The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-01
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

The Senate has passed the bill appropriating
$4,000 to enlarge the Executive Mansion.
| Senator Logan is hard at work upon his forth
coming book. He does not even have the aid Oh
| an amanuensis.
The Gath anniversary of Gen. Grants birth
| day was celebrated at the Metropolitan M. E.
Church on Tuesday evening last.
| Senator Hawley is said to be the most rapid
| speaker in Congress. He gives the short hand
writer's all they can do to keep up with him.
| "A bill has been introduced in the Senate to
increase the rate of pension for total deafness to
$50 per month, and for partial deafness to pro-
| portionate amount.
The President has received a series OF resolu-
| tions from the Grand Army Encampment of New
York. strongly endorsing his course towards the
veterans of the late war.
Washington children had their annual "egg
| rolling" in the White House grounds, Monday
There were hundreds of them and the sight was
an interesting and beautiful one.
Secretary Manning is rapidly reganing his
health and will soon be able to resume his duties
in the Department. L. is said the President is
very much opposed to his resigning.
The National Museum is getting up case OF
Confederate uniforms of all grades for is hlstorl-
cal department. A captains uniform has already
been donated by Capt. Barren, of Danville, Va.
Since the beginning of the present session of
Congress the President has sent q l56 nominations
to the Senate only six of which have been rejected
This does not look as though there was much OF q
fight against Executive appointments.
1t is said in Washington that new Sub
Treasurer for Baltimore will not be appointed
until alter the 18th OF July next, when the term
of the present incumbent expires. DIR. Bishop, OF
Worcester county, is the man booked for the place.
The House committee on agriculture Will re-
port bill on the manufacture and sale OF oleo-
margarine and other limitation buffers, which
provides for an internal revenue tax in the same
manner and to be collected in the same maner as
the tax on manufactured tobacco.
The nomination of Gen. Rosecrans, to be Reg
lister of the Treasury, although favorably reported
has not been confirmed by the Senate and proba-
bly, will not be. Serious charges have been pre-
ferred against him, among which that he was con-
nected with land frauds in California.
The President has sent a message to Con
gress on the subject of the labor troubles, advis-
| ing the appointment of commission of labor,
consisting of three members, to be regular officers
of the Government, who shall consider and settle,
| if possible, all differences between labor and cap
isal.
-Amzi Smith, the superintendent of the Senate
| document room, is said to be most remarkable
man. He has held the position many years and
is said to be walking library of facts and sta
tistcs as to the legislation of the country. 1t
would be difficult matter for tSe Senate to get
| along without him.
| The Agricultural Department has very encour-
aging crop reports from every section of the coun-
try, the outlook for wheat being reported decided
| ly better than at this time last year. The
reports all show that the diseases among cattle
are on the decline while the hog cholera epidemic
has entirely passed away.
| Secretary Manning, who is now able to drive
| out, has told the President Of his determination
to leave the Treasury. He recognizes the fact that
| his late attack very serious one and that he
made narrow escape from death. Assistant Sec
=, ka.n lu oh
| the possible successor Of Mr.. Manning.
Mr.. Hearst, the new Senator from California
made his maiden speech on Monday. He is u
very plain man, and lacks aducation, but as
| money maker he has been eminently successful
He is said to be worth about $4,000 O00 His
wife is very ambitious woman and it is said that
she pushed her husband into the Senate.
During the first nine months of the present
fiscal year there increase of over 81, OOO,O
| in the revenues of the Government, as compared
with the corresponding period of last year, and
the expenditures for the first nine months of this
year WEI about SIG, 900 less than the expen-
ditures for the same period of last year, making
net gain of over S26,OO0,O0O.
1t would seem that the newspapers have got
the President married this time sure but he refuses
to say word upon the subject, either to admit or
deny. In the meantime the papers are going on
| publishing column after column of stuff about the
young lady, and not content with this they are
even printing alleged pictures of her, no two of
which are alike. We afraid that Miss Folsom
will be afraid to come back to America.
"A bill was introduced in the House on Monday
| to establish Department of Labor. 1t provides
that the department shall acquire and difuse
among the people useful information on subjects
connected with labor in the most general and COM
prehensiye sense of the word, and especially upon
its relation to capital the hours of labor the earn
ings of laboring men and women, and the means
of promoting their material, social, intellectual
and moral prosperity.
The report of the Committee on Agriculture,
recommending the passage of the bill to tax oleo-
margarine 10 cts. per pound, says that the annual
product of the dairy interests of this country
amount to $780, 900 900, and that from four to five
million American citizens are engaged in the bust
ness. Since the introduction of counterfeit but
ter the report says, the average price of milch
cows has fallen from $40 to $50 per head, causing
a loss in COWS alone of $3.50, 600.