The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-05-26
News from Washington.
NOTES AND ITEMS FROM con-
GRESS AND WHAT Ic Is
DOING.
Some Bills
al Mention.

Some Bills Observation-Disclosures
al Mention.
A congressional delegation, in
cluding Senators Hill and Gray, left
| Washington for Charlotte, n. c., to
attend the anniversary of the Meek
lenburg Declaration of Independ-
ence.
Senator Vance continues to i'm
prove and expects to be in his seat
in the Senate next week.
The republican Senators in caucus
decided that it was unnecessary to
| fill the place of executive clerk now
vacant.
The Department of State has re-
ceived cablegram announcing the
death, at Liverpool. yesterday, OF
John III. Anderson, United States
consul general at Cairo, Egypt.
The President and Mrs. Harrison,
accompanied by DIR. Gardner, re-
turned to Washington yesterday
afternoon on the lighthouse steam
er Jessamine. Mrs. Harrison is
very weak and did not derive much
beLefit from the trip. DIR. Gardner
says that Mrs. Harrison is resting
comfortably and is not seriously ill,
although she is not SO we'll as when
she left Washington. The salt air
was too strong and brought on re-
currence of her cough, and it was
thought best that she should return
home.
The Senate passed a number of
anne ndments to the river and harbOr
bill, increasing some items and de-
S2S, 900 for Patapsco river, Balti-
more.
Senator Hiscock, of New York,
entered an earnest protest to the
Senate Committee on Commerce
against the passage Of the North
river bridge bill, which his col
league, Senator Hill, had favored.
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For the first quarter of 1892 the
reports of the Postoffice Department
show a large increase in the sale OF
stamps and postal cards.
The House committee on civil SER
vice reform has agreed on bill to
exclude political influence from the
81 900 fourth-class postoffices in the
country.
House com mittee on elections has
decided that Shonk, the Rep ublican
sitting member, in the Penn syl vania
case of Reynolds VS.. Shonk, is en-
titled to his seat.
The Pension Office investigating
committee virtually concluded its
labors last Friday by adjourning un-
til Monday, May 23d. when several
witnesses not now present in Wash
ington will be examined.
The net CASH in the Treasury has
"slumped" to S2s,OOO,OO0, and of
this $14,O00,O00 is in subsidiary coin
and S13, 3,25O.OO0 is in national bank
deposits. Payments on account of
pensions SO far this month have ag-
gregated s., 100000.
Mr.. Snodgrass, of Tennessee, de-
clares that the pensio'. roll, which
should be roll Of honor, had be-
come, owing to the legislation of the
Republican party, roll of dishonor.
The opposition TO President Har-
rison seems to be again centering on
Mr.. Blaine, and it begins to look as
if the Secretary would have to write
| another lie ter if he really does not
want the Republican presidential
nomidation.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for
| the pedestal for the statue of the late
Gen. W. T. Sherman has been re-
ported from the committee on Mill
tary Affairs.
Mr.. McMillin, from the commit
tee on Rules, reported resolution
that the hour for the meeting ef the
House cash day shall be IL O'Clock.
Adopted.
In the House report was submit
ted from the committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, relative to
The recent fire in the House folding
room. The committee finds that the
fire probably originator from a gas
jet an reports a resolution for the
substitution of electricity for gas in
the folding The resolution
was adopted.
|
A bill has been reported favOably
| to the House of Representatives ap-
priating $4,000 for the encourage
ment of silk culture in the United
States, to be under the supervision
of the Department of Agriculture.