The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-08-28
washington Lerser.
trrom our regular correspondent.l
Washington, August "a, 1891.

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about things of national Importance. He
says Governor Hogg is afraid TO call an
extra session of the legislature on account
of the senatorial situation, although the
people are mostly in favor of one. He says
also that Representative Mills cannot be
elected TO the Senate because of his having
too many bitter enemies in the State, and
that. he thinks, Judge Culbertson would
be the next Senator from Texas, if lie
wants the place, whether the election be at
an extra or the regular session of the legis-
lature. This, if true, puts a spoke in the
wheel of the scheme which has been much
talked of here to get Mills elected to the
| Senate at an extra session of the legisla-
ture, in order to get him out of the Speak
ership fight.
By the way, speaking Of the Speakership,
. Tammany Democrat who is credited with
knowing whereof he speaks. says that the
twenty-three Democrats of New York have
been polled on the Speakership, that one of
them is for Mills, six for McMilien, and
sixteen for Crisp. As the unit rule will be
observed in the caucus, with thu excep-
| ton of Representative Tracy who refuses
to be bound thereby and WHO will vote
| for Mills, Crisp will get twenty-five o of the
votes.
Secretary Noble is again on hand, and
be is kept busy denying that he has resign
ed or that he intends to resign. What
ever he may have been several months &
when the report got out that he intended
to resign ON account Of bad health, he
certainly isn't a sick man now.
The American Association for the Adj
vancement Of Science, which has been in
session since last Wednesday, has about
| concluded its business and the members
are now engaged in enjoying themselves
In sightseeing just like ordinary folks.
Can lager beer be taken legally intothe H.
dian Territory and be sold there? The ques-
ton has been raised by somebody, and the
Treasury, War and Interior departments
are all interested in its ardent
spirits"o ''spirituous liquors'are prohibit
ed by statute from being taken into or sold
in the Indian country, but judges having
jurisdiction of the Territory have differed
in the construction Of this statute, some
holding that it included beer, and one, the
other day, that it did not. Secretary OF
the Interior thinks it is a violation of the
spirit, il not the letter of the law, to sell
beer in the Territory, and he has requested
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to
prevent the admission of any more beer
into the Territory, but that official has not
yet decided what, if any, steps he will take
In the matter. The Secretary has directed
that all packages of beer in the Territory
be seized.
Washington now wants everything that
Is going. The delegates from the District
of Columbia department of the Union
Veterans Union carried a hearty invita-
ton to the national meeting of the Union
which convenes at Cleveland, Ohio, to-
morrow, to hold its 1892 meeting here dur
ing the same week that the G. A. r. en-
campment will be here, and notwithstand-
ing that yesterday was Sunday many of
our leading citizens were doing mission
airy work in the ranks of the departments
Of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire,
and Vermont, the members of which stop
ped here enroute to Cleveland. Washing
ton is also after all the political conven-
tons next year.
1t Is stated that a determined effort is
to be made to get Mr.. Harrison to appoint
as successor to W. L. Bragg. of Alabama,
one of the Inter. State Commerce Commits
sioners who died last week, a Farmers
Alliance man, if not a member of the order
one who is known to be in sympathy with
its aims. 1t is claimed by the Alliance
men that their numbers and their direct
interest in matters pertaining to Inter
State Commerce entitle them to be repre-
sented upon the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and they will be supported
by a number ofiniuential Republicans who
believe it would be good politics for Mr..
Harrison to publicly recognize the Alliance,
and II the Alliance man selected is also
a Democrat it is not thought that the
members Of that party would do mnch
kicking, as they are particularly DESTROYS
just at this time of standing well with the
Alliance.
The officials of the National Farmers
Alliance say that there is 10 truth in the
charge that Senator PETER has been mis-
representing the mortgage indebtedness of
Kansas, and they have obtained the off.
cial figures from the Census Bureau to
substantiate their statement. These fig
ures give the mortgage Indebtedness of
Kansas for the past ten years 1882, 700, COO,
OF which there remained unpaid at the
close Of the census year $685., 900, 600. The
total number of mortgages was 620, 900;
the per capita debt was $3.50; II per cent.
were or farms; % per cent are subject to
10 per cent. interest; 7 per cent. to - per
cent. interest and some Of them are re-
ported to be subject to 40 per cent. interest.
WESTON.
the Crop Outlook.
The observers and crop correspondents
OF the New Jersey Weather Service report
for the week ending Friday, August 21st,
1891, tb at the temperature, sunshine and