The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-05-04
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

Ex-SECRETARY HUNT leaves for st. Peters,
burg May 20.
SENATOR HnL's family despair Of his perma-
nent improvement.
THERE are to be no state dinners at the
White House this season.
DR.. MARY WALKER is now employed in the
mail room of the Pension Office.
STEPS have been taken by the Cabinet look
ing to the relief of American suspects in Irish
prisons. t-
Two bicyclists have started from the White
House for the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, dis
tance 700 miles,
The seating of Lynch has finally been accom-
plshed. For particulars in this matter see
Congressional proceedings. l
GENERAL GRANT, in letter to an applicant
for Office, states that he will not suggest or in
any way interfere in the slightest degree with
appointments. ll.
| The Secretary of the Treasury has sent a
check for SAFE, 900 to W. h. Vanderbilt to meet
the quarterly interest on his bonds. A snug
| fortune in itself.
EIGHTY-NINE cents has been received from
Decorah, Iowa, by the Secretary Of the Treas
! ury, as a contribution to the conscience fund.-
| This is the smallest conscience money on
record.
P. T. BARNUM has secured another paying
advertisement. He has Induced the Warden
of the Washington Jail to call Guiteau
"Jumbo," after his elephant, because "eyery
body wants to see him.
TIE purchase of the Freedmen's Bank
building by the Government for $3.50, 600 has
been finally closed, no defects being reported
| in the title, which was examined by the United
States District Attorney.
| IMMENSE quantities of seeds purchased by
the Agricultural Department for the over
| flowed districts Of the Mississippi Valley are
| being packed for distribution by mail to re-
sponsible parties in each county. They will be
| at their destination in time to plant
! In THE case Of Larson us. Weisbecker, an ap-
peal from Minnesota, in which Weisbecker exc
cutes q mortgage on land prior to entry, not
with the purpose of disposing of the land, but
| OF obtaining money wherewith to pay for the
land in order to retain possession thereof him.
| self, the Secretary of the Interior has decided
| that such mortgage does not subject tho entry
| to forfeiture.
DURING the three sessions of the Forty fifth
| Congress there were introduced in the Senate
| 1,S65 bills, during the three sessions of the
Forty sixth Congress 2, 224 bills, and thus far
in this, the first session of the Forty.seyenth
| Congress, there have been introduced in the
| Senate 1904. In tho House there has been
even q greater proportionate increase Of bills.
The number already introduced in that body is
| upward of six thousand.
An OFFICIAL of one Of the South American
legations says that the Chilians still held
| Peru, but according to their advices they
! would be glad Of . chance to withdraw and
make themselves whole for the losses incurred.
They feared to withdraw now because Peru was
| in such an unsettled condition that anarchy
| was sure to follow, and this would afford an
| excuse for foreign Intervention for the protec-
ton of alien property. Chill wished to avoid
| this. That Government did not wish any strong
| foreign influence planted adjacent to her
! borders. Is Fss1sf
In HIS cross-examination before the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, by Mr.. Belmont, tho
m a nv
| of State Blaine was to the effect that President
| Arthur, while he had commented upon the
| plan laid out by Mr.. Blaine, which afterward
| formed the letter Of instructions to General
in the policy, and indeed very few verbal
changes, indorsing it precisely as it came from
| the hands of the Secretary of State. Mr..
Blaine produced the original draft Of the letter
| of instructions, and stated that the assertion
| that he asserted or interpolated any thing into
that letter after the President had seen It was
| as false as the assertion that he attempted to
| map out a foreign policy between the lives of
| the two Presidents.
| DURING his examination before the Foreign
/! Relations Committee respecting the Peru
l. Chilian scheme, Mr. Belmont took occasion to
| ask Mr.. Blaine q question OF q compromising
character, whereupon Mr.. Blaine struck the
| table with his fist and said that "the inlpr-
| dence of the young man was astounding" 1t
| is now telegraphed over the country that tie
| friends of Mr.. Belmont have induced him to
let the matter pass unheeded. No account
| seems to be taken Of Mr.. Blaine's insult. The
| sensibilities Of young men seem to be greater
and of more importance than that Of older
| persons. Mr.. Blaine OF course was not Of
| Tended at the differences Of the "younG mans -
| question, but his own protest in the grounds
was . matter Of the gravest character and OF
| course deserved rebuke. Mr.. Belmont, as init
mated, is = young man, but for MIR. Blaine to
| saw. tthe impudence Of the young man is as
| founding" is thing that ought not, appar-
emily. to be let pass. Young men must be pro-
| tected. .-erl,