The National tribune., 1882-04-29
CAPITAL TOPICS,

Mr.. R. c. Wilson, 4 prominent citizen o
Cleveland, Ohio, arrived here with petition
bearing the signatures of sixty thousand citi
zens of Cleveland and vicinity. praying for th
Perdon of Sergeant Mason. The petition wa
handed to President Arthur
The latest specimen TO the collection o
cranks at the Capital was a woman who wanted
| President Arthur to pardon Guteau. This dis
| tlngulshed member of the family, upon arriv
ing, stated to policemen that she wanted
carriage to take her to the White House Ii
! her hand she carried large banner about foul
feet square, made OF thick card beard, on which
were pasted number of texts from Scripture
| The tenor OF them was that the President wa.
TO pardon Guiteau, precedents for the same
| being found IN the bible Officer Kearney es
| corted the lady to police headquarters where
she gave her name as Mrs. John Gaylord, OF
| Gaylordsville. Conn, the wife of retired gen
tIeman residing there. She is about fifty years
! old, and is plainly, but well-dressed. Hel
! relatives were notified.
! The House Committee on Patents has di-
rected favorable report to be made on a bill
providing that no action for damages or pro-
! ceeding in equity shall be sustained nor the
party held liable under sections 1919 or 1921 of
| the Revised Statutes for the use of any patent
ed article or device when it shall appear on the
trial that the defendants in such action or pro-
ceedlngs purchased said article for valuable
consideration in the open market.
The House Committee on the Judiciary has
agreed to report favOrably to the House the
bill for the retirement of District Judge Ed
ward W. Hillyer, of the district OF Nevada, on
account of physical disability, with the full
salary fixed by law during his life The COM
mittee also adopted resolution requesting the
President to appoint another judge to act dur
ing the disability of Judge Hillyer.
A census bulletin just issued gives proposed
plan for the subdivision of the States and Ter
ritories for statistical purposes The proposition
is to divide the country into five divisions. to
be known as The North Atlantic, South Allan
tic, Northern Central, Southern Central and
Western divisions, instead of New England,
Middle, Southern, and Western States.
Mr.. Aldrich has introduced the following
joint resolution in the House of Representa-
tiyes: "Resojred that the thanks of Congress
be, and they are hereby, rendered to Com
mander (now rear -admiral) Henry Wake and
the officers and men under his command on the
United States steamer Carondcct for their emi-
nent galiantry and services in running the
gauntlet of the batteries of the enemy at Island
No. 10 on the 9th of april, 1862, thereby OPEN
ing the blockade of the Mississippi River, and
securing the capture of New Madrid"
Tho praSiJn,st hoe h en-
nations TO the Senate: Alphonso Taft, of Ohio,
TO be envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary Of the United States to Austria;
William L. Dayton, Of New jersey, to be min
lister resident of the United States to the Meth
erlands; Nicholas Fish, of New York, to be
minister resident TO Belgium; John NJ Frances,
of New York, TO be charge d'alfaircs to Portugal;
}. L. Wickersham, of Pennsylvania, to be charge
d'affaires to Denmark Adam Badcau, of New
York, to be consul general at havana; Harry
l.. Slaight, of New York, to be United States
consul at Prescott.
Third Assistant Postmaster-G General Hazen,
in letter to the postmaster in Philadelphia,
states that several bills covering a reduction of
postage on letter matter are being considered
at this time, and he has no doubt some measure
looking TO a reduction will be favorably re-
ported to the House. Mr. Hazen is very favor
able to the proposed reduction in postage.
Senator Aldrich has introduced bill to
bestow a pension upon Mrs. Kady Brownell, of
New York city, "late daughter of the regiment
Of Captain Days company, First regiment of
Rhode Island detached militia, who was regl-
larly mustered into the service of the United
States and, though woman, followed the flag
Of the Union, was wounded III the line of duty
at the first battle of Bull Run, and received an
discharge signed by General Burn
side"
Mrs. ScOville states that she intends to pre-.
pare petition TO the President for commuta-
ton of Guiteau's sentence TO imprisonment for
life, and travel around the country lccturing
and circulating the petition for signatures.
Mr.. Sccyille has sent letter to the Supreme
Court justices formally Withdrawing from the
Guiteau case, and giving his reasons for this
action.
From present indications tie river and har-
Dor bill this year will recommend an appro-
prjation of at least s15,00O,0O0, which will be |
m increase Of nearly 100000 over the bill Of
last yea.