The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-01-26
WASHINGTON. Jan. Is, 1881.

The Inauguration preparations are
| a booming. The Committee have
perfected arrangements with all the
railroads for reduced rates to visit
I ing military and civic organizations.
The tickets, good for seven days,
from Western Pennsylvania viii be
about half rates. Tickets Of admis-
sion to the Inauguration Ball has
been fixed at five dollars each. La
dies Re same. No supper viii be
, furnished, except to those who de
sire to indulge. This of course viii
I be extra. At other Inauguration
Balls the tickets were ten dollars
and included supper.
The attempt Of Senator Saulsbu-
" of Delaware to take up and dis
| pose Of the Kellogg case on Monday
in the Senate was q failure. The
vote on the motion was considered
[ a test vote. The following Demo
cratic Senators voted with the Re
/ pubhcans against the motion and
defeated it by vote ofyess 20, nays
81; VIZ, Messrs. Butler, Davis, OF
I Illinois, Lamar. Pendleton, Thur
man. VOORHEES,, Whyte, Williams
and Bayard. This virtually settles
1 the case in Kellogg's favor. Sena-
( tors salisbury, Hill and Wallace
were very much disappointed by
the vote. Salisbury became angry,
yowing that he would never again
ask the Senate to consider q meas
ure or report Of his.
That long looked for communica-
ton from the Census Bureau, Civ
ing the population at the census
lust taken, reached Congress Mon
day, and vas read by the clerk ot
the House, ordered to be printed
and referred to the Census commit
: tee ofwhich Sunset Cox, Of New
York. and a firm disciple Of John
Kelly and Tammany HalD Is
chairman. Commissioner Walker
figures up a grand total Of 50152,-
$50 inhabitants, Z gainin population
of nearly twelve million souls since
+ the census was taken in 1870.
To-day IS you C2zed down from
tie gallery on our distinguished
representatives it was observed that
their toilets were not as tastefully
( gotten UP as usual and some looked
Sleepy. The explanation Of this
condition IS volunteered that mem
bers were all night studying the ap-
. pordonment table presented by
~Sunset" Cox. Mr.. Cox, in his bill
fixes the number Of Representatives
after March I. 1888, at 301, distrib-
uted as follows:
Alabama s: California ): Colora-
dol; Connecticut 4 Delaware /;
Florida l Georgia 9: Illinois 10;
Indiana u; Iowa 10: Kansas 6:
Kentucky 10; Louisiana 6 Maine
( MARYLAND 6: Massachusetts, 10,
Michigan 10: Minnesota >: Missis-
tsippi 7 Missouri IS; Nebraska 3;
Nevada 1; New Hampshire 2; New
Jersey :; New York 81 North Car
Olina 5: Ohio 10; Oregon ! Penn
svlvania %; Rhode Island 3; South
Carolina Is; Tennessee 8; Texas 10:
Vermont >: Virginia 9; West Viz
ginia +: Wisconsin 9.
In presenting the bin Mr.. Cox
called attention 70 the table furnish
ed by the Commissioner of the Cen
sus and entered into an elaborate
explanation Of the methods Of cal
culation adopted. One Of these u.
bic shows in It's first column thc
+ present number under the census 0i
1870 among the several states; and
/ in the second column the final mum
Der for each state on the census o.
1880. on the basis of293; and in The
other columns that number with al
the changes from 293 up to and il
including 307,