The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-04
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'
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an application at the Treasury Department for
the position of Naval Officer at Baltimore.
-Messrs. W. j. G. Dulsny 4 Co., of Baltimore,
have been awarded the contract for furnishing
the public schools of Washington with books.
The President on Tuesday appointed Hon.
VIM. Dorsheimer U. S. District Attorney for the
Southern District of ". Heis Tammany man.
The plans for the new National Medical Mu-
scum are about completed. 1t will be erected
in the Smithsonian grounds and will cost $780,
900.
The total decrease in the public debt for the
month of June was about $40, 100000. The total
reduction for the fiscal year ended June 30th will
be about S65,OOO,OOO. e
Mr.. J. Monroe Heiskell, ex-Fire Marshal of
Baltimore city, was on Monday appointed an ex-
aminer in the Department of Justice. His COM
pensation is $500 per day.
Capt. Wingfeld S. Anderson, of the 9Th Mary
land Regiment, has fled an application in Wash
ington for the position of engraver in the bureau
of engraving and printing
Hon. Hart B. Holton, of Baltimore county,
was in Washington on Tuesday and took lunch
with Mr.. Eugene Higgins, chief appointment clerk
of the Treasury Department.
Col. McMichael, U. S. Marshal for the Dis
trict of Columbia, on Monday removed Demo-
cratic subordinate for Offensive partisanship."
And thus the tables are being turned.
On Saturday the President appointed Edward
L. Hedden, Collector of the Port of New York !;
James S. Beattie, Surveyor of Customs, and Silas
W. Burt, Naval Officer for the same port.
The great agricultural convention will meet
in Washington on Wednesday next, July sth.-
Delegates will be present from all the agricultural
colleges and experiment stations in the country.
Three divorces were granted in the Washing
ton courts on Monday and business in that line
appears to be constantly growing. Scarcely a
day passes but a new case is reported in the pa
pers. l
"A number of Senate employees, whose salaries
ranged from S720 500 per annum, were dropped
June 30th. Some of them are Democrats, and it
is said that the places will remain permanently
vacant.
Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, arrived in Washington
on Sunday to look after the statue of Garfield,
contributed by his State to the National Statuary
Hall. He says he will not be candidate for re-
election.
"A Maryland Congressman said in Washing
ton on Monday that at least fifty postofices in
this State would have new postmasters within two
months So the "rascals' had better be prepared
to move on.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives
says that from present indications there will be
fewer contested election before the next Con-
gress than there have been before any Congress
for forty years.
Washington is said to have more dogs than
any other city of its size in the Union. The fact
that hydrophobia is expected to be dangerously
prevalent there this summer will not frighten
o6ice-hunters away.
Charges have been preferred at the Postofice
Department against postmaster Miller, of Freder-
lex, Nd, alleging extreme partisanship, the APP
pOintment of incompetent and offensive partisans,
rudeness and discourtesy, &c.
H. C. Burchard, director of the U. S. mint,
has been suspended by the President and DR.. Jas.
B. Kimball, of Bethlehem, Pa, has been appoint
ed to fill the vacancy. The DIR. served in the
Union army during the war.
The Collector of the Port of Baltimore has
received instructions from the Treasury Depart
ment that on and after July LIST, the salaries of
store keepers will be changed from 81 per diem to
81, 200 per annum, when employed.
The P. NJ. General made several promotions
this week in the Postofice Department, the lucky
ones being efficient men who have been in the De-
partment long time. There we're very few
changes in the clerical force on the LIST inst.
The Postmaster General has set apart the
two weeks Immediately following the 4th of July
in which he will dispose of the cases of Presiden
tial postmasters, which have been prepared for
consideration. Applicants should therefore take
notice
The moss backed John H. Reagan, of Texas,
has lately been savagely pitching into the admin
istration. Among other things he denounced At
torney- General Garland and said he was "black
Doubtless Mr.. Garland feels very
bad about this.
Mrs. Merrick, wife of the late Richard I.
Merrick, has been extremely ill at her fathers
residence in Washington. She was unconscious
when her husband died and although she is now
slightly improved the sad intelligence has not yet
been broken to her.
Congressman N. D. Hill, of Ohio, who was in
Washington u few days ago, says That the Demo-
Gratis of his State, to a man, are opposed to the
civil service law and want it repealed. Mr.. Hill
says he will vote for its repeal if move is made
in that direction in the next Congress.
Tho Baltimore Herald says "Col. Lamont, so
the newspapers say, has some idea of running for
Congress from a New York district. We hope
that he will not do it. The Colonel is not only
clever and genial gentleman, but he is about the
best secretary seen in the White House in a long
time"
Some time ago Commissioner Black requested
Miss Sweet, the pension agent at Chicago, to re-
sign. The lady's commission had about a year to
run and she declined to comply with the Commits
sioner's request. No further steps have been
taken in the matter and it is thought Miss Sweet
will stay.
AT the end of the month of June-wbich is
also the closing of the fiscal year-the Office seek
ers swooped down upon the Departments feeling
certain that wholesale decapitation would take
place. But they were disappointed. The changes
were comparatively few and the ofice-seeker was
greatly depressed.
Secretary Manning has amended the civil
service rule which forbids men over forty five
years of age applying for positions in the customs
service. He makes the limit from twenty one to
ffty-fve years. This will be gratifying to many
good and competent men who were excluded from
because of their age.
Several prominent Democrats from Baltimore
were at the White House few days ago to recon-
mend DR.. J. P. Thorn, of that city, for Collector of
the Port. The President said he remembered the
DR.. as an original Cleveland man in Baltimore
and remarked further that the first congratulatory
he received after his nomination came
from DIR. Thorn.
Another crank appeared at the White House
the other day and announced that he was "the
sole representative of the Son of Man." and had
been chosen by the "Supreme Ruler" to pay his
respects to Grover Cleveland. He was dressed in
white and carried basket of flowers but he was
not admitted and said he was not disposed to Gre
ate disturbance.
Two hundred and nineteen employees of the