The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-12-19


The clerks in all the departments will be paid
on the 23d of the present month, in order that
they may have their money for Christmas.
During the present session of Congress bill
will be introduced to create Department of
Labor, with a secretary and assistant secretary.
john H. Pryor, of Maryland, o clerk in the
Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General,
was dismissed on Tuesday. His salary was ST.
600.
Hon. John T. Wait, of Connecticut, is the
oldest man in the present Congress-74. The
youngest is Hon. VIM. McAdoo, of New Jersey,
aged 80.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the New England
poet and philosopher, was on the floor of the Sem
ate on Tuesday and was warmly received by the
Senators.
In the Senate on Tuesday Mr.. Edmunds in
troduced bill granting pension of s., 900 to the
widow of Gen. Grant; also confering upon her the
ranking privilege.
The Grand Army of the Republic will erect
its monument to Gen. Grant in Washington city.
1t will be built entirely from funds contributed
by exUnion soldiers.
The President and all the members of his
Cabinet were photographed in group on Tues
day. The President is the biggest man among
the number, by all Odds
1t is recalled that Senator Sherman was the
second person-next after ex-President Arthur
to shake hands with Mr.. Cleveland after his in
auguration as President.
The man who receives the most letters day
in Washington is not the President or any mem
Der of his Cabinet, but pension attorney, whose
daily mail frequently numbers 500 letters.
Congressman Kimmel and wife of Mary
land, will spend the winter in Washington. Mrs.
Groome, of Cecil county, wife of the Senator,
will also spend portion of the winter in that city.
Senator German is credited with having al
ready secured one hundred and forty three APP
pointments in the Government printing Office
We are pleased to see that the Senator is looking
out for the printers.
Speaker Carlisle had one hundred and twenty
FIVE applications from members for positions on
the House Committee on Labor. Congressman
want to make themselves solid with the "horny-
handed sons of toll"
The expended by the national Govern
ment in showing respect to the memory of Vice
President Hendricks is figured out to have been
in excess of the total value of his fortune, which
is estimated at S150,OO0.
"A little boy was among those in attendance
at late White House reception and as he grasped
the Presidents hand he said cts our turn now,
amt ?" The remark caused general laugh, in
which Mr.. Cleveland joined.
DIR. Riley, entomologist of the Department of
Agriculture, has donated to the National Museum
his extensive collection of North American insects.
1t embraces over 10000 species, represented by
more than $4,000 pinned specimens.
Mr.. Plumb introduced in the Senate on We'd
nesday, bill to extend the provisions of the
bounty act TO soldiers discharged within two years
from the date of their enlistment on account of
disability incurred in the line of duty.
Mr.. Sparks, the new Commissioner of the
Land Office, it is said, has not proved brilliant
success in that Office and there many COM
plants about his administration of its affairs. An
appeal will be made to the President to remove
him.
Republican Senators have decided to mako
factious opposition to President Cleveand's APP
pointments. All they will demand is that where
Republicans have been turned out under charges
that they be given chance to vindicate them
selves.
Indian Inspector Morris A. Thomas, who has
been in the bouudless West for some time, has
been ordered home. The names of several Indian
Inspectors were sent to the Senate by the Presi-
dent on Monday, but Thomas's name was not
among the number.
The bar of the U. S. Supreme Court held a
meeting on Monday to express their profound
sense OF the loss they have sustain ed in the death
of Richard T. Merrick, of Maryland, and bear
their testimony to the public and private virtues
which marked his distinguished career.
An Ohio Congressman has bill which he
will introduce to repeal the civil service law. 1t
is said it will meet with no favor. Another Ohio
member has bill to introduce, providing for the
election of postmasters by the people. 1t will
meet the same fate as the first mentioned.
Elk Congressman Hoblitzell, of Baltimore, is
still looking for place in the Department of
Justice, having failed some time ago. He said to
a friend in Washington on Monday ri am lot
going to tell what want this time. I told it last
time, and it beat me. Now I'll keep it to myself"
The Commissioner of the Freedman's Savings
Bank and Trust Company, which failed so disas-
terously in Washington some years ago, has paid
out so far to depositors 81 100 $780, leaving claims
still unpaid amounting to SS,526. The Commits
sioner now asks Congress for relief for these de-
positors.
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has
decided that pensioners who live in the United
States cannot give other persons power of attor-
ney to receive and receipt for their pension money,
and that pension agents are required to draw
checks payable to each pensioner, and to forward
them directly to pensioners.
1t is thought in Washington society that Mr. 8.
Stanford, the wife of the California Senator will
not 60 out great deal this winter, but will enter
tain elegantly and quietly in her own home. She
supports four kindergarten schools in California
three in San Francisco and the other in Menlo
Park-the average attendance Of pupils reaching
five hundred.
Thomas G.. Morrow, proprietor of the Wash
ington Gazette, has been arrested upon the charge
of conspiracy in procuring the appointment OF
Frank Thomas as a clerk in the Agricultural De-
partment, Thomas not performing any service for
the Government and paying his salary over to
Morrow. Gen. Carman, ex-chief clerk of that de-
partment, has been arrested upon the same charge
"A joint resolution was introduced in the Sen
ate on Tuesday, proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States providing that
the President and Vice. President shall hereafter
be elected for term of six years, and that
they shall be ineligible to reelection, and that
the Vice. President shall be ineligible to the Office
of President after be shall have filed the same in
the case of vacancy therein.
Miss Cleveland has established some new
rules relative to the White House receptions. In
stead of having large number of prominent
society ladies to assist her she will have only the
wives of the Cabinet officers, Mrs. Bayard coming
first. This plan has been adopted in order to dc
away with the petty jealousies of some Of the
ladies who, it is said, made regular scramble fol
the most prominent positions at the receptions.