The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-03
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
C0MI66 ENCAMPMENT OF TIE
 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.

Reimbursed.
 From Our Special Correspondent
 Washington. Aug. 2.-While the dem ocratic conferees on the part of the sen ate and house are struggling over deadlock on the tarift bili, and the mer cury is playing tag in the, nineties. tn, Knights of Pythias are working hart in preparation for the coming encamp ment next month. when sir knights knights and sister knights will practi cally own the town for few days. Al ready some twelve thousand dollars ha. been raised by the finance committee and before the first day of the encamp. ment the committee expect to have over twenty thousand dollars.
 The committee on decorations have found 1t impracticable to get flags from the government, but nearly all of the merchants on the line of march have agreed to decorate their places of busi- ness, and In many of the parks shrubs in the form of Pythian emblems have been set up. with very pretty effect The capitol and public buildings will also be decorated and illuminated dur ing the encampment, and displays of fireworks will be galore.
 The secretary of war has promised, if possible, to get enc of the cruisers here, but the signs of war and the many naval reserve companies who desire sea practice next month, 1t may be impos- sible to have cruiser here.
 It has been decided by the committee on drills to have the drills held at Ma tional Park on August 29 and 30 from 8 a. m. to 8 p. rn., and all day of the 31st. The great trouble will be to find quarters for the seventy-five thousand or more strangers who are expected here during encampment week, but the committee are bravely struggling with this question, and every one may be sure of being well cared for.
 In the house yesterday Tom Reed, of Maine, obtained the unanimous consent of the house for the consideration of a senate bill directing the payment to Charles P. Russell, of Connecticut, ex- consul at Liverpool of three thousand dollars, the amount of money he had expended in the discharge and ship meht of American sailors in the port of Liverpool during his term of office.
 Mr. Russell is democrat, and to hear his cause plead by republican caused smile on the faces of the dem- ,ocratic members of the house.
 MT. Reed in urging the passage of the bill said: I will state to the chairman of the committee on appropriations that MT. Russell was consul at Liver pool for four years. Prior to his be- coming consul there was always an al- lowance made of two thousand dollars per annum for the purpose for which he made this expenditure, but at that time congress had ceased to make appropri- ation for that purpose, which purpose was the discharge and shipment of American seamen in the port of Liver pool. Since the expiration of MT, Rus sells term of office the consul has been furnished with g. clerk at two thousand dollars year, who performs that work. MT. Russell is now settling his &C., counts, and as he has made actual ex- penditure of thirty-one hundred dol lars, he desires to be reimbursed by the United States. The case comes to me through the hands of the counsel of the bondsmen, and both the parties con- cerned are democrats and I want to be charitable to them.
 The Washington Post in speaking ot Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who is at Short Beach, Conn.,, says: Mrs. Ella Vince Ter Wilcox Is spending the summer at her cottage at Short Beach, about six miles from New Haven, where, for number of years past, she with her hus- band has gone in May and remained until October. This cottage, which they have named "The Bungalow" was built for his wife by MT. Wilcox, with whom she lives therein a most idyllic life. They spend the greater portion of the time driving about gathering mate rial for the poems and stories that later in the season see the light of print. Mrs. Wilcox in writing to an old friend in Washington made the statement in reply to inquiries as to what work she was engaged upon, that her poem re- gently printed in the June Arena she considered the best of her life. In speaking to the same friend Mrs. Will cox remarked that for many of her best efforts both in prose and verse she was indebted to her husband, whose pow CTS of observation and appreciation were far greater than her own. In fact, she considered 1t but just to- him to state that he was in reality the poet; she was but the rhymester. MT. Will COX is a successful business mar and his greatest happiness is in surround ing his wife witt, every comfort and luxury. Unlike the majority of literary women, she is very domestic in her tastes, and when the pretty little cot tage at Short Beach Is minus a cook the poetess can bend her energies to the compromising of delightful little dishes with the same success that has attend ed her efforts with the pen.
 Despite the loss of gold, the treasury receipts for the month of July exceed expenditures and the treasury balance is increasing. The aggregate receipts for the month will be about $38, ,0O0, 900 and the expenditures about $37, ,0O0, 900, leaving considerable balance. This ptate of affairs has been brought about wholly by the increase in receipts from internal revenue, which will reach ST. O0,O00 out of total of $3S, 5000, 900. With one day to come in for this month they foot up $2s.731, 900. Last month the receipts from this 1 source were only $1O,711,Oo0. With the treasury gold reserve down to 5,000,- 900, and exchange still up, word reach es the treasury from New York that - ss -f 4 I