The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-03
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK will at
tend the Inauguration ceremonies. O..
Mr.. MITCHELL, of Pennsylvania, is in favor
of Mr.. Regans Interstate Commerce Bill.
GOVERNOR HENRY D. CooKE is lying danger
ously Ill at his residence with Bright's disease.
SENATOR HEREFORD wants $50, 600 appropri-
ated to improve Big Sandy River in West Viz
ginia. .
1t is said that Ex-Secretary Thompson will
remove with his family to Indiana early next
month.
FROM present appearances, Senator Malone,
of Virginia, will act with the Republicans IN
securing the organization of the Senate.
The Supervising Architect of the Treasury
has prepared advertisements for bids for the
completion of the Public Building at Paducah,
Kentucky.
AFTER nearly months balloting, the Penn
sylvania Republicans selected John 1. Mitchell
TO be Senator from that State. This selection
is genuine surprise all round.
Two hundred citizens of Boston merchants,
bankers, poets, statesmen and milliOnaires-
have extended TO Secretary Schurz an invitation
to a dinner, which they will give in his honor.
. THE legal tender deposits of the national
banks for the reduction of circulation since the
passage of the funding bill by the Senate, up
to the oath of February, aggregates "a, 792, 7OO.
The Congressional Temperance Society, in
resolution requesting the President to forbid
the sale of liquors by storekeepers at army
posts.
THE last State dinner of the present Presi-
dent was given on the night of the 18th inst.
Among the guests was Robert Lincoln, whom,
it is said, is to occupy position in Garfields
Cabinet.
VICE PREsIDENT-ELECT ARTHUR visited the
Senate on the 23d inst, with Mr.. Conkling as
master of ceremonies, who presented him indi-
vidually to the Senator'S Arthur is anxious to
get used to the thing.
SINCE November /. $780, there has been De.
increase of $16, 900, 600 five per cent. bonds de-
posted to secure circulation, and decrease OF
S14, 900 four per cent. and 50. 14O 600 four
and-a-half per cent. bonds.
SECRETARY SCHURz has assigned Tommy
Nichols, of hard-money fame, to the head OF
the Indiana Bureau. Nichol says Garfield will
make him Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
He is now only Chief Clerk.
The Cincinnati Commercial Washington cor
respondent says that the few banks that have
withdrawn their circulation are not meeting
with encouragement. Their action is regarded
generally as ill-advised and hasty.
= AFTER passing the Agricultural Appropria-
ton Bill, the House in committee OF the whole
took up the Sundry Civil Bill and agreed to all
the paragraphs making appropriations for pub
lie buildings, including $3.50, 900 for Cincinnati
and $100, 900 for Toledo.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says that what
is printed there respecting Mr.. Garfield's Cabi-
net, is wholly speculative, as nothing more Is
known in Washington of the material of which
it is to be composed than is known in other
places, which is nothing.
CORRESPONDENT says: "Mr. Bright, Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Senate, acting in conjunc-
ton with Senator Pendleton, is making elabor
ate and very complete arrangements for the
inauguration. His plans are excellent, and
they will afford the greatest possible facilities
for the public and the press that the capacity of
the Capitol building will allow"
AN appropriation has been incorporated in
the Sundry Civil Bill for the construction of an
elevator in the White House. Heretofore such
an appropriation has been resisted upon the
ground that it would facilitate matters for
office-seekers who we're looking for the Presi-
dent, but the statement that General Garfeld's
mother was an invalid secured the required
vote to put the measure through.
+ FRIEND of Senator Blaine says s'The Sem
ator does not want to place himself in posi-
ton to be retired to private life, and such q
Cabinet might be formed by Gen. Garfield that
Senator Blaine might not be disposed to go
into" This leaves Mr.. Blaine in something Of
predicament. He is now United States Sena-
tor, and should he resign for Cabinet posi-
ton, he may fall between stools.
SENATOR THURMAN's Senate bill authorizing
the construction of a fire proof building at
Columbus, Ohio, which has passed, directs the
Secretary OF the treasury to select central
and suitable site in Columbus on which
to erect the building, which is to accommodate
the United States Courts, Post-office, Internal
Revenue and Pension Offices. The cost of the
building shall not exceed 100000.
SAYS q Washington correspondent: 'sBob
Ingersol says he has no war to make on Della
ware because of the clamor some of its citizens
are making against his peculiar notions of
orthodoxy. He says he is not going to strike
at Delaware, because when he wants to fight
State he prefers one of his size. He has no de-
sire to wiring the neck of blue hen.' 4
Think said he "a State that calls twenty quarts
of peaches bushel ought to talk about some
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