The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-04-19
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Our letter from Washington.

Work done il Congrcas.-TAe House Organ
izci. - Tie North and South Balaccd.-
Tie Senate Changes. A Treasury Ro-
nance.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 70, 1879.
Congress is troubled with "many men Of
many minds" We have been surfcitcd with
speeches, besides the fnnumcrablc pages that
have gone to the Record to be printed. Every
afternoon six or seven huge covered express
wagons are in waiting to convey away Con-
grcsslonll matter-a hail-storm of Records,
newspapers, reports and documents to shower
down on the country. All these things, how
ever, speeches and endless debates may be the
ends to the means according to Michael
Angelo, 'the tri1cs that max perfection, and
perfection is no trihe"
The distribution of committee honors seem
to have given pretty general satisfaction 10
the members Of the House, and many of them
hunted the speaker, after adjournment yes
tcrday to congratulate him. The chairman
ships are divided equally between the North
and South twenty-six to cach-aLd in point OF
importance the division is about rs even as in
number. Ten new members are given good
committees viz: Messrs McLanc, Converse,
Wise, Whitcaker COfIrOth, Stevenson, Iadd,
Dcnster, Hostclter and Geddes. The Green
hackers were well provided for, and express
cd themselves as highly pleased with the
! places given them. Two Of their number were
/ given chairmanships and tho others were put
/ on committees where they will have full op-
portunity 20 get their theories of legislation
] I.N, q To a.. Inn,, Il
ing and Currency committee and MIR. De La
Matyr on Coinage. The latter said last night
that his party had been treated very hand
somcly. The chief interest was centered in
the Ways and Means and Banking and Cur
rcncy committees as they will have control ot
the tariff and financial legislation. of tho
first named it is known that all the Demo
cratic members favor a revision OF the tariff
while the Republicans ali oppose it. Mcssrs
Morrison. Tucker, Carlisle, Mills, FELTON, an,
Gibson want tariff for revenue only, and &
is already said they will revise the Morrison
hill ofthe Forty-fourth Congress. Mr.. Woo,
also believes in that principal but does not q
quite SO far as others named. He will brin:
before the committee his bill OF the last Con
gress, so II is said, but no attempt to ever re
port any bill Of that character Will be mad
until the regular session next winter. Til
Republican members, Mcssrs Garfield, Kel
! ley, Congcr, FRYE and Donnell believe In Pre-
lection. Tho Banking and Currency com
mittee is regarded as conservative on finau
ces. Mcssrs, Buckncr, Ewing, Davis, Levi:
Ladd and Fort are elassed as soft-money me
4 while Lounsberry, Crittenden, Price an
Crapo arc for hard money. MIR. Young
e moderate In his financial views. of cOurs
, the committee has not indicated what It wi
S do, but the members Of the House, who wan
. immediate financial legislation, believe the
will get It this session. OF the committee o
{ Elections, Mr.. Springer is the only member G
last Congress who remains.
|, In the United States Senate we have mint
. teen ex-Coniederate and only four Union so
: dlers, in the House ilty-etght ex-ConGederat
and Rfty-one Union soldiers. great man
5 more changes have been among the employe,
,. than was at first expected, MIR. Ben Perle
e Poore, CLERK Of Public Reeords-so long
1 this place II was supposed no other man eoul
MI 1t is succeeded by Mr.. Frank Ric hardsol
il the able and popular journalist Of the Bait
, more sun. Mr.. Pooro is the compiler Of II
I Congressional Directory, for which Congres
A men furnish sketches oftheir lives, and whic
n contains the departments outline Of woi an
?. other valuable Information,
n Since last wrote have ohanced to find
4 record l made IN 1870 Of romance Of Il
5 Treasury which occurred then, and which go
u to prove, as did the other instances recite
that numerous honorable gentlemen Of weaIt
y and position have found wives amoung Iadl
l. employed there. A former U. s. Minister
;. China, dying left a widow and two or thr,
\ children with very small income for the
=, support. She was advised by a friend to o.
4 ply for a clerkshlp in the Treasury, which 81
&c obtained and retained two or three year
Q faithfully dlscharging her duties. She was
Al lady Of superior education and intelllgenl
u and more than ordinary beauty. While
- clerk she met here gentleman who though
her htted tor a more agreeable life than ear
.e ing meagre support for herself and ehildr,
e in the confined air Of the Treasury. lie Wro
y TO friend in Connecticut, a millionaire, dc
,f cTih i the lady, sud Invited him to this ell