Show IVIS HINGTON lettell LETTL ll mm our or own owa betit washington 1680 day in III washington vm its as it usually la Is tho the only dutille iu ilic demonstration ed was a parade by the fire depart input but that wm polled by the I 1 torrents orre n is or ario there were family rf unions reunion 4 and that represented I 1 inn ho highest cul culinary inary skill of efem each h hodis imlig services tit itt the chuff chure heb clason dopart department part ment and liberated clerks while nt orphan asylums and public institutions it the ta Ini inmates nates additions to t their e t r ordinary ti bill 1 of f faro fare tie of 1 charitable the c ily city has bas a sombre now dow on account of the arthur mourning flags flagg fly at halt half mass from hund hundreds of nf and public buildings tire are heavily draped in bluck black it Is quite an item of to tile the government to put up tip official mourning it took twenty men three days to arpa the patent offlie billee alone each of its big pillars and there are are forty eight in ull all I 1 required forty foty yards of bunting al alltop I 1 together ether about yards yarda were used for the interior department at a cot bottar not far front 1600 when this Dep department ailment was waa draped for gen grant the cost wua was nearly 1700 but a great deal of new I 1 ew material was wai purchased at that t t ain e some ot which wua u utilized fi arvice I 1 president Is dricks and some of Is how flow being used for the third time of course tile the expense of or draping the interior department is greater than that of any other because it includes the office indian oance pension bureau bureau bureau of education the others which ore are all in separate buildings the coat of drap lne other depart ments is about or each The superintendent of the post office mee department Dep artmen t for instance Is ed to econom economise ise lie ho buys the bunting and employs his big town own map and carpon lerg to do the worl wor clook klook log ing alter after it himself the bunting buntine used costs cents a yard it remains up fur thirty days ind and then it Is taken down and such of atas it as is not tattered and faded by the wind and rain la Is packed away auy for the next accessions ot of public sorrow the president has completed portions of his bla message to congress and has rend read them to the cabinet the message will be shorter this year than ban last t which ts Is a kind kiad of reform that will but bo approved by everybody atie presidents friend sas well as his it alleged kept busy denying g what the newspapers accuse them of saying and thinking and lanning iiii and attempt lne ills his old faw CLiD iw partner mr bissell who has just been hero here denies ever having to influence thi making lie says mr Cleveland whom ho he know knew so a Sher lff mayor and governor always discharged theouties the duties or of those base offices advice or assistance asali tance and he believes he wl bo be equally successful in llis his present trust he ha also denies having ha vine ao ad the pros ident to selli his country places aas as quickly quick lyss as possible because of the bo gossip about the syndicate formed over his hia property to advance real state estate la in that direction ant and fie nater edmunda unaa the dentici 10 called bitter bittel foe denies some ome things ile he deuley beis beh h preparing an n attack to ha be mado made this winter upon the presidents civil service policy and he says the be at kumpt to criticize cleveland in connee connection lion with be purchase of ills country homo a u ifal r ra exten alve fin enta t contemplated id thu oak view haive borowa public necessity anaw the h subject came up IQ in congress lont be e rare fore the president had bad ever seen thi the place placed one of senator edmunds Eul mands con coin is indignant at the allegation thattie that he senator intends to be ba come A cand candidate bdate for the presidency denci in 1888 ile he says air edmunds bas baa a lort loftier ler ambition namely to rp rep resent ont try jn tile the united states senate an and that th the green mountain state will allow hm him that privilege egaas as loo as lid he lives 11 why asked he be d great statesman want waft a eimil position like likai that of dispensing to which the ille presidency has degenerated derene rated this reminds pie me ol of what mt mr jos howard jr says about journalism ana politics he thinks thinka mr 1 cum cam tha new york journalist re ra bently elected to congress ja ia taking 6 a step in the wrong wrone direction by cpr talking un an honorable position in that sphere n order to go to congles Con gres 1 mr r explains his reasons or coming to congress by say saying i ng that hat he be simply dimply wants to ret get behind behin the he scene in in politics in order to make himself more competent and useful tit in journalism he duio intention of giving up his big newspaper work the experience will be ot of great ad vantage to mr but bat itulid it is not coltrin that his constituents mill will approve hil bia motive |