The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-09-29
WASHINGTON LITTER.
from our regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON. Sept. Dist, 1894

A quorum of the cabinet have heen
in Washington this week. but q all
at one tiiue. Secretary Smith was
only in town three DAYS and Secretary
Lamont has Just arrived. Secretaries
Gresham and Herbert have been at
ti.ei desks all the week and Secretary
Carlisle has not been able to get eve
a tllee-day vacation sIrce Congress
adjourned. There is considerable
gossip here oVer the probability Of
Secretary Lamont being nominated for
governor OF New Tojk by the demo
ctats. %althnngi, he isn't saving a word
himself. There IS no douht that Sec
Rotary Lamont would make a strong
neutrality-suspicious. stronger than any
man who has heen mentioned in con
n~ection with the nomination, ex-
cept ~ex-Sccretarv Whitney. and the
impression il that he will not accept
-hecausa. Ike Whitney. he wonld be
arrepiai,,e to the two factions into
which tie patty in New York is unfor-
tuaa1riy divided, he having managed
to kenf, the good will Of them all.
DeUia-ratS here recognize the nomina-
tiuu .f Nh. Morton to have been about
the strongest that the republicans
cenitl have made, and they believe
that \ very strong democrat will be
needed tc beat him. upder existing
circumstances.
Senator Faulkner has decided that
he can be Of more benefit to the party
by giving his undivided attention to
managing the Congressional campaign
committee. of which he is chairman,
than by going on the stump: consc-
quently he Will make no speeches, but
will remain constantly at committee
Headquarters. He sert President
Cleveland a copy of the campaign
Text Book, this week. with the com.
ments of the committee.
Although no official announcement
llns been made to that effect, and none
il expected, iG has been understood for
some time that Treasury officials re-
garded women a failure as high grade
clerks in that department conse-
quently there was little surprise when
it was learned that a considerable
percentage of the hundred odd clerks
dismissed thus ar in the reorganiza-
ton OF that department., now under
way in accordance with a law enacted
at the last session of Congress, were
high grade women clerks-that is wO-
men drawing more than $1,000 veal
in the Treasury than in any other
department. and. according to state
ments of those over them, there are
numerous reasons why men are pre-
ferred to them. 1T is said no more
women will be appointed or promo
ted to any clerkship above the 1920
grade in the Treasury department.
Although it is strictly a matter OF
business, those who have been dis
missed are raising as great a howl as
though they had been deprived of
something In which they had "a pro-
prietary interest, and the howl is like
ly to increase in volume as soon as
those who are trying to get reinstated
become convinced that they cannot
succeed.
Owing largely to the dizziness in po-
iltical news, a regular tempest in a
teapot" has been made out of the res
lgna.ion of Mr.. O'Rourke. Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, at the re-
quest of Secretary Carlisle, by the
Washington correspondents. 1t is a
very simple case, without any of the
elements of sensation. Mr.. O'Rourke
failed to run the business of his Office
as smoothly as Secretary Carlisle
thought it ought 10 be run, rather
from lack of adaptability than lack of
ability, and his resignation was asked
for, received and accepted. That's all.
One of the best campaign docu-
ments sent out by the Democratic
Campaign Committee is a list of the
new enterprises inaugurated and of
old ones which have resumed work
since the new tariff became IA law. 1t
answers better than pages of argument
could possibly do. the republican
charge that tariff reform would iniure
American industries.
Among the prominent s~pell-binders
who were the occupants of a special
a which lief: here Wednesday night
for Raleigh, n. c., were the following:
Senators Ransom and Jarvis Cover
nor elect Oates, of Alabama Hon.
Charles II. Mansur, Assistant Comp
troller Of the Treasury Secretary
Hoke Smith, President Black and Sec
Rotary Garduer. of the National Asso-
eiation Of Democratic Clubs. and Chief
Clerk Daniels of the Interior Depart
ment. The magnet which drew this |
aggregation of Democratic talent to
the capi'ai Of the tar-heel State is the
State convention of Democratic Clubs,
Whlc' Met there yesterday.
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