Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-27

s" The new Congress has brought
Hous' ~ ofice-seekers with IT, and
resident is besieged almost as
" ,.h as he was at the beginning OF ms
n ,.,nistration. found thirty people
auI unc their heels in his ante-room
called at the Executive Man
hn'' ,ho other morning, and l spent
NVH Adv there watching the crowd
VI, .s and 60, and studying the manner
u which business is done.
,prs1pENT MrKINLEY's MAIL
s.ar,tv after | arrived the first mail
'me in 1t was brought from the Guy
'Aia se,ce in the war department Wa
and the driver carried the great
EO"' MON his shoulders to the second
Das and dumped them down in the
NV ,,s counting room. This room
the north side of the Executive
s,..s,on. facing Lafayette Square II
= allied with clerks, some OF Whom
a,,liur typewriters so noisily that
oou hardly hear yourself thihk'
o,bars are sorting letters. Some are
Ting and others are reading news
II is here that the mail is
Ind There are about thousand
,.,ars every day, and the newspapers
~ oome in every morning would
,.noly good-sized village with read
w. matter for n month. the chiet
work is with the letters. There Is about
s,,ndred in the mail this morning
a,.orv one of them has to be read
hr,ofed in order to save the gray
~.,,er of the President and his secre-
.-,r First the letters are sorted. The
,.a,o letters of the President and
H., Mckinley are taken out, ana the
,''.rca are pitched one by one, into
.'r.rort baskets, according to then
en1,'t importance. The clerk VINO
aYl W. them Knows he hand writing
VIZ g.s, most promlnent men of the coun-
"a he can tell almost at a glance
w VT, letters as demand immediate at
thtion .,o,,>,
LETTERS BOILED DOWN
,osr sorting. the letters are boiled
Az. Az r,he mice is sucked out of each
v ,hs,n and only the condensed eN-
~, GOES 10 the President y letter
,t twenty pages is put into nVe lihes'
yoIuminous document into
~ The men who read the letters
Trte few lines across the upper
.n.hand corner of the first page OF
,srh letter, showing just what Is III ~.
rhis is for Secretary Porter, VINO, py
,bis means. can grasp the whole man
T.. ,' short lime and direct the making
rr AZ set of briefs for the President.
Tts letters themselves never get to
,ha President He viii not see dozen
IN, at six hundred which came in inns
morning. This Is also the case as to
his personal and private correspond
| ance All of the letters are brieted.
and they are put in such order that
sny Of them can be given to the fresi-
6pnt at a moments notice. II he so
desires. Sometimes brief does not
IN all he wants and he calls for the
liter itself. In answering his mail
President Mckinley directs Secretary
porter what to say. He writes no ans
vprs himself, and does not even die
1te the replies to n stenographer lie
las little time to use the pen. and al
most the only letter which re writes
i the one which goes daily from here
70 his old mother at Canton,
FOR THE PRESIDENTS EYE
ONLY.
As we look at the letters we see that
me marks on the envelopes give no
Nea Of the contents. Many of the let
;.r are addressed personal" and
Private by men who think that this
vii bring their letters directly to the
resident. In most cases such letters
are from oillce-seekers, and most OF
ihsm the President never sees, They
sle referred by a printed form to the
at -. g.I, ta.1s 1A1A
Here is one marked Confidential
The writer wants consulshlp. 1t
t'ss to the state department. There Is
t1other marked For the Presidents
gs any" Mr.. Cortelyou, the eX-
eltve clerk opens it. 1t Is also from
man who wants Office. Hero is
aird on the outside of which is writ
Ten Important. Not to be opened by
he secretary" That letter comes
ION crank, who wants to tell the
resident Of new version of the
bole' and so 1t goes. Many of the
thsr letters, however, are very i'm
Piiant. As ! see the mail opened
''d brefed | notice how carefully
ntrythlng Is handled. There is not a
laner which ia misplaced. Every in
.aSufe Is fastened by clip to the
Eyer itself, and, though already more
nlh one hundred thousand letters
,-Ve been received since the 4th of
Aaeh | am told that not n single
XXI mas boen lost. Every letter
ass be carefully Watched. There are
INV which are unanswered. but there
tsiks
THANKS WHO WRITE To THE
PRESIDENT.
w US stop n moment and look over
,lAs o. the other letters. 1t Is easy to
= why they should not be shown to
PRESIDENT. II every one was i'm
r~uht he could not read and an
,, mem all. Think what thousand
tt,a DAY means! If he took n
ra --Ie 10 letter and worked without
rtp pa rom o'clock in the morn
III 1 o,.i : o'clock at night he could
rWF SIX hundred letters in day.
,rr hundred letters would be left I'M
~ .l and he would run behind
rn,lhg like 'hrec thousand letters
H., More than half OF these let
ts,t, "e ron office seekers. The
nm ,.ghlors'and what to do with
ts,lst. ney are referred to the high
orsa VI the various departments.
iays number are from cranlSs who
sorA az" ~, methods of reforming the
nv or. mere arc cranks who think
Tbs u,art nc treasury and cranlls
or5er y me President to move out,
~ scoras theY may move in. There
81 ANU VI people who write asking
sr. autographs and photorrnuhs,
ntn Seht Mrs Mckinley to send
iitsdHans,e atument and others write the
sssssge 'pr an autograph page of his
-'uAHs WHO TRY TO WORK
n., MCKINLEY.
NJ % segggars are the worst of the lot
m ,nssluentS salary could ba snent
'vs rh 1ver in satisfying the re-
fsps, rush come into the White
ukz,,,s. us take a look at that pile
"s letters which has come This