Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-21
Fresh from Washington
Congressional, Department and
 General Gossip.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

It Will Probably Be Created Without the
 Weather Bureau Attachment - Why
 Mail Superintendent Jackson's Resig-
 nation Was Called for-Variety of Items.
 WASHINGTON, Sept 2l.--The bill to create an executive department of agriculture was taken up ill the senate.
 MT. Chandler said that he questioned the propriety of making the head of the depart ment member of the cabinet, but he would vote for the bill. However, he was entirely opposed to the proposed transfer of the weather bureau to the department until it should have been shown that the experiment of raising the office of commissioner to the dignity of a cabinet position had been tried and found successful
 After agreeing to take a vote at o'clock this afternoon on the proposition to transfer the weather bureau to the agricultural de partment the senate adjourned.
 WHY MIR. JACKSON WAS REMOVED
 Railway Mail Superintendent Bancroft, in about the removal of R. c. Jackson, the as- sistant superintendent stationed at New York, said that Mir. Jackson had been superintend- ent for long time, and, as is very often the case, he had allowed the business of the office to get into ruts. It was thought that the service would be improved br.making a change. That is the reason why MT Jack sons resignation was called for" continued MT. Bancroft "1n the same line and for the same reason MT. Champlin, the chief clerk of one of the lines centering in that city, was removedn
 J. M. Bennett, a railway mail clerk, on the Boston, Providence and New York line, has been promoted to Mir, Champlin's place Some railway employees seem to think that JackSOnS retirement was entirely due to political influences, and there is considerable anxiety to know what the next move will be. There are now only two Republican superin- tendents left in the railway mail service One is stationed in Chicago and the other in San Francisco.
 HEARING ON THE SUGAR TARIFF.
 To-day or Saturday the subcommittee of the senate finance committee having in charge the tariff bill will begin an extended public hearing on the sugar schedule A number of witnesses have been subpoenaed
 CLASSIFICATION OF POSTAL CLERKS.
 John Holmes, president of the National Organization of Postoffice clerks; George w. Meeks president of the New York City Asso- citation of Postcffce clerks, and Edward F. Reilly are in Washington furthering the passage of the bill to classify clerks in first class postottices throughout the country The postmaster general is said to be in favor of the bill
 MINISTRIES AND REPORTERS AT THE BAT
 Two picked mines from the Thatcher, Primrose and West Minstrel company and from the local reporters on The Washington Post played game of baseball at Capitol Park yesterday for the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers in Florida. Three thousand people witnessed the game, which for an un- professional attempt was quite a success in more ways than one. Five innings were played, and then the game was called with fourteen runs to the credit of each side and a surplus of about $100 for the fever stricken people of the south.
 SCARE IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT
 The navy department mail contained q small round package addressed to the secre- tary. It was unwrapped with unseen ly haste, but was dropped in horror when the falling papers disclosed a wood tube about five or six inches long, provided with a neat brass cap, sunk about an inch into one end. Some one said 1t was dynamite cartridge and the thing was sent at once upstairs to the bureau of steam engineering where it was boldly unscrewed All the box contained was harmless little bottle of oil carefully surrounded by broken oak to prevent break inS
 EPIC IRON" KELLEY's GENTLE REMINDER.
 MT. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, sent to the clerks desk and had read a telegram notify ing him of his renomination and assuring him of reelection. He said he did this not from vanity, but only as reminder to those anxious for his seat in the house