The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-23
Warrington Heitcr.

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in June and many people believe it will
take place The alleged bride, who is said
| to be selecting her trousscau beyond the
seas, is discussed from every standpoint,
and there is a great demand for her photo
graphs. Mr. Cleveland neither allirms nor
denies, but simply smiles when twittcd by
his friends ON this subject. Should lie
marry he will be the seeond President to
| become groom during his term of Office,
cx-Presidcnt Tyler being his only precedent.
While the President is accused. and may
in truth be dreaming Of the soft, sweet
auroras of love- Congress is discussing
such prosy as Interstate Commerce, the
fisheries question, secret or no secret SEES
sions. and the House Strike Committee
| begins tomorrow the examination OF
Messrs Gould aud Powderly whom Con
gress has subpoen;cd
1t is thought by some Of the wisest men
of both parties in Congress that the new
| tariff bill is doomed to defeat but that
bills involving expenditures of money
such as the Educational bill, the Eads
Ship Railway bill, the Canal bill, and all
sorts of Pension and Extension bills will
have a chance of passing. 1t is thought
that these schemes will help one another
in this way, when they come to 4 vote: eff
You will vote for my bill. will vote for
yours,
The Forty-Ninth Congress " i'll be famous
for its generosity to would-ba pensioners,
whether or not it commends itself to the
taxpayer for economy in the expenditure
OF public money. The House has already
passed the Mexican veteran pension bill,
the yearly expense of which is estimated
to be over 81, coo, coo The bill to increase
widows pensions to 3l2 a month has be-
come law, and the pensions of helpless
pensioners is to be increased. The Invalid
Pension Committee favors taking off the
limitation of arrears which promises an
enormous increase of expenditure. and the
same committee proposes to pension
soldiers who were prisoners Of war for
thirty days, instead of sixty, the term first
agreed upon. Then one bill asks that the
wives and children Of soldiers who were in
the Union army and were taken prisoners
by the Indians shall be penSioned. The
ask for pensions, a certain Congressman
asks pensions for all soldiers and sailors
who have attained sixty-two years, and
deafness is to be compensated for by It
higher pension That is not nearly all the
pension schemes, bat lack Of space forbids
me to enumeratc.
While the pastors uf this city are trying
to have the law enforced prohibiting bar
bers from opening their places of business
on Sunday, Congress IS likely to provide
for the opening on that day of the museums
and national Institutes The snperinten-
dents of these public institutions do not
favor the plan but it is Thought that if
| their salaries were increased one-scvouth,
/ the proposition would be more acceptable
to them. There are many religious people
here who now favor the Sunday opening
of museums, libraries. art galleries, and
natural history collections. They want
the working classes thus to have an oppor-
tunity for improvement and Instruction Of
which they are absolutely denied NOW.
They think it would not interfere with
church attendance at all, and the time
would be much more morally spcut in
visiting these places than in promcnading
the streets and sailing down the Potomac,
both popular sunday pastincs with many
| Washington people. The chief of the
| Botanical gardens was saying that not one
in ten of the adult people Of this city had
ever been to see his beautiful collection OF
plants. He wondered if many people who
really want to come had been Shut ont be-
cause the green houses were closed on sun
day He Thought there would be 4 great
rush for il few Sundays if the gardens
were opened ON that day, and then public
interest would scarcely be greater on sun
day tnan ON any other day of the week.
No, said he People want to come ON
Sunday only because it is forbidden. A
government clerk hoped the resolution
would pass Said he: II have been here
eight years and have never been in the
Smithsonian Institution but once. have
seen only the outside of the Patent office,
and only so much of the Botanical Gar
dens and Agricultural Department rs may
be seen Oh sunday WESTON.