The National tribune., 1894-04-05
THE WEEK IN WASHINGTON.
Minor Matters of Interest in the Capital
City.

Minor Matters of Interest in the Capital
City.
SUNDAY, MARCH 25.-Commissioner Lochren
has ordered 80 DAYS notice sent to Judge
Charles ID. Long of Michigan, that unless he
furnishes evidence as to total disability hls
rate of pension will be decreased from SI2 to
$50 per month. A notice of this kind was
sent TO a Special Examiner with instructions
to deliver if personally TO Judge Long. Tue
Special Examiner failed 20 do this, hence the
second notice.
MONDAY, MARCH 26.-SecretaTy Carlisle sent
to the House a long report from John NJ.
Clark late Collector OF Customs at Chicago.
relating to the administration of customs
affairs at the Worlds Fair. Exhibits were
received at the Exposition from 90 different
foreign nations. States. and colonies lhey
consisted of 609 packages, valued ia the
statement OF the ibitoIs al Sl4, 1SI. 693, and
required about 5000 ears 10 transport them.
OF these goods about % per cent. have remain
ed in 1his country. AH average dutyof 2I.94-
100 per cent. WAS paid. Assuming this to have
been a fair average of the rate of duty on ali
exhibits the Collector estimates the American
value Of foreign exhibits at $2S,Oo0.0Oe.
TUESDAY, MARCH 27.-At a meeting of the
Board of Trade tonight at Carroll Institute
considerable discussion WAS provoked by the
presentation of resolutions condemniDg the
proposed route of the Washington and Alex
andria Street Railway. The road proposes
TO run from the Baltimore & Potomac Rail
road Station, at the corner Of Sixth and Is
streets northwest, along B street to Twenty
sixth street, and across the Potomac River
on ferry-boat. 1t WAS urged that the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company was back
of the scheme, and the result world be a
steam rail way. Mr.. Read of Alexandria. do
MED that the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
l. - a.
said that patriotic feeling demanded a street
railroad 10 Arlington. - Representative
Storer, of Ohio. to-day introduced in the
Heuse a bill TO amend the interstate com
meree law. 1t repeats all punishments by
Imprisonment for violations of the interstate
commerce act, and renders the corporation
itself punishable 1t also repeats SO much
of the present law as Furnishes any shipper
OF the agent of any shipper for violations of
the law.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 28-Mrs Wm L. Wilson,
wife Of Representative Wilson. of West Yir-
ginia. Chairman of the Ways anu Means
Committee reached here from Texas to-day
after a long vigil at her husbands sick bed
IN that State and in Mexico. She called at
the WAYS and Means Committeeman and
was warmly greeted by Representatives C. r.
Breckenridge. Strauss. and other personal
associates of Mr. Wilson. She assured them
to regaining his health. He is rustiesting
at the ranches at San Antonio.-The paper
in she waste room In the Senate wing OF The
Capitol caught fire this afternoon and filed
the corridors with dense smoke. The fire is
supposed to have been cccasioned by some
one throwing burning match into the mass
of paper The fire was we'll under way
before il was discovered. 1t was soon extin-
guished. but not before the entire Senate end
of the building had been filed with smoke
so dense that for few minutes all the CORR
doris were darkene5, and IT began TO look as
if the Senate might be compelled to adjourn
because Of the discomfort.
THURSDAY. MARCH 28.-Mr. DOckery. of Mis-
souri,, Chairman of the commission appointed
to investigate the Status OF laws organizing
the Executive Departments. introduced a
bill in the House to-day to improve the
methods OF accounting in the Department of |
she Treasury" The object of the bill is to
do away with unnecessary duplication. and
place he responsibility upon the Auditor
1t abOlishes the Offices of Second and First
Deputy Comptroller, and makes the First
Comptroller the Com ptroieT of the Treasury |
with enc assistant. IL is made the duty Of
the First Comptroller TO supervise in general
the accounting system. The settlements of
the Auditors, except in case of appeal to the
Comptroller. will go the Division of Book |
keeping and Warrants IN the Office of the
Secretary Of the Treasury. This will make
the Secretary responsible for the general
books Of the Government, instead of the
Register.
TRIDAY, MARCH 30.-Sixth Auditor of the
Treasury J. b. Brswley resigned. He is the
first appointee Of prominence under the pres
eBt Adm Illustration who has Withdrawn from
office. lie was appointed April I9. 1893
from Mcadyille, Pa. The position is worth
$500 per annum. Mr. Brawiey came from
Mcsdyille Pa. aud has been in service about
year. II is understood that the authorities
were not satisfied with the manner in which
Mr. BTawley conducted the business of his
Bureau which audts ali OF the Postofice
Department accounts.
6ATURDAY. MARCH 31.-Capt J. c. McElroy,
of the Ohio Chicksmauga Commission, sub
mitted TO the National Military Park Com.
mission for the approval of the Secretary of
War designs for 50 monuments to the regi-
ments and batteries of that State upon the
field OF ChickAmaugs. These were approved
by Assistant Secretary Doe. The designs are
the result of active competition on the part
Of most noted workers in granite and bronze,
and, a result some Of the best effects vet
produced in military monuments have been
reached. The average cost Of the monu-
ments Will be 81, 500, exclusive OF foundations
The contracts will call for erections ON the
field before Sept. 19next. The State of Min
nesota will have its five mOuuments-onc Of
which rs TO cost S6,00O-in position at the
same time.