The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-03-17
Washington Letter.

WAsHISGToX. d. c., March 10th, 1898
President Cleveland has not changed his
habits since he was IN the W hlte House
before. Every morning this week he
| has been at his desk hard al work by I
/ O'Clock. aud midnight has found him
/ still AT that desk nearly every night. IL
I l. we'll that he has such industrious hab-
/ its. as up the present time he has been
Given but little time To work between the
! hours OF 10 \. NJ. and r. NJ, owing 10
/ his numerous callers.
! The semi official announcement that
! President Cleveland would not remove
until the end of their terms, except Tor
| causes other than political. any of what
are known as four wear oticlnls-that l.,
/ officials commissioned for term ut four
! vears. resulted in lessenIug IN small
! degree the pressure for office, but there
! is still enough and 10 spare, as may be
! seen and heard on all sides
! Speaking of Office seekers, the number
| of them now in Washington has beer
! greatly exaggerated 10y the newspapers
/ | have no means OF knowing l. more
/ than doubtful whether anyone has
/ whether the statement repeatedly made
/ that there are more applications for of
| tice than ever before IS true or not, but
| 1 do know. aS do the Washington hotel
! keepers to their SORROW, that the number
| of men seeking offices IN person l. to-day
] much smaller than II was months after
| the Inauguration of Harrison. IL IL pro
/ badly true that many of the thousands of
| Democrats who came To- the Inaugural
! ton and remained until the Inst OF This
week were office seekers, but II So they
! filed their papers and went back home
! after paying their respects To the PreSi-
| dent and IBIS cabinet, and Our hotels are
! not much more crowded at this time
than II usual at this season. And at
none Of them can bc found the Seething.
loud talking crowds which were their
most prominent features until midSum-
mer following Harrison Inauguration.
1t Is Just a. well 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-
unfortunately more of them than
there are offices TO be iilled-hut there *
no such crowdIng and wild ScrambIing
as has been represented.
Senators German, Blackburn, Ran
som, Cockrell, Harms. BrIcc, and White,
of Louisiana, were appointed commit
tee 10y the Democratic caucus held on
Tuesday To arrange the reorganization of
the Senate ON "A Democratic basis OW-
ing to the difficulty attending the ailot-
ting OF the various ChaIrmanships of
committees the committee has not yet
completed It's work, which will have to
be ratified by another caucus before be
ing brought up Ia open Senate.
There has been lots of tOm-fO0i talk
because the popuiIsi Senators, PETER,
Kyle, and Allen, were not invited to at
tend the Democratic caucus, while Mar
tin of Kansas, was. There WAS nothing
strange or unusual about il. Martin il "A
Democrat, although lac aliI.iaty~, TO Il
certain extent, with the popuhs's, while
neither of the other three make any
claim to being Democrats.
1t Is more than propunc gnat PrcrI- I
dent Cleveland and uis cabinet are civ
ing more attention to the critical liuan-
cial condition of the country than rncy !
are To making appointments to Office. I
The offices can wait, but the continued /
demand upon the treasury for gold must
be met or the country viii Toe plunged /
into panic, the results and end OF
of which no man can predict. Secretary
Carlisle - confident of being able TO
meet ali demands for gold, but Is not
yet prepared To make hIs plans public.
The prevalent opinion seems to be that
an issue OF bonds will have L. he made.
The report OF the House Ways and
Means committee on the probable coudI-
ton of the treasury at tine close OF the
fiscal year beginning the first of next
July, was not complete until this week.
the figures i'm cx-Secrctary Foster report
which estimate "a very small surplus at
that time, and state their behei that
there will be a deficiency amounting to
from $50. .UuU OGU tO $40. 600 900, giving
IN detail their reasons therefor. The
Republicans on the committee. or rather
who were ON that committee for tine
committee expired with the Fifty second
Congress, In "a minority report, stand 10y
MIR. Foster : Tigmes.
Mrs. Cleveland Is more popular than
ever before, and about the tigSt question
the stranger asks Is how hc or She can
see the Presidents wife. She has held
NO public receptions yet, but there - NO
trouble in seeing her.
Rumors are plenty; but there are no /
facts about President Cleveland iutcn-
tions concerning the treaty for the an
annexation of Hawaii. Princess kaui I
lam, hciresSS To throne that does not
exist. turned up in Washington this ]
week, but why or wherelor Is not appar- /
ent.
The batch Of nominations sent to the /
Senate yesterday 10y President Cleveland /
contained thcHamc of several Democrat /
ic wheel-horSe> aud Judging 10y the talk /
around the capitol and hotels. the ap- I
polntments give general satisfaction and 4
will all be promptly confirmed 10y the /.
Senate.
President Cleveland and Vice Prcsi- /
dent Stevenson have accepted invita- /
tons toattend the opening of the Worlds /!
Fair. NJ