The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-05-04
NEWS ITEMS.
Mr.. Turpie made a bitter speech, in which
he attacked the veracily of Mr.. Aldrich,

he attacked the veracily of Mr.. Aldrich,
Secretary Lamont will shortly ask for the
resignation of about three hundred clerks in
the War Department.
The total production of coke in the Arpala-
chain region during the year 1888 is estimated
at ., 460,3l0 tons short.
President Cleveland will ist Fledercks
burg, Va, May TO- to at enc the unwilling of
the Mary Washington monument.
The President sent t. the Senate Saturday
the nomination of Robert l.. Ailwoth to be
collector of customs at Cherrystone. Virginia.
1t is understood Mr.. Dryden, shipping com
missioner at Baltimore, will be removed from
Illce.
The Secretary of the Treasury has signed
the revised regulations to be observed at for
eign ports, at sea aud at maritime guarantees
of the United States.
Representative Compton, of Mary md, is
ready to resign his seat in Congress as soon as
his commission as naval officer of the PORT
of Baltimore is signed.
Mr.. VOORHEES, made a Statement: in which
he ut erly repudiated the reports about radical
notifications of the tariff bill and stated that
the income tax would be retained.
The Secretary of the Treasury viii give
Supervising Inspector of Steamboats, East, of
the Maryland and Virginia district.
The Unit ID States consul at Bremen report
ed to the State Department that German buy
ers are complaining If frauds committed by
tobacco shippers in the United States.
Admiral Walker reported Pay Director Bel
l,ws to the Navy Department because the
latter did not secure for the Admiral state
rooms in steamer which the Admiral felt his
dignity and rank warranted
Indications are that the >int communities OF
Congress on the personnel of the navy Will
personnel very much on the lines Of the bill
prepared by the Navy Depart nent.
The nomination of S. Davies Warfield to
be postmaster of Baltimore and William l..
Marbury to DE United st ates district attorney
for Maryland will. it is believe |, be reported
tavorabl, by the Senate committees to which
they were referred.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, made the frank
statement in the Senate that the democratic
majority of the Senate finance committee had
adopted practically the same course with 'efer-
ence to the taliff bill as pursued by republic
can mai ,rty OF the committee under similar
circumstances.
Mr.. Compton, of Maryland, introduced a
bill in the House of Representatives apprc-
priatng $4,000 for the erection upon the
Naval Academy grounds, Annapolis Nd, of
a bronze statue of George Bancroft, the his
torian and founder of the academy.
he feeling is general among democratic
Senators that if they get bill which COM
mands the support of the entire democratic
side of the Senate that the republicans will
weaken in their antagonsm and will not pro
long the final vote on the measure beyond the
time necessary to discuss the various schedules
in a business like manner.
A motion to adjourn having been made and
the democrats finding themselves without
quorum, Mr.. Harris threatened to order the
sergeant-at-arm to send for absentees if this
occurred again, aud Mr.. Cockrell gave notice
that the old law to withhold Senator's pay
would lie enforced to compel their attendance.
In the Senate debate on the pending amend
menL to the tlriff bill to change the date OH
which the bill should go into effect from June
l to June 80 was resumed, and the repubIi-
cans, led by Mr.. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, as
sumed the aggressive at the outset, using the
current newspaper reports of radical changes
in the bill agreed upon by the democrats in
secret conference as means to harrass--them.
The Methodist Episcopal Ministers Assoca-
ton are discussing resolution to the effect
that the Methodist episcopate should be modi-
fed. A majority of the speakers think that
the bishops had too much power IN making
appointments and transfers, and that some
thing should be done to cunt ill that power
The subject will be discussed again next Mon
day.
In the House of Representatives consider
alton Of the army appropriation bill was re
sumed, and an amendment was adopted that
no appointment of assistant adiutanl general
with rank of major should be made until the
number of officers in that grade had been re-
duced below four, and that hereafter there
should be only four officers in that grade, and
that future promotion in a1ltant general,
paymasters aud similar branches of the army
should be made from the next lowest grade.
The project for the erection in Capitol
Square, Raj Ugh, North Carolina, of a monu-
ment to the memory of the tie Senator Il. b
Vance has taken such form as to leave no
room for doubt that a fitting memorial to the
great North Carolinian will be the outcome OF
the effort. central organiz,t on has been