Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-28

1 ADJT.-GEN. KELTONs Cney aTe not neIe.
 Speculation as to an extra session Is still rife among the few members of con- gross who finger here. A division of son. timent seems to exist. Whereas many favor calling together of the senate and | house in October, others arc strongly op- posed to it. Among these are Congress- | men Benjamin Butterworth of Ohio and Thomas M. Browne of Indiana. Both these statesmen have tried to convince tho president that tho only benefit to be derived from an extra session will be the | shortening of tho full session.
 | Those who are most anXiou however, 1 to settle the tariff controversy, argue that the people demand and the business interests of tho country implore, that there shall be no more delay than is ab- solutely necessary.
 The president himself, so his closest friends say, has not vet furnished the | slightest information as to whether or | not he will issue an ea'lv summons to the law makers. It is likely the call will not be promulgated at ly..st until after the elections in the new august states | arc held.
 The friends of Senator Ingalls, are greatly amused at an account of the first I'll eeting between the great Kansas statesman and the editor of tho Peabody (kan.) Graphic, which the editor gives in q letter recently received in this city. The letter iswritten in the editorial tone,
 not emitting the ''we."
 "The first time we ever saw Ingalls," 1 says the editor, she was doing Western Kansas in buggy in company with Lew | Hanback,, the congressman from the Sixth Kansas district, and they stepped l into the little print-shop we were running l out west at that time. He carried an umbrella over his head and wore gold h<NNu nl> N1nA | behind the back door of his ears. When we looked out through little clean place in the window and saw him coming we ! told the office devil to spread an exchange | paper over the ink, paste and tobacco stains on tho desk, and carry out the okd ashpan we were using as spittoon, and then go out doors after his shoes, while we took down a copy of the Forum, and buried ourselves in ono of the senator's last articles. It Is not every day that a | great high muck-a-muck United States | senator with lisle-thread socks and ten | dollar-underclothes goes calling on lit | tie ten by twelve western printing office. ''lt is not every country editor who under such trying circumstances could have retained his equilibrium, and we l would have been somewhat rattled our selves If tho senator had not adapted | himself to our circumstances instead of forcing us to adapt ourselves to his. We were sure he intended to talk tariff to us, | and fire great slices of wisdom and ! knowledge at us about the Samoan ques- | tlon, for instance, or tho internal rev. enue, but he didn't. Ho sat himself down as comfortable as tho three legged chair would permit, put both feet upon our desk, and producing something he had brought from the buggy, asked us if we heard what the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina. It is needless to say that our embarrassment disappeared immediately. Mir. Ingalls, is not very pretty, his hair is very gray. and he is exceedingly thin and wound make n good clothes prop or liv- ing illustration of the Dr. Tanner theory. His legs resemble pair of brecchload- in" single barrel guns thrust into gun bags. It Is a mystery to us how he man. ages to carry such q big head full of eighteen carat brains around on such an emaciated set of underpinnings How ovcr he is ono of the brightest stars that radiate in the galaxy of genius and abil- lty. and. w1thal. wholesouled, polished gentleman of tho first water, and wo repeat that some day he will be president of theso United States"
 A few days ago tho president ap- pointed Colonel and Brevet Briyadier- General John c. Kelton to be ndiutant- general, of the army, with the r.inN of rigadicr-general, in place of Genera. R. C. Drum, who had been retired for age ten days before. This appointment was in accordance with popular expectation, inasmuch as the qualifications of Gen kelton for this responsible office did not admit of doubt, and he was next in the line of promotion, being the ranking colonel in the department.
 Born June 2S, 1928, in Delaware county, PennSylVnniu fn Uh{oh cto ta h; grandfather had come from Ireland nearly d century before, Con. keltcn en- tered the military academy at West Point, in which duty the opening of the civil war found hlm. He obtained an appoint ment at once in the adjutant-g generals department. and has there remained ever since, reaching its highest honors after a service of twenty-cight years.
 In the autumn of 1861, while on staff duty at St. Louis, he had received the colonclcy of the Ninth Missouri infantry and held it for several months, then joined the staff oi Gen. Hallecs, and ,ook part in the advance on Corin;h ani the siege of that place. With Haiieck he went back to Washington soon after as assistant adjutant-soneral. When the brevets werc given out at the end of the war, he received those of lieutenant colonel and colonel, for 'most valuable and arduouS services, both in the field and at headquarters, and that of brigadlcr-gcncral for ii1e services.
 Gen. kclton continued on duty at Washington in the adjutant-generals s, office until 1870, anl tnen went to San Francisco as adjutant-general of the Division of the Pacific. While there he b, ,'ai:.e known as an inventor of many military applirnccs, some 0! which have s.a"n adopted !,y the ordinance depart tErnt. Ihey include a rat -igl.l fer Fl ."s. u front sight cow, a..d protector, locking mechanism Tn ;hc regulation r..e. winch allows it inc loaded and h-aa wi.h only four ni,,tr,ns. end de UPEIoLSTERING| WOOD FINISHING, Piano Polishing, and