The Arizona sentinel., 1897-04-24
Washington Letter.
(Fro1. Cur Regular Correspondens.)
Washington, April 18th, 189

ACo-ueA1 MCAlnI6y leGuInS' from his little outing much inprov ed. The weather was more or les
 disagreeable during the entire tim
 he spent on the Dolphin, but h.
 got what he went after and wha
 he needed most-rest. He was a
 his desk today looking fresher tha, for several weeks.
 Jerry Simpson made an attemp to prove that he was bigger mal than the entire House, but he onl, proved himself monkey. H, thought, or rather he thought tha he thought, that he could eompe Speaker Reed to appoint the Com mlttees and the House to go ahead with miscellaneous business, al- though majority had decided that the legislation of the extra session should be confined to passing the leftover appropriation bills and the tariff bill, both of which the House has done. Jerry made the point of mo quorum" to prevent the House adiourning from Satur. day to Wednesday, but Speaker Reed had no difficulty in counting quorum, and Jerry found himself down while the House adjourned Whether he intends to get himself knocked down every tims the House meets just for the notoriety there is in it, is yet to be seen. It is evident that Speaker Reed re- gards Jerry merely as an amusing little cuss."
 Secretary Alger, under whose direction the $20O,OO0 appropriated last week by Congress, for the re- lief of sufferers by the floods in the Mississippi valley, will be spent, lost no time in putting the machin- cry of the War Department to work in order that prompt relief might be extended, wherever needed. It may be hard thing to say, but it is strictly true that the Cleveland administration was responsible for much of the damage done by the Mississippi river floods, by it's policy of delay iu spending money appropriated by Congress to strengthen and raise up the levees along the Mississippi river at those points where U. s. Engineer of ficers had reported the necessity of such work. Reports are on file in the War Department from engineer officers, made after Congress had appropriated, the money, urging that contracts be made and the work pushed on these levees, but it was the Cleveland-Carlisle policy to hold back appropriations as long as possible, and these floods came before the strengthening of the levees had been completed. A number of the breaks are at the points reported weak by the Engi- neers and ordered to be strengthen ed by Congress. For all the damage done by these particular breaks the Cleveland admlnistra- ton is clearly responsible.
 President McKinley's announced policy of reinstating all ex-Union soldiers who were dismissed from office by the Democrats for no other reason than their politics, is being carried out in all of the government departments as fast as the heads of the departments can get around to the cases. In the cases of the chiefs of divisions, the Democrats are being given better treatment than they gave Republicans. They are allowed to remain in office, in a lower position, instead of being dismissed, as Sc many Republicans were under the last administration.
 4 Republican Senator speaking of the talk in regard to the ap- pointnent of Hon. Theodore Roose- welt, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy being likely to make trouble, said: Roosevelt may make trouble in the Navy Depart ment, but if he does it will be in