The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.


portionment Bill.
The position of Secretary of State for Gen.
Grant Is being discussed by his friends.
The Court for the trial of Cadet Whitaker
will meet in New York (Army Building) Janu-
ary 20.
The Farragut statue will be unveiled on the
4th Of March Immediately after the inaugura-
ton ceremonies.
SENATOR HILL AND SALISBURY, 1t Is under
stood, are to begin new attempt to oust Sem
ator Kellogg.
NEW YEAR calls at the White House were not
many and consisted almost solely of those who
were obliged to go.
THE International Sanitary Conference az
sembled iu Washington on the Sd inst Nine
teen Governments are represented.
LEVI P. MORTON, of New York, will be Sec
retary of the Treasury. or nothing. He de-
ciines to be Secretary OF the Navy.
COINAGE executed at United States rnints
during the calendar year Of 1880 amounted to
tS2. 2S3, 270 gold and s27, 499, 7Os silver.
No decision has been reached BY the Cabinet
respecting the vacancy produced by the resig-
nation Of Secretary Thompson Of the navy.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
have telephone communication between Wash
ington and Baltimore-eighty miles Of wire.
Ex-senator mitchell, Of Oregon, in q card
says: Il am not a candidate for any Office
within the gift Of this or the next administra-
ton
THE ratio Of representation In the new ap-
portionment viii be adjusted with view to
giving the House Of Representatives no greater
membership than it now has-293 members.
Mrs. HAYES will hold reception every Sat-
urday, from to 5 p. M, beginning January 8.
The President will hold evening receptions
from 8 to 10 o'clock, on January 1ith and 25th
and February 8th and 22d
A CHANCE will be given Ohio men who de-
sire to be present at the inauguration ceremo-
nies Of General Garfield. The rates from Gin
cinnat and return will be twenty dollars, and
from Columbus, sixteen dollars.
Mr.. TBEscoTT, one Of the United States
Commissioners to China, has arrived In Wash
ington. He brought with hip the immigration
treaty recently entered into With China and de-
livered it to the State Department
The House Committee on Appropriations has
agreed to add S125, 900 to the army sppropt1a-
ton bill, for the purpose of paying 80 per cent
recent decision Of the Supreme Court The
total amount now appropriated by the bill is
| S26, ,3l5, 800.
Mr.. wH1TTHonNE, Chairman of the House
| Committee on Naval Affairs, says that it is the
| understanding of his committee that the Senate
will take up and pass the Navy Bill this session.
This bill passed the House last winter and pro-
| vides for the construction of the navy by an ex-
| penditure of q stated sum per annum for q
| number of years.
Mrs. CHRIsTIANoY says, since she has pc
rused the letters published purporting to be
ies." Miss Meloy, who has been her room.
| mate for over q year past, also denounces the
letters forgery, COTTON up to suit the plan Of
Mrs. Cs prosecutors. She avows that she
and those published are entirely different IL
character from those which they togethe,
wrote.
Mr.. SPRINGER introduced bill In the House
for reapportionment, on the reopening d
the session, according to which the following
Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine
Massachusetts,, Maryland, New Hampshire
Ohio, Vermont and Tennessee. Pennsylvania
would lose two and New York three members
Arkansas, California. Iowa, Michigan, Missis
sippi, South Carolina and West Virginia woult
gain one member each. Minnesota and Ne
braska two each, and Kansas and Texas thre
each. The bill was referred to the OommittS
on Census.
Nor long ago Congress voted @10o, 900 for
were odd numbers, there being but two com
plete sets in the collection. 10 reprint LOO
sets Of the missing numbers will cost over @160,
600. The Public Printer suggests that II Con
number of sets, it would be well to authoriz
the sale Of the odd volumes, bound and un
bound, at public auction as waste paper. Hi
investigation Of the matter shows the reckless
ness OF Congress In voting this large sum ava
without having any clear idea of what they wer
about. Unless q large additional sum is 81
pended, the collection except two sets, is prat
tically worthless.
EDILBERTo GIRO has caused to be published
number Of letters written to him by Mr.
Christiancy. These letters are of very lovin
character, and contain numerous appeals I
Giro to come forward and testify for her pr(
lection against the charges made by Mr.. Chril
tiancy's counsel in regard to their alleged in
proper intimacy. She says Giro had threatene
to do her an injury unless she yielded to b
appeal for her to become his wife, and thi
when she learned that Mr. Christiancy's coul
sci intended to institute divorce proceeding
against her upon the ground of alleged In
proper intimacy with Giro, she took the advic
Of friends and wrote him the series Of letter
now published merely as q means (by preten,
ing to be in love with him) to avert carryin
into effect the threats which he had made
Washington, and to induce him to give trutl
full testimony for her protection. Says q CO
respondent "The feeling is strong here again
Minister Christiancy, because of the belief tn
the fellow Giro and several detectives we
hired to go deliberately to work and manufa
ture case against Mrs. Christiancy, and tn
the letters now printed we're the result OF the
prearranged attampts to ingratiate himself in
| her favor"