Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-04-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. ApriL 18th

Washington, April 18th.
The gossips have had a great deal
to say about the Presidents rumored
marriage in June, and many people
believe it will take place. The alleg-
ed bride, who is to be selecting her
trousseau beyond the seas, is dis
cussed from every standpoint, and
there is great demand for her photo
graphs. MI. Cleveland neither af-
firms nor denies, but simply smiles
when twitted by his friends on this
subject. Should he marry, he will be
the second President to become "a
groom during his term of Office, ex-
President Tyler being his only prece-
dent.
While the president is accused,
and may in truth be dreaming of the
soft, sweet auroras of love, congress
is discussing such prosy matter as
interstate commerce, the fisheries
question, secret or no secret sessions,
and the house strike committee begins
to- morrow the examination of MesSrs
Gould and Powderly whom congress
has subpenaed.
1t is thought by some of the wis
est men of both parties in congress
that the new tariff bill is doomed to
defeat, but the bills involving expen-
ditures of money, such as the educa-
tional bill, the Eads ship railway bill,
the canal bill, and all sorts of pen
sion and extension bills will have a
chance of passing. 1t is thought
that these schemes will help one an
other in this way, when they come to
vote: ''If you will vote for my bill.
| will vote for yours
The forty-nlnth congress will be ia
nous for its generosity to wouldbe
pensioners, whether or not it COM
mends itself to the taxpayer for
economy in the expenditure of pub
lie money. The house has already
| passed the Mexican veteran bill, the
expense of which is estimated to be
over S4 900, 900. The bill to increase
widows pensions to SIP month has
become 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 expenditures, and the same COM
mittee proposes to pension soldiers
who were prisoners of war thirty days,
instead of sixty days, the term first
agreed upon. Then one bill asks
that the wives and children of SOL
dlers who were in the Union army
and were taken prisoners by the In
dians, shall be pensioned. The sur
vivOrs and relics of all the Indian
wars ask fer pensions, certain con-
gresham asks pensions for all sol.
diers and sailors who have attained
62 years, and deafness is to be com.
pensated for by higher pension
Those are not nearly all the pension
schemes, but lack of space forbids
me to enumerate.
While the pastors of this city arr
trying to have the law enforced pro
hibiting BARRIERS from opening thei
places of business on Sunday, con
gress is likely to provide for the OPP
ening on that day of the museums
and national Institutes. The super
intendents of these public institu
tions do not favor the plan, but it l
;, thought if their salaries were in
creased one-seventh, the proposition
would be more acceptable to them.
There are many religious peopl
here who now favor the Sunday op
ening of museums, libraries, art ga
leries, and natural history collections
They want the working classes thu
to have an opportunity for improve
ment and instruction of which the
are absolutely deprived now. The
think it would not interfere wit
: church attendance at all, and tt
. time would be much more moral
: spent in visiting these places than
! promenading the streets and sailin
~ down the Potomac, both popular SUI
5 day pastimes with many Washingtc
J people.
: The chief of the botanical ga
n dens was saying that not one in te
y of the adult people of this city hs
lie ever been to see his beautiful collie
7, ton of plants. He wondered
is many people whoreally want TO con
N had been shut out because the gree
70 houses are closed on Sunday. f
Y. thought there would be great ru
I'd for few Sundays if the garde
ne were opened on that day, and tn
at public interest would scarcely
ID greater on Sunday than on any OF
er day of the week. NO" said h
OF people want TO come ON Sund
'n only because it is forbidden.
ld A government clerk hoped the II
ed olution would pass. Said he
have been here eight Years and ba
~ never been in the Smithsonian Ins