The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-06
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Thanksgiving in the Capital-Congress
Again in Session-Gen. Logan
Plenty of Work to Do-Sen-
ator German, &c., &c.

Again In S0SSiOn-Gen. Logan
Plenty of Work to Do-Sen-
ator German, &c., &c.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. December ID, 1884.
INessrs Editors :-Thauksgiving day passed of
quietly here There services in many of the
churches, and the subject of "Our Country" with
all the varying themes of its past glorious history,
present blessings and greatness, and future hopes,
dangers, possibilities and destiny was dscoursed
upon b. the ministers in the pulpits, all concur
ring in the central idea that God should be thank
ed for all the present blessings we enjoy as ma
ton, and invoked that good may still attend us in
the future. The day was a legal holiday and all
the public offices were closed. There were no eel
ebrations except procession of the cadets OF the
District, accompanied by one or more companies
of visiting cadets from Baltimore and OF the Fire
Department of this city. Parades are of such fire.
quent occurrence in this city, attended by bands
of music, that those of last Thursday elected but
little attention, although they each presented
very fine appearance. Thanksgiving turkey was
enjoyed to the usual extent-that toothsome fowl
never being neglected where there is money
enough for its purchase, and it seemed there was
here, especially among the Government employees,
as the next day, in the Departments, comments
could be heard of how almost everyone had en-
ioyed his Thanksgiving dinner. Whether the
poor on the outside Jared as we'll cannot be told,
as heard of no organized plan for supplying
them with the delicacies, turkeys in particular,
which seem especially to belong to the day and
occasion. In one Government Office (Sixth Audi
tors of the Treasury on the day before Thanks
giving the clerks of of the divisions contribu-
ted to fund to buy turkey for their messenger,
and the collection amounted to two dollars ana
forty cents, which was enough to buy him good
sized turkey with all the accomplishments of cee-
ry, cranberry sauce, &C., or whatever else was to
his liking.
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convened promptly yesterday at noon. Rev. DIR.
Huntley, chaplain of the Senate offered prayer in
that body, while similar ceremony was perform
ed in the House by its chaplain. In the chaplain
of the Senate's prayer allusion to Senator Antho-
nys death was made. The chaplain of the House
gave thanks that the members had been permitted
to return in health and safety to their legislative
duties. The Senate presided over by the
President pro tem Senator Edmunds, Of Vermont,
and the House by Speaker Carlisle, who was elect
ed at the last session. Of course, the first bust
ness in order in both bodies was the appointment
OF committees by each to wait upon the President
and inform him that they were ready to receive
any communication from him. This was done in
the Senate on motion of Gen. John A. Logan, late
Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency, and
Senators Sherman, of Ohio, and Garland, of Ken
lucky, were appointed the committee, while in the
House Messrs. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and
Cox, of New York, were appointed like committee
Senator Logan, who is looking as composed and
healthy as ever, the subject of much attention
in the Senate, and no doubt there were many of
his fellow Senators there, and perhaps some that
belonged to the opposite Democratic party, that
sympathized personally with him in his defeat for
the Vice. Presidency. However, so far as any
thing detected in the Generals looks was con-
cerned there was nothing there that indicated that
it affected him.
While the above committees were absent the
e CbafEa old af Rhode
Island the successor of the late Senator Anthony,
were laid by the chair before the Senate and read
by the secretary. AT 1.35 p. IN. the Presidents
message was received and read in the Senate, and
after the formal announcement of Senator An
thongs death by Senator Aldrdge, the eulogies
thereon to be pronounced hereafter, there having
previously been introduced Q number of bills, the
body adjourned for the day out of respect to Sen
ator Anthony's memory.
The roll call Of the House showed 222 members
present. All the members from Maryland were in
their places. The resignation Of Representative
Calkins of Indiana, late Republican candidate
for Governor of that State, left conspicuous
vacancy in the membership of the House, he hav-
ing been one of the ablest members of that body
and one of the leading Republicans in it. B. I.
Shiyely was sworn in as the Representative OF
the 18th Indiana district in the place of Mr.
Calkins resigned. at LAO o'clock the Presidents
message was received in the House, read and re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole. Then the
deaths of couple of the members that occurred
during the recess-Messrs. Duncan, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Evans, of South Carolina-were an
nounced, and the House adjourned as mark of
respect to them.
This is the last or short session of the present
Congress- which expires by law at noon on the 4th
day of next March, to be succeeded by the Con-
gress Just elected-Fortyr ninti--vhich, however,
does not convene in regular session until 2 year
hence, or the first Monday in December, 1885,
What will be done in the way of work at the
present session, or that anything more will be
done than at the past session, cannot at this time
be OWNED. The Christmas holidays occur in it,
which have generally called for an adjournment
of O couple of weeks more, and already there is
some talk of an adjournment for two weeks for
the purpose of attending tie New Orleans Expo
siton in body, which would leave but little time
to work up to the 4th of March. However, there
being no new organization of either body to take
has-on the 1st day of December-some little time
has been gained, and with little promptness and
diligence a good deal of work might be done
otherwise than merely the attending to the pass
age of the appropriation bills for next year
There is much to be dQrs--as much as could be
done even at the longest session OF Congress-in
the matter of passing the many bills that now lie
on the Speakers desk of the House or in the COM
mittee rooms ready to be reported-many of great
public Importance and others of private charac
ter which simple justice to the individuals and
common honesty on the part of the Government
would call for the passage of. But the question is,
will Congress do the work before it? That has
been the question of all the past, and the wond
ment has only been increased that it never did,
and probably will not now, the 4th of next March
finding it with much undone. Politics apparent
y should not interfere this session, there being no
campaign on hand.
forgot to mention that Nj. German, Senator
from Maryland, received many a congratulatory
shake Of the hand yesterday, as we'll as monop-
oily of bouquets in the Senate, and was, to large
extent, central figure among the Democrats, who
evidently appreciate his able conduct of the late
campaign on the Democratic side. The talk
among the Democrats Of the House was pretty
general that Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware, you'd
have to be one of Mr.. Cleveand's Cabinet. The
Democrats of both the House and Senate were
quite jublant over the election of President be-
longing to their party, as vas shown BY the man
ner in which they went about greeting one an
other, patting one another on the back and
smiling. If the result of the late election was not
surprise to them it could easily be seen that it
was something new for them to have elected q
President.
The Maryland delegation is not yet entirely
fixed in their residences during the session.
Messrs. Hoblitzel and Holton will probably 60
backwards and forwards to Baltimore Mr.. Nc
Comas is at present at the Riggs House; Mr..
Talbot will reside at 800 street, N. W.; Mr..
Findlay will probably move here after the holt
days. Senator German has taken the house 1909
Massachusetts avenue.
The cap stone of the Washington Monument is
ready to be put in place and the monument COM
pleted that far. Probably by the time this letter
is in print the above stone will be set and the
monument virtually said to be completed ready
for its dedication. ANON.
Correspondence Baltimore County Union