The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-06-26
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

1T is now believed that Congress will adjourn
about the middle of July.
The Blair Educational Bill has been killed,
tie committee having reported against it.
-Dismissals are being made in the Treasury
Department at the rate of about five per day.
The social Senate at Washington has con-
irmed Mrs. Cleveland's nomination unanimously,
1t is said that the wife of Senator Hearst, of
California, spends every year between so, 600 and
$50, 900 in dainties
Fred. Douglass and his white wife attended
the Presidents public reception last week. They
were corially received.
Senator German and family will remove to
their country seat, near Laurel, Prince Georges
county, about July lst
In the Senate on the 18th inst, the bill to
repeal the Civil Service act got six votes none of
which were from Maryland.
Congressman Shaw, of Maryland, who has
been sick for some days, was on Tuesday granted
an indefinite leave of absence.
On Monday the President vetoed fifteen bills,
most of them private pension claims. Two-thirds
of these bills are manifestly fraudulent.
Nearly twenty clerks were dropped from the
rolls of the Sixth Auditors Office last Saturday.
reduction Of force is given as the cause.
Hon. M. ]. Durham, First Comptroller of the
Treasury, was married on the 18th inst, to Mrs.
Margaret L. Carter, of Kentucky The wedding
was private.
Mrs. Cleveland's mother is reported to be
highly indignant at the publication of pictures
representing her as wearing short hair and having
o masculine look.
The President and his wife will hold no more
receptions until fall but they will give two or three
dinner parties before leaving Washington for
their summer trip.
The nomination of Morris A. Thomas for In
dian Inspector, was reached in the executive ses-
sion of the Senate on Tuesday, but Senator Har-
rison objecting to its consideration it went over
1t is now said in Washington that Chief
Justice Gray will take unto himself wife in the
fall. He is bachelor, So years of age. He con-
templates the erection of fine mansion in Wash
ington.
Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania, says
the Secretaryship of the Treasury has been Of
fered to him upon the retirement of Secretary
Manning and that he expects to take charge next
October.
The congregations at Rev. DR.. Sunderland's
church have grown very much since the Presi-
| dents marriage and the edifce is scarcely large
enough to hold the crowds. Of course Mr.. Cleve-
land and his pretty young wife are the attraction.
In the House on Monday an effort was
made to secure some legislation looking to the
| printing of 81 and 50 legal-tender notes-there
| being scarcity of them in the country just now
but the proposition was lost by a very close
| vote.
Already President Cevelands friends are
talking about him fer second term and they say
that he will, from this on, do what he can to
strengthen himself with bis party. But 1t is not
known what the Presidents feeling is in the
matter.
-Adjutant General Drum, of the War Depart
ment, has purchased the old Davidson estate,
containing 100 acres, situated Immediately on the
Rockville and Georgetown turnpike and about
mile from the District of Columbia line, for
$4,000.
The U. S. Treasurer has received another
contribution to the conscience fund.-" this time
from Cincinnati, the amount being S65. The per-
son who sent it wrote as follows: "An overpay-
ment; forgotten absolutely for fifteen years, now
returned"
Secretary Lamar says that it requires the SER
vices of twenty people to fold and distribute pub
lie documents, at cost to the Government of
about $4,000 per year. He says the present sys-
tenn of distribution is very defective and should be
improved.
The proposition in the House, on the 18th
inst, to take up the Morrison tariff bill, was
beaten by good majority, showing that the tariff
reformers are largely in the minority. Messrs.
Findlay and McComas, of Maryland, voted with
the majority.
There is at least one church in Washington
where no prayers are offered for the President
One of the most prominent men in this church
held fat Government Office which he lost short
time ago. Since then the minister has boycotted
Mr.. Cleveland in his prayers.
On Monday the Secretary of the Treasury
issued a call for the redemption of four million
dollars of three per cent bonds of the loan of 1882
Principal and accrued interest will be paid at the
U. S. Treasury on the LIST of August, 1885, after
which date interest will cease.
The President and wife held their first public
reception on Friday evening of las. week and the
crowd was immense. 1t is estimated that they
shook hands with at least $4,000 people. Mrs.
Cleveland stood the ordeal remarkably well and
everybody appeared charmed with her pleasing
manners and beautiful face.
Among the latest wedding presents received
at the White House is "cOrner clock" said to
be one hundred years old, and black poodle dog.
These came from Antwerp and were sent by
steamship agent. The clock is very handsome
and would readily sell for $1,000. The duty on
the dog was $40 and on the clock only Sc.
Congressman Woolford, of Kentucky, attend
ed the late reception at the White House and after
wards, speaking of Mrs. Cleveland, said: "she is
irst-rate looking young woman. She is heap
prsttier than heis. The President has outmarried
himself. She is a plum beauty. 1t is the first
reception have attended since got to Congress,
and would not have gone then, except to see the
Presidents wife. I was paid for my visit. She
is great girl"