The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-12-05
Washington News and Gossip.

From our Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 2S, 'S5.
The first public announcement in
Washington of the death of Mr.. Hen
dricks was by bulletins displayed in
front of the telegraph Offices. These
were posted few minutes after the oc-
currence, and the streets quickly began
to flll up with persons in quest OF he
news. All that could be learned from
the bulletins was that Vice President
Hendricks had died suddenly, and in the
absence of anything more definite a
great many were inclined to believe that
the story was hoax. The hotel lobbies
were quickly deserted as the news Of
the Vice Presidents death spread, and
the crowds which usually congregate
there roamed up and down the streets
in search of details. Probably the
largest crowds were along Newspaper
Row and in the vicinity of the Western
Union and Il. and o. telegraph offices.
Nothing else was talked about, and the
people going to the theatres helped to
swell the throng about the news centres.
The death of the Vice President leaves
the country in the same condition that
it was the first month of Mr.. Arthur
presidency. He had left the Senate
without allowing it to name a pre-
tempore presiding officer, and there
was no Speaker of the House. Al
present, If the President should die be-
tween now and the assembling of Con,
gress, the United States would be with.
out President and any citizen would
have the right to proclaim himself
President pending action by the Legis.
lature of this country. The only thing
that could be legally done would be fol
the Secretary of State to proclaim a
general election and until this could be
carried out the wheels of government
would be brought TO a standstill.
Considerable pressure was brought tC
bear upon the President yesterday Il
persuade him not to leave the city to at.
tend the Vice President funeral. Col
Lamont stated last night, however, that
the President had decided to so. Man
ager j. G. Panyborn, of the B. and o.,
was in the city yesterday, and rendered
TO the President the courtesy of special
train over the Baltimore and Ohio Rail,
road, and the officials of the Pennsyl,
vania road also placed train at the
Presidents disposal. 1t is likely he
will go by the latter loute. He will be
attended by his Cabinet.
OF the 1876 members of the next House
of Representatives, 1888 are classed as
Democrats, 40 as Republicans, one
Greenback Democrat, Mr.. j. b. Weaver,
Of Iowa, and one Greenback Republican,
Mr.. Charles N. Boumm, of Pennsyl,
yania. As the. individual members OF
the Greenback party have heretofore
voted with the main body Of their politi'
cal friends, the House will be divided
into lS4 Democrats and 14l Republicans,
The Democrats win have nineteen less
than at the close of the last Congress.
of the members originally elected TO the
Forty-ninth Congress, Mr.. james X.
Jones, of Arkansas district, was elected
United States Senator 70 succeed Mr..
Walker. Mr.. Reuben Ellwood, of the
Fifth Illinois district, died Mr.. =. S.
Cox, resigned TO accept the Turkish
Mission, and Mr.. William A. Duncan,
OF the Nineteenth Pennsylvania district,
died. All the vacancies have since been
filed.
!. The House win organize on the IN