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Show Washington Letter- The Erst weik of the new administration administra-tion has been much like the first week of other administrations, crowding, bistle, and more or less confusion everywhere, Tho President and the members of his cabinet have beea given time to do little else than receive the thousands who have called on them, some merely to pay their respects and offer -congratulations, others, probably a majority, to put in a good word for themselves or friends who want office. The chances of C. W. Edwards, of ft iluiington Beleware. who was reported repor-ted to have been slated for government printer, are believed to have been re duced to the zero point, by the delegation delega-tion of Union printers which came here early in ihe week and presented to President Pre-sident Cleveland in the name of organized organ-ized labor, a pretest against bis appoint meut, because of his being opposed to labor unions and having himself been at one time a 'Tat" printer. The silver democrats are already accusing ac-cusing President Cleveland of making war upon them because of their financial finan-cial opinions and some of Mr. Cleveland's Cleve-land's injudicious friends are largely responsible for the accusation, They have told it everywhere that it was the views of ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, on silver that prevented his being a member of the cabinet and some of them do not hesitate to say that it is the intention of the administration to use the patronage at its disposal to make votes in Congress for the repeal of the Sherman silver law; and others assert that the fight that is now going on among the democratic Senators to prevent Senator Vorhees getting the chairmanship of the finance committee to whiebfhs is by all the rules of pro-cedence pro-cedence clearly entitled, was instigated by the administration, There must be no trust in these accusations, but they are made and discussed among men who are in positions to know what they are talking about. That's why I repeat them. ' The widow of Gen, Grant evidently is not superstitious even a little bit. Having Hav-ing sold her New York house and made up her mind to make her permanent home in-Washington, and liking the loeation of the house in wh'ch Mr. Blaine died, which has been the scene of so many sad occurrences, she has made Mrs. Blaine an offer for the property. There are lots of people in Washington who would not live in that house if it was given to them. Some eemment has been made on account ac-count of the manner In which the demo cratic Senators have treated the popu list Senators. Sometime ago when it looked as though the votes of the popu lists would be necessary to control the Senate they were the recipients of con s'.ant attention, but now the democrats have enough votes of their own, and they did net hesitate to slight Senator Peffer, Kyle and Allen by not extending them the conrtesy of an invitation to at tend their caucus, It is doubtful whether either of these gentleman would have attended tho caucus, but they would have appreciated the courtesy cour-tesy of an invitation. Senator Martin of Kansas, attended the democratic can cua. He classes himself as a democrat with populist sympathies, and the demo crats have accepted that classification There is a disposition to "poke fun" at the hosts of democratic office-seekers now in Washington, because of the fact that the first man appointed to a minor position by the Cleveland administration administra-tion was a negro. The negro In question ques-tion was appointed door-keeper to the ollice.of the President's private secretary He heal the same positiou during the first Cleveland administration, and his reappointment is very cheering to the "baok numbers." as the applicants who held office nnder Mr. Cleveland before have been jokingly named. They retort by calling the new applicants "tender feet." The crowd has np to this time been in a jolly good humor, bnt what it will be later remains to be seen. The Hawaiian business took on a fresh complication with the arrival of Frin cess Kauilani, this week but everybody is still in the dark as to the posit.on of the new administration towards Hawaii If anyone expected any definite infor malion as a result of the Investigation ' made into the condition of the Treasury present and prospective by the House committee on Ways and Means they were badly disappointed with the two reports presented by the majority and minority of that committee, early this week. It wonld have been difficult for the reports to have been wider apart in the conclusions drawn, the democrats ex 1 pressing the belief that the close of the fiicalyear beginning July 1, 1893, will find the Treasury $30,000,000 or $40,000 tOO in debt, and the republicans that there will neither be a drticit nor a cur plus large enough to cause any incon . venience. Between these two reports the unprejudiced public, which does not look at the matter through partisan political spectacles, may take Its choice or make its own gness. i |