Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-23

III pm. OF that fact we are certain.
The President knows tire District of
Columbia we'll and it's necessities, and has
always proved himself to be it's true
friend. So We feel well assured that whe n
nc minated 1t will be found he has made
good selections throughout. Those to be
PC lsonally disappointed. and theif imme-
date friends will. of course not be able
10 see the proprieIy of his action dis
grCr Ting them: but the mass Of the COM
nlunity of the District of COLUMBIA. being
isr more interested in having the places
we'll filled. will hardly give the griefs
OF any one in such conn .ction second
thought. -
Those We're the days of the neighbor-
hood feua and the "stone battle" and the
sparse police force was
Swampoodle kept busy in some parts
.:44s of town suppressing fac
tional riots In The Star
of February Is, 1853. is this account of
such fight:
s'Yesterday Sunday afternoon the po-
lice were warned that an extensive riot
was brewing in that part of the fourth
ward known as 'Swampoodle' or the
Happy Hunting Ground The chief Of
/ police concentrated as many of his force
'
where there was collected crowd of $40
to 900 persons. of all colors. ages sexes
and descriptions, very much excited and
apparently ready to enter into general
fight with all kinds of weapons. The
chief of police. Justice Dom and the
officers were kept busy until after the
| auxiliary went on duty. in preventing an
outbreak. Two young men who were
prominent in the affair and would not
be persuaded to desist. were arrested.
The ARRAY, 1t appears. originated in an
| amcable snOwballing combat between the
Iiibernia Club and the 'Swipers.' and
ended, as rough sports sometimes will, in
al angry battle
The following protest. printed in The
Star of February II. 1858. should be read
in the light of the much
Witness greater difficulty of travel
ing through the country al
that time than at present:
Among the multitude of witnesses
called hither of late by authority Of the
House to testify before this or that Of
their interminable investigating commit
tees. are not a few brought here from
hundreds of miles distant. They must be
absent at the pleasure of the House COM
mittees from their own affairs for weeks
without the slightest regard to their own
business interests. The Emperor of Rus
STA cannot more imperiously direct the
whereabouts of his subjects on occasions
than these committees do as matter Of
course. Such witnesses are allowed as
compensation for their services but 81 per
diem. and their travelling expenses to and
FROM the federal metropolis. Congress
has frequently sent committees to dis
tant points-some to make investigations.
others to convey the remains OF deceased
members TO their last resting places. etc.
If we remember correctly. the House has
never yet failed to pay the actual cost
of such Journeys to its individual mem
berS. and there is no sound reason why
they should fail to pay to such witnesses
whate 1t may cost them. directly or
indirectly, to obey the mandates of their
committees. ="
This item. printed in The Star OF Feb
ruary ~. 1853. indicates that there was
some form Of government
District Jerk retirement system in
r..;s,.+;o,, vogue, half century ago.
supported by the employees ::
I'm the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Brown
from the committee on the District of
Columbia to which was referred the men,
orial of a committee of the Provident
Association Of Clerks. reported bill fur
ther to amend the act entitled. AN act
to incorporate the Provident Association
of Clerks in the civil departments of the
government of the United States
Also from the same committee SUBJ
mitted an adverse report on the memorial
OF the Institution for the Promotion of
Science at Washington asking an appro-
priatiOn to enable 1t 10 retain and support
in suitable manner the collections in it's
keeping.
Mr.. Pearce introduced a bill to incor-
porate the Washington National MOnu-
mcnt Society. which was referred to the
committee on the District of Columbia
The use of federal patronage as po-
liticai asset of the administration appears
from an editorial in The
feoeral Star Of February 20 1853.
Pa+ronona TO have then been as great
source of friction between
parties and factions as at present:
Northern journals holding that one
may fight the democratic party to the
death, upon questions wherein defeat is
death to it. and still pass for the very
best and most praisaworthy democratic
party men. have had their .phee links
shockingly outraged by the recent removal
of the pOstrnasters of Columbus. Ohio. and
CHlCdSO. Ill lie f-illduelDnla HfeSS, Tor
instance. groans over 1t as though sud
denly taken with a terrible fit of the
collie. The editor is evidently not an ad-
vOCate for Gen. Jackson's system of
dealing with officeholders who assumed
the responsibility of laboring to defeat
leading measures of his administration,
now that it cuts those patent democrats
who fight shoulder to shoulder and shield
to shield with the entire republican party
against the administration and the dem
ocratic party In Congress. The old hero's
system. however. not only worked well in
his own day. but has been approved by the
faithful of the party ever since Its
prompt adoption by James Buchanan
simply proves that he is determined to
follow in Jackson's footsteps in the de-
tails of his policy as well in the prin-
cries on which his policy is founded
CANNON.