The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-02-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %, 1886,

| ldAu WI n AiN AhNo HNOOOOlN W.
compiished more during the week
than during any preceding week of
the session. The Fitz John Porter
bill occupied much of the time OF
the House during the early pare OF
the week, and on Thursday the bill
was passed by 4 vote of III to 1l3.
Not one Democratic vote was cast
in the negative, and but sixteen
Republican votes were cast in the
Affirmative. Tue House has thus
declared that Gen. Porter was free
from blame when; at the second
battle OF Bull Run, in 1862, he dis.
Obeyed the orders of a superior Off
Ger, and that the decision of the
court-martial which found him
guilty was wrong. The Attendance
OF members during the debate was
unusually large, and but few seats
were vacant. Although the
speeches we're for the most part
tiresOlne, the interest taken by tue
general public in the proceedings,
was manifest by the crow ded gal
lerieS. The chair placed little re-
straiut upon the occupants OF the
galleries, who frequently gave vent
to applause in appreciation of the
telling points in the arguments OF
the several speakers.
The debate in the Senate upon
the Blair Educational Bill was CON
tinued during the week. Nearly
every Senator has taken part in
tire discussion of the bill, aud SO
great Il number of amendments
have been offered that it is proba-
ble that when II vote is finally taken
the provisions of the bill will have
been so changed that it viii be
hardly recognized by its aalhur.
War has at last been openly de.
ciared between the Republican
Senators and the administration,
upon the question of removals.
Senator Edmunds on Thursday
last, having obtained the indorse.
ment of his proposed report from
Judiciary COmmittee, on the lefuS-
al Of the Attorney General to trans
nit certain papers relating 10 the
Duskin case, submitted the report
to the Senate, but it was agreed
that 1t should not be called up Tor
action in the Senate until Monday
next, in order that the Democratic
minority could have time to furmu.
late their reply. The resolutions
are three in number. The first de-
clares the action of the Attorney
General in ref !Sing to furnish infOr
nation when called tor by the
Senate, was reprehenSiblr. The
second declares that where the
Senate calls tor information is not
furnished, the Senate will not con.
firm the appointee. And the third
condemns the disregard of the law
which requires that in selections
for office, preference be given to
hnnoIably discharged union sol
dirrS AMI sailors.
Among the bills introduced in
the Senate on Thursdar last, was
one by Mr.. Hoar, providing Tor The
of Il suitable monument at
Washington to General u. S.
The bill appropriates $3.50
900 for the purpose, and provides
for Il commission of three Senators
and three members of the House of
Representatives, to contract for the
monument. An amendment offer
ed by Mr.. Logan, increasing the
amount appropriated to $50 ,O0O,.
was afterwards adopted.
The eighteenth annual conven-
ton OF the National Suffrage Asso-
citation, was held iu this city during
the week. In the absence OF Mrs.
Elizabeth Gladly Stanton, the PreSi-
dent of the Association, the meet
ings were presided over by Miss
Susan b. Anthony. The meetings
were well attended, the audience
being composed principally OF wo-
men, many of whom were young
and pretty.
Two hundred and ten of the EN-
plOyees of the Washington Navy
Yard were suspended on Wednes-
day, owing TO a lack OF %apprOpria
ton to longer continue them al
work. The suspensions were made
pending action by Congress on the
Appropriation Bill TOR
the Navy.
Among the Indians now IN the
city, who have visited Washington
TO protest against the policy Of
having lands s~everalty forced upon
them, is d delegation of six Usage
Indians. The wealth OF the mem
bers OF this tribe is said to be high
er, per capita, than the members Of
any community in the world.
They have in the U. s. Treasury
about $1,000, 900. The Indians Oh
Thursday last, had an interview
with Col. Casey, the Snperinten-
dent of Indian schools. They sta
ted that they wanted II female sem
mary established, aud also sud
that they wanted catholic Teachers.
DR.. Thomas Taylor OF the Dc
partment of Agriculture, recent,
announced at a meeting OF mlciu
scopists, that be had discovered Il
certain test by which butter cnuld
in all cases be distinguished irOm
eleomargerine aud other mutations
The DR.. claimed that butter hldccd
beneath the microscope showed
crystals marked by Il plain
cross, which could be fouml NO
where else. DR.. TaylOr's discover,