The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-11-28
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''
CORRESPONDENT,

Then the circus will begin in dead earnest.
There will be one hundred and thirty new
members in the next House of Representatives.
The President continues to strictly enforce
the rule excluding Congressman and their friends
from his private room.
1t is said that Mr.. Eaton will retire from the |
Civil Service Commission near the end of the ap-
session of Congress.
The clerks in the departments were paid half
of their November salary on Wednesday in order
that none of them should go hungry on Thanks
giving day.
Mr.. Frank J. Park, of Martinsburg, W. Va,
will be appointed chief of the division of public
lands in the General Land Office in place Of M.
E. N. Howell.
Secretary Whitney is well supplied with
homes. He has one in New York city, one in
Lenox, Mass, one near Georgetown Heights and
one in Washington.
Immense amounts of gold and silver coin con-
tinue to pour into the Treasury from the over
crowded sub-treasuries and mints in different
parts of the country.
Congressman Scott, of the Erie, Pa, district
was page in the House of Representatives for
eight years-from 1910 to 1S4S. He is now an
immensely wealthy man.
j. Crowley, of Buffalo, N. Y, who was lately
made Appointment Clerk in the Postoffce Depart
ment, has resigned. He was newspaper man
and did not like the monoton1gs duties Of the Office
the Presidents callers on Monday. They were
shown into the private portion of the White House
where the President had pleasant interview with
them.
Out of the eighty-fve collectors of internal
revenue in the United States only four are Repub-
Iicans, the collector at Baltimore being one of
them. It is thought that the latter's successor
will be appointed before very long.
They say Civil Service candidate was re-
jected the other day in Washington. To the ques-
ton, "Can you tell me of what race Napoleon
came ?" he replied, "Why of Corsican." He was
thought to be too brilliant for 81 200 clerkship.
The President is hard at work upon his an
nual message, which he is preparing with his own
hand, the manuscript going direct to the Govern
ment printer, who is exercising unusual precau-
lions to prevent copies of it from being stolen for
the press.
The Internal Revenue Commissioner said on
Tuesday that he had not the remotest idea when
Internal Revenue Collector Sellman will be re-
moved, but added "The boys are bowling for the
place. though, and something may be done at al
most any time
Miss Cleveland is busy making preparations
for the social season, which opens in Washington
on New Years Day, and the inquistive newspa-
per correspondent is quite as busy trying to de-
scribe her toilets, some of which are said to be
both beautiful and expensive.
Reports have lately been received at the
Treasury Department that there is a growing
scarcity throughout the country of 10-cent silver
pieces About $4,000 in dimes were coined last
week at the Philadelphia mint, and yet the de-
mand has not decreased, requiring still further
coinage.
The Postoffice Department people do not ap-
pear disposed to do anything to increase the mail
facilities of Baltimore. Other cities of much less
Importance than Baltimore get all they ask from
the Department, while Maryland's metropolis is
given the cold shoulder. This is strange, to say
the least.
President Cleveland pays very little attention
to social forms and it is said he has yet darken
ed any door in Washington except his own. But
whilst he does not visit attend receptions, &c. it
is said he will keep up the reputation of the White
House in the matter of entertainments, dinners, &c
He is, so tits said, splendid host.
The vexed question of who shall be U. ).
Marshal of the District has not yet been settled,
although Gen. Farnsworth, of N. Y, is still being
prominently named. The present Marshal (Mc-
MichaeI is now at his home in Philadelphia, on
leave of absence until December LIST, on which
date it is believed his successor will be named.
"A "giddy girl" from Baltimore was among
the Presidents callers this week. She was ex-
ceedingly nervous and excited and when she came
up to Mr. Cleveland she said "You are the first
President with whom I ever shook hands. 1
came all the way from Baltimore" The President
smiled and after giving the "giddy girls" hand a
warm shake she passed on.
-Guiteau's ghost is making it extremely IN
pleasant for the colored people in some sections
of Washington-if their stories can be believed.
They say that in the stiffness of the night the
ghost can be seen meandering around the residence
of the Rev. DR.. Hicks, to whom Guiteau willed
his body, and that it has been seen many times at
the windows of the Dr.'s residence.
-Postofice Department officials have deter
mined not to turn out female postmasters except
for good and sufficient cause. A lady who held
the Office at Dublin, Hartford county, was lately
turned out and her successor appointed. The
matter was then brought to the attention of the
Department, and as there are no charges against
her it is more than likely that she will be reap
pointed.
The annual report of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue shows that the total receipts
from all sources of internal revenue taxation for
the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1885, were $112,-
421 ,121, as compared with 1921 500, O39 for the
year 1884; $l44, 553,344 for the year 1888, and
SAG, ,273 for the year 1882. The Commits
sioner says that the general condition of the SER
vice is good.
Thomas Reed was postmaster at Paramount,
West Virginia, appointed eight years ago by Pres
ident Hayes. Mr.. Hayes wrote to President
Cleveland asking as personal favor that Reed
be re-appointed, and the President was at first
disposed to grant the request, but the pressure
became SO heavy against Reed that he was turned
down on Monday last and N. E. Barnes appoint
ed in his place.
Last week several Maryland clerks received
promotions. In the Treasury Department Donald
B. Mcleod from 5000 place to first class clerk
ship. In the Pension Office e. Key Buchanan
promoted from 81, 400 to 81 900; James E. Purdy,
from 81, 900 to $1,000, and Miss J. H. Croggan
from 5000 to 1,OO0 Seward Beall, of Maryland,
was appointed to 1000 clerkship in the office
of the Secretary of War.
The next House of Representatives will con-
sist of 141 Republicans, one Greenback Democrat
and 1873 regular Democrats. Mr.. Findlay, of Bal
timore, is included among the latter, although it
appears to be the desire of some to read him out
of the party, job which they will have some diff