The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-07-31

gress from Kansas went to the Secretary
and requested that he be detained and
tried for his crimes. The Secretary,
however, replied that he, with the rest
of his party, had come here under prom
Use of protection, and he could do moth
ing but send him back to the military
supervision, under which he has been
during the past three years.
Second Assistant Secretary OF State
William Hunter, who died at his resi-
dence in this city on Thursday last, was
one of the oldest and best known men
in the employ of the Government. He
was eighty-one years of age. and was
the oldest official in the service of the
United States, having been appointed
clerk in the State Department in 1929,
when Andrew Jackson was President.
There was probably no person whose
knowledge of the diplomatic moves of
the Government was So thorough as Mr..
Hunter
The fact that great interest is taken
by the public in the Senate's disposition
of the Payne election case was shown
by the unusually large attendance upon
Wednesday and Thursday last during
the discussion of the case. Senator
Logan's speech, which has been so ex-
tensively commented upon by the press,
is considered to have been the ablest
speech delivered upon the floor of the
Senate during the present session.
The oleomargerine bill passed the
Senate on Tuesday, after reducing the
tax to two cents pound. The Senate
amendment was concurred in by the
House on Friday, and the bill now
awaits the action of the President.
The President in company with Sec
retaries Bayard and Whitney and Priv
ate Secretary Lamont, spent two or three
days at Albany in attendance upon the
bi-centennial celebration, returning to
Washington on Friday.
The movement, which was COM
menced few weeks since, with the
view of establishing a workingmen's IL
brary in the central portion of the city,
is meeting with general encouragement,
and upwards of $4,000 has been pledged
by citizens. 1t is intended that pleasant
and well furnished rooms shall be pro-
vided, where a workingman after his
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The political fences throughout the
country are said to be in very bad con-
dition. The fall elections promise to
make many changes in the House.
There are few members who car come
to Congress as long as they want to, and
who will avail themselves of the privi-
lege, but there will be a pretty general
shaking up among the majority. Many
Representatives have already declined
denomination, and some have failed tc
be renominated, and many more will be
beaten. But few have as yet received
denomination. The Presidents order
that subordinate government officials
shall not take part in political conven
tions will, it is said, seriously affect the
chances of several members whose of
. fetal friends have already been choser
delegates to conventions. Altogether
, there will be many changes. II is i'm
possible to learn the names OF all who
I have decided not to return, but they are
: numerous. Besides Cobb, Collins, Bar
, bour, Tucker, and Curtin, whose de
: clinations have been widely published,
, am informed of the following who have
! declined denomination: Foran, FELTON,
! Golf, Guenther, Dowdney, Eldridge
: FELTON,, Bragg, j. NJ. Campbell, Com
| stock, Aiken, Arnot, Bennett, Hewitt
, Keiner, La Fevre, Loutitt, Miller, Mitch
| ell, Murphy, Morrow, Singleton, Swope
J Van Schaick, Thockmorton, W. II
, Ward, and Thomas b. Ward. 1t may
! be that some of these will be nominated
Notwithstanding their declination.
7 Arrangements have been made for
special meeting of the joint committee
, on the library of the two Houses OF
= Monday evening to consider the subject
of the proposed exposition in Washing
ton in 1SS9-'92. The members of tn,
citizens cOmluttee appointed to wal
on Congress in connection with the pro
ject will meet with the committee OF
the library on this occasion. Response,
favoring the commemoration of the dis
J covery of America and the adoption o.
the federal constitution by the holding
of the proposed exposition at Washing
ton have now been received from the
Governors of thirty-eight States anC
Territories, from the chief municipa
officers and leading members of manu-
featuring and commercial organizations
in nearly every important city in this
whole country, and also from many per
sons engaged in large business enter
; prises. All of the members of the Sen.
ate committee on the library are favor
ably inclined, and it is believed the
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not be less so. Advices have been re.
ceived from all of the Spanish-A merican
States, indicating deep interest, and
giving assurances that the government OF
all these States will cooperate heartily
in making large exhibits of their pro
ducts and manufactures.
1t has been suggested that New York
was anxious to have an exposition com
memoIating the adoption of the consti.
tuition, but it is now understood to be
generally admitted that the capital OF
the country is the only proper place, and
New York can have its glOrification oyer
the event in the shape of a grand ban