The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-24

politicians left in Washington that the
momentous question will not be decided un-
til it has been ascertained which party is to
| control the next House of Representatives
if the House goes Democratic an extra
session will be called, and ifTiepublican no
extra session will be called this year. But
it is about as certain as anything in the
future can be, that if the Election bill ana
the Congressional apportionment bill are
pushed through during the short session.
as they will undoubtedly be, that an extra
| session of the Fifty First Congress will
have to be called to pass the regular ap-
| preparation bills before July |, the begin
| ning of the new fiscal year.
There ale fewer politicians in town now
than at any time since the present admin
istration came INTO power. The most OF
them are on the stump for one of the other
party but every Republican OF prominence
who passes through Washington manages
to stop over long enough to tell Mr.. Harfi-
son who ought to receive the late Justice
Miller's place on the bench OF the Supreme
Court.
1t is expected at the Navy Department
that the monument erected III the grounds
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Nd,
to the memory of TIE heroes OF the Jean
nette Arctic exposition, will be unveiled
| within the next ten days. The official
programme will be given out this week.
The Cens1s bureau has refused to order
a recount OF New York city, on the ground
that no evidence has ever been placed be-
fore it showing the official count made IN
June to have been erroneous. New \ orkers
here say they will appeal to Secretary
Noble to reverse this decision. 1t is certain
that the Secretary will not do 50.
Washington's distinguished sick men,
Admiral Porter and Historian George
Bancroft, are both somewh hat better to-day,
but owing to the age of both OF them-Mi.
Bancroft being over eighty and Admiral
Porter very close behind him-the graV6st
fears are felt by their friends, which in
ciuQeS UtdEI1 Ever cod1 III " ~'H'
The Census bureau will issue this week
an official Bulletin giving the population
| of the United States. The total will he a
| million or two less than was estimated and
expected.
A Washington photographer has entered
suit against a firm of photographers i'll
! Cincinnati for s34, 900 damages for in
| fringement of his copyright on photo
graphs of Mrs. Cleveland. 1t is probable
| that advertising and not damages is what
is wanted.
In all tariff bills previous to the one
which went into effect on the 9th inst,
| there has been a provision exempting from
| duty all articles imported for the use oithe
| Government, but now Secretary Window
has notified the other cabinet officers that
articles imported for their respective de-
partments will nave to pay duties, unless
| they are on the free list, Just the same as
the importations of Tom. Dick and Harry.
A number of the most prominent ship
| builders and steel manufacturers of the
country have been consulting with the
Navy department and discussing ways
and means of pushing the work ON the new
ships a little faster than it has been going.
Attorney General Miller, who is now in
| Indiana, is what the horseman call a '.hot
favorite" in the race for the chair Of the
late Justice Miller of the Supreme Court.
Somebody tried to start a boom for Sec
rotary Tracy, but that gentleman quickly
| punctured the bubble by stating that the
new Justice would be a western man.
When asked whether his name was Miller,
Mr.. Tracy adroitly changed the converse
ton to the ship that is TO fight without
guns-using a steel nose to disable the
enemy's vessel.
More voters will go home 10 vote this
fall than have gone for many years.
WESTON.