The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-09
WASHINGTON.

| to DO made at present
Secretary Of the Treasury McCulloch says
| that there is q disposition on the part OF
banks and individuals throughout the conn-
| try to hoard legal-tender notes In prefer
ence to silver certificates.
Some excitement has been caused in POI
| lice circles at Washington by an attempt to
break upa disreputable establishment III
which a United States Senator was report
cd to be a regular ledger.
Frank llurd, of Toledo, o., intends IT,
contest the election to Congress of Jacob
Romeis from that district on the ground, as
1t Is said, that Romsis has never been nat
uralized and is ineligible.
Friends of the late Secretary Folger say
that they will oppose Mr.. Evarts' candidacy
for tho New York Senatorship because
Evarts declined to support Folger in his
contest for the Govern0rship Of New York.
1t is said that the House ApprOpr ati0nS
Committee will disregard the Naval bill
! just passed by the Senate, and will frame
regular bill for the next fiscal year. If the
| Senate does not accept this an extra SeS-
sion OF Congress will be unavoidable.
| Congressman Bland Chairman of the
| Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Meas
ures says he will oppose the Buckner bill
stopping the coinage Of silver dollars and
will favor measure providing for free and
unlimited coinage of both silver and gold.
| In all probability Mr.. Vests inquiry cOn-
| corning the Nicaragua surveying party will
be voted down in the Senate. 1t is thought
| that Secretary Chandler would hardly have
permitted the expedition to start had he not
| felt assured that Mr.. Vests resolution
would fail.
One Of the earliest subjects to be consld-
cred upon the reasSembling Of the Senate
| will be the question of discussing the Span
ish treaty IN open session: The Foreign
Affairs Committee, which has been DELHI
| Grating upon the matter, Is reported to be
| HiVi1nI concerning
| An extra session of Congress is thought
not unlikely in view of the fact that the
| business before 1t can hardly be finished
before the end OF the present session. Ii,
as seems likely, the two Houses disagree
| irrec0ncilably on the Naval Approximation
bill an extra session will be unavoidable.
Secretary Chandler Is said to have i'll
| formed Congressman Randall that the APP
| propriatOnS contemplated by the Senate
! Naval bill are grossly inadequate and Won Il
embarrass the service. 1t Is reported that
the House will regard the Secretary's o.
jec ions as good excuse for refusing to
| pass the bill.
| While the Senate was In executive Ses
sion Wednesday Mr.. EdmuRds announced
4 that the FL 'ctOral vote OF several States had
not been received, and requested that the
| Governors of the delinquent States be n0t-
fed that the period for receiving the official
| returns of the late PreSid Dental election eX-
preS next Wednesday.
Having come to the conclusion that Con-
4 gress is not likely to increase the INSULT
Gent appropriations already made for the
| erection of some forty public buildings in
various parts OF the country, Supervising
| Architect Bell has gwen notice that he will
| at once proceed with the erection OF such
cheap and unsatisfactory buildings as the
money at his command will allow.
Secretary McCullOch has obtained from
the encouragement and the sClicitOr-gen-
eral opinions til at on the filing OF an expor-
| tation bond there is 10 reason why distilled
| spirits may not be permitted to remain in
/ government warehouses for reasonable
| period after the expiration of three years.
| This will affect, for perhaps nine months,
the taxes on $1,000, 0tO gallons or whisky.
John II. Mclean. of the Cincinnati En-
suirer, says that Mr.. Cleveland is in line
| with his party and proposes to act with it.
Mr.. Cleveland told him that he had not
prom sed any man place in his Cabinet.
Mr. Mclean thought that Garland, Bayard,
| Villas, of Wisconsin. and Whitney, OF New
! York would all be among the new Presi-
| dents advisers.
| The river and harbOr committee of the
House of Representatives has decided to
recommend all appropriation OF S35O, 600 to
complete the Improvement of the Tennes-
! see river, and 1t is expected that year
hence navigation will be opened from
| Knoxville TO the mouth. A revolution in
the iron trade is predicted when the depo5-
reached by boats.
Acknowledgement Brewster has refus ed
| to accede to the demand of United States
Supervisor Rowe, of New Jersey, for six
and half and seven days pay for the SER
vices of United States Marshals and Super
yisorS during the recent election in that
State. Mr.. Brewster declines TO pay for
! more than three days. The matter will
probably b. taken to the Court Of Claims.
An order has been sent by the Secretary
Of the Navy to the commandments OF the
navy-yards directing them TO- discharge all
employees who have hitherto been paid I'M
der the SiX-DIonths' Appropriation act eX'
cept those required to prevent destruction
Of property or loss of life. Those retained
are expected TO work without agreement for
compensation.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has sent TO the
| Senate Committee on Foreign Relations q
| letter stating that the nc-o .iation OF the
| SpaniS! treaty was undertaken in accord
Gnce with policy which had received COLI
gresslonal sanction. lie declares that there
| Is 40 thought Of the annexation Of Cuba,
but that the treaty will give us all the ben
eiits Of such absorption. lie then argues
against the objections Of til. sugar and to-
! baccO interests.
-Four hundred claims have already been
| favorably considered by tho Treasury De-
partment ut Washington under the recent
| Court of Claims decision allowing naval Of
|
| business mileage fees in addition To their
| travelling expenses. Some OF the claims
date back forty years, and Congress will be
called upon 10 appropriate $4,000 TO pay
those already allowed.
An appropriation of S7,0O0,0o for sea-
| coast defensPs will be recommended To the
House this year by the Committee on Forth
| fications. The committee does not concur
in the recommendations of the Naval Ord
nance Foundry Board, which suggested the
establishment of gun-foundrics by the Gov
eminent. The jOint-committee appointed
toinvcstigate the manufacture of steel can
non Is engaged in the preparation Of an
| elaborate report.
49, George L. Rose, q MINOR official of the
Treasury Department, was originally given
a clerkship By General Garfield. For thlr-
teen years lie also served the Ohio con-
gresham as private secretary, devoting his
evenings to stenographc work, receiving
no compensation, aud being dismissed from
his extra labors ten days before Garfields
inauguration. In attempting recently 10
secure from Mrs. Garfield fair allowance
for his services, he discovered that General
Swain claimed to have taken from him
receipt In full, the consideration being $3.50,
less than 81 or month. Rose declares any