Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-02-03
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CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SENTINEL

10 witness the growing appTeCiation vi Our
national legislators of the importance and
lasting benefits of the public school system
of the country. Experience has practically
that the public schools of this
country have been the nurseries of patriots,
statesmen and phllanthropists, as they are
the thunderbolt which is To crash into atoms
any hereditary encroachment upon the maj
esty of our decentralization of thought
speech and action. There are now no less
than three important bills pending in the
Senate, all looking to the more enlarged
and practical development of the common
schools of the country. Senator Blaine's
bill proposes TO appropriate $l5,000,000 for
the first fiscal year and every year there
after for ten years the sum of $10,000,000.
Senator Logan's bill $60,000,000, TO sup
port 10 per cent. more of teachers than we
now have at present, making it obliga-
tory upon the States TO provide the addi-
tional number Of school houses that will be
required under the operations OF this law.
Senator Vance's bill is about the same as
that OF Senator Logans, only 1t takes every
dollar of revenue received from the traffic of
liquors-ether will answer so we have the
appropriation.
New York, says the eloquent Voorhees,,
arc fighting one another for the purpose Of
killing off presidential aspirants.
The matter of national bankruptcy law
is now before Congress, as it has been nearly
every session since the repeal of the act of
1867. Many measures have been submitted,
but none have proved satisfactory. The one
recently by Mr.. Townsend, of Ohio, is sim
pie in its operations and is meeting with
much favor.
Mr.. Edmunds bill for the suppression of
Norman polygamy and immortality -eQss TO
the root Of the matter Hitherto the diff
Guilty of proving the bigamous marriages
which arc such salient feature of Norman
ism by legal evidence has made it practi-
cally impossible to sustain an indictment.
Mr.. Edmunds proposes to remove this diff.
Guilty by making the reputation Of plural
marriages and the fact of plural cohabita-
tions presumptive proof of bigamy, thereby
imposing upon the person indicted the bur
den of disproving the charge.
A large number of delegates are present
az the oapiVol uiSihS .iie auiiiission vi oou.i
Ian oj 90 ha"rd NAM o or@n,onts N its
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,he ooa NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. caiIod rncentIv in
ono Jov nnpn The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN ns, that
corta;n ',epsion eases Ina advanced ~ '
Manup Of tLa nnan,bars oro connnIoi,;,g of
tho ntiico hours Of the president at The
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80, 80 IT, NJ Shorr,a2,s S,nd;nT Iii
sp,;iI I lac s y ,ha senate whilst tho I1onsa
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NOTES AND PERSONALS
Ex-senator Hendricks, of Indiana, has
/ been in Washington for several days. Some
/ of the knowing politicians predict that he
will again be nominated for Vice President
on the ticket with Mr.. Tilden in 1884, with
/ the understanding that Tilden is TO resign
1t is now thought that Secretary Kirk
wood will be retained at the head of the In
terror Department, and that Secretary Lin
coin will at an early day tender his resig-
nation as chief of the War Department.
AS predicted, in one or two of my com
munications, Hon. Edwin Webster succeeds
"Mr. Thomas and myself" as Collector OF
Customs at the Port of Baltimore. 1t is
thought that this appointment is very agree
able to Representative Urner, and it will
give him several appointments in the Gus.
tom House, one Of which your correspond.
ent thinks will go to Montgomery county
and not thousand miles from Rockville.
Henry Duley, of Montgomery county
still retains position on the police force
at the Capitol, although some influence has
been brought to bear against him.
David Davis, the Aunt Betsey Jane Of
the Senate, and the political bastard of thu
country, is afraid to absent himself for day
from the Senate lest the Senate hasten to ap
point new President pro tona, which it il
only awaiting an opportunity TO do.
49, INT has changed his mind and
friend that he will not visit
keiore the last of March, when
quest of the President-aftel
Lroceed on an extended trT
n.
hrs of the Maryland Legis
the Capital on Friday
bet of pleasant ridicule.
lent has for the past two
slant attendent upon the
has had an opportunity
Unions and views of the
hat have visited the city
hing closely every shade
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