The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-06-11

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WASHINGTON. June & 1879
This asek witresS+s u rrueanl of
caucus d. iibrra,i, n- The int House
and Senate caucus If TIE msj ssit,
were in deliberaiion long sitter mid
night this A NJ. There WIS q pro-
longed discussion aud u careful re-
view Of the political situation, and at
two O'Clock this morning the caucus
had not adjourned. The sub-commit-
fee submitted q report recommending
several important changes in the
manner of providing legislative. ex-
e%culiye aud judicial appropriations,
aud the indications are that the re-
port will be adopted, pnd become a
part of the new bill. In case these
indications shall be verified the new
bill will provide fer a joint resolution
extending for one year all approprIa-
lions granted by the act ofJune 10Th,
1878, for the legislative, judicial and
executive expenses of the government
for the current fiscal year. That act,
it will be remembered, provided for
the salaries of all United States Judg-
es, District Attorneys, and United
States Marshals, but made no appro-
priation for the Expenses of United
States courts" such as fees Of jurors
and witnesses, the safe keeping Of
prisoners, and the enforcement of the
laws protective OF The right of suf-
frage. The lump" appropriation Of
about $500, 000, 900 for judicial ex-
penses, usually made in the legisla-
tive, executive, and judicial bill, but
omitted from it last year, vas inserted
10 The "sundry civil bill," which
passed Congress al a Subsequent Pc
riod of the same session
The mere extension Of the act of
June l9.h, 1878. would, therefore,
leave the judicial expenses Of the
coming fiscal year ~unprovided fJr, 1t
is therefore proposed 10 supplement
the passage of The jJiot resolution
above indicated by The passage of a
new bill spproprialiDg 10 detail for
ell estimated Judicial expenses except
the per diem,s Of supervisors and depu-
" marshals of elections, and contain
ing also The clause which was agreed
upon last Saturday, TO provide that
~ ,ficer shall be sppsinred aud nV
c5ligalion incurred for any purpose
10, specifically appropriated for By
Congress Tits supplemental appro
psiition bill j. also 10 emb ,dy those
secti rs If The vetoed appr, priation
bill witch provide Tor amendments OF
The Law respecting the method OF
drawing jlries aud for The 10 nj aho-
lition IT the ~ju-ure' test oath The
commi.tre's rec mmendAtion 10 re
gard IT, The asmy appropriation bill
will according tu The present OUT
look, be the same as has been pre-
%viously stated.
Yesterday was the occasion of a
memorial meeting in honor of the
memory of the late VIM. Lloyd Gar
rison at the 18th Street Presbyterian
chuch. Letters were read from Presi-
dent Hayes snd Senators Cooking,
Dawes, and Edmunds. Resolutions
we're submitted and adopted with an
amendment By Mira. Belva A Lock-
wood "that ia the death Of VIM. l.
Garriso On the country has lost a liberal
aud progressive thinker and worker
whose sense Of justice ever recogniz-
ed the equality Of woman and her
right to all the privileges of Ameri'
can citizenship" The feature Of the
occasion was a very eloquent and i'm
pressive address delivered by Mar
shall Frederick Douglass 10 which
he Introduced personal "reminiscences,
and spoke particularly of the time
when he first met the deceased, forty
years sgo, aud heard him speak in
Liberty Hall.
An unique funeral ceremony took
place yesterday at the residence of q
deceased brother of Col. X. G. Inger
soil. Among those who were present
to pay their last respects to the
memory of the dead were Secretary
Sherman, Senators Blaine, Voorhees,.
David Davis, General Schehck, and
many others prominent in politics and
in the legal profession. No larger
assemblage of distinguished person
ages has been seer in this city, on q
funeral occasion, since the death of
Vice President Wilson. The occa-
sion was without religious ceremony.
The remains we're viewed by the
friends Of the deceased, aud Colonel
Ingersoil pronounced owe the body
OF his brother a brief, eloquent and
touching Grafton When Col Inger-
soil ceased speaking the members Of
the family approached the casket and
looked for the last time on the face OF
the deceased. His son and an adopt.
ed daughter were go affected that
they tainted away. and had to be
borne from the room. The pail bear
ers were Senators Blaine, David Da-
vie, Allison, Vcrhees. Representatives
Garfield, and Stevenson. The sad
procession moved to Oak Hill ceme-
terry where the mortal remains of the
ex-C onglessman were placed in their
last resting place.
C.. A. S.
Lynehing In California.