Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1893-04-19
SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
Woodstock. w., April 19, 1893.
Washington Letter.

WAsnINGToN, d. c., April 10, '93.
President Cleveland has remarkable
capacity for standing long hours of hard
work, and has been put to severe test
since his inauguration, as 1t has been the
exception rather than the ri lie when he
has been able TO retire before 9 O'Clock
in the morning. and he is always at his
desk again before 5 o'clock. Feeling the
need of little undisturbcd rest, he, In
company with Secretary Gresham, left
Washington Saturday afternoon and they
will not return until tomorrow His
destination was not made public for fear
that he might be followed by some of the
importunute oflce-SeekerS, anxious to
personally present their claims. They
went to see Ambassador Bayard ut his
home in Wilmington, Delware.
The investigation Of the Weather
Bureau, now being publicly conducted
after office hours ut the Department Of
Agriculture, is very nasty mess as lar
as it has gone, and it promises to grow
even nastier. The property of the bureau
has, according to the testimony, been
stolen and sold to junk dealers whenever
certain of the minor officials needed Il
little extra whisky money, and the steal
ing was done in broad daylight, the en-
ployccs OF the bureau being used to load
it upon wagons. About everything seems
to have been included IN the theft. Upon
one occasion stone step being taken
from the building itself The principal
men implicated thus far are the foreman
of the press room and the Captain OF the
wa.ch, but Others higher up are said to
have received portion of the money,
aud it is expected that the evidence VIII
prove it. secretary Morton is dctermln-
ed to get to the bottom Of the filth and to
see that every guilty man is punished,
regardless OF who he may be or who may
be his friCadS.
Mai Geu. Schodeld ana Major Gen.
Miles have had a sQuabbc at long range
over the trouble in Indian Territory
The quarrel is understood to have oc-
cured over the carrying out Of an order
FOR the detail of an army officer to inycstl-
gate the trouble, No. U. S. Troops will
be sent there unless the Secretary Of the
Interior requests il.
President Cleveland said he intended to
get the very best man in the country, who
was available, to be Commissioner OF
Pensions, and the general appreciation OF
the nomination of Judge VIM. Loeb rem,
OF Minnesota to the position indicates
that he succeeded. Judge Lochrcn was
not an applicant for the position, indeed
he at first declined to accept it, but with
drew his objections when his party duty
and loyalty were appealed to by the
President. His war record is Of the
brayest, and although he is not member
Of the G. A. r., no member OF that or
ganization has so far as known had Il
word to say against his special fitness for
The position. He was bonn in Vermont,
but has resided in Minnesota since 1857,
with the exception of the time he served
in the army. He will take charge Of the
Pension Bureau about May first
See. Morton found not only individuals
employed by the Agricultural department
VINO were not rendering services in any
thing like Il fair proportion to the salaries
they receive, but whole division Of en-
ploycs who have been rac'ically paid Tor
doing nothing for more thar aycar. This
was the quarantine division of the Bureau
Of Annual Industry, which Sec. Morton
has just abolished, Quite a howl has
been raised by the republicans because |
1hr chi, of the abolished division happen
ed to be the late Mr.. Blaine's brother al
though it is difficult TO understand why |
that should have made the slightest dli-
ference. Surely they did not expect that
II tCluOCiullC ADMINISTRATOR No"'" IVA
called upon to take care of the poor mem
bers Of the Blaine family.
Sec Lamont hasn't been doing much
talking-he never Gocs-but that he has
been doing some Investigating aud think |
ing is shown by his statement that no
more army officers will be detailed for
ornamental purposes. This may be
little rough on the army officers who
lave been calculating to spend the sum
1ncr at the Worlds Fair and the various
summer resorts, hut no one can deny that
it is just to the people who pay these men
their salaries, and doubly just to the |
officers without "pull" who have to per-
form, in addition to their own, the duties
of the butterflies of the profession.
Postmaster General Bissell has decided
that no fourth class poStmastcrs shall be
removed, except for cause, until they
shall have served all or nearly all OF a four
year term. This is 4 new rule, as these
officials have never been considered to
have a fixed term, but were removable at
the pleasure Of the department. The
change is understood to have been made |
by the direction of the President, and
after all it will make no difference in the
end, because there are so many who have
served four years ormore that by the time
I a. tX.i1l
become removable under the new rule.
USE DANAS SARSAPARILLA. IT'S |
"THE KIND THAT CURES"