Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-01-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c..

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January 4, 1888.
Editor Register. 1T is said here that
the fight over the tariff will begin next
week. and then the fur will fly. The
majority of the Democrats will start
out TO get aS much tariff reduction and
a. little protection as they can. When
ever they find that they cannot get
what they want they will compromise,
taking the best they can get. Mr..
Carlisle and Mr.. Randall have talked
the matter over very carefully, ard
they both expect chat an agreement
will be reached. The bill will GER
tainlv not be what is desired, but the
important point will be that the reve-
nue. will be reduced. As TO the sur
plus that is now in the Treasury the
chances are that both Houses of Con
greSs will pass bills making very
heavy drafts upon it, among others
the Blair education bill, which calls
for the expenditure of over seventy
millions Of dollars; but the President
is said TO be unalterable in his inten-
ton of vetoinS it.
The Presidents reception on New
Years day was the most brilliant one
ever held at the White House, and as
the day was pleasant one thousands
of people went to pay their respects.
The proceedings began at eleven
o'clock by the reception of the diplo-
matte corps, followed by the Justices
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, the army and navy officers sta
toned in Washington, the veterans of
the war of 1912, the veterans of the
Mexican war, the Grand Army of the
Republic. and the Association of the
Oldest Inhabitants. From 1910 I'M
I'll , o'clock was for the reception of
citizens, during which time the Presi-
dent is said to have shaken hands
at the rate of fifty persons a minute.
Last week Mr.. w w. Corcoran, the
philanthropist, celebrated his nine
tieth birthday. He was called 1pon
by hundreds of people, and appeared
as hale and hearty as a man of
fifty. Among his callers was the his
torian Bancroft, who is nearly eighty
years of age, and who still takes long
horseback rides Mr.. Corcoran cele-
brated the day by sending his check
for a thousand dollars to the home for
Confederate veterans at Charleston,
:. c.. as n Christmas gift. Mr.. Cor
coran has probably givenm money
to charity than any other man in the
country during the last twenty years,
among others being the Louise Home
for aged women in this city, one of
the most beautiful buildings here.
The Commissioner of Labor in his
annual report just issued shows that
during the last six years the number
of persons who have been on strike in
this country has reached the enor-
nous number of 1.31S.61i Disclaim-
ing to b. absolutely accurate, the re-
port gives the losses resulting from
strikes as follows: Loss to strikers.
SOL. SIG. 165; loss TO employers from
lockouts. So. 1872, III, or total loss of
waves of $50. 94S, SS2, being on an av-
erage about $40 to each person in
yOlyed. From this showing il would
appear that strikes do not pay.
The report around Washington is
that there will be dead set made at
once by Democratic Senators and
REPRESENTATIVE for at least an equal
number of Democrats i'll the Depart
ments. The idea appears to have
been prevalent among some Demo
crafts that as soon as they were given
a good fat place the country was
saved and the Democratic party salts
fled and the men who were the hard
est kickers became the most expert In
explaining why they did not discharge
few Republicans and give their
places TO DellOCIdtS' pu' ~ "OuiA
seem that there is to be change, and
if the present chiefs of bureau do not
come to time there will be music in
the air. Let us hope there is no mis-
take about the matter this time, but
there-has been so much talk in the
past that hope deferred maketh the
heart sick" 1t is said that a high
salaried position in the Treasury De-
partment will be given TO a West Nlr-
ginian in a few days.
Mr.. w. w. Trail, of Harper's Ferry,
an employee of the Navy Department,
was presented with a Christmas gift
IN the shape of a promotion from $500
} $1,000 per year. Miss Laura 5.
raver. of West Virginia, clerk in
Pension Office, was also promoted
$1,000 to 81, 400 per annum.
-ernal Revenue Commissioner
rwas called to his home at Bar
lille, w. Va, last Saturday by
Jus illness of his mother.