The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-16
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

JoHx KENNA. of West Virginia. is the young
est member of the House.
IT is believed in Washington that no action
will be taken this session respecting q bankrupt
law.
GEN. AuauR has been ordered to the COM
mand Of the Department of Texas by the War
Department.
THE Public Printer is to be called to account
for not having yet issued the Agricultural Re
port for 1879.
An effort is to be made in Congress to place
Grant on the retired list, with the full pay of
Lieutenant General.
IT is possible that General Fitz-John Porter
will be placed ON the retired list of the army
with the rank of Colonel.
II is stated that Senator Blaine will make an
effort to pass bill reducing letter postage
from three to two cents an ounce.
SENATOR Roscoe was not present during tho
opening DAYS of Congress. He was detained
in New York by an important lawsuit.
CONGRESSMAN NEwBERRY, Of Detroit, desires
now President of the Michigan Car Company.
TIE brewers are well represented in Wash
ington City, and in order that the machinery
may be well oiled are entertaining their friends
(Congressmen) with dinners.
SENATOR INGALLS, will press his bill provid-
ing for the reissue of fractional currency. He
is of opinion that the public need it for trans
mission through the mail.
THE matter of removing the Internal Revenue
tax from bank checks, friction matches, patent
medicines ETC.. has been referred by the Ways
and Means Committee to the sub committee on
Internal Revenue.
IT is understood that Associate Justice
Swayne, of the Supreme Court, will shortly
tender his resignation, and it is intimated that
Hon. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, will be ap-
pointed to the vacancy.
THERE has recently arrived at the Washing
ington Moument site stone from the Memo
rial Chapel of William Tell, in the canton Of
Uri, Switzerland, erected in 1888, on the spot
where Tell is said to have escaped from the ty
rant Gesler.
COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE G. W. At
KINsoN, of Louisville. KY, has been ordered
to proceed to Louisiana for the purpose of in
vestigating the difficulties alleged to exist at
Lake Providence, and to report thereon to the
Commissioner as early as practicable.
FRANK HURD, of Ohio, entertains much
warmth for his tariff resolution. Respecting
it, he says: ~ intend to press it, in season
and out of season, by day and by night, op-
portunely and inopportunely-no henceforth
and forever" Almost anybody can understand
that sort of English.
When the late Representative Rush Clark, of
Iowa. died, Mr.. Farr, of New Hampshire took
his desk in the House, which had been occu-
pied by Mr.. Clark. As already announced, Mr..
Farr died q few days ago, and now no other
member wants to take the fatal desk.
SENATOR LAMAR-so news from Mississippi
state-wil perhaps never sit i'll the Senate
again. He has had two strokes of paralysis
and is threatened with third. At the session
last winter he was much given to melancholy,
and would sometimes pass his most intimate
friends without speaking. He said to a CORES
pondent one day, Il am trying to leave my
mind absolutely fallow. feed that it is over
stocked with richness. spend hours in striy-
ing to render my mind barren as possible.
Any other course but this leads to death"
The first popular National obstacle that has
been placed in the way of the silver dollar comes
from South Carolina, which State was one of
! the foremost in demanding silver. The Treas
| ury Department has been Informed that in
! yer certificates at par, and that as cOnse-
| quence the merchants and planters decline
| them. The bank takes this action, it says, be-
| cause they fear the coinage of the silver dollar
| at the present rate would soon cause its depre-
citation and consequently depreciation of the
certificates.
| REPRESENTATIVE KELLY, of Pennsylvania,
has prepared substitute for the Refundine
| Bill pending before Congress. 1t provides that
| the Secretary of tho Treasury shall be author
lied to give notes in the amount of $400, ,000,-
| 600, of denominations not less than $40, bear
ing interest at q rate not exceeding per cent.
per annum; redeemable at the pleasure of the
United States after one year, and payable il
ten years from date of issue, but not more OF
said notes shall be redeemed in any one fiscal
year than the amount of the Sinking Fund fol
that year, and the particular notes to be re.
deemed from time to time shall be determined
by lot, under such rules rs the Secretary of the
/ Treasury shall prescribe.