Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-07-14
[FRoM OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE

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[FRoM OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, ID. G, July 10, 1886
Congress- is hard at work, and should the
present warm weather continue an adjourn
ment will be reached at much earlier day
than had been expected, though it is believed
that it will require until the first of August
to complete the various appropriation bills.
The vetoed pension bills which originated
in the Senate will, with possibly one or two
exceptions, be reported from the committee
on pensions, with recommendations that
they do pass, the Presidents veto notwlth-
| standing.
When vote was taken in the House
upon the clause in the Sundry Civil bill,
which appropriates $103, 900 for the Bar
tholdi statue, the vote as announced by the
speaker was yeas 1903, and nays 107. The
| name of several members who were known
| to have been absent from the city, were
found to have been recorded in the affirm
alive. The Washington Post created q
CONSERVATION by charging in an editorial
that the roll. call had been tempered with.
| The Posts article was widely copied, and
all investigation demanded, which resulted
in an exoneration of the reading clerk, up
on the ground that the mistake in recording
| the vote was due to the confusion which
prevailed the during calling of the roll.
| Secretary Whitney announces that 'he
will be ready within two weeks to advertise
for proposals for the construction of the
| four naval vessels authorized by the Act of
March Sd, 1885. The largest one of the
| vessels will probably be built at the Brooklyn
| Navy Yard.
| The news of the sudden death of Col.
| George B. Corkhill, ex-District Attorney,
at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on Wednesday
| last. Col. Corkhill was one of the best
| known and most popular men in the Dis
| trict. The active part which he took in the
| trial of the assassin Guiteau gave him a
national reputation.
| 1t is announced as a settled fact that
Hon. S. S Cox will shortly resign his posi-
ton as Minister to Turkey and seek re-
election to Congress, and gossips are al
ready naming his successor.
Although the President has received
some very beautiful invitations, the one
which was recently presented him by SEN
ator Stanford, in behalf of the citizens of
California, to visit to the Grand Army En-
campment in San Francisco, in August,
eclipses them all. The text of the invita-
ton is engraved upon gold plate six
inches long by four inches broad, and as
thick as silver dollar. At the left hand
corner of the plate is solid gold G. A. R.
badge. The plate rested upon an American
flag worked entirely in California silk, and
aud the whole was inclosed in blue velvet
case.
Among the many odd trinkets possessed
by the White House bride, which has at
tracted much attention, is live bug about
an inch and half in length. Around the
insects body is tiny gold harness to which
is secured fine chain. The lady fastens
the chain to her left shoulder, and the bug
wanders about as far as the chain will al
low. This species of ornament is said to
have been fashionable many years ago, and
now that Mrs. Cleveland wears one they
will probably again become popular. H.