The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-13
the year round. When that time comes then
Congress, like the poor, will be always with u.s.


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Among the employees of the House of Repre-
sentatiVes opinions are divided about young
MIR. James G. Blaine, who is clerk to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, of which Mr.. Hit, of
illinois, is chairman. Some say he is a very i'm
pertinent, troublesome young man, who PLAYS
upon his relationship with the Secretary of State,
ana haDltually assumes privileges which do not
Delong to the position he holds. Others say he
is a most modest, obliging, and wel-mannered
young gentleman who never speaks of pa and
never shows any disposition to lord it over his
neighbors of less distinguished parentage: One
thlng Is certain, that when Speaker Reed is in
the chair young Mr. Blaine cannot be on the
moor OF the House out of his time or create
disturbance there without being elected, as was
practically demonstrated one day last week
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If half the current reports be true morals in
the Government Printing Office are at a low
ebb. The Treasury Department is the home of
original innocence by comparison, and the
Treasury Department has had aspersions cast
upon its moral character for long time.
They say that one of the most responsible posi-
tlons in the Government Printing Office is filed
by man who openly acknowledges that his
wife keeps one of the most notorious resorts of
immortality in Indianapolis Matte Douglas
is the name of the woman, and she is said to
have been in Washington quite recently on a
visit to her husband. The man, who received
one OF the first appointments made after Mr..
falmer became Public Printer, is said to be a
special protege of President Harrison's, and
the President, who takes such an interest in the
man. cannot but know what seems to be a mat
ter OF common knowledge in indianapolis.
linen there are stories of the temperance on
the scene OF scoundrels and backguards who
were discharged by former Public Printers on
account of scoundrelism and blackguardism,
which rendered them utterly unfit for Govern
ment employmentand unworthy to be permitted
10 ihlhgie with decent people anywhere. Mr..
office.
Somebody in the Press Gallery the other day
said that Iceman Turner was the Louis j. Lang
OF craftsmanship, and that Louis j Lang was
the leeman Turner of journalism. | report the
fact SO that the two gentlemen may have IL out
WIN each other at their convenience.
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The house on Farragut Square in which Sec
rotary Tracy's family met with such terrible
catastrophe last February has been torn to the
ground, The charred walls no longer stand up
as Ihe grim and CHASTITY reminder of that dread
ful occurrence.
After all, low politics is not .as bad as high
militarsm. 1t is better to have the scuryy
politicians catering to the riff-raf than to have
Army ana Navy officers tramping on decent
people II there were not enough politics to
make change in the heads of the War and
Navy Departments once in a while, there would
! be very poor show for the civilian who shoul d
nave occasion to call at these Departments
am glad that these Departments are still under
/ the direction OF civilian Secretaries, and
| had occasion one day last week to
! be thankful for it. l had been under
the necessity OF applying to a bureau officer
! who is regular naval officer for some in
formation not at all of specially secret kind,