The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-06-06
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.

book will be "George Eliot and Other Studies"
Mr.. Chas. DENLY, of Indiana, has been ap-
pointed Minister to China, to succeed John Rus
sell Young.
ON Wednesday the President appointed Mr..
VIM. H. Welsh, of Maryland, deputy third audi
tor of the treasury.
The Postofice Department on Tuesday grant
ed the application for postofdce to be named
Borrower" in Cleveland county, N. c.
Chief Justice Waite, the highest judicial Of
fcer of the United States, accompanied by his
wife, will sail for Europe about June goth.
The President, on Thursday, appointed Her.
bert F. Beecher, son of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
to be collector of customs at Port Townsend.
Col. Rockwell has been relieved of the charge
of the public buildings and grounds and Col. J.
NJ. Wilson, of the Engineer Corps, has succeeded
him.
ON Thursday afternoon the President ap-
pointed Gen. W. S. Rosecrans, of California, to
be Register of the Treasury, vice Blanche X.
Bruce, resigned.
The President spent Saturday and Sunday
last in New York city as the guest of Secretary
Whitney. He reviewed the Decoration Day pa
rade on Saturday.
On Monday the President appointed Isaac H.
Maynard, of N. j., second comptroller of the
treasury, vice W. W. Upton, resigned. The SAL
airy of the Office is $4,000.
Congressman Findlay, of Baltimore, is strong
ly urging Mr.. VIM. Welsh, who formerly conduc-
ted the old Baltimore Gazette, for deputy audi
torship in the Treasury Department.
Several prominent officials of the Pension
Bureau were discharged last week for Offensive
partisanship," and large number of others will
have to walk the plank very shortly.
Hereafter the Cabinet officers, like the Presi-
dent, will receive no callers on Saturdays, it be-
ing found absolutely essential that they should
have one day in the week to themselves.
-Ex-Presdent Arther's horses and carriages
were sold in Washington on Monday last. Mr..
Arthur knew what good team was and every
thing he owned in this line was first-class.
Col. L. Victor Baughman, president of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, was in Washington
the other day giving the P. o. Department some
pointers on the Frederick (Md.) postofice.
Senator Logan is expected in Washington the
latter part of this week and arrangements have
been made to give him a rousing reception
Twenty -one gons will be fred in his honor.
The appropriation for the pay of custom
officers having been exhausted May 3lst, they
will not be able to receive any compensation for
the month of June until the next Congress meets.
Mrs. Frelinghuysen, wife of the lately de-
ceased Secretary of State, was SO much pleased
with her residence in Washington that she con-
templates going back there to reside permanently.
1t is now stated that the letter of Miss
Cleveland on the subject of temperance, and which
has lately been going the rounds of the press, was
written long before her brother was thought of
for President.
1t is rumored in Washington that when Judge
Cartier, of the Supreme Court, retires, Judge Mer
rick, of Nd, who was lately appointed to the
District bench, will be made Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court
-Four chief of divisions in the third auditors
Office of the Treasury Department were dismissed
on the 29th ult., among them Mr.. j. B. Fowler,
of Maryland, who has since been re-appointed to
a third class clerkship.
On Saturday the Treasurer Of the U. S. mailed
checks aggregating s2,237 $50, in payment of in
terest due June LIST on U. S. registered four-and-
ahalf per cent. bonds of the funded loan of 1891.
The checks numbered 12,006.
Pension Commissioner Black has decided not
to take favorable action on an application for a
pension by soldier who deserted from his second
term of service and again enlisted, during which
second enlistment he was disabled.
The President wants to appoint practical
DUsIH0s---.n oaliaotor OF the pO.s or fvO" 1OIA
and Secretary Manning, it is said, wants prac-
teal politician put in the place. The Secretary
is not politician of the sentimental stamp.
On Saturday last the President appointed
James W. Whelpley, of New York, to be assistant
treasurer of the U. S. For some time he has held
the Office of cashier. He is Republican and has
been in the Treasury Department twenty years.
The other day Pension Commissioner Black
received letter from lady pensioner saying
that as she had lately fallen heir to fortune, and
being no longer dependent, she did not deem it
right to continue to draw her pension, which will
now be cancelled.
Assistant Attorney General Symonds, New
Yorker, has been removed, and a Mr.. Howard,
an Arkansas lawyer, has been appointed in his
place. Judge Symonds is Democrat and was
appointed to this important position solely on ac
count of his legal ability.
In declining to attend the Georgetown COL
lege commencement the President said he had
not to attend exercises of this charac-
ter for the present. he felt that he could not in
justice to the public service of the county give
up to them any of his time.
Eugene Higgins, appointment clerk in the
Treasury Department, told friend on Wednes-
day that the day before he had four hundred
callers inside of four hours. This gives some idea
of the number of people who are applying for
places in the departments.
Since Secretary Manning has had charge of
the Treasury Department he has abolished sixty
clerkships, the salaries of which ranged from
5000 to $1,000, on the ground that the interests
of the service do not require them. This will re-
suit in an annual saving of $4,000.
-1HO uOOr-kecpore dI tuo w ute hOuSe were
removed this week, not because they were ''effen-
sive partisans," but, as Col. Lamont put it, "be-
cause they were offensive rum drinkers" And,
he added, eve are going to institute a new cause
for removal-removal for offensive drinking
Large numbers of black snakes have made
their appearance in the Government fish ponds
about Washington and are playing havoc with
the fish. The problem of how to get rid of the
snakes has not yet been solved, the attempt
to kill them with rifles having proven failure.
The committee appointed to examine the as
sets of the Government in the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing, including the finished and un-
finished U. S. notes and other securities, found
everything correct the taies of the retiring chief
having been found accurate in every particular.
-Ex-Congressman George W. Julian, of In
diana, was on Tuesday appointed surveyor gen.
eral of New Mexico. He wanted to be commits
sioner of the general land Office and was much
hurt because he failed to get it. He is rs years
of age and unable, it is thought, to satisfactorily
perform the duties of the office.
DIR. W. A. Anderson, of Wisconsin, has been
appointed Consul-general at Montreal. During
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