| Show washington LETTER the new ad ministration administration like a new broom sweeps clean but the sweeping is ie only just juel begun benun and there is so mu much cla rubbish that ueda sleeping seeping into the refute refuse pile that it would woula be dieky to predict the final outcome of the sweeping however that should not prevent credit being given lor for whai has baa been dou doot the pru of what plaat will be aone can wait few if auy any practical men of affairs ever transacted any business ot at magnitude with the government without becoming that there was need of reform both in the she method and manner of doing business in the departments that there was too reu tape anu tuo too many malay empi employee oyes it was this bond ment that canoed the adoption adopt lou ot of an amendment tu to an bill at the last fast session of congress appointing a joint COD congressional gressional committee to investigate the departments and report as ae tu IL now bow the ibe mathous may be improved and the number bumber of employed emp loyes without detriment to the public service thim thia has sibo ateo aten adol akoteu teu by the alun an and a number ot of ueless employee emp loyes have abreau been dismissed from the treasury anu and agricultural deparI MAULS lad and the promise maue that the sine cures and barnacles barnacled barn acles are to be weeded out in all the rest real of them as fast as tile the neada of departments can locate them what has been done is a tep step in the right direction and if the lion will only keep its promise to put the departments oil a purely buban bb basis it will deserve too the thanks of every taxpayer in the land but it is 18 no easy task as those familiar with the situation know tor for the sinecures aine sine cures and the barnacles barnacled barn acles are the very ones who have the strongest pull both political pol and social and more than one admi dis tr at I 1 OLI has failed in sincere 1 I attempts to 10 0 fit them the daily scenes at the white house are very amusing to the low lew 1 who have nothing at stake aud and who lv k dont care a brass who gets the plums the tun ion it so 80 apparent to the waiters and bobera hopers to fully enjoy the thing one must have been here from the beginning of the administration when senators and re presenta tives stalked into the white while house with a sort of vve got to lo have bave ena em air while their admiring followed with an ou on I 1 am amail all right smile several attempts have be been made to have state delegations act to 14 concert iu in recommending men fo for appointment but all of them have been abandoned and it Is now a question af t t very senator and member getting gelling whatever he be can whether the other fell w gets a athing or not the applicants and their congressional backers have all ail dropped their overconfident over confident air anti ana they now approach president cleveland in a please may inay I 1 have lt it style the lat lat 1 three weeks in wahington wa hington edington ought to have convinced any outsider who has been hereof here of ane tolly of becoming au an office seeker hue but candor compels me to say that they bieu at aud aid that some who were at first werely merely onlookers have allowed theno themselves selves to become t mee seekers the new order c osing the offices of the members of the to the public on tuesdays and fridays the days on which the cabinet meets to is not popular either with 0 congressmen office seekers or business men ahl wish to see these gentlemen gentle meu on mondays president cleveland sees no one ui u less jess by special appointment senac r martin ol of kanow says say that belbas assurances that the populists lists of his state will be recognized in the distribution trib ution of federal patronage noi noe withstanding the popular impression to the contrary the threat of the republican senators to resort recurt to filibustering it if the De democrats to elt delict elict ct the officers nomita nominated tea by their caucus win will it is believed result in postponing the election of the officers until the regular session A number of senators are not disposed to take part iu in any controversy as they have made arrangements arrangement range ran gement ments to leave town as am the vote is taken upon the question of seating beating the appointed senators regardless ol of whether the senate shall adjourn or remain in session the old superstition about its being bad luck rr r r a jolted halted states senator to build a house in washington Wes hington is ie re called by the announcement that the elegant residence erected by senator sawyer of wa wisconsin coasin not three years ago has been leased fr fir a 8 period of six years beginning the first of next june to senator stockbridge of michigan who to is to keep up the repairs pay the taxes and pay an annual rental ol of for it rho fhe rent Is considered cheap as the house bouse is valued at 15 5 those people who bel eve that the title ambassador 1 will add dignity and influence to american ministers abroad ought to be happy as under a law of the last congress Con gres the president ezit to la authorized to send ambassadors to such european countries s as send ambassadors bass adors to us up and ana england and france have already promoted thel the Amer american ician ministers to ambassadors wonder what old ben franklin anu other sturdy american ministers abroad in the early days of the republic would think of this |
