Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-01-27
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known as the fats of the Potomac river of
Washington, has employed Gen. Eppa Hun
ton TO defend his interests against the bill
now pending before Congress for the recla-
nation of the fats
Senator German says that the work Of
charging the locks of the G. & o. Canal, at
least, so far as fourteen or fifteen Of them are
concerned, has already been commenced, and
will be completed this winter, but as there
are about seventy-five of them, the whole
work cannot be finished for some years.
A bill has been introduced in the Senate
by Senator johnson to pay the heirs OF
James Monroe, late President of the United
States, the half pay due him as Colonel in
the Revolutionary army, which he never
drew, but which he was entitled 10 under
the act of 1879.
1t is stated that Gen. Malone will, upon
his return from Richmond, introduce and
urge bill looking to the immediate pay
ment by the Government of the Arlington
Estate, so long and unjustly withheld from
the heirs of the late Mrs Gen. Robert +.
Lee, in whom the property rested under the
will of her father, the late George Wash
ington Park Gusts.
The office-seekers here are becoming sick
with hope delayed, and do not hesitate to say
that they have reached the bottom of their
purse.
Mr. Jones, who was the candidate on the
Republican ticket last fall in your county
for sheriff, has been appointed locksmith for
the House at a salary of 81 400 per year.
This is one of Representative Urner's ap-
pointments.
There is a rumor to the effect that Secre-
tary Folger will be appointed to Judge
Hunts place in the Supreme Court when
he resigns. This rumor rivives the old
story that Mr.. Conkling will be his sue
cessor in the Treasury Department, but the
friends Of Mr.. Conkling say that he will
not take any office, being disguised with
public life
Mr.. Neal, of Ohio chairman of the Dis
trict Committee of the House, is decided
Republican, but very liberal in his views.
He is in favor of large appropriations for the
improvements of the District, and these APP
preparations can but be indirectly of bene-
fit to the people of your county. The build
ing of the free bridge across the Potomac at
the "Three Sisters" just above Georgetown,
and the widening of the channel of the
river, have been determined upon, which
will require large expenditure of money.
As the members of the next Congress
will all be elected this iall-this will be the
speech making session. Millions of docu-
ments, touching the interest of the "dear
people," will be sent broadcast over the
country.
President Arthur has conversed at length
on the tariff question with several of the
leading manufacturers and merchants OF the
country now here, at the White House, and
he does not hesitate to declare himself in
favor of tariff for protection, and that the
policy of the government will be in that di-
rection.
The Committee on Banking and Currency
have, by vote of nine to two, directed the
chairman to report bill favorable TO ex-
tending the charters of the National Banks
of the country on the precise basis on which
they are now organized
The eulogies in the Senate, on Monday,
upon the death of the late Senator Burnside,
Of Rhode Island, were of high order of
ability and eloquent pathos The Senate
was full and the galleries were crowded.
A few more candidates for Office were
present at the Capitol this week, and oh,
what weird countenance they bore
Very few Republicans express any regret
that Mr.. Robson has failed to be recognized
as the Republican leader Of the House.
Gen. Hancock has been here for week
in consultation with leading Democrats
Judge Thurman and Senator Pendleton, of
Ohio, are also in the field, while Morrison,
of Illinois, is introducing gigantic schemes
for the improvement Of the navigation of
the Mississippi river as his war-horse for the
coming conflict Blaine, Window and Sher-
man are not idle, and you may expect soon
to see some busy moves on the political
chess-bOard.
The coming grafton of Blaine upon the
death ofthe late President Garfield is TO be the
effort of his life, taking its place with SINH
lar efforts by Webster, John Quincy Adams
and George Bancroft.
Three hundred and seven is said to be the
number of Congressman under the new ap-
portionment recommended by the House
Census Committee. 1t prevents the repre-
sentation Of any State being reduced, and
will give increased representation to num-
Der OF others.
The Committee on War Claims have gone
TO work in earnest, and it is more than prob
able that many of your friends whose claims
have been sleeping in the closets of the COM
mittee room will be taken up and finally
disposed of.
NOTES AND PERSONALS.
With Washington society, "the bloom is
on the rye"-on flows the golden ripples, on
flows the tide. Every train comes laden
with fresh and large additions. The lead
ing hotels and boarding houses are filled to
OVERLOOKING The theatres and other places
of amusement are nightly jammed with the
wealth, fashion and beauty of the country
What cold and heartless trio! and yet
what an empire it controls throughout the
world; greater than the widest dreams of
Alexander ever reached. 1t grasps the pas
sions Of men and holds them captive-it
tramples upon hearts without a pause of pity,
and sends them out to the slaughter careless
how they tell, so that its will was done, 1t
smiles at those for whom 1t has no sympa-
thy, and lets those hope so long as it is neces-
sary 10 make them instruments of its pleas
urc The world is its slave. Nothing is inn
pregnable to its assaults. 1t knocks at the
Vatican and its demands are obeyed-it rears
its presence at the forum and justice becomes
purchasable commodity; sit laughs at
modesty, calls virtue hypocrite," yet ia vot-
aries would rifle a grave TO touch its lips
A rose with an asp deep at its heart, breath
ing the fire of disappointment, remorse and
dishonor--a panther with velvet eye, il
iastens Its jeweled links alike upon church
and state
Passing along any of the fashionable av-
enues, one often has trouble to make his way
through the army of gilded equipages and
liveried footmen which stand in front of
sons palatial pagoda Indeed, it is now
said that the extravaganza Of to-day rivals
in splendor and opulence the famous Grant
regime. The fastidious and aesthetic Oscar
Wilde could not have found more oppor-
tune time in which to rendezvous at the Ma
tional Metropolis of our republican govern
ment
Although Congress is bnsily engaged in
legislation, ostensibly, for the good Of the
country, there is an under-current which is
heavily freighted with private interests and
schemes which are engineered by cunning
lobbyists, who will doubtless, in the end,
reap harvest for themselves and for those
for whom they are agents. The days of pur-
ity in legislative bodies seem to have been
numbered. Whether il is owing 10 a want
of patriotism and honesty on the part OF our
chosen representatives, or is one of the ne
cessary evils attending the rapid growth of
the country, and the clash of large and di-
vcrsified interests Of individuals and corpo-
ratiops, is Q question which seems to disturb
the brains Of governmental moralists.
Robert Ingersol, the eloquent blasphemer