The National tribune., 1893-02-02

It now seems likely that the country Will
have some moro souvenir coins. When Mrs.
Potter Palmer, of Chicago, was before the
Senate Sub. Committee on Appropriations re-
Gently, advocating the additional $4,000 de-
sired by the Board of Lady Managers OF the
Worlds Fair she suggested that $4,000 OF the
sum be given in souvenir coins, which sugges-
ton apparently met with the favor OF the
committee. 1t is the intention of having these
coins of the value of % cents each, making
10000 quarters They will bear on one SIDE
the head of Queen Isabella of Spain, on the
other picture of the Woman's Building at the
Fair, and will be known as the Isabella coin.
The price at which they will be sold has been
kept discreetly secret.
Mr.. Charles Z. Coon, well known in Wash
ington and New York City, was appointed on
Tuesday, JAM "a, by Secretary of War Elkins,
con fidential clerk to Gen. Batchelder Quarter
master General of the Army, at a salary of
ST. 800 per annum. Mr.. Coon saw service in
New York regiment during the war. and at its
close accepted subordinate position In the
Treasury Department. He displayed such
aptitude for the duties to which he was as
signed that he advanced rapidly through the
various grades of promotion until, when the
Cleveland Administration took charge OF the
Department Mr.. Coon was Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury. Mr.. Coon was the Repub-
lican candidate for Congress from one Of the
New York City districts last Fall, but was
badly defeated.
The Court in General Term of the District
of Columbia last week sustained the verdict
of the Circuit Court, which gave Ellen Cos
tello s. 500 damages from the District. on ac-
count of some employees negligence. The
plaintiff was a servant girl in the Riggs House.
and one night in the Fall of 1888 she fell
into ditch dug across G street just above
Fourteenth broke a leg, and was permanently
crippled. Workmen laying Waterman had
left the ditch unguarded for distance of IA
feet. Justice Hagner, who delivered the
| opinion. said that the negligence was most
| reprehensible A condition of the ahrmance
| of the Circuit Court judgment was that the
| plaintiff should remit the interest which the
jury included, as the General Term could see
no ground for giving interest.
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A Chinaman named Woong Chin Foo. who
represented the Chinese Equal Rights League
of New York was given hearing before the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thurs
day, Jan. 20. He advocated the repeal of the
| Geary Chinese exclusion act. Mr. Foo said be
| represented 10000 Cinnamon in the United
States who are no longer i'm migrants. but bona
| fde residents of this country, men who have
| resided here from 10 to 30 years, and who
| understand and abide by our laws. They are
opposed to the Geary act because it requires of
them impossibilities. puts upon them cruel and
unusual punishment, and classes them with
| thieves and criminals. He does not ask for or
advocate immigration, but spoke only far those
already residing here. Mr.. Foo used some good
and very vigorous English in making bis plea
against the Geary act.
| Messrs. Frank Hatton and Isadore Saks, of
| the Citizens Executive Committee of Washing
l ton of the National Encampment of the Grand
Army last September, visited Richmond, Va,
| last week, and made arrangements for furnish
| ing one Of the wards at the Lee Camp Soldiers
| Home in that city. The President of the
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the city at the time. and Messrs. saks and Hat
ton drove out to the Home and had confer
ence with Maj Bigger, the Commandant
and selected ROOM which will at once be fitted
up elegantly by tho Citizens Committee of
| Washington. This fraternal act on the part of
the Grand Army of the Republic Committee is
| In recognition of the kind attention shown
Federal veterans during the Encampment last
September by Lee Camp, whose ball was kept
open to them when they visited Richmond.
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Ever since President Harrison nominated
his Private Secretary, Mr.. Elijah w. Halford,
for the position of Major and Paymsster in the
Regular Army, the newspapers have been pre-
dieting that the Democratic Senators would
oppose his confirmation. That these news.
mongen wore considerably mistaken 10 evi.
denced by the fact that on Wednesday after.
| noon, Jan. %, less than week after the nomi
nation was sent to the Senate, Mr.. Halford was
confirmed without the least opposition from
any source. That he will make good officer
nobody denies These positions have invar-
| ably been filled heretofore by the appointment
of civilians. and almost every President who
has had the luck to have one of the Psymaster-
ships become vacant during his term of service
has given the plum to some friend; so there
il nothing unusual in President Harrson's
action.
The Postofice appropriation bill has been
completed by the House Committee on Post
Offices and Postroads for the fscal year ending
Juno 30, 1894. THE bill carries an appropria-
ton Of $s3 s69, 357, which is an increase OF
$353s081 over the appropriation for the pres
ent year. Gen. Wanamaker submitted esti.
mates for $s5, 2o3, 243 not including item oil
$l96.6l4 for special facilities for trunk lines
for which no estimate was made, although il
was inserted in tho bill. This item is for fas.
mail service between Springfield. Mass, and
New Orleans, via New York, Washington and
Atlanta. In submitting his estimates Gen
Wanamaker fixes the revenues from the posta
service for the next fiscal year at $85 l21 1855
Tho principal reduction was for inland mai
transportation by railroads. the estimates fo
!. which were $50. 500. 900, which the committs,
reduced to $24, 900 900.
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Some of "our friends, the enemy" are dis
playing an amount Of cheek that would put Il
shame any Government mule that ever wor
| IIrcle Sans brand Wonld com rades believ