Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent

at the list of promotions in his bureau.
TO say that he is sad and astonished is
to put it too mildly; he is hotter than
Pennsylvania avenues asphalt pavement
OH July afternoon. 1.-The neutral shad-
owy people get all the preferment" said
an old Treasury chief to me yesterday,
q man who long ago reached the length
of promotion and therefore has no pri-
vate jealousy in the matter. 1t was ex-
pected that Republican holdovers, be-
, longing to doubtful states who did not
go home to vote last fall, would be dis
missed by administration, and they were
literally promised that fate. Now the
tables are turned, and the men who car
ried water on both shoulders are at the
top. TO my positive knowledge, Pen
sion Bureau clerk recently promoted to
SOC 10 per annum not only failed to go
home to New Y ork to vote last fall but
discouraged Others from going, telling
them their presence at the polls was not
exactly necessary and in the event of
Democratic success would cause their
discharge. The next morning after the
election this same man wore Harrison
and Morton badge six inches long.
y mighty dispute goes on i'll the local
press over the question of the right of
Sunday papers to exist. Exactly what
is to be gained by the argument, the
disputants, it is safe to say, do not
know, but their zeal is none the less
great. Incidently the Inconsistencies
of the local Sunday laws receive atten-
ton. Eos instance, one can buy soda
water but not beer, cigars but not
matches, milk or bread but not butter
or sugar. The panorama may exhibit
its painted wonders, but the theatre
must close.
Ice cream saloons deal out 5he Yanil-
la, but mint jrTleps are taboCsd. You
can hire team at the livery, but the
pubic hacks must not stand 1T their
regular places OF anywhere else, the
hackrRan must Keep from the bette
side of the ayenuSas if he were an un
clean aaimal. If he even mutefy im-
plores you to hue his vehics5as be
drifts slowly by you, he is liaJle to
arrest. 0n Monday morning he and
his brothers may drag you into MS old
death trap and divide your money and
raiment among them.
Especially slow to.scare, Washington
has yet been rather stirred up by the /
local floods, the water having Seen
higher during the recent inunda3on !
than it had ver been before. exceI tin
two or three Februarpfioods when the
ice was gOrged The danger chiefly |
apprehended is from the choking mp
of the river with fla1 improvements
Eight years ago when die propositi III,
to claim the Potomac tats took form |
in Congress, there were not wanting
those who pro ested against the plans
by the engineers. It is asserted that |
the scheme of filling W "a tide river so
make room To- the volume of great /
floods" is not fe lsible. Flle opil hon cf !
Chief Engineer SeYerson is Quoted,
He says: i'll substance, there is ut one |
proper way; taat is TO reOp Ell th3I
chGRnel fully and so im-
prove all south Of it as rot to diminish |
its capacity for carrying off the water
Of great floods. Any lminut ION OF
the conductive capacity Of the Cl lannel |
must inevitably CndangeGcity pr operty |
and the greater the contr action
the greater the danger" The
truth is that It is ABOUT d me to
return to the good old fashioned pow
ers of nature. The inventive rae lacks
We defy natures law s sue.
maybe but hardy Safel Y.
Therei is no laundering bitter pc rtisan-
sheet in the town that lnds fo cd fer
joyous contemplation la the more or
less probable story that an Episcopal
church in California received $500
from Mrs. Cleveland and fifty cents
from Mrs. IIarris0ny | am inclined 10
the belief that this storyhas nc t germ
of truth for neither lady could afford
to respond to the individual appeals of
remote churches. How many such ap-
peals do you suppose s1ch prominent
ladies receive in year? Probably q
thousand. Mrs. n. T. Stewart, and her
reputation for charity as she was nlan-
aged by Judge Hilton was not remark
ably bright, used TO receive half dozen
such letters Cay. With her they
were never answered. She did not sven
take the trouble TO refuse.
The President has ordered that sun
day duty in the army, other than. in
spection parade without fire arms be
abolished. The Barrack inspection
which formally occurred Sunday will
hereafter be made Saturday. IN his
order the president refers to the, fact
that Washington and Lincoln ordered
week day duties omitted on Sunday in
times of war and concludes that if the