The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-31
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
NOTES AND INCIDENTS OF
NORTH CAROLINIANS.

sideratiOn.
Especial Cor. of STATE CHRoN1cLE.]
WASHINGTON, May 2S.-The following
resolution was submitted to the House
yesterday by Senator Blair:
"REsoLvED BY THE SENATE (the House
concurring): That the committee on Ii
brary be requested to examine the COM
pllatlon accompanying this resolution,
entitled The Birth of the Republic
containing the proceedings of the county,
town and colonial assemblies, with the
State papers of the revolution, by Dan
iel R. Goodloe, and report upon the ex-
pediency of purchasing copies of the
same fof' the use of Congress and the
several departments of the government"
Mr. Blair said: ''The book referred to
l have in my hand. 1t is compilation
of original documents quite rare and
difficult to be procured, and not availa-
BILE for general reading, appertaining to
every State of the original thirteen.
think it is quite valuable book, and
contains matter interesting to the whole
country, and probably it would be for
the interest Of congress that there would
be some copies purchased for general
distribution, certainly for the convent
ence of Congress. I ask that the reso-
luton be referred, with the book accom-
panying ii, to the committee on the
library"
The resolution was referred to the
committee On tho library.
Mr.. Goodloe has been at work to effect
this for sevei III months. Belford, Clark
q Go printed few copies of the book,
failed, and left the work unfinished. 1t
has been renewed in number of pa
pers, and if properly advertised would
probably have paid very we'll.
Mr.. Mott has just left this city. He
said he was in favor of Federal election
law SO shaped as to be divorced from or
independent Of the powers that be in
State politics, the commissioner or fu-
parv1sor of Congressional districts to be
appointed by the President and to be re-
sponslble to the Federal government
only. He should have the power of Sc
Letting his assistants and to keep a
register of the voters of each county
not for day or week or about elec-
ton times, but at all times, and thus be
enabled to check fraud. Doctor Mott
said he thought the three Republicans
now in Congress-Brower, of the Fifth,
Ewart, Of the Ninth, and Cheatham, Of
the Second districts would be returned.
If the Republicans had the right sort of
leader, and substantial encourage
ment, they also might be able to send a
member to Congress from the old First
district, now represented by Mr.. Skin
ncr. Mr.. Skinner said, however, that
ho hoped to be renominated and re-
elected.
Representative Bum, from the House
Committee on Claims, yesterday re-
ported favorably a bill for the relief oil
Maj G. G. Goodloe 1t directs the ac'
counting officers of the U. s. Treasury
Department to credit him with So, 333,
81 losses incurred in his Office of pay
master of the Marine corps, without
negligence or fault on his part, through
the forgeries and malfeasance of Benja
min A. Jones, late clerk in that Office
Il similar bill passed the Senate on Ma,
II. The committee had adopted the re
port made by the Senate committee OF
this measure. ''Major Goodloe," th
report says, "mskes both weekly ant
mYnthly statements of all moneys dis
bursed to both the Treasury and Nav,
Departments. Notification as to the &C
curacy of these statements ranges from
six to twelve months before he is fur
nished with statement of acqaittanc
as to these quarterly statements. It ap
pears that this system is fatally faulty
and that this disbursing officer shoul'
not be requir1d to wait for year O
even six months, before being advise
of the accuracy Of his statements" Ma!
Goodloe is SON in law of the late Ser
ator Beck.
, Representative McCiammy yesterda
introduced q bill which combines tn
| prominent fe*tures Of lne Stanford Ian
t loan aud tie Blair educational aid bill!
! It authorizes the issue of legal tende
5 notes to the amount Of 81, 800, 900, 900
9 These notes are to be legal tenders fe
f all purposes except the payment # tt
l interest on the public debt. They are
a lie distributed amorg the various State
/ according to population, and are then
r be loaned to the people upon mortgage
b The loans will bear interest at the non
o inal rate of per cent. per annum. N
| more than $4,000 are to be leaned
a any one person, and preference is give
y to those whose lands are already MOI
5 gagged, to the end that they may take I
e the high interest bearing liens upt
e their property. Mr.. MoOlammy hop
j. to have his bill substituted for the Farr
0 rs Alliance grain sub-treasury bill, nc
# before the Committee on Ways al
= Means. He tells me his bill cheats Il
n Blair bill all to pieces"
10 Mrs. Cockrell, wife of Senator Coo
It rell, of Missouri, returned this we
n from Charlotte, n. O., where she b
been visiting her relative, Mayor F.
i, Mcdowell, andswitnessed the Meckle
J. burg celebration of the Goth of Ms
Of While in Charlotte, Mrs. Cockrell Wis
7e ed Davidson College, which was foun
RS ed By her great uncle, William Lee [
II wilson, son of General Davidson, "
fell at Cowan's Ford, and after who
Davidson College, one of the Soutl
leading educational institutions, v