The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-31
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

Mrs Folsom, the Presidents mother in law,
is now guest at the White House.
There we're in the Postofice Department on
the Both of June, ST. officers and employees of ali
grades.
The sundry civil bill, which passed the SEN
ate last Saturday, appropriates an aggregate of
S24,413,375.
"A conscience contribution of 1920 was re
ceived at the Treasury Department on Saturday,
from Louisville, Kentucky.
w, L. S. Townsend, of Maryland, clerk in
the Third Assistant Postmaster Generals office,
has been promoted to 81 800 position.
DIR. George W. Bishop, the new assistant U.
s. Treasurer at Baltimore, has filed his bond with
the Treasury Department. The penal sum u
SI5U,0O0. -
The total internal revenue collections for the
fiscal year ended June Both amounted to $ll6,-
902.S45, an increase over the previous year Of
S4,4S1,724.
1t is said in Washington that Senator Cor
man wants his brother-in- law, Mr.. Stephen Gam
brill, of Frederick county, appointed Internal
Revenue Collector for Maryland.
New York has the largest and smallest man
in the House of Representatives. Hiscock is the
giant and weighs $40 pounds, while his colleague,
Mr.. Merryman, weighs only 1929.
If the President should sign the bill which
places tax of two cents pound upon oleomar-
garine it will bring in revenue to the Govern
ment of about 81 ,0OJ, 900 annually.
Hon. William Hunter, Second Assistant Sec
rotary of State and the oldest official in continu-
GUS service in the United States, died on the 22d
instant of a complication of diseases incident to
old age.
The Attorney G eneral has decided that the
oleomargarine bill, passed by Congress last week,
is constitutional and that it is not an infringement
upon states rights. 1t is thought the President
will now sign the bill.
Senator Berry, of Arkansas, who succeeded
Senator Garland in the Senate, eats ten cents
worth of chocolate caramels every day. Hell said
to be the envy of every small boy who sees him
quietly dsposing of them.
The Senate on Tuesday, by vote of 81 to IS,
confirmed the nomination of Morris A. Thomas,
of Baltimore, to be Indian Inspector. This is
the case that has been hanging fire so long and
which stirred up much opposition in Baltimore.
The newspapers have already mapped out
about thousand summer trips for the President
but he has not yet given out where he will 60
The summer resort people have been trying to use
the Chief Magistrate as an advertising card but
very little success has come of the scheme 20 FAR.
An excellent authority says that it costs from
900 to $50, 900 day to run the House of Rep
resentatives, and it is said to cost little ovel
81 300 to call the roll of the House. 1t is estima
ted that one fifth of the time of the House is con.
sumed in taking votes various kinds of measures
Public Printer Rounds has placed his resig.
nation in the hands of the President, to take effect
next month. Two gentlemen prominently
named as his successor-one from Memphis and
the other from Buffalo. 1t is not believed that
Mr.. John Cox, of Baltimore, who is also an appli-
cant, has any show
The annual report of the Chief of the APP
pointment Division of the Postoffice Department
shows that during the last fiscal year 22,747 APP
pointments of postmasters have been made in the
United States, out of total of SO, Ga. In Mary
| 80 haoa DIM nf
the number of postoffices in the State.
The position taken by Senator Logan on the
Payne investigation has placed him in most I'm
pleasant attitude with Ohio Republicans, by when
he is being severely denounced. The Blaine and
Logan clubs of that State have dropped his name
and it is claimed that the soldier element will
hereafter be almost solidly against him.
When the President went to Albany last week
he was accompanied by one of the White House
detectives who was always near him, keeping q
close watch upon him. A foolish rumor was cir
culated that crank had attempted to do the
President some bodily harm while he was in
| Albany, but of course there was no foundation
for it.
| Several months ago man named Warden
| from Indiana, who was an assistant doorkeeper Of
| the House, was reprimanded and turned out upon
the charge of accepting money from Indianians t.
! influence legislation. Yet Warden still retains
| his place and struts about the floor of the Hou't
as important as though nothing unusual had oc
CURED.
A Washington correspondent writes thai
many OF the ladies who are kept in that city OF
account of the long continued session of Congress
have organized series of euchre parties at which
each one is pledged to appear in plain calico
wrapper, without adornments. The gentlemen
are allowed to play without their coats, which
the writer says, adds to the cool appearance of thu
| game.
On the 10th of July daughter was born t.
| Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Winter, of Newport, KY.
| and it was named frankie Cleveland, for tn
| Presidents wife. Mrs. Cleveland wrote note t
Mrs. Winter, thanking her for the remembrance
but asked as favor that the little one he calet
Frances or Frank, and not frankie, adding tina
81 am never called frankie, and I dislike tn
| name very much"