The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-12-12
NOTES ON EVENTS AT THE CAPITAL.
lettings Here and There In Washington
What the New Administration Is
Doing-Gleanings from the Tel
egraph and the Reliable"
Correspondant.

IN the u. .. SENATE on w wednesday Senator
Blair introduced joint resolution extending the
right of suffrage to women.
-Itis said that every session of Congress costs
the Government $3,OOO,OOO, which is a very large
outlay for very little benefit.
Neal Cleveland, nephew of the Presidents,
has been appointed gauger in the Internal Rev.
enue Office at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Commissioners of the District want
union depot in Washington and are asking Con-
gress for the necessary authority.
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, is direct de-
scendant of Stephen Coerte Voorhees,, who came
to this country from Holland in 1860.
Mr.. Wilson, the new Marshal of the District,
has re-appointed the entire force of subordinatcs
in his Office, from chief deputy down.
In the Senate on Wednesday Senator Cor
man presented bill appropriating 100000 for
the erection of new public buildings in Annapolis.
"A Washington correspondent says that the
wife of Secretary Manning bids fair to rival Mrs.
Fish in the affections of society people at the cap
ital
1t is believed in Washington that Govern
ment Printer Rounds will serve out his term and
that his successor will be Mr.. John Cox, of Balti-
more.
Mr.. Charles II. Mann, Jr., formerly of Balti-
more county, has been re-appointed door-keeper
of the press gallery in the House of Representa-
tives. n
I The annual sale of articles in .ne dead letter
Office, that have accumulated during the past year,
q hat ova tba;r
will take place next Tuesday.
Through the efforts of the Special Agents the
sum of $S30,3lS was paid into the United States
Treasury last year. The expense of the force for
salaries, &C., was something over $4,000.
Hereafter those who call at the White House
simply to pay their respects to the President will
be received in the East Room at 100 every day
except Cabinet days Tuesdays and Thursdays)
and Mondays.
1t is said that some of the Southern and
Western men not pleased with the Presidents
utterances on the tariff and silver questions,
while the Northern and Eastern men generally
approve them.
Elk Representative Talbot was in Washing
ton on Wednesday and made number of friendly
calls. He also called at the Government Print
ing Office to secure appointment for a man
from Baltimore county.
The Forty-n ninth Congress met on Monday
and after the election of presiding officers, the
swearing in of new members, &C., both Houses
adjourned out of respect to the memory of the late
Vice-President Hendricks.
"A lot on Pennsylvania avenue, adj dining
Wizards Hotel, 26 feet inches front, was sold
last week to Mr.. Henry A. Willard for S5O,OOO.-
1t contains 1,915 square feet and the rate was
more than S25 per square foot.
For the next fiscal year the Secretary of War
wants the comfortable sum of $lS, 900. There
are about $4,000 men in the army and during the
past year about one half of these were court
tailed upon one charge or another.
Miss Cleveland's favorite flowers are coming
to the front again, pond lilies and roses A bou-
quet of pond lilies is taken to her room every
morning and fresh basket placed on the table at
breakfast. So says a Washington writer.
The fifth annual meeting of the Federation
of Organized Trade and Labor Unions of the
United States and Canada was held in Washing
ton this week. The delegates who attended
claimed to represent 100000 workingmen.
The Secretary of the Navy, in his annual re-
port, makes the frank acknowledgment that "at
the present moment it must be conceded that we
have nothing that deserves to be called navy"
This is rather humiating for a country like ours
The engagement of James Bayard, eldest son
IF thu sO0ret~Iy Sc s.~.", 60 Mice peehins, Woo.
Virginia farmers daughter, is announced by a
Washington paper. 1t is understood that the Sec
rotary of State still refuses to recognize his son or
the lady.
Hon. Samuel J. Tilden has written a letter to
Speaker Carlisle, of the House of Representatives
recommending that the surplus revenue in the U.
S. Treasury be expended in fortifying our seaport
towns, which, he says, are in greatly exposed
condition.
The Republican Senatorial caucus, which met
on the 4th inst unanimously rendered the nomi
nation of President the Senate to Senator Logan,
who gracefully declined the honor. Subsequently
Senator Sherman was chosen and he was duly
elected on Monday.
Tho annual report of U. S. Treasurer Jordan
shows that the net revenue of the Government
during the last fiscal year was 1929 ZOO, -or
The expenditures we're $500, 226,935, or sl6,1O
800 greater than those of the preceding year.
They say that Senator "Tom" Bowen, of Col
orado, is going to spread himself this winter, and
the people of Colorado are getting ready to point
with pride to his forensic record "Tom" has just
struck it rich-in mines this time-and has proba-
bly, brodght big SPOT with him to the National
capital.
On Monday the Postmaster General received
letter from man who states that twenty odd
years ago he stole from the mails two packages
containing S145 and he now asks the department
to help him find the owner. This conscience
stricken individual signs himself ga Sincere
Christian"
"A fellow who wanted fourth class post-ofice
IN pennsylvania sent an immense petition to the
Department, but upon Investigation it was dis
covered that most of the names on the paper had
been copied from the tomb-s stones in a cemetery.
1t is just possible that this energetic applicant
will be cleft"
The Commissioner of Pensions has issued an
order that from and after the 1st of next January
claimants shall be required, before pension agents
withhold any portion of the attorneys fee certified
by the Commissioner of Pensions, to make an
affidavit, stating with reasonable detail the time
and manner of payment.
The total amount estimated by Secretary
Manning for the expenses of the Government for
the fiscal year ending June 3Oth, 1887, is $780,
5S9,552, which is s15, 61s, 15S more than the sum
called for in the estimates submitted last year,
and S5O, 1926, ITO more than the aggregate of ap-
preparations for the present fiscal year.
Seth Kinman, the California hunter, who pre-
sented unique chairs to Presidents Buchanan,
Lincoln, johnson and Hayes, will next spring
honor President Cleveland in a similar manner.
This chair is made of elk horns, is curiously and
deliberately constructed and is said by Mr.. Kin
man to be "the best cheer 1 ever did make"
Congressman Collins, of Boston, has given to
the President cane made of oak grown at Mount
Vernon. The stick was given to Major Goodwin,
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