The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

THE admission Of Dakota as State will re-
solve itself into party question.
FIVE thousand copies of the Garfield memo
rial card will be printed for distribution.
EVERY Territory in the United States has ap-
piled for admission into the Union as Q State.
AT THE conclusion Of the arguments in the
Mason court martial, the court adjourned sine
die.
The report that Gen. BENZ. F. Butler has
been retained as Guiteau's counsel is denied by
him.
TIE nomination of General Rufus Ingalls,
to be Quartermaster General will be fsvorably
reported.
JOHN W. DEGREES, Public Printer, is danger
ously III. only his most intimate friend being
allowed TO see him.
p. coRsELLUs A. LoezH, nominated as
9.n'..s. "a chi,i il = brpther . Olive Logan
.,.isssssS s6st lhe lpfs.iisnt bas rented
eo,frs4 '.e' ~ t16 e9.1i19 ss<-
.'l 81 s1<i6n days during Lent
EEHArozs DAVID DAVIS. Logan, and Nahone
have accepted m invitation to participate In .
1fh Of July celebration at Lake Bluffs, Ill.
THERE is general feeling Of satisfaction in
Washington over the announcement that there
is no prospect Of paid base ball club being
organized there for the next season. -
: UNDER the decision Of the Chairman Of the
bill must take its regular place on the calendar,
where it stands ffty-fourth IN order.
TIE large number Of people now In Wash
ington suffering from various ailments is caus-
ing comment Several Congressmen and Sem
ators are among those on the sick list
A STATUE to the memory Of Chief Justice
John Marshall, formerly Of the Supreme Court
of the United States is to be erected in q re-
servation in Washington, and to cost go, 900.
ScovuLE's pay for five months service In
the Guiteau case amounts to $50. he says
that when he completes the record and files his
bill of exception he will withdraw from the
case entirely.
THIRTY-FoUR bills authorizing the erection Of
buildings in twenty States, which viii cost
$5, 500, 900, have been reported to the National
House. TIE chances Of any individual bill are
not very good. = .
small coffin, with the efhgy of man inside,
who has apparently died by hanging. The
present was marked, "From the school chill
dren Of Dayton, Ohio"
TIE Life-saving Office has received from tbs
Board of Trade Of Louisville, Ky., . resolution
of thanks for the gallant services Of the life
saving crew at that place during the recent
freshet of the Ohio River.
To DISCOVER q peculation Of less than $I0l
In the Treasury Department, Senate Com
mittee has been at work all winter, taking ovel
1,400 pages OF printed testimony, at q cost tC
the government Of nearly $4,000.
The period of mourning for the death Of tn,
late President Garfield win expire on the 20ti
of this month, after which the customary pub
lie receptions at the White House will be hell
twice a week on days to be named hereafter.
CAPT. EADs has given second ship-railwa,
dinner at Wormley's to distinguished states
men. Capt. Eads wants Congress to appropri
ate $25, ,000, 900 to help scheme Of his along
as We have repeatedly stated. Capt. Fad
understands how to get into the hearts Of hi
countrymen.
IT Is reported that Sergeant Mason, who sho
at Guiteau, is likely to be brought secon'
time before court martial upon the charge o
insulting the surgeons who, in the course o
the late trial, were sent to his cell for the pur
poss Of examining the wound received by hin
In the late war.
THE unclaimed bounty money due colore
soldiers, which it was proposed to allow to tn
support of certain colored institutions, will rt
main in the possession of the government 70
this session at any rate, the Committee on EdI
cation and Labor having decided to make an &C
verse report to the House upon the bill
THE bill proposing to purchase the Freet
mans Bank Building for the use Of the govern
ment passed the House, and will probabl
become law at last, after many trials in Oor
gress. This will enable the receiver OF Il
bank to declare an additional dividend OF
per cent, a total of 60 per cent. 80 far.
JUDGE GRAY, of Massachusetts,, has astol
ished his associates on the Supreme Bench
taking prominent part IN the Court process
ings from the first day, thus violating all tr
ditions of that august body, which requires
Junior member to be somewhat modest and r
tiring for few months, until familiar with Il
practice and customs Of the Court.