Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-11-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL OF OUR
COUNTRY.

NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL OF ouF
COUNTRY.
President Harrison Receives Visitors
Army Engineers make Favorable Reports
on the Contemplated East River bridges
No Bids,made for Public Building at, ST
Albans-Improvemen In the Navy De
partment-No Extra Session.
Especial for the BELLOWS FALLS TIMEs.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. %, 1892
Commodore Farquhar, Chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy
Department, in his annual report speaks
of the permanent improvements made in
the several yards. At Portsmouth, N.
H.. water system has been provided
at Boston new pumping machinery for
the dry dock and new shears capable of
lifting great weights have been ordered !;
at New York an electric plant has been
installed, locomotive cranes, the largest
of their kind in this country, are being
erected, the sea walls on Cob Dock re-
built to great extent; also many
changes in the workshops, to the greater
facility of carrying on the work; at
League Island two magnificent piers are
about completed, much grading and
filling in have been done, while large
amount of dredging is under contract
at Norfolk launching ways for two ships
have been built and successfully used.
an immense crane is in the course of con-
structioD, extensions have been made to
the shops and sea wall, an electric light
plant has been installed, and an ample
supply of water obtained from series
of wells; at Port Royal, S. c., the dry
dock is well in hand, and should be COM
pleted in the time contracted for; at
Mare Island the sea walls are being re-
built in substantial manner, the rail-
road relaid, the prison greatly improved,
and new crane mounted on the water
front; at Puget Sound all the land for
the station has been purchased. Pro-
pOsals were invited for building dry
dock, and the bid of Byron, Barlow &
Co. has been accepted.
The authoritative announcement that
Presidept-elect Cleveland is strongly
opposed to the idea of calling an extra
SESSION, and that he will allow the first
session of the fifty. third congress to
come together in the usual way on the
first Monday in December, 1898, has put
check upon the ardor of the men who
have been loudly clamoring since election
for the immediate repeal of the Mckinley
bill The majority of congressman here
hesitated to give their views upon the
extra session question until they had |
some information as to Mr.. Cleveland's |
opinion. Now that they know his mind |
they DO not hesitate to express them
selves freely as opposed to policy of
haste that would, they think, be apt to
result in unwise legislation.
Officials and others who have talked
with President Harrison since the cleo
ton say that he takes a deep interest and
an active part in the consideration of
plans for the future conduct of the Re-
publican party. They say that in all
their talks the presidents utterances
have tended to encourage them to activ-
lty in the work of organizing and
strengthening the party. There has been
40 dependency in what he has said and
le wastes no time in vain regrets, but he
S earnest in the feeling that more than {
,ver there is need for cOmpactness and
unity of purpose in the party. A perma-
lent organization, with workers who
will keep up the work all the year round
and every year, In stead of trying to do
The work of four years in the few months
before presidential election, is what is
aimed at. I
The board of army engineer officers of
which Col Abbott was president, ap-
pointed to make examination and report
rs to the feasibility of establishing two
bridges over the East River at New
Y ork city, has made its report to the
of war. The board sees no OBJ
ection to the erection of the bridges, but
recommends that they be not less than
l45 feet high in the center and not less
5han l20 feet high at the piers. 1t also
recommends the acceptance of the sites
selected by the projectors of the bridges.
The report will be transmitted to con
yress.
Wednesday afternoon President Harri- i
'on. by previous appointment, received
n the East Room of the White House the
vention of the National Wholesale Sad
llery association, holding its sessions in
Baltimore. There were about 200 of
hem. President Owen Gathright. ir,
If Louisville, made the introductions.
This was the first reception the president
has held for several months. .
Bids were to have been opened at the
treasury department Wednesday for
basement and area walls of the public i
building at St. Adams, VT, but none I
we're received and new bids will be called {
or.
A Big Lawsuit. !
A legal fight affecting S25. 900 900 {
worth of property has begun in New /
FORK. The Edison General Electric
company ask the court for a preliminary I
Injunction, restraining the Sawyer-Man I
Electric company from manufacturing I
ncandesoent electric lamps, under the q
lecision recently rendered in the big suit {
he United States Electric Company, in G
which it was declared that all incandes- c
,ent lamps came under the Edison pa S
ents. The United States company was
D the former suit permanently epjoined c