Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-01
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 The Speakershfp-Hiscoc Looked Upon l as the Successful Candidnte-PossIble | Selection of a Western Man-Measures | to Come Before ConGress--Other Matters. 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-One who has fie- l ured the matter up shows that in the next | House of Representatives the Republicans
 will cast 6S votes from the East, T from the l West and 13 from the South consequently the South having nc candidate for the Speak ership and the East having but one candidate 1 (Hiscock) he stands much better chance
 than anyone of several western candidates.
 Experience has taught that the West can l combine on no one man. though it is stated | that a caucus of all western men will be l held in this instance and that either Kasson, l of Iowa, or Keller, of Ohio, will be selected | That is thought to be the only way Hiscock can be beaten. The same authority says that measures to be acted upon by the Forty
 seventh Congress will be the passage of a 3 1 per cent. refunding bill, the passage of | an apportionment bill and some | Potomac flats. It is not believed
 that beyond this and the regular appropria- | ton bills there will be much general legisla- tion So far as the District of Columbia is concerned Congress will no doubt settle the | location of the library and possibly provide 1 for the building of new White House or the l remodeling of the old.
 Vice President Davis left for Chicago this l morning. Senator Pendleton has gone to New York Senators Williams, of Kentucky, and Davis, of West Virginia, have gone directly home Senators Grover and Slater, of Ore gon, will not go West during the recess Senator Vest leaves for Missouri tonight Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin, goes home tomorrow. Among the Senators still here are Logan, Allison, Kellogg, Anthony and Brown. Secretary Hunt will accompany President Arthur to New York Wednesday.
 Notice is given by the lighthouse board that on and after December l, 1881, a steam whistle will be sounded through thick and foggy weather from Holmes Hole, West Chop Light station, at the western entrance to Vineyard Haven harbor, Mass, giving blasts of three seconds, followed by intervals of twenty-seven seconds.
 The wife of General John B. Clark, mem- Der of Congress from Missouri, has been served in this city with copy of the petition for divorce filed by General Clark's counsel
 in the Circuit Court of Howard county, Mis- souri, October Fist. The petition sets forth that on the 10th day of November. 1880, in
 the city of Washington, D. O., Clark and de- fendant were married and lived together until October 15, 1881 that plaintiff faithfully conducted himself and with fidelity per- formed all the duties of husband, treating 1 the defendant with respect kindness and af- | lection, doing all in his power and means to render her condition comfortable and happy, but that defendant, unmindful of her duties and obligations the wife of plaintiff, has l during said marriage and up to the time of their separation offered such indignities to plaintiff as to render his condi- I ton intolerable, in this that plaintiff states I that at the time of said marriage he was the | father of four children by former marriage | and these children were all under age and dependent upon him that he was at the time | of said marriage and is now member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States from the Eleventh Con- gressional district of Missouri and that with | in short time after his marriage with de- fendant she exhibited towards plaintiff and said children, especially toward the eldest daughter named Gussie,a spirit of impatience and unkindness, misrepresent1ng to plaintiff | the conduct of his children and treating them | with contempt and harshness, instigating up | on the plaintiff unnecessary reinstatement, | and upon his refusal to chastise them she | would exhibit the most violent temper and | outbreak of passion; she would abuse both | them and plaintiff in the grossest language | in the presence of his children, ren- | dering his home unfit for them and and place of misery to himself. At the resi- dence of his brother in Howard county, Mo,
 she caused him much modification by her continued outbursts of temper. She de- | sired him to exclude his daughter Gussie l from the house, and because he would not do | so threatened to abandon his bed and board. | After sojourn of two months at the plain 1 tiff's relatives'he went with the defendant and passed two months at Atlantic City, N. J. l She continued her course of misconduct
 there, rendering his stay most disagree able. He returned to Washington in Septem- | ber when he placed his three younger children at school in Georgetown, keeping house l that then, and especially within the last few I weeks, defendant has conducted herself both 1 in public and private as to bring plaintiff | into scandal and to make him and his domes- l tic affairs the subject of serious comment and l criticism, to his great injury and mortifca- l tion in this that defendant clandestinely, and | without his knowledge or consent, did re- peatedly alone and in company of men of her acquaintanceship and unknown to plaintiff I enter public restaurants and saloons in Wash | ington and drink intoxicating liquors to | excess Plaintiff also ayers that de-
 fendant, as he recently discovered,
 was in the habit of taking opium
 
 returned to the house under the influence of Intoxicating liquors and in presence of his | daughter Gussie made an unseemly exhibition
 of herself, spurning his request to retire to
 her room aud trampling on his feelings in | utter abandon. While thus intoxicated she | reverted to her dislike for plaintiff and his l children and especially for Gussie, whom she | rushed upon with threatening fury, neces- 1 sitating his interference. Also that defend
 ants violence attracted the attention of their
 neighbors so that he ordered his daughter to leave home. He sent her to the family of | spair of the conduct and reformation of de-
 fendant and out of self respect felt con | strained to quit her society, which he did l has been born of his marriage
 It has been published on what is believed reliable authority that syndicate or combi-
 nation has been formed to secure control of
 the Star routes in the West known as sOcto-
 Der lettings' by buying off the lowest bid ders where the contract has been awarded by members of the syndicate bidding at various
 amounts on the routes and then the lower ones declining the contract until the govern | ment is forced to pay large sum for the per T formance of the work at an immense profit to the combination. The scheme has already
 become known to the Postofiee department 1 and is exciting some discussion there. It is I stated there is not at present any law to pro- | tect the government against any such fraud, .l but that as soon as possible after the assem- bling of Congress an effort will be made to l get an act passed giving the Postmaster Gen.
 eral or his second assistant peremptory pow