Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-16
... Capital City Gossip.
Safer to Kill a Man Than to
 Steal a Chicken.
COMING EVENTS IN CONGRESS-
Plenty of Unfinished Business to Keep the Senate Busy-Conference Reports Yet to be Acted Upon-The Fisheries Treaty aud Fuller's Nomination.

Treaty and kuller's Nomination.
 WASHINGTON, July 16.-A Sunday paper here, commenting on criminal court events of the past few weeks, says:
 Between judges and juries Washington has come to be a pretty safe place to kill 8 man." A jury a week or so ago acquitted special policeman, who had put bullet through the breast of a peaceable citizen, of all blame. The policeman fired his pistol in the dark and hit the wrong man and killed him. Of course he 'he didn't mean to go and do it" as the children say; so the jury concluded it was unfortunately rough on the dead citizen, but that it would not do to be hard on the officer and he was turned loose without even 0 reprimand from the judge.
 Last week Chase, Senator Culloms col ored coachman, while on horseback reck- lessly rode down on Mir. Paul, who was mounted on a bicycle The header which Chase forced Mir. Paul to take resulted in the latters death Judge Montgomery gave Chase thirty days fine of $200, and lecture.
 ''A few days ago Col Tracy entered brokers office, pulled out bulldog pistol and blaZed away at the brokers head, missing his skull, but singing his ear Tracy was let loose on $500 bail. On the same day a negro was sent to jail for thirty days for having several chickens in a bag and not being able to give straight account of how they came into his possession.
 "Altogether," this Sunday journal con- cludes, lit seems good deal safer on the average here in Washington to put out a human life than to meddle with seventy-five cents worth of portable property"
 THE WEEKS CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAMME
 Therc is plenty of unfinished business in the senate to keep that body busy all the week if nothing else int rferes. Mir. Dolph's coast defense bill and the army appropria- tion bill, with Senator Hawley's amendment to provide for government plant for the manufacture of heavy ordnance, are both before the senate as unfinished business, and have both been kept back, awaiting the forti- fications bill from the house. which, it was expected, would contain an extensive plan of coast defenses that Mir. Randall has had under consideration for year. But the fact that the subcommittee having charge of this branch of the house Notifications bill has not met to consider the matter may prompt the senate to go ahead with | Senater Dolph's bill at any time, and Senator | Hawley's amendment to the army bill is also likely to be taken up at an early day. The l resolution to print extra copies of the pension | committee's report on President Clevelands vetoeS is also unfinished business in the senate, and likely to creep out at any time and occupy | l committee hope to report back the sundry 1 civil bill late in the week and the conference | report on the river and harbor bill, with | diSagreements on the canal sections that can not easily be harmonized will probably come along before Saturday. Senator Pugh is down for a speech on the fisheries treaty, which will probably be delivered early i'll the l week.
 MT. Fuller's nomination for the chief jus ticeship is likely to come up in executive ses- l sion, and if it does it will hardly be disposed l of iu one session.
 In the house, tariff discussion will be up- perinost during the week, with occasionally y l an hour devoted to the consideration of con- | ference reports on appropriation bills. In the tariff discussion the vexatious wool clause alone is expected to occupy two or three days l more, and after that is out of the way the | cotton tie, imported tobacco and internal | revenue sections remain to be considered with fair prospects of at least ten days more of tariff discussion before the end of the bill is reached.
 | WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER CHANGER
 ''Sub Rosa," in The Capital, writes as | follows:
 "Mr. Stitson Hutchins has taken his name down from the head of the editorial column! of The Washington Post, and it is understood that new management has taken hold, witt Mir. Halford, formerly connected with The Indianapolis News. conducting the editoria department, and Mir. Smith, son of William Henry Smith, manager of the New Yorl Associated Press, in charge of the busines office, which is hereafter to include that o The Evening Critic as we'll as The Post am told that the capital stock of The Pos company has been increased from S9OO, ,00l to $500, 900, and that Mir. Hutchins intends il any event to retain a large interest in th
 establishment. Mir. Smith has an optiol
 good for six months to purchase the paper and in the meantime he will have goot
 opportunity to see what can be done with It.