The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
CLEVELAND 4 LAWYER On HIS OWN
ACCOUNT.
SEVERAL CANDIDATES FOR col
LECTOR FOR RICHMOND
HARRISON DOES NOT WEAR A SMILE.
How lie Receives Nisitor.-Nirginia Re
pubIicans Nut solid with the Admin
istrntiOn-frank Blair to be Lett
out In the Cold-Old Records.


Neagh. the law firm with which Mr..
Cleveland Is supposed 10 be connected
an p salary of s50,O00 per annum, stated
10 dav that such is not the case. That
Mr. Cleveland does not draw any salary
Whatever from the firm mentioned, and
that they had simply offered him desk
room. which offer the eX-ireSidcnt had
accepted. He further said that what
business came into the oilice for Mr.
Cleveland Mr. Cleveland gets 10, and
what business came in for the firm, the
dfm gets That they had no mutual IN
lcrest, and that Mr. Cleveland was sim
ply New York lawyer ON his own ac-
count
The position for internal revenue col
leciof for the Richmond district is being
competed for by several candidates. To-
dav The fact has become known tLat Mt
Arnold. who was the late Republican
candidate for Congress from the Peters
burg district. bad withdrawn his appica-
ton in favor of Captain Asa Rogers.
Mr Rogers has the endorsement Of
General Malone, and consequently
10 is expected that the candida 8
who are i'm league with the Wise
faction. sO-calied, viii receive the ap-
pointment or perhaps, following out
what has been Mr. Harrison's plan, so
fan, q third party may after ali Doe ace
ccptcd
Your correspondent, who attended
Mr Harrison reception yesterday
could not fail 10 notice the difference
between Mr. Harrison $ mode of receiy-
ing his visitors and THAT of Nr Cleve-
land I'm the first place, Mr. Cleveland
gave three receptions week, and Mr.
Harrison gives Dut two. Mr. Cleveland
also came down 90 the East Room just
ss be ordinarily appeared at DIS desk
while MI Harrison always fixes Up,
and to-day appeared I'm O Prince Albert
coat and li-ht cOlOred nccktic, and in
stead of his trousers being up above Dis
ankles, they looked as though the tailor
bad just spent considerable time in iron-
ing the crcascs ont of them, $50 smooth
and -wrinklclcss' dii they look
IN the manner of receiving bis visi-
tors, your correspondent observed that
while Mr. Cleveland u-uallyw0rc smile,
and seemed 20 be glad 90 welcome his
friends, and often had "a word tO say tO
them. Mr. Harrison seemed tO regard the
whole performance az a bore. and want
ed % yet over the ordeal as soon as pos
sibie Mr Cleveland used tO shake hands
with nearly ail those who visited him,
while Nh Harrison makes a grab 80
hand. and drops IL so quickly as tO con-
ycv the impression That he had suddenly
struck something TOO hOl 90 hold.
Generally these receptions under this
administration have been mostly at
tended by c0lored people bIi to-day for
the first time but few were present. In
fact. most of those who attended were
women and children, and many of them
expressed their disappointment at seeing
a snort chunky man, without dignity or
beauty, when they bad expected the rep
rescntatiye OF the nation 10 De q TALL
good looking ailable gentleman
Virginia is 10 stand no chance under
this administration. and is t0 receive nO
share OF the spoiis which are stiil ia the
Gift of the President 10 is stated 10.
day on good authority that Colonel
Henry VI. Duflield. of Detroit, is 90 be
the next Solicitor General Colonel
Blair, OF Virginia, has heretofore been
spoken very favOrably of for this position
but 10 now seems that Harrison cannot
in this case be considered uuEratciul. Ii
was owing 90 Mr. Dufields liberal dis
position of Aiger's money in buying up
the cOl0red votes at the Chicago con-
ycntiOn that Sherman was defeated and
Harrison became President Duiiield
was AlgeI manager al this convention,
and consequently no doubt MI Har-
ris0n feels under some obligation 90 him
for the course he pursued
The clerks in the file and document
room of the House of Representatives
are now busy on a big job which falls go
their lot biennially Ii is not generally
known that the original OF every bill,
petition and memorial presented in the
House is carefully preserved and stored
away in as accessible place as is % be
bad, OF that every report made Boy com
miftees of the House is treated in the
same manner. but such is the case The
grist of papers of the kind mentioned that
the clerks are now handling is unusually
large, larger by far than The produce of
any preceding Congress The trouble is
TO md room for it all. Almost every
nook and corner of The rooms devoted 90
the dlcs and documents OF the House is
already filed completely The clerks.
therefore, have 90 exercise q great deal of
ingenuity i'm finding storage places for
the -tuiI which is under their care. The
next Congress. IL it wants lis original pa-
pers preserved, Will have 10 provide ad-
ditiOnal room for them
made "a trip to-day through The places
were the old documents are filed. Ii
Was interesting TO note how they had in-
creased in number from Congress %
Congress. The papers OF the First Con-
gress for instance, are contained IN q
couple of old big leather covered vol
umes. which have been stained black by
time Tie papers which make up The
records of the Second Congress
are about twice as many as the
two old volumes of the First Congress
contain, and go it goes on. Al every
Congress there was big increase, until
now the record ought properly 90 De
measured by weight instead of by the
number of pieces which 20 10 make 10
up-so bulky has it become The inien-
tion 10 preserve all Of the papers intact
has not been uniformly successful owing
20 an untoward event From 1904 10
1913 there is break, although not
all of the records OF the time which
interyened between these two dates
are missing There are some partly
burned leather volumes yet on hand,
which tell the tale that the hiatus in the
records was caused By the yandal hand
OF the Britisher when he took Washing
ton in the war of 1912, and burned the
Capitol. Ii may be asked, what
is the use Of pre.erying the
original papers which fad their way
into Congress There is q great deal OF
need for SO doing some of the most
valuable records OF the government are
those that are now stored away into the
Capitol building Historians, and the
writers on political economy and other
subjects, which have ever engrossed the
attention OF Congress, have consulted
these files, and will continue to do
so, so long as permission Is given
them by Speaker of the House