shifts at the other fell
lows appearance and snorts at his
alleged republicanism. President
Harrison, who has had pair of eye
teeth cut, so far as the hungry are
concerned, anticipated the onslaught
of June 80, by quietly stealing away
to Baltimore during the morning
hours with the ostensible purpose of
bringing home Mrs. Harrison.
The agricultural department, SINCE
it has been raised to the dignity OF
having a representative in the cab
met, is more than ever before, the re-
cipient of the attentions of cranky
people everywhere, who imagine that
the government could issue enough
money to make all the people rich
and that the government that could
stock fish ponds could not, logically
refuse to stock farms. The mail re-
ceived by the agricultural department
contains daily a thousand odd re-
quests. Every one has heard of the
congressman, who during the last
session received a letter from blum
dering constituent reading, "Pleast
send me the agricultural department.
And the congressman was not bl
surprised, but said that he had otter
expected that it would come to this
he had been asked for the department
, IN detail, and now he was not aston
, ished to be required to furnish th
whole thing And this renitental er
: ror of this bucolic correspondent
out-distanced by the appeal of hun
: Fdreds of people.
A man near Mansfield, Ohio, mod
: estly takes the cake. He writes, $
: wish you would send me at once, de
4 livered to Mansfield, pair of horses
] two mules, yoke of oxen, three A
+ derney COWS, spring wagon and
sulky plow; also some seed. [ SUI
: pose there are other things you Civ,
: but won't bother you now. I wi
: see Senator Sherman when / 90 |
f town if he Is home. He is a gre.
Y friend of mine. During last electio
Y he told me that | could have ever,
s thing in the agricultural departmel
i if | wanted it," The intelligent vo
II er is a creature of curious ment
t. construction.
t. From over the sea come occasion
ally vague voices, with an idea th
- - the agricultural department has ge
so eral control of land and water. A
Il inventor in Bohemia writes that h
is. much distressed by the disaster in II