The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-03-23

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and also to the Lighthouse Service He in-
formed some of the applicants for these posi-
tions that there was no vacancy in the service,
and no cause for the removal OF any OF the
present incumbents was known to him; and
that no removals would be made unless for
cause, as it has been the uniform custom for
many years to regard the Lighthouse and Lilo
Saving Services as nonpartisan.
So
Ex-senator FELTON,, of California, gave din
ner party on Thursday evening, March To- In
honor of his successor in the United States Sen
ate, Mr. Stephen NJ. White. The dinner was
served in the celebrated picture gallery" at
Chamberl the menu being one of that cele-
brated cat ers choicest. while the table decor
ations were exceedingly handsome. Those
present were: Vice President Stevenson, Sena-
tor White, of California; Senator Blackburn,
Senator Butler Senator Brice, Senator Jones, OF
Arkansas; Senator White, of Louisiana; Sena-
tor Gibson, Senator Cockrell, Senator Pugh,
Senator Kyle, Senator Vest. Senator Daniel, tx
Senator Felton, Senator Stock bridge, Senator
Henderson, Senator Culom, Senator Mitchell,
Senator Jones, of Nevada Senator Squire, Sem
ator Stewart, and Hon. Frank McCoppin.
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Senator Stewart of Nevada, does not like
being deposed by the Republicans from his
place on the Committee on Appropriations. and
he likened his case to that of the free-soil Sem
ators, who were kept entirely off of the Senate
committees during the Kansas excitement be-
fore the war. A Republican Senator stated
that no action would have been taken against
Mr.. Stewart by tho Republican caucus, if that
Senator had declined to accept the Chairman
ship of the Committee on Mines, rendered him
by the Democrats. The Senator said Mr..
Stewart had undertaken to- carry water on
both shoulders, and il, after he had accepted
the Craftsmanship from the Democrats, the Re-
publicans had retained him on the Appropria-
tions Committee, Mr. Stewart would have said
to his Popuist friends that he was being cater
ed to by both parties and the Republicans did
not propose to give him the opportunity to
make this assertion.
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At II o'clock on Wednesday forenoon, March
Is, President Cleveland left his Office, which
was full of Office seekers, and went into the
library to receive delegation of Protestant
Episcopal Bishops, who called by appointment
relative to the Chinese exclusion act. The
delegation consisted of Bishops Paret, of Mary
land; Potter. of New York; Whitaker, of
Pennsylvania, and Hare, of South Dakota.
They were introduced to President Cleveland
and Secretary of State Gresham by Judge j. G.
Bancroft Davis. The Bishops told President
Cleveland that they came not as representa-
tives of the Church, but as citizens of the United
States to consult with him about the Geary
exclusion act. They expressed the fear that
the rigid enforcement of that act would be pre-
judicial to American interests and American
property in the Chinese Empire. They rec
ognized the fact that the President was bound
by the law, and they had no definite requests
to make nor any suggestions to offer. Presi-
dent Cleveland displayed much interest In the
matter, and promised TO give 1t his considera-
ton.
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Hon. Robt. A. Maxwell whom Mr.. Cleveland
master General, arrived In Washington on
Wednesday afternoon, March Is. Mr.. Max
well is gentleman of middle age, with good
ing face and handsome figure and with
benevolent expression of conntenance. How
much his expression may change when he gets
to welding khe a.x which became historical in
the hands of Mr. Stevenson, now Weep
dent, and ]. s. Clarkson. remains to be seen.
At present there is nothing sanguinary in
aith .r lie TnoIr baay rrh. ala
however. will begin at once, Tor DIR. Maxwell
took possession of his Office on Thursday, March
16. He is on record as being Of the opinion
that Republican officials ought to go as fast as
their terms expire if not just little bit faster
and great many of these are now awaiting
the pleasure Of the headsman. His friends be-
lieve that he will soon be as expert and as
deadly with the official Ak as was Mr.. Ciarkson,
"the man with the mention Of whose name"
it is said, Democratic mothers still quiet their
children"
Statisticians have been trying to figure out
how much visitors to Washington during the
Inauguration spent in the four or five days
they remained at the National Capital. One
of the local papers reaches an estimate of So
100000 between March and March 6. This
calculation is based upon an allowance of 1885,
coo visitors. Their expenses for lodging and
food are estimated at SIS head for four DAYS,
and the balance of the total is thrown in for
extras principally for antidotes for colds and
possibly snake bites, although the weather was
rather cold for the reptiles. Hotel rates are
placed at from 81 to $50 a day, and those at
boarding houses at froEa. Sc to So day. The
hotels are said to have done better business
than during the Grand Army Encampment,
although there were three times as many
visitors at the Encampment as at the Inaugu-
ration. The hotels could certainly not have
held more people during the Inauguration
without putting cots on the roof and in the
coal cellar. On the other hand, the Washing
ton merchants say that the Grand Army people
spent several times as much as the Inaugural
ton visitors.
The Democrats of the Senate have given tho
Popnlist Senator'S the Craftsmanship of two
committees. and Senator Kyle. of South
Dakota, who claims to be an Indocrat, whatever
that may be, is also placated by the Chairman
ship of the Committee On Education and
Labor. Senator PETER, the Populist from Kan.
sas. gets the Craftsmanship of the Committee to
Examine the Several Branches of the Civil
Service while the Populist Senator from
Nebraska, Senator Allen, gets the Chairman
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