The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.


JUDGE DAVIS has been qualified as First As
Bistant Secretary Of State.
GENERAL BEALE will probably be made SEQ
retarY Of the Navy, to crafty Grant.
JESSIE SPAULD1Na has been appointed Col
lector OF Customs for the District Of Chicago.
Ex-SKHAroR PADDOCK does not want the
position OF Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury.
THos. @. ACTON has been made Assistant
Treasurer Of the United States at New York.
IT Is stated on excellent authority that Sec
retary Hunt is to remain at the head OF the
Navy Department.
DURING the i've months ending November
so, there arrived 291, ,318 immigrants, against
254, ,262 for the same period last year.
IT Is thought that s1OO, 600, 600 will be asked
Tor In the next few years for the Mississippi
River Improvement, although the Commission
places the estimated expenditure at $3S 900, 900.
Up TO adjournment Of the Senate and House,
ON the 18th, there had been introduced in the
Senate 692 bills and sixteen joint resolutions.
In the House, ], ,613 bills and joint resolutions.
WuLIAM HENRY TRErooTT, Of South Caro-
lima, has been made Special Envoy Extraordin-
ary and Minister Plenipotentiary Of the United
States to the Republics Of Chilli, Peru and
Bolivia.
TEE Peruvian Minister at Washington has
received such information Of affairs at home
as warrants him in saying that his Government
is in much better position than ever before to
Chill.
TIE Washington Monument Commission, at
their annual meeting at the White House, de-
cided to ask Congress for an appropriation OF
e200, 900 to continue the work of completing
the monument. All the members, including
President Arthur, were present. -,
GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSON claims that
President Jefferson Davis, of the late Southern
Confederacy, took away with him on the evac-
nation of Richmond, 90, 500, 600 in gold and
silver belonging to the Confederacy's Treasury,
for which he has since failed to account.
The practice OF making appointments and
promotions in Office solely matter of political
influence and wirepulling, which has occlsioned
so much trouble in the civil service, is 1t would
appear, rapidly spreading, SO as to AFFECT the
army and the navy. Especially is this true in
the last named branch of the service, where it
would seem that it Is no longer the rule that
long and meritorious service Is rewarded by
promotion according to seniority. On the con-
trary, promotions to the highest places seem to
be open as well to the apprentice as to the
master. provided only that the apprentices can
bring either family, social, or political influence
to the support of his ambition.
TIE Census Office has issued bulletins, show
ing IN Minnesota there was standing the 31st OF
May, 1880, 6, 100, 000 600 feet of merchantable
pine Mississippi, 23 975, 900, 900 feet Alabama,
a. 1872 900 900 feet Florida, 6. 6l5 0O0 600 feet,
and Texas, 81, ,5O8, 500, 900 feet. During the
nesota, $40, ,997 900 feet Cncluding 1S7, ,8S6. .00O
shingles, SS,0SS, 900 laths in Mississippi, 115,,
775,000 feet; in Alabama, 245, ,396, 900 feet Gin
cluding 1880, 900 feet estimated grown in
Alabama and sawed in Western Florida } in
Florida, 20S, ,054, 900 feet Gncluding 77,500, ,00C
feet grown in Alabama, } and in Texas, 274, ,440,
600 feet Gncluding 80, 29O, 600 shingles.)
TIE Committees in the House have all beer
announced with the following Chairmanships
Ways and Means, Kelley, of Pennsylvania
1alkf Gal ,-fott
Judiciary, Reed; Banking and Currency
Crapo; Coinage, Weights and Measures, Fisher
Commerce, Page; Agriculture, Valentine
Foreign Affairs, Williams; Military Affairs
Henderson; Naval Affairs, Harris, of Mas
sachusetts Postoffice and Post Roads, Bing
ham; Public Lands, Pound; Indian Al
fairs, Haskell Territories, Burrows O
Michigan; Railways and Canals, Townsend
Of Ohio; Manufacturers, Campbell
Mines and Mining, Van Voorhees, Public
Buildings and Grounds, shallenberger Pacif'
Railroads, Hazelton, of Wisconsin Mississippi
Levees, Thomas; Education and Labor, Upde
graf. Of Ohio Militia, Strait Patents, Young
Invalid Pensions, Brown; Pensions, Marsh
Claims, Crowley War Claims, Houck Public
Expenditures, Randall Private Land Claims
Pacheco District of Columbia, Neal Revision
of the Laws, Mckinley Expenditure in thu
Department of State, DeerinS Expenditures il
the Treasury DEPARTMENT Beford; Expenditure
in the War Department, Briggs; Expenditures
in the Navy Department, Robson Expendi
lures in the Postofice Department, Cannon
Expenditures in the Interior Department, Hub
bell Expenditures in the Department of Jus
tice, Willetts !; Expenditures on Public Build
ings, Erfett Rules, Speaker Keifer Accounts
UrDer Mileage, Jorgensen Library, McCook
Printing, Van Horn; Enrolled Bills, AL
drich The Census, Prescott Cfvi
Service, Orth; Pension Bounties and Bacl
Pay, Joyce; The Presidential Election
Updegraff /; the Public Health, Van Arnem
Additional Accommodation for the Congress
sional Library, Rice, of Massachusetts, tn,
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Waite, of Pennsyl
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