The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-17
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

The order retiring General Ord was issued
few DAYS ago.
THE Capitol and grounds are to be lighted
with electricity.
THE House has passed the Senate concurrent
resolution for the counting OF the electoral
vote. There were but seyenty-seyen votes
against it. -
The Senate Finance Committee has indef-
initely postponed further consideration OF the
House bill, which provides for imposing
specific duty on malt Of twenty-five cents per
bushel.
SOMEBODY in Nashville, Tenn, is honest. The
Secretary of the Treasury last week received
letter from there inclosing $50, with the re-
quest that it be placed to the credit of the con-
science fund.
CONGRESS is getting intoxicated with the idea
of Yorktown Centennial. In addition to the
S120, 900 for q grand blowout, the Senate has
appropriated 800, 900 to pay the expenses Of
French officers who may attend.
THE Senate Finance Committee has agreed to
amend the House funding bill by making the
interest So per cent, the bonds to be redeem
able in five years and payable in twenty. The
Carlisle amendment is stricken out.
BOARD OF NAVAL MEDICAL OFFICERS will
convene at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital
March 1 next, for the examination of candi-
dates for admission into the medical corps Of
the navy, in which there are now eleven
vacancies.
TIE River and Harbor Appropriation Bill is
an eye-opener. As reported back from the
House Committee on Commerce, it appropriates,
in aggregate, SIC, ,1S9, 800. 1t seems that every
river, harbor, reservoir, etc., in the land needs
doctoring. And it will always be thus.
THE Commissioner of Patents in obedience
to an order from the Secretary of the Interior
has issued an order annulling all interference
of proceedings in the Trade Mark cases and di-
recting all application for registering lawful
Trade Marks to be granted in the order in which
they are filed.
THE President of the Union League of Amer
lea has called meeting of the National Com
mittee to take place in Washington March 2.
A public meeting of the entire League will take
place the next day. The League will also par
ticipate in the Inauguration ceremonies Of
General Garfield.
WHAT will become of the Apportionment Bill,
or when and how that matter will be settled, is
only matter for conjecture. Appointments
are partisan, have always been, and will always
be- The trouble now seems to be whether to
adjust the districts according to the uote of the
country, or the census. There seems to be
difference from some cause.
NOTWITHSTANDING the favorable action Of
the House Committee on the 1nter-O Oceanic
Canal, indorsing the scheme of Eads to borrow
fifty million dollars on Government credit to
build his ship railroad, there is no prospect
| ity it passes the House, the scheme will proba-
bly, meet its death in the Senate.
BY direction of the President the limits of
| the Department of Arkansas are extended to
embrace The post of Fort Elliott, Texas, thereto
| fore included in the Department of Missouri,
| and the post in Virginia occupied rs School
of Instruction for the Signal Service, be here
after known as Fort Myer instead of Fort
| Whipple. The latter change was made in
honor of the late General Myer.
The following is the text of the resolution
| which has passed the Senate concerning the
| right of the President of the Senate to make
| the Electoral count: ResolUed, by the Senate
| (the House of Representatives concurring),
that the President Of the Senate is not invested
| by the Constitution OF the United States with
| the right to count the votes of Electors for
| President and Vice President Of the United
| States, so as to determine what votes shall be
received and counted or what votes shall be re-
| jected, and that it is the duty of Congress
without delay, to institute measures to secure
due and orderly performance Of said duty in
| the future.
THE absence of members and Senators from
| their post of duty has been SO notoriou this
season that Dibbrell, of Tennessee, atten. pted
| to have measures taken for its correction. He
moved an amendment to the Legislative Appro-
! priation Bill, providing that no member shall
| be paid his monthly salary until he shall have
certified that he has not been absent from the
sittings of the House except on account OF
sickness, and that all absences otherwise than
| from sickness, shall be deducted from the mem
bers' monthly pay. This is the law at present
i but it is dead letter, and Dibbrelrs amend
ment looked to its enforcement. The amend.
ment was attacked with vigor, and Of course
voted down.,
i A PRELIMINARY report of the Agriculture
Bureau has been received ct the Capitol, and il
4 it Commissioner LIE Due, who receives $500
year, makes an eloquent appealfor more salary
He adds with charming simplicity. H1tis wei
known that men Of scientific attainments arr
not usually money making men, that their hab
its of thought and close attention to the in
investigation of special subjects in 0 measur,
i lead them away from the acquisition of wealth
Working often from pure love Of science ant
an ardent desire to benefit his felloH-man, anf
Without opportunity of pecuniary self-advance
ment, the scientist should always receive from
his country substantial marks of gratitude TO
the good he has conferred upon its citizens"
In the Senate, Mr.. Butler, of South Corolina
in taking notice of Mr.. Conkling's New Yorl
speeches during the campaign, spoke of tn
| allusion to the census of South Carolina a
! charges and insinuations as malignant in thei
purposes against the South as the heart tina
inspired them, and that Mr.. Conkling had neye
had the honesty to correct this perversion O
facts when the truth concerning his inaccurat
utterances had been made known. Mr.. Conk
ling, in turn, characterized the remarks of Sen
ator Butler as yaporings with which he (Conk
ling) had no concern. Mr.. Butler retorted
characterizing Mr.. Conkling's utterances q
''the staggering insolence of the Senator fron
New York" This constrained Mr.. Conkling
give notice that Mr.. Butler was q person wit
| whom he (Conkling) could not afford to band
epithets, either in the Senate or out of it. Th
I Senate did not seem much disturbed by thi
manifestation of Senatorial politeness, and in
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