Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-03-24
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mlttee q rev Gays since tnaJ ne was pre- !
pared to tell every thing, but they had bet
ter decide exactly what they wanted TO get
out before beginning upon him. The Com
mittee took the hint, and after celebrating
with closed doors, made an order virtually
advising him that nothing was wanted from
him concerning his dealings with members
of Congress. Probably it is not without
reason that Shipherd bears himself like
man who knows that there is much politi-
cal dynamite In his Peruvian business that |
the Committee will not pry into 1t without |
caution.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is sell |
dom in his seat, political matters in his State |
and the indisposition of his wife OBTAINING |
him at home.
Representative Blackburn, Of the Garfield
Expense Committee, recently declared that
it would be burlesque and insult to the
intelligence Of the country to pay man
$4,000 for treating a pus cavity for two
months as a gun-shot wound. He further
said, IL would sooner think OF asking Con-
gress to pay me for nursing my wife through
an illness as TO put in such bills as some OF
these If | were in the place OF certain per-
sons l could name"
1t is a long time since the party which
has the majority in the House of Represen-
tatives and shapes its policy was without
any recognized leader That seems TO be the
present curious situation. The removal of
Blaine, Garfield and Conger from that body
not only deprived the Republicans of their
best tacticians, but it left no one with suffi-
Gent experience and command over his fol-
lowers to take the vacant place. Reliance
upon the brilliant Qualities Of these leaders
had tended TO check the development of
like abilities in other members, Mr.. Robe
son, who aspires to the vacancy, has not
even the respect Of his party, and when he
comes TO the front it is apt 10 trip him up
and sit him down very hard, as if he were
presuming school boy. Mr.. Kassons long
absence untitled him, in part at least,
for struggle where success so often de-
ponds on familiarity with precedents and
rulings. He has been very modest in as
serting himself, but he, too, was badly
worsted in an attempt to control his own
party. Mr.. Dunnell, whose long service
and position in the contest for the speaker
ship gave HIM some pretensions, has chosen,
for reasons best known to himself, not to
advance them, and there is no reason for
supposing that if he had they would have
met with any better success. In fact, there
does not seem to be a single Republican rep
resentative in whom the House has sufficient
I
self as TO give him the place which was so
coveted in the old days. The practical eff
feet of this is mingled good and evil. The
business of the House suffers somewhat from
the lack Of unity of plan, and strong hand
TO carry il to completion. That body has
more frequently the aspect of good naturcd
but not overwise debating club than when
"the choice and master spirits of the age"
were at the head.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of John Russell Young, the well-known
New York journalist, as minister to China
Mr.. Young accompanied Gen. Grant on his
trip around the world as the correspondent
of the New York Herald, and on his return
published couple of volumns concerning the
countries he visited on his journey. His
ability to fill the place TO which he has been
chosen cannot be questioned.
The nature of the expenditures made for
the Congressman who went to the funeral
Of President Garfield will not only attract
attention but will be roundly denounced.
1t would have been to the credit of the
country had the disreputable business been
kept secret. The men who made that sea-
son and that service an occasion of revelry
could not have shared the general sentiment
of the country, which clothed itself in the
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death Of the President in sincere sorrow.
To have it blazed to the world that the con-
gressional committee who attended the re-
mains of the murdered President to his last
home should for those few days render an
account of $4,000, one item Of $1,700 was
for wines and tobacco, another of $500 for
gin cock tails. What a burning disgrace.
There is much bad feeling among the
Democratic members at the selection of
Gen. Rosencrans as Chairman of the Con-
gressional Campaign Committee. Senators
Farley and Mcpherson have declined to
serve. 1t is thought that there will be some
compromise in the matter
The people in the Territories and in the
District of Columbia now have the satisfac-
ton Of living under law which, II sternly
executed, will have very fine moral effect.
The law first passed in order to reach the
Mormons, declares that no adulterer can
abide on Territorial soil. But the law has
got to be executed.
Senator Logans idea is to have the sys-
TEN Of public schools which are TO be sup
ported by the Government placed under the
control of the governmental is not hard
to discern that the Senator's idea is to give
the Government little more patronage.
For the past week the Senate have had
uhNSi SOhoiiCiobiOh tuC tdllu ull-llt up-
pointment of a commission to revise the
same. The House has spent the same time
with the consideration of the Chinese bill,
much to the delight of those who were
anxious to spread themselves, and there have
not so far been few.
Representative Urner introduced 2S war
claims from his district on Tuesday, several
from your county. IL is a mistaken idea, IL
is now known that they will never be acted
upon by Congress, but Court will be es-
tablished by Congress for their adjudica-
ton.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
The death of Father Boyle threw wave
OF gloom and sorrow over the entire city.
| The funeral services were of the most i'm
posing and interesting known to the church.
The funeral discourse was by the most
Rev. Archbishop Gibbons, and is said to
have been of surprising beauty, eloquence
and truth The floral offerings came from
every direction, and were beautifully ex-
| pressve and touchingly symbolic. 1t is
thought that Rev. Father Mackin, so many
years stationed at st. Mary's Church in your
town, will be appointed to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Father Boyle
The anniversary of St Patrick's Day was
largely celebrated here by the Catholic socle-
ties, and the press say that the demonstra-
tons in the cities generally were larger and
more successful than heretofore. The sig
nifcance Of this fact cannot be over-estl-
mated. For the past two or three years a
large number of those who compose these
associations have been devoting their ener-
gies and large part of their resources TO
the sustainment of an agitation forced upon
their people in their old country by pressure
Of circumstances, and these days are made
the occasion of appealing to some extent to
the patriotism Of the "Old Isle" and thus
increase funds to sustain their cause.
Col. Rob't lngersol, better known as "Bob
lngersol," eloquent even in profanity and
who has exhibited more bravery in the ex-
preston of independence of sentiment than
since that fatal morn when Martin Luther
nailed his thesis on the church door, which
shook the civilized world from its centre to
its circumference, still continues his two re.
ceptlons week, and to which the most
learned throughout the world delight To re-
sort. II has often occurred TO your cores
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