Mohave County miner., 1889-06-22
WASHINGTON LErTER.
Correspondence Of the MiSEs.

Correspondence OF the MINER.
WAsHINGToN. June 10, 1889.
The heart OF the true blue Republican
government clerk is heavy when he looks
at the list Of promotions in his bureau.
To say that he 10 sad and sstonished Is 70
too mildly. He Is hotter than Pennsyl-
vania avenues asphalt pavement on .
July afternoon. "The neutral shadowy
people get all the prefsrment," " said an
old treasury chief TO me yesterday, man
who long ago reached the age Of promo
tion, aud therefore has no private ieal-
ousy in the matter. II was expected
that Republican holdovers belonging 70
doubtful States, who did not 90 home 70
vote last fall, would be dismissed by this
administration, and they were literally
promised that fate. Now the tables are
turned and the men who carried wster
on both shoulders are ON top. To my
positive knowledge pension bureau
clerk recently promoted 10 $500 per
annum not only failed TO 60 home TO New
York to vote last fall but discouraged
others from going, telling them their
presence at the polls was mot exactly
necessary, and in the event Of Demo.
cratic success would cause their dis.
charge. The next morning alter the
election this man wore . Harrison and
Morton badge six inches long.
A mighty dispute goes on In the local
press over the question of the right Of
Sunday papers 10 exist. Exactly what Is
10 be gained by the argument the disput-
ants, II Is safe 10 ssy, do not know, but
their zeal Is none the less great. Incl.
IDENTIFY the Inconsistencies Of the local
Sunday laws receive attention. For in
stance one can buy soda water but not
beer, cigars but not matches, milk or
bread but not butter or sugar. The pan
Drama may exhibit its painted wonders
but the thcater must close. Ice cream
saloons deal out the vanilla but the mint
julep is tabooed. You can hire team
at the livery but the public hacks must
not stand at their regular places or any
where else. The hackman must keep
from the better side OF the avenue a. II
he were an unclean animal. II he even
mutely implores you 70 hire his vehicle
as ne drifts slowly by You he il liable to
arrest. On Monday morning he and his
brothers may drag you into his old
death trap and divide your money or
raiment between them.
Especially stow to scare, Washington
has yet been rather stirred up by the
local floods, the water having been higher
during the recent inundation than IL had
ever been before, except in two or three
February floods when the ice Was eorged.
The danger chiefly apprehended 10 from
the choking up Of the river with fiat i'm
Eight years ago, when
the proposition to reclaim the Potomac
flats took form in Congress, there were
not wanting those who protested against
the plans adopted by the army engineers.
1t is asserted that the scheme Of filling
up tide river to make room Tor the vol
ume OF great foods is not feasible. The
opinion Of Chief Engineer Severson is
quoted. He says in substance: There
is but one proper way-that is to reopen
the Washington channel fully and so i'm
prove all south Of ii as not to diminish it's
for carrying off the water Of
great foods. Any diminution of the con-
ductive capacity Of the channel must in
evitably endanger city property, and the
greater the contraction the greater the
danger" The truth 10 that It il about
time to return to the good old-fashioned
respect for the powers Of nature. The
race lacks modesty. We defy
laws successfully, may be, but
hardly safely.
There is blunderingly bitter partizan
sheet in the town that finds food for joy
ous contemplation in the more or less
probable story that an Episcopal church
in California received 8 from Mrs.
Cleveland and 50 cents from Mrs. Harri-
son. am inclined TO the belief that this
story has not germ Of truth, for neither
lady could afford 10 respond to the indi-
vidual appeals Of remote churches. How
many such appeals do you suppose such
prominent ladies receive in year? Prob
ably thousand. Mrs. A. T. Stewart and
her reputation for charity, q she WAS
by Judge Hilton was not 70
bright, and she used 70 receive
half a dozen such letters day. With
her they we're never answered. She did
not even take the trouble TO refuse.
The President has ordered that Sunday
duty in the army, other than inspection
parade without firearms, be abolished.
The barrack inspection. which formerly
Sunday, will now be abolished
On that day and will hereafter be made
In his ondsr the President re-
fers TO the TACT that Washinston and Lin
coin ordered week day duties omitted on
Sunday in times Of war, and concludes
that II the plan Was successful then It
cannot be a bad practice Ia time Of peace.
Few countries have Q more brilliant
and romantic early history than Arizona
and New Mexico, and few countries are
70 fortunate as to have such psinstsking