Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-11-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Written and compiled for the HERALD.
Some members of the Forty Ninth
Congress are already in Washing
ton, others are on the way, in few
days all VIII have arrived, and the
Legislative department of the Gov
eminent will resume work for a
session that will last just three
months. There are Indications that
the session will open industriously.
The Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, Mr.. Ran.
dali, proposes to come soon and get
things in readiness for the meeting
of his committee, which is 10 take
place, If a quorum can he brought
together, on the 22nd. This is in
order to have q ill ready to be re-
ported at the opening of the SEES
sion.
Hon. Mr.. Hewitt says he IS anx-
iOus to remain in Congress as long
as possible. He would have pre-
ferred to carry ont his work here,
but the Mayoralty was forced upon
him. He wants to push the Adj
ministrative Tariff bill to passage
before he resigns, and had hoped
to remain in his seat after he had
taken the oath Of office as Mayor,
but 10y the Legislature of New York,
a man cannot hold Federal and
municipal office at the same time.
The so called police scandal of
Washington has attracted consid-
cradle attention, and the President
has taken hold of the matter. 1t is
all about an alleged scheme Of the
city police to collect damaging facts
about the private lives of Congress
men, with view to forcing them to
vote for appropriations for tho
District of Columbia. If the story
is not exaggerated, it affords in
sight into the Generalization OF pub
lie affairs which has long existed
in Washington.
The Presidents Boston trip seems
to have done him good. He has
been smiling and jovial ever since,
and unusually gracious to his East
Room callers. His country home
has new name--"Oak View" 1t
has been variously named by other
people, but this time it is said to
have been christened by the owner
himself. Oak trees surround the
house, and it commands a pictur-
esque view in all directions.
The valuable relics formerly be-
longing to General Grant and be-
queathed bv the Vanderbilt estate
to the Government, are now being
classified at the National Museum,
where they will soon he exhibited
to the public. The collection was
placed in fifteen large boxes, and
will take good deal ofspace when
placed IN glass cases.
And space is the desidcratum
now at the Museum. The director /
OF the Institution is loudly bewail- /
ing its wealth of resource and pow /
erty Of space, and says new /
structure is an immediate and I
pressing necessity. In his annual
estimates for the Museum, he asks
Congress to appropriate $4,000
for this purpose, proposing to flank
the Smithsonian building on the
west as the present Museum TANKS
it on the east. The 100000 feet Of
exhibition space in this binding is
found totally inadequate, and how
to find room for the Government
and for the articles con.
tributed by the Japanese Govern
ment, now on their way here, Illus
tratlng all the useful and Ornamen-
tai arts Of that curious people, are
among the problems which the
Museum authorities say they are y
unable to solve.
Thousands upon thousands Of in
terestlng objects, which are as tru- |
Iy a means of popular education as {
any Of those already exhibited, are
for display now, but they
nave to remain stored away in cell +
ars, crypts, and garrets. y num-
DER of wooden structures near by t
he Museum are also packed from i
lOOr to ceiling with rich materials :,
which have not been touched by O
he scientists. \ hundred tons al "
o of exhibits shipped from the Cen $
ennlal Exposition ten years ago, !,
aye never been opened. /,
The officers say it Is not intended e
r possible to put on exhibition d
lore than a fraction of the mass of
Iaterials which will he in their
ossession. Many of the exhibits
I'LL be but the indices OF those held
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