The Forrest City times., 1888-03-31
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Rev. Ii. ChAancy Kelly. q Dotea Catholic divine and bishop Of Mexico. is At the E5bitt.
 Col Lamont stated wednssday morning that Mrs. Cleveland is not going b New York to attend the working girFs fair. as reported in the New York pspers-
 The senate pages are very much elated at the intimation that Senator Palmer intends b give them feed. after the order of that given them ey Senator Stanford recently.
 Hon. Samuel II. Falrall Of Iowa City, To-. is on a visit to his old Wash ington and Maryland friends. He has long been a leading member Of the Iowa bar. and for several years past on The district bench, holding high rank Ia the state judiciary. He s al 1895 c. street, the guest of his friend, Con gressman Hsyes
 Senator Beck is authority for the statement that the fractional currency bill which passed the house last week will not get through the senate, as the members of the finance committee, re- gardless Of politics. are nearly all op- posed to the measure. It Is not be- lieFed the bill will ever get out Of the senate com mittee, notwithstanding the fact that 1t passed the house by such large majority.
 Representative Townsend Of Illinois introduced in the house Monday bill zppropriating S25. 900 for the erection of public building at Mount Vernon. III. h view Of The recent disastrous eiyeione. which swept away the great CT part of that city, MT. Townsend has been assured by prominent mem bers Of the committee on public build ihgs and grounds that they will do their utmost to have an early report made or this bin.
 Nr. C. H. Mills. son Of Representa. tive Mills, chairman of the ways and means committee. stated Monday even ing that his father wa. improving, and expected n be out in a few days. At DO time during his sickness has Coi. Mills been delirious, as was reported in somef othe papers. He had a pretty high fever on saturday. but il has been checked. and be is reported getting along all right now.
 Delegate Joseph Of the territory oi New Mexico filed a petition in the house Monday from citize z Of tbe pub lie land strip, remonstrating against the proposition to annex No Mans Land to the state Of Kansas for judicial purrotes. and asking for the passage of a bill which will give local government to the 1000 people who are living in the strip without any form of govern ment, either state or federal. The petitioners favor Mir. Springer Oklahoma bill.
 4 commission eompo'ed of W. A. West, chief post-office inspector W. P. Ryon, post-offic inspector al New York W. E. Cooley. chief-clerk money order office. post-oiiice department. and George ". Win. chief of finance di vision. post-ofiice department, has been appointed hy Postmaster-Gener Dickson, and directed 10 proceed to Chicago and investigate the Chicago post-office. The commission isnow on it's way to that city and will at once proceed to investigate.
 The Star says: "For some days past. Miss Ethel Ingalls,, daughter or the senator from Kansas, has occupied 8 seat in the front row of the reserved gallery and immediately adjoining the press gallery of the senate. She has a small and neatly bound memorandum book in which she takes notes. Sev- eral contributions from ner pen, which have appeared in the daily papers lately. indicate that she has entered the ranks of journalism. The occupants of the senate press gallery, with one accord, have suggested that Miss Ethel be in- yited to occupy a seat in that gallery, where she would have all tie conven- fences of her chosen profession, and no doubt the correspondents would most willingly tender her the cream Of their news"
 Al recent meeting of the senate committee on interstate commerce, II was voted by one majority to strike from the interstate act the words under substantially similar circum- stances and conditions" in the second section Of the bill, which relates to dis crimina ion between persons, but this section was not considered very i'm DOrtant in itself, since there were other qualifying terms in the section which left its elasticity practically unim- paired Wednesday, however. upon the proposition to strike these words as well as the suspension proviso for the long and short haul section, Of which they form a very important part, the committee after long and earnest discussion determined the matter ad verslev. thus leaving the law In this regard practically unchanged.
 Joseph DrexeI Dead.