Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-12
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Congress and It's Struggle With the Wilson Bill-Washington Society," President Cleveland's Receptions- Mrs. Cleveland,s Gown-Yale Alam- mi Dinner Connecticut People In Official Places at Washington-The Patent Commissionerss Labors-1n. terest to All Inventors and Many Others. =...--.
 lFrom our Washington Correspondent.l
 WAsHINaToN, Jan. 1O.-Congress has been in session now six days and the house has been obliged to adjourn each day for lack of . quorum caused by the absence of democratic members who evidently either fail to see the importance of being in their seats or do not care. It was in- tended to get at the Wilson bill on Friday last, when Republican Burrows was to have submitted minority report of the committee and state the reasons why the same should be adopted instead of the Wilson bill.
 That-the Wilson bill will pass the house inside of the next three weeks is the im- precision of the leaders of both parties here. In the senate, however, its another question. as the fight there will probably be @ bitter one, with the chances about even for it's passage.
 SOCIETY AT ITS BEST.
 The first formal cabinet reception on Wednesday, the state dinner st the s1ecu- &I. ~ol~ nd he ous other dinners, receptions and teas has kept those in official society on the 10 since New Years, and from now urdl Lent 1t will be the "pace that kills," a the season, though short, bids fair to be one of the gayess in many years. The invita- tions to the presidents reception have been sent out, and carefully put aside, as 8 treas ure hard to get and sure to be used, as in- vitations to thess receptions are more eagerly sought for than any others, as to receive one of them is to at once to be con- sidered in the uppermost society. Of the events of the week the state dinner was the leading one, and was decidedly slab- crate affair in every feature.
 The east room was 6 perfect bower of palms, ferns, potted plants and cut flow. CTS, arranged 50 as to produce the best possible effect, while the decorations of the table in the state dining room were es- pscially effective and graceful. At either end of the csnterpiece an ellipsis of ferns studded with orchids of the slipper variety were circular pieces of orchids, from ths | middle of which rose tall plnespple plants | the leaves changing from green to crimson | on the edges. Beyond these again on tn. | transverse section of the ends of the tabi, were plats of ferns studded with the slip per orchids. At either end of the tabll | hn havl
 scarlet shades, while the wsx candles il
 shades. At each plate was 8 cluster O.
 orchids and asparagus vine, 8 single or
 enid being at the place for each of thu gentlemen.s
 Mrs. Cleveland's gown was of rose pinl
 moire antique, made perfectly plain, witt
 fall of fine white thread lace about tk
 low neck corssgs, in the front of whic
 were the diamond clusters of wild rose
 presented to her on the occasion of he
 marriage by ex-Secretary Whitney. He
 hair was worn rolled back from her fac
 into a low coil at the back and was span
 ned across the front by a strand of larg
 solitaire diamonds.
 YALE ALUMNI DINNER.
 On Tuesday of next week at the Arline
 ton will be held the annual banquet of th
 Washington Yale Alumni association, whe
 it isexpected that Congressman James I
 Pigott of your city will be one of tt
 speakers of the evening. MT. Pigott now registered at the Cochran, one of or
 leading hotels, so ably managed by Ere
 Hart, formerly of New Haven.
 Congressman Pigott is rapidly gainir
 an insight into the management of nation
 al politics, and being @ ready and witt
 speaker, will probably make himself hes,
 on the floor of the house in the near f, ture.
 . While speaking of New Haveners sa also this week Professor George L Fox
 the Hopkins grammar school and Attornt ; John K. Beach, who were seeing Washin ton for a few days.
 CONNECTICUT PEOPLE IN OFFICE vi Of the twenty odd thousand people hol 2 ing departmental positions under the go ! ernment, who draw annually some $as 900 .00O in salaries, over 8, 300 are from t <; District of Columbia and draw near . s, ,0OO, 900 for services rendered. the ave }; age salary being $1 200 per annum. , Of the various states Illinois, Virgin
 and Pennsylvania have the greatest nu,
 ber in office, while the state of Conueo cut Is credited with 1S3 employees, vi : draw $S97, 1855 from the treasury. Of the , Connecticut mon there are employed in t department of state. |; in the treasury, 1 navy, Il; interior, @; agriculture. 8, a,
 in the government printing office, 30.
 Among this number from the Nutm }. state are to be counted Patent Comm l, sioner John s. Seymour of Norwal !; Treasurer Daniel N. Morgan of Bridgepo, ' Assistant Attorney General Edward F.: Whitney of Now Haven, Civil Servi
 Commissioner Charles Lyman of New Br
 ain, General FrankD. Sloat and s. I. Bra
 ley, both we'll known in the City of Fin 7 the former being financial clerk in the ps ent office and the latter chief clerk in t /: treasurer's office.
 While all of the above named gentlem ], occupy positions of considerable respon ,' bility, that of patent commissioner, occ ,,' pied by MT. Seymour, is by far of the me :. importance, involving as it does the deta , cd management of . large office and t , direction of some 600 clerks, besides t ,, hearing of many cases and the pleparati ;. of opinions requiring thorough knowled .' of the patent law. Oommissioner Seymo Y Is an indefatigable worker, and since |
 entrance upon his duties as head of t
 patent ofice has instituted many reforl
 for the benefit of the public as we'll as t
 attorneys. His first steps was in the y rection of economy in the photo-ligh s graphing works of the office, including t v printing of the Patent Office Gazette, weekly publication now mum bering in
 some 6,000 volumes, describing the pater issued for the week. There Is saving
 the government of thousands of dollars o year by transferring the contract for tt l. photo-lithographing contract from the Nc l. ris Peters company to the National Phoi "a lithographing company of this city. IT ;. change was vigorously fought against I the former company and their friends, b 't MT. Seymour was firm in his determinati r to have the latter company succeed, al succeed they did to such an extent that 1 '' day the work is by far the best ever dor Notwithstanding the present value @ the Official Gazette to the inventors sl e the public in giving list of the paten :. issued weekly, with 8 description and cut thereof, Commissioner Seymour h 6 decided, with the consent of the seer eta @ of the interior, to make the Gazette doub
 valuable by including, ss we'll, in 1
 columns list of the expiring patents du
 ing that week. The publication of t Q latter data will be invaluable, especially 7 the public and small manufacturing co Q csrns, who are unable to keep a solicitor
 Washington to keep track of expiril ! patents, task which can now only t done by going back in the recor' a seventeen years to the date when tn, B only those with large business interea n affected by special patents now keep '- formed regarding the dates at which tl J, patent rights cease to be monopolies e, 8 the patent devices become public propsrt @ | but the publication of the expiYatfon