The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-05-17

Gov. sheehan will contest that gentleman's
nomination for Congress this year. Mr.. Lock
wood is apparently not disturbed by these re-
ports, and claims not to know what Mr.. Shee-
hans intentions are.
The greatest newspaper reader of the House
is Bourke Cochran He retires to the lobby
back of the Speakers chair each day with his
stack of New York papers, and reads them very
rapidly, throwing one paper to the floor as fast
as he has caught its main features, and taking
up another till the whole pile is exhausted.
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The present Congress has great number of
good speakers, aside from those who are noted
for their oratory. Many of the members talk
Auently and Interestingly. and number are
new at the trade LATE Fence and Tom John
son good instances and Others are Francis
g. Newlands Hendrix of Brooklyn Hartman
of Montana; Bcllamy Storer, Of Cincinnati;
Cooper. of Florida, and Swanson, of Virginia
Owing to the complaints in California and
other Pacific States, that Japanese lahorers have
been coming there in violation OF our laws, the
for the purpose of restraining and regulating
emigration from Janan to other countries. Per-
sons in Japan nave acted agents for tramp
steamers, and have collected passengers at small
rates of passage hy promises OF work in the
United States. The regulations now issued by
the Japanese Government will prevent all
such transactions, and no emigrant viii be per-
mitted to leave Japan to go to any country
where his coming would be in violation of the
law of that country.
Maj. J. w. Powell has been obliged to resign
from the Geological Survey by reason OF
wound received in the battle of Shiloh. His
arm was ampntated. and he returned to the
command of his batteries. At the siege of
Ficksburg. while he rested the stump Of his
arm on a pararet during lull of activity, a
solid shot struck the ground and flung a load
of earth over him. The blow greatly irritated
the hslf-healed wound and caused such nfam-
nation that secondary ampuation was
qBired. The nerves have been seriously in
volved in the cicatrix bince. aud the wound has
recently given him so much trouble that
third amPutatiop is now necessary
The savings banks of the country have taken
alarm at the proposition of the Senate Finance
Committee to tax their net earnings two per
cent, and making earnest protest through
their Representatives in Congress. delega-
ton representing ten Connecticut savings
banks had conference with tie entire Con-
necticut delegation, in which they urged the
daf. If no yfsfo tod
ments showing that as conducted in the East
these institutions are really entirely charitable.
These institutions not stock CON panies and
have capital. The Boards of Trustees manag-
ing them aud the principal officers serve with
ont pay, and they are run entirely in the inter
est of the depositors.
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The FIRST Capital guide was Prof. Donald
son." strangely enough a blind man. He
made his living for 20 years by showing visitors
about the building, and followed that calling
until 1873. People used to wonder how he
knew when to turn in the corridors, but he
not only knew the distances from one point to
another. bat wanted no better guide than the
drafts of air; they never failed to make his
location known to him. Donaldson would go
into the Senate gallery with party and point
out the Senator'S. whom he would describe, To-
eating them at their seats 1t was all right if
they on hand, aud if they weren't the
visitors would generally be too dazed to know
the difference.
Representative w. l.. Wilson has returned
He has thrown of the effects Of the strain in
conducting the tariff bill ia the House, and
while not yet in robust health, is greatly i'm
proved from the condition he was in shortly
after leaving here. As yet lie has given DO
attention to the Senate tariff bill. and his re-
turn TO tariff work will be gradual as it is
appreciated that another attack, such as was
pat on him last Winter, would prove dangerous.
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One of the biggest and finest residences in the
city is occupied by Henry Cabot Lodge, ON
Massachusetts avenue between Seventeen tn
and Eighteenth streets. He affords an admira-
bic type of the fortunate and successful man.
A man may be fortunate without being sue
cessiul-that is to say, he may be born TO position
and wealth, and yet fail in what he tries to
achieve. But the junior Senator from Massa-
chuSetts came into the world under the luck lest
kind OF star. He Inherited money, married
more. earned name in literature, and now
holds what the late J. g. Blaine termed "the
most desirable place possible in political life-a
Senatorship from solid State"
Senator Mcmillan. of Michigan, made his
money in street railways. lie owns one of the
finest dwellings in this city. Oil Vermont avenue.
T..
100000 1t is double house, with great space