The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-12
MasnInSIon G.ertsr.
tFrom our regular correspondent.)
WAsHINGToS. D. c.. Der. Sth, 1888.

went to Oak View, as the guest of the
President. He looks physically weak,
leaning heavily upon his cane and shifting
the weight as occasion demands upon his
sons arm. In common with Mr.. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Harrison, the work and worry
of the campaign has aged him ten years.
On Thursday he will appear before the
United States Supreme Court as counsel in
the telephone eases. His charge for court
attendance in this case is said to be $4,000
per diem.
When the vestibule train of Pullmans
was pushed into the Washington station on
Saturday and Judge Thurman walked up
the platform, you could have counted the
people present to welcome him on your
ingels. Washington is surfeited with
great men. and unless the service of a brass
band is enlisted in the cause, a crowd will
not gather at the station to look at any
man. Washington and New York are the
two towns on this continent where a man
learns that all flesh is grass. At every
hamlet on the way from Columbus to
Washington, Judge Thurman was the at
traction for thousands. Arrived in Wash
ington. he is swallowed up in a collection
of famous men.
That bowling wilderness known as the
House of Representatives has fallen upon
evil DAYS. The few members who have
not gone out to do or die in the campaign
are busy endeavoring to have their own
private and particular measures passed.
Prayer is hardly over before these states
men are calling .'Mr. Speaker The cir
Gle grows smaller. Holman and Blount
have gone home. But no soone has the
pet bill of the Congressman been started on
its way than it is stopped by the impossi-
bility of procuring unanimous consent.
Mr.. Lyman, of the Republicans, or Mr..
KiIgore, of the Democrats, may object.
These men are of the sort that object to
anything. Nobody feels evilly disposed
toward Mr.. Kilgore, but there are men
who would follow his funeral train without
regret. Mr.. kilgore is ungrammatical, IL
logical and ignorant, and ali that, but lie
is Just as much in the way as if he were a
statesman.
Mr.. Allan, OF Mississippi, stopped legis-
lative mills for two hours on Friday by the
call of.no quorum The Senate bill in
cooperating tie Nicaragua Canal Company
was discussed in the Committee of the
Whole, and a favorable report prevented
in a like manner.
The Retaliation bill has been practically
sidetracked for the present. Senators
Sherman and Eyarts have left the city.
Senator Morgan, the other member of the
subcommittee, swears that Senator Sher-
man aims at making Sd big BLUR at an
nexation. In the meantime, the Ohio SEN
ator is very serene.
The action OF the cOnferees on the Cen
eral Deficiency bill, while not yet final,
seems fairly on the way to agreement.
The clause providing for the payment of a
years salary to the family or to the heirs
of Chief Justice Waite, is to be stricken
out, together with the provision to extend
the laws of the United States over No
Mans Land. The latter action is agreed
to by the Senate to save the bill, as the
~''no-quorum" cry would be raised in the
HouSo. The clause as to the investigation
of the Washington acqueduct is omitted,
as that investigation has been otherwise ar
ranged. The Deficiency bill will merely
contain an appropriation for the expenses
of the investigation.
Mr.. McCalrs bill appointing a scientific
commission to consider the cause of yell
los fever and find a remedy has been ia
vorably reported by the Senate committee
on epidemic diseases, but will not be call
ed up during this session.
Senator's and army officers galore went
to Philadelphia on Saturday to launch the
Baltimore. Mrs. Wilson. wife of the
Chief Of tie Bureau Of Construction, to
whom it was said the dudes objected be-
cause she had once been a governess, broke
the wine over the ships bows, after all.
Apropos of the Baltimore, some one re-
calls the fact that John Porter, who de-
signed and constructed the first ironclad
for this country, is to-day working as a
carpenter in the navy yard at Norfolk.
The gratitude Of republics is once more ex-
hibited.
Ten days ago tile Postmaster -Gcneral
completed negotiations for a fast mail train
from Chicago to New York. To-day a
schedule providing for a fast mail, east and
west, between New York and st. Louis,
goes into effect, reducing the present
time by one hour aud a half, which will
make east a real difference Of one business
day, the mail arriving at New York at 3
p. NJ.
Senator Beck, improved but still very
weak, returned to town on Saturday. lie
will not resume his Senatorial duties for
some time.
The Washington monument will soon be
accessible to people who Go not long to
climb stairs for twenty minutes. The Gle
vator, which has the capacity for twenty
people, begins running Wednesday. The
last one Of the wooden buildings about the
shaft is being DESTROYED.
1t is a long look ahead, but it is agitating
the knight TemplarS as much as if it were
a matter Of next week, In October, 1889,
the gathering Of that clan will be held in
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