The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-04-10
NOTES ON EVENTS AT THE CAPITAL.
lettings Here and There in WASHINGTON
Matters in Congress---Gleanings
from the Telegraph and the Gre
liable" Correspondant

of Maryland, was last week admitted to practice
before the U. S. Supreme Court.
1t is said that Elk Senator Henry G. Davis is
likely to be candidate for the seat now occupied
by Senator Camden, of West Virginia.
Miss Cleveland, accompanied by her friend
Miss Van Vechten, have gone to Atlantic City,
where they will remain until the end of Lent.
During the year ended March 3lst the Pen
sion Bureau issued Sc, S47 new pension certificates
and increase over any previous year of SAIL
AN old Democrat of Norwich, N. Y, sent
Miss Cleveland twenty five pounds of pure maple
sugar, which elected long letter of thanks from
that lady.
Senator German is said to be great lover-o
base ball and never misses an opportunity to wit
ness good game. This is about all the recrea-
ton he takes.
Senator Logan is so sensitive about his age
that the year of his birth does not appear in the
Congressional directory. His next birthday will
round his GID year.
Senator Stanford, of California, is thought to
resemble Gen. Grant He is taller, heavier and
coarser looking, but the facial resemblance is,
however, remarkable.
The President surprised good many people
by filing three prominent Maryland offices on
Wednesday-U.S S. District Attorney and Marshal
aud surveyor of the Port.
Senator Fair says he will give his friends
fifty years notice before becoming reconciled to
his divorced wife and marrying her again, as he
has been reported to have done.
hofo, 10, G
dred Maryland claims, mostly for property de-
stroy ed or provender taken during the war. 1t
is not believed that one bill in hundred will pass
Secretary Manning is now mending rapidly
and will go South as soon as he is able to leave
the house. Attorney General Garland and Sec
rotary Lamar have both recovered and are again
at work.
President Cleveland has formed no decided
plans for the summer yet and will take no vaca-
ton, it is said, until August. Then he will prob
ably repeat his visit to the Adirondacks or go to
some equally secluded place.
Several Republican Senators have taken
ground against Mr.. Edmunds in opposition to the
confirmation of some of the Presidents nomina-
tions, and Mr. Morrill, demands that each nomi-
nation be considered on its own merits.
Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, member of Congress
from New York city, has been in his seat in the
House but six of the eighty three days of the
present session. He is the man who gave his
first years salary (S5,OOO) to charitable object
in New York.
Lord Russell, son of England great states
man, is in Washington and is being made lion
of by society people. 1t is said 'me lad" lately
declined an introduction to Secretary Endicot,
upon the ground that he did not care to know
any more people.
Newspaper correspondents say that the
cause of Secretary Manning's illness was an ex-
citing interview between himself and the Presi-
dent relative to some appointments, and they also
assert that the Secretary will leave the Cabinet as
soon as he gets well.
The MugwumrS opposed the nomination of
Manning for Secretary of the Treasury because
he was machine politician. They now praise
him because the abilities which made him sue
cessful politician were displayed to advantage in
the Treasury Department.
One of the rumors in Washington this week
was to the effect that ex. Gov. MeLaEe, of Mary
land, had been prominently mentioned as the
successor of Secretary Manning, and that he had
been cabled to Paris with reference to the matter.
This IS douptiess canard. ----
The servants in the White House say that
President Cleveland is the best -humored man who
has ever occupied the house. He is said to know
every servant by name and always has pleasant
word with them when he meets them in his strolls
about the house or grounds.
The Washington Critic says: "The New
York San advises President Cleveland to get a
team of trotters and drive fifteen miles day. 1t
would be cheaper to buy hammer and drive
fifteen nails day, and on behalf of Jeffersonian
simplicity, we offer the amendment"
Life in the White House appears to have
agreed with Miss Cleveland, as she has gained
flesh and roundnsss Of outline, brighter and
more vivacious expression, and seems always in
humor and gay spirits. Altering the style of her
hair has made quite another person of her.
The longevity of women who fortunate
enough to marry soldiers is shown in this fact
that our pension rolls bear the names of about
of "A years ago are nearly centenarians now, and
the number of them quite surpasses belief.
"A bill has been favorably reported in Con-
gress to pension all prisoner of war who were con-
fined in Confederate prisons for period of sixty
days or more and whose health was thereby i'm
paired. 1t provides that each man shall receive
50 per day for every day they were held in con-
fnement.
"A bill has been favoraby reported in Con-
gress authorizing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to deliver to the rightful owners any silver
ware jewery, portraits, watches and other arti-
cles deposited in the trasury by the Secretary of
War, in June, 1869, as property captured by the
Union army during the late war.
Large excursion parties from the North to
Washington are now quite common. party of
between two and three hundred from Massachu-
sets arrived there last Saturday and besides do
ing the city they called in body upon the Pres
ident. Many Of the ladies took occasion to tell the
President that they were Republicans.
Congressman Reagan, of Texas, has a pas
sion for tearing up paper while he sits at his desk.
He will carefully fold it and then tear it into long
strips. After he has about dozen of these, he
will tear them into pieces about and inch square
and then scatters them over the floor If he
should get excited the faster he tears the paper.
Senator Payne is described one of the most
carelessly dressed of Congressman. He was on n
recent occasion noticed to wear in the Capitol an
unlaundred collar and a ragged black tie pinned
thereto about half an inch above the upper edge
of his coat He is one of 0hios wealthest citi-
zens, his fortune being estimated at many mil
lions.
There is really no such thing in the Treasury
as the conscience fund.-" but the money that has
been received from people who have swindled the
Government one way or another is covered into
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts" and it
is said that about S35O,OOO have been thus turned
in. Ex-Treasurer Spinner called it the "con-
science fund"
Senator "Joe" Brown, of Georgia, is said to
have the most complete collection of newspaper
clippings in Washington, all relating to himself.