Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-11
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
This Years Yellow Fever Economy and
Other Notes
'TreapoHdence Of tie Morning Ne,os.


AsHINGToN, Oct. 9.-There has been
during the yellow fever of this year less
money spent by the government than
during any previous year that the country
has been visited by the scourge. So far
the 100000 appropriated, to be used bv
the Secretary of the Treasury in case of
an actual or threatened epidemic. has not
been touched. The whole expenses of
this season have been paid out of the an
preparation for the year before. This
includes the expenses incurred bv
the Brownsville epidemic OF last
year. The whole will not foot
up more than $4,000. This amount would
nave been larger had it not been for the
TACT that the Secretary Of the Treasury
would not sanction several items of ey-
Pehdlture proposed by DR.. Hamilton.
oufgeOn-General of the Marine HOsnitaj
Service. DIR. Hamilton favored certain
unallowed expenditures as a matter of
feileI 10 several cities which were visited
Dy the small pOX and yellow fever. DR.
hamilton, IN conversation to-day re-
terred to the prediction which he made at
the commencement of what is called the
yellow fever season, that the
disease would not be an epidemic. He said
would bear him out i'm his prediction. He
does not think that we shall be i'm any
great danger in the future. He relies
principally upon quarantine as an anti
dOte to the spreading of the disease. He
says the more complete that antidote is
the greater is the danger from the disease
reduced: An intelligent and effective
quarantine, he says, will prevent the
spread OF the fever, and such an advance
pf
been made IN the past few years as will.
IN ms opinion, preclude the spread
lng OF yellow fever from city TO
city III the future. SO successful have
been DIR. HamitOn's administration of this
branch of the public service during the
past year that there is no probability
whatever of Il revival of the late unIa-
mented National Board of Health.
GOOD MANY EMPLOYEES
of the House are getting ready to migrate
over to the Senate. There are about six
employees on the House side who keen
their places, no matter whether the ma
Jorlty OF that body is Democratic or Re
publican. They seem to possess Il
knack of hanging on which cannot
be undermined. They watch as serenelv
a shifting of majOrities as they would a
passing street car. There are others.
however, who know that they will have to
go. But there are in that number a dozen
or fifteen who have sufficient influence TO
save them from making a long Journey.
They will only go to the other end of the
building. They are known as the Semi
grants" When the House is Republican
they stay on that side. When it is Demo-
cratic and the Senate Republican they
migrate over to the latter body and
get good places. For series of
years the House and Senate have
alternated in politics. The rule has been
a Democratic House and a Republican
senate, ana vice versa. This is where
certain employees have been able to get
their work In. Yes said "A House en-
plOye to-day, 1.-THE noble band of emigrants
is getting ready to once more cross the
capitol building. They will be billeted on
the Senate rolls during the next session of
Congress. They will then be ready to fit
back upon the next change i'm the Con-
gressiOnal complexion. They never get
left. They are very athletic Officeholders. y
THERE is A CURIOUS
thing about the selection of Richard
Francis to be caterer of the Senate. This
selection was made by Senator Edmunds.
President pro tempOre of that body.
Francis will succeed a caterer who, bv
his poor food and eXorbitant prices, drove
nearly everybody on the Senate side over
stands behind the bar at the oldest saloon
in Washington. He is a good looking
mulattO of about fifty. He has bald
head and a benevolent face He is reDu
ted to be worth somewhere in the neigh
bOrhOOd Of $4,000. He is pOpuIaTlv
known as ''Dick." His Deculiarity. or
rather speciality, is the mixing of drinks
in what is known as the ''Old Southern
STYLE" He puts on all the finishes and
does the thing up very swell indeed. He
has attracted a great amount of custom
to the house in which he has been employ
ed. That custom is composed of many
members of both houses. Senators and
Representatives have been known time
and time again to refuse to drink at the
capitol. and postpone their bibulations
until they could get down town and inter
view Dick in the ''Old Southern stvIe.v
Senator Edmunds was one of these. |
could name dozen who will not
drink ordinarily until they
can be served by Dick. 70 his happy
faculty of pleasing the Congressional
palate Dick owes the position to which
he has been appointed. 1t is one worth
a good sum of money.
THE WASHINGTON SURVIVORS OF RUFUS
HATCH's
Yellowstone Park expedition are slowly
returning to town. Each tourist tries to
tell a bigger and more lurid story than
those who preceded him. | met one of
these gentlemen at the rooms of the press
club the other evening. lie was
mild-eyed, young man with a sad smile.
He said: Il never saw anything like it.
When | first arrived / was amazed, but
nothing will astOnish Inc now. For in
stance, / saw whole grove of petrited
trees just as natural as life. You couldn't
tell the difference. Even the cOloring of
the natural trees was retained. Each
leaf and twig was as perfect as in life.
There were even petrified birds perched
among the branches. TO say that it was
wonderful does not even begin to express
it," Just then another member of
the expedition walked in, and catching
the last part of the conversation
said: Jack has not told you half the
truth. There was vast forest of stone
trees, animals and birds, all of stone.
Fact. / have got IA big chunk of petritied
song in my valise that / chopped from the
bill of one of the birds. Even the songs
had turned into stone." | am patiently
waiting to hear the next story from the
Yellowstone, but it certainly seems as if
the climax was about TO be reached.
A MOVEMENT Is TO BE
made in the next Congress by the friends
of the celebrated Marine Band to have it
taken from the Marine Corps and attach
ed to the Presidents household. This
organization has been in existence over
seventy years, and is the finest military
band in the country. The members of the
band receive ridiculOusly small wages,
and but for the fact that they are allowed
to take outside engagements it would be
impossible to hold them together The
pay is from $21 to S3S per month. Colonel
Macauley, commanding the Marine Corps,
has refused for the past two years to allow
the band to accept any engagements out
side this city. This is the moving cause A.,
of the effort that is to be made to get the
band from under the control of that corps.
A Lynching in Alabama.
CHATTANOOGA, Oct. 10.-A negro who
murdered Policeman Street, of Hunts
vile, Ala, on Monday, by splitting his
head open with an axe, was taken from
Jail last night by fifty masked men and