Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-05-22
AT THE CAPITAL.

Tie Senate was not in session Saturday.
The house passed the b II establishing Sub
Treasury at Louisville. The discussion over
This bill led into prolonged debate upon the
iilver question. The House then discussed
MIR. Holman's bill for commission to visit
The Indian Territory, and the evening session
was devoted to eulogies upon the late Mlch-
ael Hahn, of louisiana
Over five hundred petitions were presented
to Congress last week for and against the
bill to stop the manufacture and sale of lmi-
tation butter. The editors representing the
interior newspapers in New York Sta have
had good word to say to members for the
bill. Agriculture associations all over the
country are daily sendiug numerous petitions
in favor Of it. Tho men who manufacture
the imitation product have become alarmed
and delegation is here working in oppo-
sition to the measure. They have secured
the aid of the new system of petitioAing
adopted by the Knights of Labor, and new
petitions are coming in daily from that
source asking for the defeat of the bill on the
ground thaGit will increase the price of butt
ter. These petitions state that seven thous-
and five hundred tubs Of imitation butter are
cold daily in New York. Another set of pc
titions from the Knights are in favor of the
bill. This loose method of allowing their or
ganization to be used on both sides of ques.
ton is depriving the petitions sent here by
the Knights of any value. The prospect OF
the passage Of the bill to tax imitation but
ter is not so good as it was before the manu-
facturers became so active in opposition.
While Washington is convinced that the
President is soon TO be married. narrowing
doubts have come up recently because of the
rumor that it is Mrs. Folsom not Miss Folsom
whom the President will we'd. Society has
no objections and in fact smiles more approx.
ingly on this choice. But society is on the
rack of uncertainty and is quite worn out
with the indefniteness of the Presidents mar
riage. Miss Cleveland has persistently kept
away, latterly in the seclusion of her own
home, sitting under her own vine and fig tree
at Holland Patert. Whether it is to write a
book or not to talk about her brothers mar
riage, society does not know Col. Lamont
INDUCES in non-committal smiles and r,yster-
iously refers in a vague, far-off way to gayer
times in the White H use, CATER the we'd
ding" This would seem to settle the question
that there is to be q wedding, and it's com,
fort to many to know that after so much
talk end deluge of doubt there is really to be
something, if only wedding Of President.
But who is the bride? is the lat,st and by
far most termentlng, if not torturing ques-
ton in the whole business.
Some of the fsr-seeng are watching the
cable dispatches, declaring, if Miss Folsom
should be presented at court i: woull be be-
Cause she is to marry the President. They
say if the young woman is presented diplo-
matically it involves Minister Phelps at L IN,
don. The request of Miss Folsom's presen
tation automatically must go to the Ameri-
can Minister, and confirmation of the coming
marriage would of course b, gwen by the
President to Mr.. Phelps But if it should be
only drawing room,' it signifies no more
than courtesy to friend of the Presidents
family, and no more than is granted to
American women frequently. Miss Folsom
is known in this country AMI abroad as q
friend of the Presidents family, and as his
yard. When she was here, guest with her
mother at the White H ousa. soon after the
Inauguration, Miss Cleveland sometimes in,
troiuced her and referred to her as MY
little school girl THIS is remembered
as proof of the intimute friendship
between the two families. 1t is also brought
up as proof that Miss Cleveland did not at
that time regard Miss Folsom as her brothers
fancee present of prospective Society is
tantal ed, and the catches at everything
even the most trivial, as drowning man
catches at straw. The diplomatic presen-
tation. If it occurs, is to settle the doubts of
one set, who see in it confirmation of the
truth. Others have fixed their hopes on Mr..
Bissell's visit here this wek They say be
came on to seq about the Presidents we ding
suit, and now that he has come and gone they
haye no further doubts. But, with all the
gossip, nobody believes that the wedding will
take place in the White House. They say
this would rot be according to the Presidents
good sense, and that he is man to avoid dis
play on all occasions. o. the contrary, the
wedding will be quiet, AMI will probably take
place in Albany. This is the very latest, and
the conclusion arrived at since Mr.. Bissell
departed.