The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-02-23

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SENATOR voonuxns win address The Senate
ON the tarin question &C an early day.
FrTz JoHS PORTER will continue 10 aeitats
bis case Is long as there t any hope left
The Coroner's jury found that Soteldo came
10 his death by . shot from his brothers pistol.
THE HOUSE will set apart two nights the first
week Of March for the Transaction Of pension
business.
IT rs Just probable that DR.. Bliss viii mot get
Of President Garfield.
DELEGATION from Southeastern Dakota
waited upon the President and asked for the
removal Of Governor Ordway.
RESOLUTION is TO be reported favorably TO
the House to make the Agricultural Depart
ment an Executive Department.
NEARLY year will be required to complete
tie work Of the Census Bureau. The printed
reports will embrace about 10000 pages.
DISxERs arc great feature In Washington
this winter. Not . day some prominent ofici.l
is giving dinner, and ono day The past week
six Of these grand Affairs occurred.
THE House Committee on Invalid Pensions
have decided that pension bills hereafter re-
ported shall grant the pension from and after
tho passage Of the act only and shall not in
clule arrears.
The Treasury employees who have been asked
10 resign by Secretary Folger are engaged in
making defense with . view TO being retained.
None OF them have yet sent in their resgna-
tions. The chances are that they will have
to 90.
An ISspEcrpou Of the river front has been
made by the District and army engineers, with
view to determining the plans for the inn
provement OF the Potomac Flats. It is gen.
orally hoped that this important project may
be pushed to completion.
The House Committee on Appropriations has
instructed Representative Hiscock, who win
have charge Of the immediate deficiency appro-
priation bull, to offer an amendment when the
bill comes mp for action in the House increasing
by $4,000 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-
natl School Of Design, TO be placed on exhibi-
ton st the Corcoran Art Gallery before it ID
hung in position in the White House. This
will probably be done.
REPRESENTATIVE PEELLE, Of Indianapolis,
will press to early and favorable consideration
his bill, authorizing the Secretary Of War 70
give to The Morton Monument Association OF
the United States, twelve unserviceable cannon
for casting n statue OF Oliver p. Morton, to be
erected ut Indianapolis.
Two bills in regard to national banks have
been introduced in the House, one by Mr..
Brumm, Of Pennsylvania, by request, to retire
the national bank notes and substitute therefor
Treasury notes, and one by Mr.. Warner, OF
Tennessee, to repeal thelav chsrtering national
banks, and to abolish national banks.
PosrMsATER GENERAL HOWE has revoked sc
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, IL not properly
secured, might damage the other contents OF
tho mails.
The House Committee on Postofices and
Post Roads agreed 10 report favorably Bing-
hams bill increasing the pay OF auxiliary letter
carriers from 300 TO $500, and providing for &
subsequent advance upon promotion to e60(
aud $1,000. The regular carriers are to coms
from this class, new men serving first a
auxiliaries.
REPRESENTATIVE SMITH, Of Illinois, who In
troduced the bill for free vaccine virus in tht
House, has received letters from Paris relative
TO n patent system for vaccinnating cattle
against pleuro-pneumonia and hogs agains
hog cholera. The letter contained propositions
to sell the secret TO the United States Govern
ment, or to States, for q consideration tha
was named The system OF incubation is sait
TO have been quito successful in Europe, bu
Mr.. Smith, upon making inquiries Is to tn,
subject matter OF the letter, learned from oul
Department OF Agriculture that the process il
public property that the nature Of 1t Is known
and that Il can at any time be introduced in thi
country by any one who Is disposed to do 80.
IT SEEMS probable that the President doe
not intend to do anything in regard to Fit
John Porter's case. The President has receives
strong letters from General Grant upon tn
the subject, and equally strong letters on tn
other side from friends for whom he entertain
as high o regard as for the ex-President. Tn
pressure for routine daily business 10 SO grea
that he has little or no time for going into olt
matters, and the result will probably be tina
no action will be taken In the case at all. Wha
was hoped by Porter's friends was that Arthu
would grant him q pardon, which would re
store to him the rights Of citizenship; bu
sven this is not probable, and the whole matte
will be left 70 the action Of Congress.