The National tribune., 1892-06-16

| ances when she was quiet, elderly lady of
about so, Mr. Moses called attention to this
| fact, and pleaded with the man from Texas
that, as she had been kind to him when lad
| had doubtless given him singersnaps and apples
| and other things which please boys fancy and
his appetite" he ought not now, when his
| own hairs were turning gray" to object to
this beneficial enactment on the part of the
| Government II withdraw my objection"
| said Mr.. Kilgore; but don't let US have any
more illusions to my gray hair" Everybody
looked at the Texans snowy head and smiled,
and the pension bill for the aged widow was
passed.
Rather novel suit was brought in the Dis
trict Court last week by Mr.. George X. French,
of Washington, against ]. A. Bailey, tho sue
cessor to P. T. Barnum in the proprietorship
of the Greatest Moral Show on Earth" The
attorney for Mr.. Bailey has demurred to the
suit, which is for $1,000 damages. Bailey's at
| torney claims in his demurrer that the tickets
on which Mr.. French and his party were re.
| fused admission to the circus while 1T was here
| in Washin gton, are in the nature of revokable
| license He says that the tickets did not call
for reserved seats and that the record shows
that the tickets were revoked after being sold
to French, and he claims that the latter cannot
claim damages. The tickets were sold, after
which the doors of the circus were closed be-
cause there was not room for any more persons
in the tent. The suit will be tried at this ses-
| sion of the Court.
On Tuesday, June 7, President Harrison ap-
proved tho joint resolution authorizing tho
loan of flags, ensigns, etc, to the Citizens Com
mittee for decorating the streets and buildings
of Washington on the occasion of the Grand
| Army Encampment in September next. The
President on the same day approved four pri-
vate pension bills, including one in favor OF
William +. c. Nindermann, one of the few sur
| vivors of the ill-starred Jeanette expedition
to the North Pole.
~
On Thursday, June 8, the floor of the House
was accorded the judiciary Committee and
during lawyers day." as it is called, several
| important measures were passed amending the
statutes including the bill to dispense with
proof of loyalty during the civil war; as a
requisite to being restored or admitted to the
pension roll (which is said to apply to only
few of the survivors of the war of 1872, and
the bill defining murder and manslaughter on
waters under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
! United States.
SIS
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky. last week
introduced bill which authorizes the Secre-
tary of War to contract for fifty mortars, SINH
| lar to those which are now being built under
contract for the United States, and fifty NOR
tar carriages of such type as he may deem best,
all to be completed within eighteen months
from the date of awarding the contract the
mortars to be used only on the Pacific Coast
The bill also appropriates 81 100000 or so much
of that as may be necessary to carry out
its provisians.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster after a
weeks delay, presented his answer to the order
| of the District Court to show cause why be
| had not honored the acquisitions of the Rock
| Creek Park Commission for 1927, 49, to be paid
| into court. Secretary Foster based his delay
of the payment on Mr.. Holmans request to
| him 10 refuse payment until the subject of the
Rock Creek Park had been Investigated by his
| (Iolman's) Committee on Appropriations. AS
sistant Attorney General Maury appeared for
| Secretary Foster and argued that the court
| had been hasty in its action, and that the Park
| Commission was running race with Congress
| trying to get the business closed before it
| could be nGliifed, and that the Secretary Of
the Treasury was entitled to considerable lati-
| tude in handling delicate financial questions
| Mr. Perry, attorney for the Park Commission,
thought the Secretary's action clear violation
| of Law, and moved that peremptory manda
mus be made at once to compel him to pay
over the money to the court. The matter thus
being submitted to the court, the question was
taken under advisement and will not be acted
upoa until late in the week.
| ~
Speaker Crisp laid before the House On Fri
| day, June 10, communication from the Civil
| Service Commission, which was in answer to q
resolution asking, among other things, the
reasons why women on the Civil Service list
Of elIgibles for appointment as stenographers
| and typewriters have not been appointed to
| those positions. In answer the Commissioners
say 90 women who have not received appoint
ments are now on the typewriter and stenog-
raphcr list Of eligiblcs, and they are not certi-
fed for appointment because the Departments
do not ask for them. The Departments always
designate the sex in making their requests for
certificates, and. the Commissioner has no
authority to disregard requests in this matter;
the Departments, however do not refuse to ac-
cept women as stenographers and typewriters.
The communication states that it is q matter of
fact that all the Departments ask much more
frequently for men than for women in all
branches of the service, for which the Com
mission is not responsible.
Mrs. Harrison has continued to improve
steadily since last week, and the anxiety which
has lain so heavily on the Presidents family
for some weeks is rapidly disappearing DR..
Gardner, Mrs. Harrison's physician, stated on
Saturday, June IL, that his patient was much
better now than at any time since her return
from Fort Monroe. Mrs. Harrison is ga lid to be
able to eat little solid food now, something
she has not been able to do for some time, and
she is also able to sit up in bed, and will shortly
be able to walk about the room. In this event
she will probably be able to be moved to Cape
May in another week. Her nerves arc now
under control, the nervous prostration from
which she has been suffering having been