The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-23
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

TIE District of Columbia has ass Notaries
Public.
SENATOR VOORHEES, will address the 6cnste
On the tariff question at an early day.
FTrz JOHN PORTER will continue to agitEte
his case as long as there is any hope left.
THE Coroner's jury found that Soteldo came
TO his death by shot from his brothers pistol
TIE HOUSE viii set apart two nights the first
week Of March for the transaction Of pension
business. -ats
1t is Just probable that Dr.. Bliss will not get
over $40, 600 for his services during the illness
Of President Garfield.
A DELEGATION from Southeastern Dakota
waited upon the President and asked for the
removal Of Governor Ordway.
A AnEsoLuT1os is to be reported fayorably to
the House to mako the Agricultural Depart
ment an Executive Department
NEARLY a year will be required to complete
the work Of the Census Bureau The printed
reports will embrace about q, 900 pages, =
|ts s. - hinEtoe
II|l winter. Not Z day some prominent omclai-
b giviESsA dinner, and one day the past week
six Of these grand affairs occurred.
TIE House Committee ON Invalid Pensions
have decided that pension bills hereafter re-
ported shall grant the pension from and after
E the passage Of the act only and shall not in
clu1e arrears.
TEE Treasury employees who have been asked
making 9 defense with view to being retained.
None Of them have yet sent in their resigna-
Gons. The chances are that they will have
to go.
Ak INSPECTION Of the river front has been
made by the District and army engineers, with
view to determining the plans for the i'm
proyement of the Potomac Flats. 1t is gen.
orally hoped that this important project may
be pushed to completion.
The House COMMITTEES on Appropriations has
instructed Representative Hiscock, who will
have charge Of the immediate deficiency appro-
priation bill, to offer an amendment when the
bill comes up for action in the House increasing
by $40, 600 tho item for postal route agents and
postal clerks.
THE President has been requested to allow
the portrait Of Mrs. Hayes, the frame for
which was executed by the ladies Of the Cincin-
matt School OF Design, 10 be placed on exhibi-
ton at the Corcoran Art Gallery before it is
hung in position in the White House. This
viii probably be done.
REPRESENTATIVE PEEILE, of Indianapolis,
will press to early and favorable consideration
his bill, authorizing the Secretary Of War to
give to the Morton Monument Association Of
the United States, twelve unserviceable c1fnon
for casting statue of Oliver P. Morton, to be
erected at Indianapolis.
Two bills in regard to national banks have
been introduced In the House, one by Mr..
Brumm, of PennsylYania, by request to retire
Treasury notes, and one by Mr.. Warner, Of
Tennessee, to repeal the law chartering national
banks, and to abolish national banks.
PosTMsArER GENERAL HOWE has revoked SO
much OF the postal regulations as requires
-four to be inclosed in sealed envelopes before
being put into metal boxes for transmission in
the mails, and -four is declared not to be in
cluded among articles which, if not properly
secured, might damage the other contents Of
the mails.
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Post Roads agreed TO report fayorably Bipg-
hams bill increasing the pay Of auxiliary letter
carriers from S400 to $500, and providing for 3
subsequent advance upon promotion to $500
and O, 900. The regular carriers are to come
from this class new men serving first as
Guxiliaries.
REPRESENTATIVE SMITH, of Illinois, who in
troduced the bill for free vaccine virus in the
House, has received letters from Paris relative
to patent system for vaccinnating cattle
against pIeuro- pneumonia and hogs against
hog cholera. The letter contained propositions
to sell the secret to the United States Govern
ment, or to States, for consideration that
was named. The system of incubation is said
to have been quite successful in Europe, but
Mr.. Smith, upon making inquiries as to the
Department of Agriculture that the process is
public property that the nature of it is known,
and that it can at any time be introduced in this
country by any one who is disposed to do SO.
1T SEEMS probable that the President does
not intend to do anything in regard to Fitz
John Por.er's case. The President has received
strong letters from General Grant upon the
the subject, and equally strong letters on the
other side from friends for whom he entertainl
rs high regard as for the ex-President. The
pressure for routine daily business is SO great
that he has little or no time for going into old
matters, and the result will probably be tina,
no action will be taken in the case at all. What
was hoped by Porter's friends was that Arthur
would grant him pardon, which would re
store to him the rights of citizenship; bu
sven this is not probable, and the whole matter
viii be left to the action of Congress.