Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-26

From Our Regular Correspondent ]


wAsHISerox, March 81. 1888.
The International Council of Women, to
begin on the 18th inst, viii bring to this
country the largest gathering of women ever
assembled together in the world. Mrs Hell
en- NJ. Cougar, chairman of the railroad
committee. speaking of the matter to your
correspondent, said that it was estimated that
fully 1000 women, representing many or
CARNATIONS and many movements in which
women are interested, will be present Miss
Susan B. Anthony, Miss Rachel G. Foster,
aud Mrs. Cougar have been here for some
time at the Riggs House, busily engaged in
the preliminary work. They have force
of clerks 10 help them. besides pressing into
their service many volunteer aids. Some
idea of the extent of their work may be
gained from the fact that up to Saturday they
had used $500 worth of postage stamps in
sending out programs and circulars of Diff
ferent kinds. At this coming council. though
intended to celebrate the fortieth anniversary
of the first woman suffrage convention, it
is not intended that discussion shall be liml-
ted to questions touching the political rights
of women Literary clubs, art unions. tent
perance unions, labor leagues, missionary.
peace and moral purity societies, charitable,
professional, educational and industrial as
sociations will be represented, and the vari-
Gus phases of womans work and progress in
all parts of the world will be reported and
discussed.
The first of the evening sessions for dis
cussing the tariff bill began at o'clock Sat-
urday night. 1t lasted until after / / O'Clock
and was not entirely harmonious The Re
publican members assumed the offensive from
the start, with proposition that the Demo
cratic majority should furnish a reason fol
| each of the changes proposed 10 he made in
the tariff, in view of the fact that they had
not permitted the minority members TO par
ticpate in the conferences which il wa.
stated the majority had had with the manu-
| featuring interests. The Democrats replied
| by a refusal to comply with the request, de
claring that it was not made in good faith,
but only as part of plan to delay action OF
the bill. A wrangle ensued at this point
some of the Republicans arraigning theil
| Democratic colleagues for violation of com
mttee etiquette in charging other members
with bad faith. After this had gone on fol
some time Mr.. Scott suddenly called atten
ton to the fact that an hour and quarter
had been consumed without getting through
| two lines of the bill At that rate he figured
| out that the entire bill would require 962
days for its consideration. Mr.. Reed re-
marked that the gentleman was wrong in his
arithmetic, for If it took an hour and guar
ter to accomplish nothing, it would take
| infinity to finish the bill. The proceeding.
ran roughly after this fashion until adjourn
ment, when salt the second item in the
bill, had been included In the free list by a
party vote.
| Senators Butler and Cameron several days
| yaI 81. I'll =, >,
! Beaufort, =. C.. They made it point imme
diately to inform Senator Hampton, the
champion angler of Congress, that they hao
beaten him fishing in his favorite waters
They told of catching drum that weighed
50 = pounds, and, as a proof, produced s
Beaufort paper describing the catch. Tn,
article stated that two colored men were
handling the line while Senator Cameron
looked on; and finally one of them got bite
and after much Juggling, the huge fish was
landed.
| Some of the Senators have admonishet
Gen. Hampton that he must look to his laurel,
if he would retain the angling championship
''Do you believe, Senator. they actually
caught that drum" was asked of Senator
Hampton.
Eyes, | suppose they did, or rather til,
negro caught it while Don was taking hi.
ease in the boat. But that is not angling
| They fish with line as thick as your finger
and haul in hand over hand. | don't con
slider that fishing
But Senators Butler and Cameron do, an'
they have exulted no little over their famou
catch.
Col. Wilson, the superintendent of publ,
buildings and grounds in this city, has beer
counting ny the reservations and parks botl
great and small, and he finds that they mum
Der 33i The grounds on which the Whit
House. the Capitol the Smithsonian and some
of the other public buildings are located arr
called reservations. as we'll rs the mauy laTk
and small trianglcs scattered all over the city
! The largest reservation is the White Lot
which includes the grounds about the Whit,
! House, and covers an area of - acres. Will,
the smallest is a little triangle containing 1874
square feet. Nearly all OF these reservation
are improved, and they may properly be caliet
the beauty spots of the city. Lemon