The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-12-11
WASHINGTON NEWS.
pupLlo PAPERS ARE puaLolnto.
Ensro.ssd Copy ~ the Nsvsi Appsop'is-
tion. biii Missing Gov Criitesdss
Amer AJadseship-wssb
tes Monument noas.
rURLoIsKD rAPsus.


days has not served 10 find any trace OF
them. Thoy were In the hands OF con-
forces when last hoard from az the end
of the session. These papers were de-
sired now 10y the senate committee on
appropriations as a basis for the pro-
pissed action In framing n substitute for
the bill as passed by thp house early this
week, providing to lump tho sum for the
support OF the navy during tho last nix
months OF the pi esent fiscal year. A
printed copy OF tho lost papers In OBJ
tainsblo aud a resolution may be passed
to consider II ~ the official copy should
tho engrosscd papers not loo found.
WHAT CRIiTENDEN WANTS.
The Star saws: "rhe visit OF Gov.
Crittenden, OF Missouri, TO Washington
a few days ago and his statement that
he intended 10 go TO New York was
taken to mean that he desired a cabinet
position under the administration. Gov.
Crittenden told his friends here what
hs wanted. United States District
Judge Krekel of the western district OF
Missouri. will soon be 20 years Of age,
and Governor Crittenden wants To sue
coed MIN on the bench in case he re-
tires, Az Judge Krokel lives In Jeffer-
son City, IT is supposed by some that
Governor Crittenden has ascortained
from him that ha Intends TO avail him
self ot the privilege OF retiring from the
bench.
TELEGRApHIC LEGrsLArIoS.
Representative Mercy has informed
the house committee Oh postoilices and
post roads that he has received informa-
ton from the senate, which leads him
TO believe that II the house passes bill
TO secure cheaper telegraphic cores
pondence the senate will accept IL AZ a
substitute for tho postal-telegraph bill
now pending before 1t.
THE BLAIR BILL FAVORED.
Tho house committee on education
has given instructions to Representa-.
tive Willis to call up the educational
bill as soon az possible and move to sub
stitute for it the Blair Bill, which passed
the senate, and is row ON the speakers
table.
REVENUE RECEIPTS.
Collections of internal revenue for
the first month of the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1884, were s34,375,676; same Pc
riod previous fiscal year, $40, 1889, 40; de-
crease, $2,623;7Yi. There WAS an increase
of $390,373 in the collections Tor fer
mented liquor and decrease of $2,5Sl,-
$50 on spirits; $279,9l2 on tobacco, and
Sl57.3 on miscellaneous items The
aggregate receipts in October last were
81 500, $40 less than tor the same month
YIN 1888.
oUnARCTIc MAP.
fhe photographic office has prepared
for exhibition attAe Nav. Orleans expo
Batlin Bay TO Lincoln sea, showing the
most recent discoveries, including those
of the Polaris expedition, Mares eXpedi-
ton and the Lady Franklin Bay expe-
dition under Lieutenant Greedy and De
Long.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT CON-
PLETED.
As was expected. the completion OF the
Washington monument, Obtlisk, was
accomplished this afternoon by setting
in place the marble cap stone and its
pyramidal apex of aluminium. The GER
eInopi6s we're few and simple. An elab-
crate celebration event is being reserved
for Wsshington's birthday.
Shortly after 2 o'clock Col. Thomas l..
Casey, government engineer in charge,
and bis assistants, Capt. Davis. United
civil engineer, together with Master
Mechanic Mclaughlin and several
workmen standing on the narrow plat
form built around the sloping marble
roof, near the summit, proceeded TO set
the capstone, weighing $500 pounds,
which was suspended from quadruped
of heavy joists, supported by a platform,
and towering forty feet above them. Az
soon as the capstone was set
an American flag was unfurled overhead
and salute of twenty-one guns was
fred by n battery on tho white house
lot, far below. Tho sound Of the cheers
also came up family from tho crowd OF
spectators gathered around tho base OF
the monument, while number of invi-
ted guests on the 500 feet platform and
the interior Of the foot of the monumen,
the "Star-Spangled Banner" and other
patriotic songs. The steady down pour
Of the rain had given place little while
to u brisk gale of wind, al
this elevation blowing about iifty-five
miles an hour, and very few invited
guests cared to avail themselves OF
the privilege OF climbing
the nearly pe5pa.ndiouiar lsdde'
from the 600 feet platform TO the dizzy
tour journalists and half a dozen other
climbed and witnessed the
setting of the capstone aud subse
uuentIv assembled to the pinnacle.
Mean while the Washington Monument
society, repr esented by DR.. J. NJ. Tonet
Hon Horatio King, Gen. William Nc
Kee Dunn, DIR. Daniel l.. Clark and I,
l.. Harvey. secretary, held meeting on
the elevated platform at the height OF
500 feet, and when the artillery firing
announced the setting OF the cspstone
adopted resolution offered by Gen.
Dunn, "congratulating the American
people on the completion OF this mOnu-
inent of our nations gratitude to tn.
father Of our country" Among those |
present was ono of the master mechan
les who laid the corner stone of this
ago, and an old watchman OF the monu
ment, who had been continuously en-
ployed in that capacity nearly the whole |
Of the intervening period. The flag
over the monument hoated to-day from
the flagstaff top, winch is exactly 0
feet from the ground, thus displaying
the American cOlOrs at . grea 81 height
Of construction than ever yet known in
the world. The monument itself with
its total height OF $50 feet, far overtops
every other structure erected by human
hands. The aluminium apex of the
Is engraved with inscrip- |
lions as follows, on one face: "Chiei
Engineer and Architect, Thomas 1,ii-
coin Casey, Colonel Corps Engineers; |
Assistants George w. Davis, Fourteenth
United States Infantry, Bernard r
P. HI. Mclaughlin" On another: "Cor.
nor stone laid on the bed of the fOunda
ton July 4, 1913; first stone, at the
height of l52 feet, laid August 7, 1880;
cap stone set December G, 1884," On the |
bird: "Joint commission ut setting Of
,apstone, Chester A. Arthur, w. w.
9, rcoran, chairman; Nj. Il. Belle, Ed
ward Clark, John Newton; act of Au-
gust q 1875" And on the fourth face
,he words: Claus Deo."
Cotton Crop Report
MEMPHIS, Dec. 5.-The cotton crop re-
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