The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-04-23
Our Washington Letter
Prom Orr Regular Correspondent.

Or1Qe, VINO Is salU 10 De SeleCIluS net
trousseau beyond the seas, is discussed
from every standpoint, and there is
great demand for her lotographs.
Mr.. Cleyeland neither affirms nor de-
mics, but simply smiles when twitted
by his friends on this subject Should
he marry he will, he the second Presi-
dent to become groom during his
term of Office ex-President Tyler be-
ing his only precedent.
While the President is accused, and
may in truth be dreaming of the soft
sweet auroras Of love. Congress is dis
cussing such prosy subjects as Inter
State 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 sub-poenaed.
1t is thought by some of the wistsh
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 Henne
pin Canal bill, and all sorts of Pension
and Extension bills will have chance
of passing. 1t is thought these schemes
will help one another in this way,
when they come to vote. If you will
vote for my bill, will vote for yours"
The FOrty-linth Congress will be
famous for its generosity to would->e
pensioners, whether or not it COM
mends itself t" the tax payer for econ
omy in the expenditure of public mon
ey. The house has air, ady the Mexi-
can veterans pension bill, the yearly
eXuense of which is estimated to be ov-
er $4,l0O,000. The bill to increase
WIDOWS pensions TO $l2 month has
become law. and the pensions of
helpless pensioners is to be increased.
The Invalid Pension Commit ttee favors
taking Oft the limitation of arrears
which promises an enormous increase
OF expenditures, and the same commit
tee 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
We're in the Union army and were TAX
ell prisoners by the Indians. shall be
pensioned. The survivors and relics
OF all the Indian wars ask for pensions,
certain Congressman asks pensions
Tor oil soldiers and sailors who have
attained 81 years. and deafness is to be
compensated for by higher pension
That is not nearly all the pension
schemes, but lack of space forbids me
to enumerate
bile the pastors of this city are
trying to have the law enforced pro
hibiting BARRIERS 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 superinten dents If
these public Institutions do not favor
the plan, but it is thought if their sal
aries were increased one seventh, the
proposition would be more acceptable
to them.
There are many religion, people here
who pow favor the Su nday optning OF
museums, libraries, art galleries, and
natural history collections. They want
the working classes thus to have an
opportunity for improvement and in
struction Of which they are absolutely
deprived now. They think it would
not interfere with church attendance
at all, and the time would be much
more morally spent i'm visiting these
places than promenading the streets
and sailing down the Potomac, both
Popular Sunday pass times with many
Washington people
The chief of the Botanical gard ms
was saying that not one in ten of the
adult people OF this city had ever been
to see his beautiful collections of plants
He wondered if many pc ,pleIwho really
want to come had been shut out be-
cause the green houses are closed on
Sunday. He thought there would be
great rush for ii few Sundays if the
gardens were opened on that day, and
then public interest would scarcely be
greater on Sunday than on any other