The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

The latest appropriation bill fixes the appro-
priation for pensions at S6,000,000.
Senator Malone this week purchased $4S, 900
worth of real estate in Washington.
Senator Whitthorne, of Tennessee, was for
merly a clerk in the Postofice Department.
1t is said that the membership of the United
States Senate represents S162,O00,O00 of wealth.
President Cleveland is said to be looking
about the Washington city suburbs for a suitable
summer residence.
1T is said now that the President will be mar.
red in Buffalo on the 18th of June. We will be-
lieve it when we see it.
The President will go to New York on Sunday
evening" 30th inst, and will review the Decoration
Day parade on Monday.
Many members of Congress have gone to
their homes to look after their "fences," and very
little busides is being done by that body just now.
1t is now stated in Washington that the NOM
ination of Mr.. Morris A. Thomas, of Baltimore,
to be Indian Inspector, will be rejected by the
Senate.
The nomination of Gen. Rosecrans, to be
Register of the Treasury, which has been hanging
fire in the Senate for long time, was finally con-
firmed on Tuesday.
In the House on Monday bill was intro
duced appropriating $4,000 for the erection in
Washington of bronze monument to the late
Edwin NJ. Stanton:
asking for a new issue of one and two dollar
United States notes. These bills have become
very scarce in the country.
Judge jerks, Assistant Secretary of the In
terror, resigned last week. He goes to Dubois,
Pa, to become legal adviser to the young million
aire, John Z. Dubois, at salary of $4,000 per
year.
Sixth Auditors office this week. the charge against
them being Offensive partsanship." Their names
are John C. Farquhar, John Basil and A. Van
Reuth.
The Legislative, Executive and Judicial APP
preparation bill for the next fiscal year makes q
total appropriation of $20,7l0,s77.42. The ap-
preparations for the current year were $21 ,371
605.05.
Each Congressman is entitled to 5000 paper
packages of vegetable seed, 500 of flower seed, 800
of tobacco, so quarts grass seed, 80 of cotton, %
of sugar beet and 20 each OF corn and sorghum,
to distribute among his constituents.
On Monday last Col. Fred. Grant took out
letters of administration in Washington on the
estate of his late father, Gen. Grant, and bonded
in the sum of 81, 900. This would indicate a per-
sonal estate in the District of 81 900.
A petition from Iowa, signed by a number of
citizens, has been presented in the United States
Senate, asking "for the adjustment of the Ameri-
can House of Lords and the substitution of a re-
publican form of government" More cranks,
doubtless.
1t is estimated that in the sale this spring of
the house which ex-senator Platt, of New York,
bought in Washin gton in April, 1881, only month
before he resigned in the Senate, he lost sls,ooo
of his purchase money, in addition to what he lost
BY the house being vacant more than three years
of the five he owned it.
"A man named Armstrong was an applicant
for photographer of the Treasury but did not get
the place. He has filed charges against
Eugene Higgins, chief appointments clerk, in which
he asserts that he could have secured the place if
he had been willing to pay Higgins $1,000. Hig-
gins treats the matter as joke.
-Uuder a suspension of the rules the House on
Monday, by a vote of 203 to s. passed the Senate
bill which provides for the study of the nature of
alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effect
upon the human system, by the pupils of the pub
lie schools of the Territories and the District Of
Columbia, and in the military and naval academies.
The statement is made by Pension officials
that at the recent term of the United States court
at Jackson, Tenn, twelve persons were convicted
of perjury, forgery, other violations OF the PEN
sion laws by which various sums of money were
wrongfully obtained, in many instances on forged
pension receipts in the names of deceased pen
sioners.
Up to this time the President has sent to the
Senate about 2,l00 nominations for civil offices.
LOO of which have been confirmed and only IL
rejected The remaining 400 will be disposed of
in short time. The nominations of Mr.. Cleve-
land have been treated equally as well by the
Senate as those of any of his Republican prede-
cessors.
"A few days ago a Pennsylvania crank got
into the Capitol very early in the morning and
secreting himself in dark corner, took off all his
clothing. About the hour for the assembling of
the two Houses he rushed into the roturda and
stationed himself upon pedestal, to the conster-
nation of hundreds of people He was finally Sc
cured by the police and marched off to the station
house.
One of President Garfed's cabinet officers,
who took the most active part in the prosecution
of the Star Route ring, declared at the time to a
friend that the evidence in his possession would
never lead Washington jury to convict the
thieves. One-half of the population of the ma
tional capital consists, be said, of persons de-
pendent upon contractors, and the second half of
persons dependent upon the first half.
The Blair pension bill, as passed. by the Sem
ate ON wednesday, by vote OF "a to IA, PROVIDES
for pension of not less than 81 nor more than
S24 per month for soldiers of the late war who
were honorably discharged after three months
service and who are disabled and dependent
upon their own exertions for support, and of de-
pendent parents of soldiers who died in the service
or from disabilities contracted therein. The bill
now goes to the House.
Secretary Manning has had an invalid's chair
made, ostensibly for use when people in the Treas
ury are taken i'll and it is found necessary to
carry them. The chair is quite elaborate con-
trivance, in which q person can sit or recline
while two handles protrude to carry it. Its prin'
cipal use, however, will be to carry Secretary
Manning in. He is feeling we'll enough, so far as
his mental faculties are concerned, and is ambi.
tous to go back in his place, but his legs are weak
and he does not desire to overtaX them,