The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-05-12
WARRINGTON LETTER.
By Our Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. Nav !. 1850.

w AsHlNUiOS, May >, 1851.
The District of Columbia appropri-
alton bill without any material
amendments was passed by the House
oD Tuesday in the shape reported by
the appropriation committee. The
passage of this bill puts the House
ahead, of its appropriation committee
in the dispatch of business. The lat
ter committee bas not now ready,
any appropriation bill to report, nor
will il have any this week.
Next week il is expected that the
legislative, executive, and judicial
bill will be completed and reported,
TO be followed with the postal bill
There are four appropriation bills yet
to be appropriated, viz: The legis-
lative, executive and judicial. the
river and harbor, and the general de-
iiciency. None OF these will contain
any riders. Should the President
sign tie army bill and the immediate
deficiency bill, there is q well ground
ed belief that Congress will adjourn
sine die by July Is,. If, however,
be vetoes these bills, and the Demo
Gratis again lock horns with the Pres
ident, OF course the final adjournment
will be delayed There are conflict
ing rumors as to what the President
will do. A good many Republicans
say that be will veto both bills. bu,
no one who makes the sc .temant has
other than mere belief To uase upon.
The friends OF General Grant, hope
that vetoes will be forth conn q, for
they indulge 10 the belief .nat ,uch q
course on the part of th Pr, sident
will stir uD the Democrat, provoke
sectional debate, aud the net re-
suit will be to strengthen the strong
mans canvass" The Democrats be-
lieve that the Presiden. will sign
both bills, because he signed last
years army bill with the identicai
aneadmens wich is in this years,
and that ne vii sign The deficiency
bill because the msrshaI's amend
ment was originally offered by Gen
eral Garfield, and is really Repub-
lican compromise.
The present House of Representa-
tiyes has been made the victim of de.
iberate imposition on the part of its
own members, so that the existence
of a mania may fairly be suspected,
Mr.. Acklen, Of Louisiana, first show
ed symptoms oft in February, when
be presented and got printed re.
port purporting TO come from the |
committee on Foreign Affairs, but in |
reality an Unauthorized concoction of
his own; and that he has not recoy-
cred is proved by his introduction |
last week of a bill having no relation |
to the report was supposed to accom-
pany ana justify 1t, aud which on |
investigation, turned out to be pls-
giarism from Chief Justice Marsha! |
IN q famous case 10 be found in the |
law books. The contagion reach |
ed the delegate from Wyoming Ter
ritory, MIR. Stephen, W. Downey, |
who introduced bill providing for
the certain painting on the walls OF
the National CapltoI"-namily, to
commemorate ''tbe birth, life, death,
and resurrection of Christ, as told 10
the four Gospels, and, on the follow
ing day, was accorded the permission
to print his argument in favor of the
bill. A week ago this argument sp-
peared, covering the first fifteen
pages Of the Congressional Record,
and copyrighted by the author. 1t
consists Of poem entitled The In
mortals," IN Wyoming blank verse,
interspersed with metrIcal quotations /
from Dante, Tennyson, tine Rock of
Ages etc, and adorned with picto-
rial emblem. g. A, 5.