The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-30
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner Of Things in General
About Washington.
communicated
WASHINGTON. April ., 1891

A4AEA PIC 1A-NA404GEA anu LIZ
sistants having gone TO New York TO
take part in dedieating the monument
to Gen. Grant, the pie hunters who
hadn't the money or the railroad passes
u accompany them are taking rest.
About half OF Congress has also gone,
a. it was previously agreed thai the
House and Senate should meet to-day
and Thur>day only TO adjourn.
Il Is becoming apparent that the ad-
minis;IatiOn is preparing TO let down
some Of the civil service bars TO
the office pastures. Mr.. Mckinley has
b-eu talking over the matter with the
civil service commission and two
OF his cabinet-Gage and Wilson
have publicly advocated modifying the
civil service rules a. applied to their
departments
Some surprise was expressed by Ohio
men who were not Inside the game, %
to speak, when Judge Day, Of that
state, who was supposed t. be prepar-
ing to 90 10 Cuba, a. q special Commits
sioner. allowed himself to be nominated
First Assistant Secretary of state. They
knew that Judge Day had resigned
two judgeships, both paying more sala-
ries than any of the Assistant Secreta-
ries get. and that he wasn't exactly the
sort II man who would care to be any.
b dv's assistant. Well, he is to be Sher-
mans assistant only in name. 81 far
as the matters he will handle arr con-
c-rned. he will be Secretary Of State,
and if Mr.. sherman. who i giving Wis
ible evidence that he ferls his age, 9 Is
ii ed OF the worry aud resigns, the
por'f lilo will be given To Judge Day.
What Mr.. Sherman thinks Of this pro
gram would make interesting reading,
but unless he concludes 10 add another
volume to his "Reccnllec ion" the pub
lie VIII have 10 be content with guess
ing. Had Sherman not been in Han
mas way in the Senate, be would never
have been made Secretary Of State, and
he would not BE- persuaded to with
draw il should he teuder his resigna-
ton.
Senator Foraker won his fight against
Bellamy Storrer, of Ohio, without hay-
ing 10 ask fIr votes in the Senate 10 re-
iect his nomination to be Assistant Sec
retarv Of State. Storer was nominated
Minister to Belgium instead, aud For
aker has no objections 10 his goiug
there.
Had twenty-five members vino Were
present but did not vote, supported
Representative 3 aud's appeal from the
decision OF the Speaker, refusing him
recognition to offer his resolution call
ing upon the Attorney General for iu-
formation as to what steps had been
taken to protect the interests of the
Government in relation to the sale Of
the Union Pacific Railroad, the Speak
er would have been defeated; as the
vote stood 81 for sustaining the Speaker
and - against Such a close call as
that ought TO convince Mr.. Reed that
he has got to be a little careful or he
will get a heavy th0w down some
day.
The death of Judge Holman, of Ind
so closely following that of eX Senator
Voorhees,, another distinguished son of
the Hoosier State, is deeply felt by the
old timers in Congress. Notwithstand-
ing his fame as an objector to bills car
rying appropriations he believed to be
unnecessary, no member of the House
had more personal friends. That he
valued the good will of his associates
was strikingly shown several years ago.
He was very poor and when approached
by publisher with a liberal offer, he
decided to write a book covering his
personal "reminiscences during his long
membership in the House, aud actu-
ally began the preliminary work.
About that time John Sherman's book
was published, and when he saw the
autagouism that was thereby aroused,
he concluded not to write a book.
When demonstrated with he said: ~
cannot do it. Every book of reminis-
cences that comes out only makes
trouble for the writer He is bound to
say something, even if he is innocent
of any mean intention, that will cause
heartburning and misunderstanding.
| must not let the end of my life
be cloude1 in such way"
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, said,
speaking of the future of the gold DEM
ocrats: "Some will remain in the Re-
publican party and the others will re-
turn to US. 1t is too early yet to pre-
diet what proportion will renew their
allegiance to Democratic principles,
but l think very considerable num-
Der will Those who are willing to
support Democratic principles will be
welcomed back. We shall be glad of
the assistance of any man who believes
as we do and votes with us; that is
sound Democracy. The gold DEM
ocrats may not be permitted to vote at
the primaries in some places, but that
5 local matter determined by local
sentiment. Generally speaking, the
Democrats who left the party last year,
because of the money question, will be
permitted to identify themselves with
the organization again, if they will sup
port our platform.