The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-06-05
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

"A shrewd artist has copyrighted the photo
graph of the Presidents wife,
Charles E. Hayward of Maryland, has. been
appointed special examiner in the Pension Office.
Hon. Robt. M. McLane, of Maryland, U. S.
Minister to France, arrived in Washington on
Monday.
Miss Carrie B. Humphrey, of Maryland, has
been appointed to 5000 clerkship in the Comp
trollers Office.
The decrease of the public debt for the month
of May was S,S2S, 565.91. Total cash in the
Treasury, $500, 406, BOLTS.
David L. Hawkins of Missouri, has been
nominated by the President for Assistant Secre-
tary of the Interior, vice Geo. A. jerks, resigned
Senator Allison, of Iowa, has served twenty
ore years in Congress. He is one of the quiet,
hard working members and man of excellent
judgment.
Senator Voorhees, says the new Pension Office
in Washington is architectural monstrosity,
and adds that his greatest objection to it is that
it is fire proof.
The President has vetoed another lot of pri-
vate pension bills. 1t is plain that large per-
centage of these bills fraudulent and how they
are gotten through Congress is mystery.
The internal revenue collections for the first
ten months of the present fiscal year amount to
sos 1903 666, an increase of over 100000 COM
pared with the corresponding months Of last year.
They couldn't even persuade Attorney General
Garland to wear "swalow- tail" coat to the w bite
House wedding. He once swore that he never
would be seen in such a garment, and he is keep
ing his oath.
A man in Springfield, Mass, claims to own
the original water color portrait of Washington,
painted ON ivory in 1856 by Lacon, and the modest
fellow wants to sell it to the Government for the
triHing sum of $25O,OOO.
The venerable James H. Mari, chief clerk in
the Office of the First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral, on Tuesday entered upon his fifty sixth year
of service in that Department. He has served
under twenty seven Postmasters- General.
Judge Holman, of Indiana, has already
served eleven terms in Congress and is again a
candidate. As his dis riot is strongly Democratic
he will most likely be returned. The Judge is
known as the "Watch-Dog of the Treasury
"A bill was introduced in the Senate on Tues
day to prohibit members of Congress from acting
as railroad attorneys, the penalty being fine
not to exceed $1,000, or imprisonment not more
than one year. No one believes it will ever be
come law.
Congressman William Preston Taulbee, the
young mountain member of the Kentucky dele
CATION, earned his first money as a married man
BY shoveling coal at fifty cents day into the iron
furnaces of the district he now has the honor of
representing.
up to last week, under the present admins
tration, but eighty changes had been made in the
Postofice Department, from the appointment of
the Postmaster General down to the humblest
correspondent.
Hartford county, Md, farmers have sent Pc
ttion to the U. S. Senate, praying the passage of
the bill to tax oleomargarine. Those opposed to
the passage of this bill are well supplied with the
"sinews of war" and there is therefore no telling
what its fate will be.
1t is said in Washington that new U. S.
Assistant Treasurer will be appointed for Balti-
more at an early date. The commission of the
present incumbent, Mr.. Darby, expires next
month. DR.. Bishop, of lower Maryland, will like
ly be the coming man.
When the Presidents marriage gets to be
cold" news, the Washington newspaper men will
be at loss to know what to do to put in their
time. They have done more square out and out
lying on this subject in the last six weeks than
they perhaps ever did before in the whole course
of their lives.
The statistician of the Agricultural Depart
ment has furnished for the Of Congress tables
showing thai the worlds product of wheat in 1885
was 2,11O,0GO,00G bushels, the requirements of
consumption 2,165, 100000 bushels, presenting
deficiency of So 900, 900 bushels, which was drawn
from the previous years surplus.
Not until Friday evening of last week was the
announcement officially made in Washington that
the President was to be married, and when it was
the news spread like wild fire over the city. Up
to the ysry last moment some of the Presidents
most intimate friends did not think that he would
marry, showing how well he had kept the secret
of his love affair."
The President went to New York Sunday af-
ternoon, viewed the Decoration Day parade on
Monday in that city, returned to Washington
Monday night and married on Wednesday.
He has had an eventful life, but the last act was
the browning feature, and although nearly fifty
years of age, he has just entered upon new and,
we trust, very happy life.
The Green property, which has been pur-
chased by the President for his summer residence,
is three miles from the White House, at the juno
ton of the Woodley and Tennahytown roads. 1t
contains 80 acres and is improved by an old
fashioned stone house. The price paid was S2l
500. The President will take his bride to this
establishment as soon as it is put in order.
There was tarrifc rush on the Whit H"~'s
ssi Sa5dey AFfs RsHResF Ct ae fig f sho~n
the house which was soon to be occupied by Miss
Folsom as the bride of the President. Some Of
these callers wanted to see the room where Miss
Folsom would dress for the wedding, and the
ushers were almost driven to distraction. One Of
them said he never before saw so many cranks.