The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-15
selves. The caucus did not touch upon
the ques ion of liquor legislation.
Washington Letter.

luhItitu Nhot stO fioa SUR
tured the next Conlress. This vas
shortly discovere I to be uDfouuded, and
routine business was resumed. The
Republicans are very anxious however,
and feel that only the fi,.est mage
ment can secure the o ganizat OH OF tn
Fifty Fins, Congress, il the majority be
as is expected, only one. The extra
session becomes an un .voidable necess-
ity to the Republican part, in or er
that the organization Of the Hon e may
I've completed and the contested cleo
tions sattled rs o rs possible.
The National Republican Committee
has adjourned, and will probably mel
again In January. The COMMITTEES Is
now permanent, and IL is rather broad
Iy hiuted will g vern the next admins
tration Or make a strong attempt to do
SO. This ominous threat, ogether with
the growing feeling that MIR. Blaine
will be in the next Cabinet, makes GER
tain Republican clans sea-sick. 1t is
certain that Mr.. Matthew Quay issi OF
sleeping, and no one has seen Mr..
Blaine, of Maine, close his optics.
The Ford investigating committee
has decided not to go to California, and
will proceed to Rhode Island, where
the innocent factory sys EN- of that
State will be overhauled. The COM
mittee will shortly present to the House
IA bill making it criminal otfense' for
immigrants of the prescribed classes TO
enter the United States, and providing
for their return. The bill will demand
that immigrants intending to come here
shall give notice of such desire to the
nearest United States consular agent,
and if he deems the persons worthy,
immigrant certificates shall I've issued.
The SO cents tax on immigrants will be
greatly increa sed.
The River and Hhrbor Committee of
the Hor is already hard az ~"rb "'rd
seems deter-...led to- pusha III
Congress rs early as pJssio 80 ue-
lieved that the President v q veto
almost any river and HarborA bill this
session. The Committee thelefore de-
sires to pr, sent the bill to tie House
cary in January, and send it to the
President early enough to secure its
passage we his veto before March 4.
The sub-committee's bill is said to en-
brace nearly ST., 900, 600 in appropria-
tiohs. Among the items are $4,000
Tor improving the Delaware river; and
$500, 90 for improving Philadelphia har-
Dor.
Not to be outdone as b N'mrpd,
President Clevelana followed President
Elect Harrison's example, and went
hunting on Monday.{ Jus above
Brightwood, three miles from WASH
ington, the squirrels srd very plentiful,
and armed with an English gun ard
under the leadership 9of a k owing
White House sporting actache, he went
over / Q hills and far away. ard brought
back fourteen squirtels.i The attache
is wise enouglrv PRESIDENT
killed ten of y Mr..
Clev.T SO
shooting aeaIp. more cIm
Portable for a faf
Hon, Daniel T. ugl.t his
charming presei magnificent
voice TO WashiM 'iured, F,i-
day night. The did not, for
reason, go is.lpr wio
t,on mated him d :, bGr-se.y
II else of note $ b, Iresent.
Mr.. Dou2herty 81 Ia private inter-
vie Y that he rpA.1 vel, III ders;aid why
great orators do not cate 10 become
meni ers Of the Huus'. His opinion is
that the average inan i MT inCungrc9s
long ea0ugh to make an impression
There is too much iation in flee" |
The days whei tie South seii Clay and
Calhoun and The Nor il srnt. Wri,s,er
to Congress as long s tley would
come, are over. The $ rue ure Of the
halls of Congress is, in Mr. Dougher-
TVS opinion, destructive cideLate. The
great galleries are not suited to great
d%eliberative bodies. The members
should be closer together, the members
of the House should take their feet off
of their desks, and there should be less
difficulty in securing the floor. The
present arrangements. by which the
floor is promised by the Speaker weeks
in advance, sfatal TO oratory.
The record of postal clerks who have
ritled letters exhibits a queer lot. of
alleged temptations as leading to such
crimes. Postal clerks who seal are
mostly gamblers and not a small class
tempted to steal in order to win
women's smiles. A Georgetown
postmaster stole money from letters TO
pay his pew rent. One railway postal
used the money to be married.
stole for the purpose oil spend
ing a week at Cape May,-and this af-
tel he had been fifteen years in the SER
vice aud had a good record.
But ii remained for a youth of twen-
ty, named Adams, appointed four
months ago through a civil service TX
animation, as a petty clerk in the
Washington post office, to break the
This'yssN mal was discover
with the evidence, guilt in his
When asked he bee me
dishonest, he SAID, Il so frd of
Haltzirg, aud | wante X become a
better walizer." y now he will
have 20 lean ;ileqp Il lock-sltn The
local paper tly ST. upon the Eqc,
hat he was wfni. d and yrt 10 MY
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