The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-20

she was oN4 years ago.
Repre- 81 ative women are also here
from NV 6ork, Massachusetts,, New
Jersey, I'M pna, Missouri, Nebraska,
Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, AMI Yer states. They report that
twelve sat have granted school suf-
frage to "a en, and municipal suffrage
is being d Nscated and will be given a
hearing gh here by the Senate COM
mittee o; Weman Suffrage. 1t is COM
posed of Sc tors Blair, Palmer, Chase
and Bowen rhis committee has sent to
the Unitld htes Senate a report recon-
mendingtht Submission to the legisla-
lures of ihe lates for ratification a 10th
amendmmt ~ the constitution, prohibit
ing disfralc ment on account of sex.
They hay no expectation of getting
the amenin t from this Congress. nor
from the ae but they say they will get
the matte d tussed and the more it is
discussed IN nore popular it becomes
They CLAIM tre are swenty-six Senators
who favoHgi hg the ballot to women,
Among thesl 5re Senator Stanford, the
Pacific Cost millionaire President pro
tenn of the S nate, Sherman, and Sena-
tors Congo, bar and Blair, who may
be called t professional Senatorial
champions o Roman.
As to Con lssional proceedings this
week there " be little that is new and
much of tie ~. The Senate will dis
cuss the grea Educational bill, and tHe
House willta 4 again Of the Fitz John
John Porter, rhe Senate exhausted the
subject Of sd Nation last Congress, and
the House of Representatives has ex-
hausted thd T ter business during every
Congress fer Arly twenty years. Moth
ing has occlrd to change the opinions
of the friends ~ either measure, and it
is not likelt l4t the opponents of either
have discWe ~ anything to modify
their objecto
Senator No bn of Alabama is one of
the bitteres, Q rponents ofthe Education
al bill, and IaI Argued at length the Con-
stitutional and legal phases of the ques-
ton. He lo that the measure is one
to create Office and elaborate the ma
chinery of hS Government. "If from
the 6O,000,md people in the United
States" saidh were to be deducted all
the dead bcas dead heads, and non
producers, TIE y would be about 100000
900 people ldt BIO would really have to
pay the take carry out the provisions
of this bill" y. S. Senators were men
who plowed idIds or worked smithies,
and paid taxes III of the sweat of their
brows, Mr.. No BAN could have more re-
spect for Thea Rhen voting away the
money of one AN to educate the child
rem of another. He thought this plan
for educatio4, simply meant pulling
down the MAJ ho got up by his own
exertions in crd n to put up drunken
loafer who w.u not exert himself
The Prestdln / first card reception Of
the winter was ven last Friday in hon
or Of the Dip u htic Corps, and was one
of the most b liant affairs ever held at
White Hous'. The snowy court COS
tunes Of the Di 4lpmats and the full un.
forms of the IA my and Navy officers
mingled, will be elaborate costumes
worn by the Id Aes made the scene in the
great East RON strikingly gorgeous.
Both House, I Congress, judicial cir
Giles, and offida in Washington who
hold commisso a. from the President
were also invite 10 meet the foreigners
The latter being the guests proper of the
evening, they se eaived formal invitations
while the othe's Mere expected to attend
upon what is add an anonymous an
nouncement j. be newspapers. This
kind of jefferson IN simplicity was moi
well received ~ All classes concerned
and it was nt.ited that the Senators
were few and Al Between in the throng
In ancient tim's Before the days of en-.
graved cards, iJv IL the custom to have
Presidential rec lions announced ofIici-
ally to both Hou ID of Congress.
About the ir 81 for the receptions
= to begin the ran Hfttled into a vigorous
down pour, al compelled a carriag,
levee. An holI later the line of car
riages awaitingf al turn to deposit thei
{ occupants on tie White House portico
reached from tie Hansion down the cas-
drive to Pennsyly ia avenue, along tn,
avenue to Fifteen III street, stretched in
front, of Wiliall hotel, and up -Four
teenth as far as IN
Fred. Douglas, Ae Recorder of Deed
for the District bf Columbia came will
= his white wife vi ID the reception wa
: about half over hey attracted NOR,
general attentio 4 "a comment probabl,