Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-03-24
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
REPUBLICANS HAVE LEFT THE
GOVERNMENT IN A RUT.

| No Special Rush for Office-Sen
| ate OrKanization-Pri KauI
Iani at the CapitaI-Cleveland,
Popularity.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 10, 1892.
President Cleveland has not changed
his habits since he was in the White
House before. Every morning this
week he has been at his desk hard al
work by7 o'clock, and midnight has
found him still at that desk nearly
every night. 1t is we'll that he has
such industrious habits, as up to the
present time he has been given but
little time to work between the hours
of 10 A. NJ. and 6 p. M, owing to his
numerous callers.
The semi-official announcement that
President Cleveland would not remove
until the end of their terms, except
for causes other than political, any OF
what are known as four-year officials
that is, officials commissioned for a
term Of four years, resulted in lessen
ing in a small degree the pressure for
office, but there is still enough, and to
spare, as may be seen and heard on all
sides.
Speaking of office-seekers, the num-
ber of them now in Washington has
been greatly exaggerated by the news
papers. have no means of knowing
it is more than doubtful whether any
one whether the statement re.
peatedly made that there are more
applications for office than ever before
is true OF not, but do know, as do the
Washington hotel keepers to their
sorrow, that the number of men seek
ing offices in person is to-day much
smaller then it was months after the
Inauguration of Harrison. 1t is prob.
ably true that many of the thousands
of Democrats who came to the inaug'
uration and remained until the first oi
this week were offce-seekers, but if 80
they filed their papers and went back
home after paying their respects to the
President and his cabinet, and our
hotels are not much more crowded at
this time than is usual at this season.
And at none of them can be found the
seething, loud-talking crowds which
were their most prominent features
until midsummer following Harrison'c
Inauguration. 1t is just as we'll to tell
the truth about these things. There
are Democrats here after the offices
which they believe their work in the
campaign entities them to-unfortun.
ately more of them than there are
offices to be filled-but there is nc
such crowding and wild scrambling as
has been represented.
Senators German, Blackburn, Ran.
som. Cockrell, Harris, Brice, and
White, of Louisiana, were appointed a
committee by the Democratic caucus
held on Tuesday to arrange the reor-
ganization of the Senate on q Demo.
cratic basis. Owing to the difficulty
attending the sllotting of the various
chairmanships OF committees the com.
mittee has not yet completed its work
which will have to be ratified by
another caucus before being brought
up in open Senate.
There has been lots OF talk because
the Populist Senators, PETER. Kyle and
Allen, were not invited to attend the
Democratic cancus. while Martin, Of
Kansas was. There was nothing
strange or unusual about it. Martin
is Democrat, although he affiliates,
to a certain extent with the Populists,
while neither OF the other three make
any claim to being Democrats.
1t is more than probable that Presi-
dent Cleveland and his cabinet are
giving more attention to the critical
financial condition of the country
than they are to making appointments
to office. The offices can wait, but
the continued demand upon the
Treasury for gold must be met or the
country will be plunged into panic,
the results and end of which no man
can predict. Secretary Carlisle is con.
fident of being able to meet all de-
mands for gold, but is not yet pre-.
pared to make his plans public. The
prevalent opinion seems to be that an
issue OF bonds will have to be made.
The report OF the House Ways and
Means committee on the probable
condition of the Treasury at the close
OF the fiscal year beginning the first
OF next July. was not completed until
this week. The Democrats on the
committee reject the figures in ex-
Secretary Fosters report which esti-
mate a very small surplus at that
time, and state their belief that there
will be deficiency amounting to from
$30,O0O,OOO to $40,OOO,OOO, giving in
detail their reasons therefor. The Re.
publicans on the committee, or rather
who were on that committee, for the
committee expired with the Fifty
second Congress, in a minority report,
stand by Mr.. Fosters figures.
Mrs. Cleveland is more popular than
ever before, and about the first uues-
ton the stranger asks is now he or
she can see the Presidents wife. She
has held no public receptions yet, but
there is no trouble in seeing her.
Rumors are plenty, but there are no
facts about President Clevelands in
tentions concerning the treaty for the
annexation of Hawaii. Princess Kau.
ilani, heiress to throne that does not
exist, turned up in Washington this
week, but why Or wherefore is not an.
parent. DEN.
B. F. SCHWARTZ, the Port Angeles
banker and embezzler, is in Chill.