The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-16
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

JOHN 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 a bankrupt
law
GEN. Aueun has been ordered to the com.
nand 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 q
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.
IT is stated that Senator Blaine will make an
effort to pass a bill reducing letter postage
from three to two cents an ounce.
SENATOR ROSCOE was not present during the
opening days of Congress. He was detained
In New York by an important lawsuit.
C~oNGREssMAN NEwBERRY, of Detroit, desires
to be Secretary of the Navy. Mr.. Newberry is
now President of the Michigan Car Company.
The brewers are well represented in Wash
1ngton 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 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 Monument site q stone from the Memo
rial Chapel of William Tell, in the canton of
Uri, Switzerland, erected in 1883, 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: 81 intend to press it, in season
and out Of season, by day and by night, op.
portunely and inopportunely-now, hencefortt
and forever" Almost anybody can understand
that sort of English.
THERE seems to be a fatal desk in tho House
When the late Representative Rush Clark, Of
Iowa, died, Mr.sFarr, of New Hampshire tool
his desk in the House, which had been occu
pied by Mr.. Clark. As already announced, Mr..
u ulOu q lew uuyb dSO, dlu uOW uO OIQ6l
member wants to take the fatal desk.
SENATOR LAMAR-so news from Mississippi
state-wil perhaps never sit in the Senate
again. He has had two strokes of paralysis
and is threatened with a 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 O CORES
pendent one day, Il am trying to leave m,
mind absolutely fallow. I feel that it is over
stocked will richness. / spend hours in striy
ing to render my mind as barren as possible
Any other course but this leads to DEATH"
The first popular National obstacle that hal
been placedin the way of the silver dollar come
from South Carolina, which State was one O
the foremost in demanding silver. The Treas
ury Department has been informed that il
Chester, S. c., the banks refused to receive sill
yer certificates at par, and that as a conse
quence the merchants and planters declin
them. The bank takes this action, it says, be
cause they fear the coinage of the silver dolla
at the present rate would soon cause its depre
citation and consequently depreciation of tn
certificates.
REPRESENTATIVE KELLY, of Pennsylvania
has prepared q substitute for the Refundin,
Bill pending before Congress. 1t provides tina
the Secretary of the Treasury shall be author
lied to give notes in the amount of $500, 900,
600, of denominations not less than $40, bear
ing interest at q rate not exceeding 8 per cent
per annum; redeemable at the pleasure of TIL
United States after one year, and payable il
ten years from date of issue, but not more O
said notes shall be redeemed in any one fisca
year than the amount of the Sinking Fund 70
that year, and the particular notes to be re
deemed from time to time shall be determine,
by lot, under such rules as the Secretary of tn,
Treasury shall prescribe.