Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-05-01
WASHINGTON LETTER


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The goasips have had great deal to
say about the Presidents rumored mar
rage in June, and many people be-
hcye it win take place. The alleged
biide, who is said to be selecting her
trousseau beyond the seas, IS discussed
from every standpoint, and there Is
great demand for her photographs.
Mr.. Cleveland neither afhrms nor de-
MES, but simply smiles when tWitted by
his friends on this subject. Should he
marry, he viii be the second President
TO become a groom during his term OF
office, ex-President Tyler being his
only precedent.
While the President is accused, and
may in truth be dreaming OF ''sOfts
lweet auroras of lOVe'', Congress is
discussing such prose as Interstate
Commerce. the fisheries question, Sc
cret or no secret sessions, and the
House Strike Committee begins 10 NOR
row the examination Of Aiessrs. Gould d
Powderly whom Congress has subpce-
naed.
IL Is thought by some Of the wisest
men of both parties in Congress that
the new tariff bill is doomed TO defeat
but that bills involving expenditures OF
money such as the Educational bill ,
the Eads Ship Railroad bill, the Canal
j
sion bills viii have a chance Of passing
il is thought that these schemes viii
help one another in this way, when they
come to a vote: s'If You will vote for
my bill, 1 will vote for yours"
The FOrty-Ninth Congress viii be IA
nous for lis generosity TO wOuld-be pen
sioners, whether or not 1t cOmmends
itself TO the tax payer for economy III
the expenditure Of public money The
House has already passed the Mexican
veterans pension bill, the yearly eX
pense Of which is estimated 10 be over
81 GOO 600. The bill TO increase wild
owls pensions to SI2 a month has be-
come law, and the pensions Of help
less pensioners is to be increased. The
Invalid Pension Committee favOrs tax
ing off the limitation of arrears which
promises an enormous increase Of eN
penditures. and the same committee
proposes to pension soldiers who were
prisoners of war for thirty days, instead
of sixty, the term first agreed upon
Then one bill asks that the wives and
children of soldiers who were in the
Union army and were taken prisoners
by the Indians, shall be pensiOued
The survivors and relics Of all the Indi-
an wars ask for PENSIONS certain
Congressman asks pensions for all sol
years, and deafness IS to be cOmpensa'
ted for by a higher pension. That is
not nearly all the pension schemes, bu
lack of space fOrbids me to enumeTate,
While tho pastors OF this city are try
ing TO have the law enforced prohibit
ing BARRIERS from opening their place.
Of business on Sunday, Congress is like
" TO provide for the opening on tina
day OF the museums and national insJi-
tutes The superintendent of these
public Institutions do not favor The
plan, but 1t is thought if their salaries
were increased one seventh, the prOpO,
itiOn would be more acceptable tC
them.
There are many religious people here
who now favor the Sunday opening o.
museums libraries, art galleries, and
natural historical collections. They
want the working classes thus to have
an opportunity for Improvement anC
instruction of which they are absolutely
deprived now. They think it would
not in terfere with church attendance ut
all, and the time would be much more
morally spent in visiting these places
than in prOmcnading the streets and
sailing down the Potomac, both popular
Sunday pastimes with many Washing
ton people.
was saying that not one in ten of Ia,
adult people of this city had ever beer
TO see his beautiful collection Of plants
He wondered If many people who really
want to come had been shut out because
The green houses are closed on Sunday.
lie thought there would be a great rush
for few Sundays if the gardens Wer,
opened on that day, and then public in
t0rest would scarcely be greater on sun
day than on any other day of tho week
NO, said he, ''peOple want to come OF
Sunday only because it Is forbidden"
a government clerk hoped the reso
luton would pass. Said he: II have
been here eight years and have never
been in the Smithsonian Institution bu
. once, have seen only the outside Of The
Patent Office, and only so much of the
Botanical Gardens and Agriculture
Department as may be seen on Sun
day"