The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-15
meu who have served in the Senate from the
days of Jackson to the present time.

meu who have served in the Senate from the
days of Jackson to the present time.
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According to q statement prepared by Messrs.
Courts and Cleaves, Clerks to tho House and Sem
ate Committees on Appropriations, respectively,
the excess of estimated revenues over the esti-
mated appropriations for 1893, will be $32 500,
340.05. This is exclusive of SIS, 600, 900 for
the sinking fund and also exclusive Of deficion-
cies and miscellaneous appropriations. The
excess of estimated appropriations Exclusive of
deficiencies and miscellaneous over the esti.
mated revenues of 1894, is $15,739 $685.
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Representatives Asher G. Caruth, of the Fifth
District of Kentucky, proposes to make war on
certain class of pensioners, and he accord
! ingly introduced the following bill in the
House last week: "That no pensioner now or
hereafter in the service of the United States
shall be entitled to draw pension for any
period of time during which he is Or shall be
entitled to the full pay or salary which an
able-bodied person. dischsrging like duties to
the Government, is allowed by law"
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The great social card this season in Wash
| ington will be the Prince of Isenberg, of Aus
tria, who with suite of eight persons, has
been making tour of this country. At pres.
ent he is in Baltimore, but will soon 60 to
Dohorsn Manor, the guest Of ex-Gov. Carroll,
and thence on hunting trip in Virginia.
Afterward he will visit Washington. Before
returning home Prince Isenberg will visit the
Worlds Fair in Chicago in company with his
cousin, the Crown Prince of Austria, who is on
! tour around the world.
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About 11:20 o'clock Tuesday night Dec 6.
Charles Danenhower. an old veteran. reported
that he had been robbed of his pension check
for S36 and $40 in cash, in a saloon at the cor
ner OF Fourth and < streets northwest Sus-
picion pointed very strongly to a young man
named Jones Seehan. who left the place with
Danenhower few minutes before the robbery
was discovered. Officers Horne and Sullivan
arrested Seehan about IL o'clock Wednesday
night, and when he was searched at the station
the pension check was found on him. He was
charged with larceny from the person.
So
News was received here last week of the
killing in Carrollton, Miss, of Edward Elan
by George d. Money, son of Representative
elect Money, of the Fourth Mississippi District.
Young Money is well known in Washington.
having resided here for several years and was
Assistant Superintendent of the Document
Room Of the House when his father was a
member Of Congress. Elan was the Chairman
OF the Peoples Party Executive Committee of
the County, aud young Money is practicng
lawyer and Democrat Politics was the
cause of the quarrel which led to the shooting.
which is said to have been done by Money in
self-defense.
The Secretary Of State and Mrs John w.
Foster gave on Wednesday evening, Dec z,
the first Of a series Of Diplomatic dinners. in
honor of the Spanish Minister and Madam
Dupuy de LONE. In compliment to the guests
of honor the decorations of the table were in
the Spanish coiors, red and yellow. The
other guests were Hon. and Mrs. Michael Her.
bert, Of the British Legation, Senior and Madam
Yrigoyeu, OF the Peruvian Legation. Senator
and Mrs. Dolph, Assistant Secretary Of State
and Mrs. Francis Wharton, Hon. and Mrs.
Curry, Representative and Mrs. Cable, Mrs.
lansing Mr. and Mrs Cutler, aud Mr. Ye the
CoTean Minister.
It was rumored in Washington last week
that Senator David B. Hill, Of New York.
would resign his seat in The Senate to accept
the position of General Counsel of the New
York Equitable Life Assurance Society. sena-
tor Hill, when shown dispatch to that effect
published in q daily paper, said: 81 have
seen the dispatch to the effect that / had
been offered the position Of Chief Counsel
TO the Equitable Life Assurance Society at a
salary Of So, 900 year, and that would prob
ably accept. shall not take the time to deny
I it, or to dignity such assertions with denial.
Ny duties in the Senate will be sufficient to oc-
cupy my working hours"
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The Joint Committee on Printing Of the
House and Senate at its meeting on Tuesday,
Dec G. had under consideration the selection
OF site for the new Government Printing
/ office. Nearly two dozen pieces of ground
I were offered, and the prices were as widely
( apart as the localities The Committee agreed
I 10 report in favor of square 713, the property
/ Of T. Kurtz johnson. The ground contains
! 100000 square feet and the consideration to be
! paid is 81 per foot. The block faces 40l feet on
/ street, 81 feet on K street, 336 feet on Della.
ware avenue and 323 feet on First street north.
east. This is two blocks northeast of the loca-
1 ton Of the building at present in use.
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| The District Courts were in crippled con.
dition last week. Judge McComas, recently
appointed to the bench, was called to his home
in Hagerstown, Nd, by the dangerous Hines.
Of his daughter, and Judge Cox was obliged te
occupy his position in the Criminal Court
during the week. Because of this but two
Justices were left TO sit ia the Court in General
Term. as the vacancy left by the retirement o.
Judge James has not yet been filled by Presi
dent Harrison, and the work Of that court i,
practically at standstill. The jurors who had
been drawn for the December term of tho
Circuit Court presented themselves at tn,
proper time, were paid for one days attendance
and excused.
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Capt George II. Travis, well-known char
acter about Washington, wss found dead on ,
cot in his room at the Madison House. 333 Mis-
souri, avenue northwest. at 1870 o'clock or
Wednesday, Dec. z. Travis was an old vet
eran, having lost an arm in the late war. II,
drew his pension on Tuesday last Late Tues