The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

THE admission of Dakota as State viii 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 sp-
Piled for admission into the Union as State.
AT THE conclusion Of the arguments In the
Mason court martial, the court adjourned sine
die.
THE report that Gen. Benz. +. Butler has
him.
THE nomination Of General Rufus ingalls,
10 be Quartermaster General will be favorably
reported.
Jous W. DrrnEEs, Public Printer, is danger
ously III, only his most intimate friend being
allowed to see him.
On. CORNELIUS A. LOGAN, nominated as
Minister to Chill, is o brother 10 Olive Logan,
the correspondent.
The statement that the President has rented
. cottage at Long Branch for the coming sea-
son is authoritatively denied.
The houses Of Secretaries Frelpghuysen and
Folger are the only Cabinet houses open 70
callers on the reception days during Lent
SENATORS DAVID DAVIS, Logan, and Malone
have accepted an invitation to participate In
lth Of July celebration at Lake Bluffs, I'LL.
THERE Is general feeling Of satisfaction in
Washington over the announcement that there
is no prospect OF n paid base ball club being
organized there for the next season.
UNDER the decision of the Chairman Of the
Committee Of the Whole the tariff commission
bill must take its regular place on the calendar,
where IL stands fifty-fourth in order.
THE large number Of people now in WASH
ington suffering from various ailments is caus-
ing comment. Several Congressman and Sen-
ators are among those on the sick list.
A STATUE TO the memory Of Chief Justice
John Marshall, formerly Of the supreme Court
.~FA - ttal Akata Ia tfah cd
servation in Washington, and to cost s2O.OOO.
soovILLE's pay for five months service in
tho Guiteau case amounts to 500 he says
that when he completes the record and files his
bill OF exception be will withdraw from the
case entirely.
TmnrY-FouR bills authorizing the erection OF
buildings in twenty States, which will cost
e5,50O, 900, have been reported TO the National
House. The chances Of any individual bill are
not very good.
GurrEAu has received o box containing q
small coffin, with the efigy OF man inside,
who has apparently died by hanging; % .nis' Ihe
present was marked, FROM the school cnii-
dren Of Dayton, Ohio"
TuE Life-saving Office has received from the
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 peculation Of less than &10t
In the Treasury Department, q Senate Com
mittee has been at work all winter, taking oveI
1,4OO pages Of printed testimony, at cost to
the government Of nearly $4,000.
THE period Of mourning for the death Of th.'
late President Garfield will expire on the 20tt
Of this month, after which the customary pub
lie receptions at the White House will be held
twice week on days to be named hereafter.
Cart. EADs has given q second ship-railway
dinner at wormley's to distinguished states
men. Capt Eads wants Congress to appropri-