The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13
NOTES ON EVENTS AT THE CAPITAL.
lettings Here and There in Washington
Matters in Congress---Gleanings
from the Telegraph and the ere
liable" Correspondent.

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In his Washington house Senator Logan use
a dining table that was once owned by Charle
Carroll, of Carrollton.
Gen. Sheriden has four interesting little girl
and he is fond of walking about tho streets o
Washington with them.
The House committee on pensions has agreed
to report favorably the bill to pension surviving
soldiers and sailors of the Mexican War.
e. C. Mcclure, of South Carolina, has beer
appointed appointment clerk in the Postofict
Department at salary of 81 800 per year.
Maryland visitors continue to fock to Wash
ington and the President Senators and Members
of Congress are being beseiged from every quarter
Congressman Breckenridge, of Kentucky, is
not yet forty nine years old, but his heavy suit Of
hair and beard are snowy whte-a family infrm-
ity.
Senator Edmunds is said to be peculiarly
sensitive to newspaper criticism. This is strange,
considering the very long time he has been in
public life.
There is great deal of building going on in
Washington this spring, more than double as many
permits having been issued than for the CORES
ponding period of last year.
The President on Monday nominated Samuel
E. Wheatley, of Washington, to be Commissioner
of the District of Columbia, vice JAS. B. Edmunds,
whose term had expired.
The Grand Lodge of Washington, I. O. o. F.,
has adopted resolution inviting the Grand Lodge
of the United States to make that city its head
quarters if it decides to remove from Baltimore.
In the Senate on Monday, Senator Vance Of
fered resolution directing the committee on civil
service reform to report forthwith the bill before
it providing for the repeal of the civil service law
Two more contributions to the conscience
fund" have lately been received by the U. S.
Treasurer-one of S. from an unknown New
Yorker and one Of SIS from an "ex-clerk" at
Carlisle Pc.
Congressman Shaw, of this district, is one of
the most active members of the committee on
claims and be is doing much good work for those
Of his constituents who have claims against the
| Government.
The closing reception of the season was held
at the White House on Tuesday evening and was
an unusually brilliant affair. The attendance was
very large and the dressing of the ladies was gor-
geous beyond precedent
They say in Washington that it almost
drives Congressman Perry Belmont crazy trying
to keep in with the swells who love everything
English, and to pose as regular copper bottomed
American at the same time.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to
the Senate statement showing that the public
debt has been decreased from July LIST, 1877, to
June 3Oth, 1885, by s642, 176,291, which exceeds
the requirements of the sinking fund by $3l2,-
647, 531.
Col. E. II. Webster, ex-Collector of the Port
ofBaltimore, was in Washington few days ago and
while there paid his respects to the President
This was the first call he had made on the
President, as he preferred to wait until he retired
from Office before doing SO.
The venerable Judge Poland, of Vermont,
who is prominent figure in the house of Repre-
sentatives still sticks to his blue "claw- hammer"
coat and brass buttons. 1t is said that he went
all the way home from Washington to indulge in
the delights of tobogganing.
The House Of Representatives on Tuesday,
by the very nearly unanimous vote of 2f9 to 8,
decided that prisoners incarcerated for violating
United States laws shall not hereafter be hired
out to perform labor in competition with the hon.
est workingmen of the country.
The wife of Senator Hawey, who died in
Washington last week, acted as her husbands
private secretary and political adviser for num-
Der of years. She seldom appeared in society,
but in benevolent undertakings and in literary
circles she was always prominent.
The Bar Association of Washington has re-
solved to ask Congress to adopt as the law OF the
District so much of the code Of Maryland as makes
illegitimate children competent to inherit from
their mother, or through any relative, in the same
manner as if they had been born in wedlock.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has dis
covered that the departments experiment OF
trying to grow tea in this country has proved an
utter failure The farm where the tea was grow
ing is in South Carolina, but the cold weather OF
the past winter has proven too much for the deli
cate plants.
The members of the Baltimore Annual Con-
ference of the NJ. E. Church, called in body upon
the President on Monday afternoon and were re-
ceived in the East Room. The President seemed
very much pleased with the visit, and particularly
with Bishops Ninde, Andrews and Bowman, who
were among the callers.
In conversation with Senator Eustis on We'd
nesday night the President said that he hoped
the Senate would reject all his nominations found
to be in any way questionable, and he further
stated that number of nominations had been
made by him without any knowledge on his part
of the character of the men appointed.
Mr. Addison Cammack, the millionaire bach
elor broker of New York, was very quietly mar
ried in Washington on Tuesday, to Miss Mary
Hildreth, who is said to be the most beautiful
woman of that city. The groom's gift to the
bride was a diamond and pearl necklace worth
| $4,000. Mr.. Cammack is IS and Miss Hildreth
Is.
The appointment of colored lawyer from
Albany to be Recorder of Deeds for the District
has raised quite breeze in Washington and the
white Democrats who were applicants for the
place and their friends, are highly indignant
The Office is said to be worth $4,000 per year-a
very nice plum to fall into the hands of a colored
man.
The Knights of Labor who called upon Con-
gresham Randall to urge him to hurry up the
deficiency appropriations 80 that the discharged
workmen in the Washington navy-yard could be
put back, we're not pleased with the treatment
they received at the hands of that gentleman and
they told him that they would make it warm for
him next fall.
"A newspaper correspondent is responsible for
the statement that during the first year of Presi-
dent Cleyeland's administration not more than
forty changes have been made in all the depart
ments in Washington, the bulk of these being in
the Postofice and Treasury Departments, whore
they were confined to heads of departments and
chiefs of divisions The other departments have
| been left almost untouched.
The Commissioner of Customs has recon-
mended to the Secretary of the Treasury that suit