The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-06

to b. ar on the House committee on edu-
cation, both for and against the Blair
educational bill. 1t has been the gem
eral impression that thea committee
would take no action, whatever, on the
could not, in any way, come up for con-
sideration in the HouseaSTo prevent
this. the friends of the measure have.
been doing everything in lheir power
On the othsr hand. man who want to
avoid voting for the bill. are urging the
committee to takes no action. Between
the pressure on both sides, the commit
tie members are getting tired of their
position, and it Is now understood that
they have decided to take the matter up,
and dispose of it. The chances are
against favorable action on tho
original bill. but it is expected
that a substitute will be agreed
upon. A minority report will probably
be made in favor of the Blair bill. If
the calendar of the House were not al
ready bloc ked, this might promise we'll
for the bill, since it would haYe great
strength in yea and nay vote. AS it
is, however, the committee may be
able TO relieve itself of the responsibility
for the bill by reporting it. and yet it
may be as efectually killed on the
calendar.
HOTELS FOB WASHINGTON.
Two wealthy corporations are now
endeavoring to secure suitable sites in
this city on which to erect two of the
finest hotels in the land. The capital
of each company amounts to Million
of dollars, and the probabilities are thar
in the near future two enormous cara
vanseries will be built and opened for
the accommodation OF the pub
lie and the profit OF the
stockholders. The only thing
that stands in the way of these most
desirable features is the greed Of those
who ewn the property on which they
can be built, and it is feared that that
cause may be sufficient to defeat. for q
time. the plans of the projectors. The
building nay be delayed, but not fox
long, because present accommodations
are lamentably insufficient for the i'm
mense floating population of the city,
FAMILY JARS.
One of the gay Lotharios WHO was
sent here by his people to represent
them in Congress had a very stormy
half hour with his wife on Thursday
last. Hitherto IL has always been his
custom to leave his better half at home
while he attended 10 the interests of his
constituents. 1t was hardly to be ex-
pected that this Congressman, who is a
western man, could have been
here for several successive terms,
without n aking numerous friendships
of which, of Course, the wife knew
nothing, and among these was an in
timacy of some standing with charm
ing widow.
The wife had not been here great
while before she found out lew OF the
privileges that belong to Congress-
mans better half, and not the least of
these is the one to use up his station
cry account. On Thursday last she
went to the House stationery ROOM
and selected a modest assortment of
paper and envelopes, and ordered that
they be sent to the hotel at which she
and her husband are staying. A little
while later the Congressman himself
appeared in the stationery room,
handed a list of the stationery he re-
quired to the clerk, told him to send it
to certain address. and gave him q
letter 10 inclose in the package.
1t so happened that the clerk
was Just putting up the or,
uer loIL Dy Jus vile, ana
| acting as a humble instrument Of
providence, he proceeded to put both.
orders up together in one bundle and
then sent them to the hotel. OF course
the wife opened the package and there
is no doubt as to her finding the note.
and her reading it. In less than a
minute very mad woman was on her
way to the boarding house where the
widow dwelt and when the rarties met
there was scene. The widow was not
aware that the Congressman had wife,
so she said, and avoWed herself to be
the worst deceived woman in the werld,
She proposed that they Immediately
seek out the villain and mutually up
braid him, and here she was wise, for
| the wife feared an interview with her
husband with the widow IS third
party, and there the matter apparently
dropped.
There is a prohibitory duty upon
widows so far as that CONGRESSMAN is