The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-29
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.


Considerable opposition has been developed
in the House to the bill placing tax upon oleo-
margarine. =.
Mrs. Senator Logan gave garden party
last week which netted $1,000 for the Garfield
Hospital fund.
The President is said to have seven hundred
photographs of babies who have been named
Grover Cleveland.
Senator German proposes making an extend
ed Western tour Immediately after the adjourn
ment of Congress.
More than $4,000, 900 worth of building con-
tracts we're cancelled in Washington on account
of the labor troubles.
The wife of Senator Don Cameron is about to
commence the erection OF ten-thousand- dohar
house on Eighthteenth street.
The Preside mt again this week vetoed several
private pension bills. He has taken very manly
stand against these schemes to extort money from
the Treasury.
Senator Berry, of Arkansas, is the only man
in the Senate whose injuries in the war of the re-
bellion cause him to walk with crutch, he hav-
ing lost leg in battle
A prominent man in Washington sent num-
Der of Senators to certain cigar store to see
"cherry -colored cat" The animal proved to be
the color of a black cherry.
Senator German having declined the chair
manship of the Democratic Congressional COM
mittee, some difficulty is being experienced in get
Secretary Manning attended church last Sun
day for the first time since his paraytic stroke
II is said now that he will not resume his duties
in the Treasury Department until next fall.
The President has signed the bill providing
for the study Of the nature of alcoholic drinks ana
narcotics and their effects, in the public schools
of the Territories the District of Columbia, etc.
The Presidents afternoon receptions in the
East Room are now SHINY attended and when he
steps in and finds so few to shake his hand, an
appearance of relief overspreads his countenance'
The revenues of the Government for May
will exceed the expenditures for the same month
by about SIG, O0O 900. 1t is believed the decrease
| in the public debt for May will be about Sl2,-
100000
| Hayes and DIR. Geo. H. Cairnes for U. S. District
Attorney and U S. Marshal, respectively, fol
Maryland.
Congressman John D. Long, of Massachu
| setts was married last week to Miss Agnes Pierce
| of North Attleboro', that State. Mr.. Long was a
bachelor, not very young, but immensely wealthy
| The bride was school teacher.
The President is now having made a scrap
book in which all the remarks of the newspapers
concerning his supposed approaching marriage
| are to be preserved. He laughingly remarked
that "some day they will make good reading"
The present Congress seems determined to
sit down very hard on the Mormon question:
| The House has bill even stronger ana more
aggressive than the Edmonds bill and the Nor.
mon lobby is said to be very gloomy over the
prospect.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
call for $400O0 900 of three per cent. bonds, loan
of 1882. Principal and accrued interest will be
paid at the Treasury Department on the LIST day
of July, 1886. The interest on these bonds will
cease after that date.
This Is an actual fact A Baltimorean, who
did not want place for himself or any of his
friends, called on Appointment Clerk Higgins on
Tuesday. The Sans Washington correspondent
sententiously observes that "Mr. Higgins failed
| to recognize the gentleman"
The Senate on Tuesday received the resolu-
lions adopted by the Ohio State Senate, charging
| that the election of Senator H. B. Payne "was
procured and brought about by the corrupt means
and practices" The Senateis requested to make
| a full investigation into the facts.
1t is now given out with some show of author
| ity that the President has purchased handsome
property near Washington, known as the Green
estate, for which he is to pay 81, 900. The gos
sips say that after his marriage he will make his
| nome in this quiet and beautiful retreat, going
| back and forth to the White House every day.
Now the newspaper correspondents are de-
scribing the Presidents wedding clothes, which
they say, are coming in from New York. But Mr.
Cleveland has fooled them again. Among the
new outfits are day dress suit and an evening
suit so they cannot tell whether he is to be mar
ried at night or in the daytime, but they'll nc
doubt arrange that for him in q few days.