The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-14
RIVER AND HARBOR WORK /!
Senator Ransom. Fixing for
North Carolina
TO GET HER SHARE OF 1T
Major Graham Dawes Hunting Up
North Carolina History.

He Is at Work Among the Records of the
State Experimentation in the De-
partments-Many Useless Employees Will
BE Cut OT-Over "a Hundred ef These
Employed in the Senate and House.
From The GLoBa Correspondent
WAsHINGToN, May - Senator Ran
SONS committee~roomi is just now the
scene of some very busy work. He,has
three men fixing the river and harbor
bill so as to do the best thing possible
for North Carolina. The House appro-
priations will be increased by our sena
tor, the Cape Fear river and harbor be
ing scheduled for a double amount
Senator Ransom will do his best as usual
by all our rivers and harbors and light.
houses.
Representative Crawford and Mr. Geo.
II. Smathers have prepared an amend
ment to an appropriation measure to be
submitted to the committee, paying the
heirs of Thomas, etc, $6S, 900
Representative Crawford and Mr..
Eugene Waugh, of Surry, saw the presi
dent Wednesday. Mr.. Cleveland said
he was delighted with his North Caro-
lima fishing frolic, and proposed to go
again. He expressed lively interest in
the speckled trout of the mountain
streams.
Representative Bum called at the
White House in the interest of Walter
r. Henry, Wednesday but as the presi-
dent had gone to Fredericksburg, did
not see him.
Representative Branch was at the war
department and learned from the chief
engineers that as soon as the engineers
final report on the Ocracoke inlet was
received that important improvement,
contracted for by the last congress, would
begin. The danger is in cross currents
The new scheme for saving the peoples
dollars by cutting off useless employees
in some of the departments has not yet
been formally incorporated. 1t will, how
ever, go into effect in few weeks in the
war department. In the treasury there
is to be under the Dockery comm ;ssion, a
comprehensive consolidation of work so
as to make the service more effective at
smaller cost
In all the departments and indepen
dent bureaus there is room for radical
administrative reform-not only in the
number and pay of the employees, bit in
the assignment order and quality of
their work There are at least 100 use
less men 'employed' by the Senate and
the House These useless places pay
good salaries, too.
Major Graham Dawes is in Washing
ton for North Carolina, looking up Car
olina colonial and revolutionary history.
He ends most Of his time among the
treasures of the state department Son e
years ago the North Carolina legislature
history and Major Dawes is conducting
the Washington end. AS all others find
who have once started delving iLt) the
mines of the state department, he dis
covers that he does not like to stop, al
though his work is nearly rounded out.
He has secured large quality of origi
nal material and will fill in several gaps
in the history of revolutionary times At
present he is engaged in the story of
General William Davidson and the de-
feat at Cowen's Ford by Cornwallis.
The tariff debate in The senate is drag
ging along.
1t is not what its proprietOrs say, but
what Hoods Sars 1parilla does, that tells