The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-11


All Other Questions but Act as a
Compact BODY When the Matter of
Finances is Brought Up--A Fund Be-
ing RAISED for Systematic and
Thorough silver GampaIsG.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Especially
There is an effort being made TO con-
soiidate the silver interests in the SEN
ate into one compact body when the
matter of finances is brought up, each
member otherwise to maintain ms
party affiliations. Senator Butler, OF
North Carolina, is one of the strong
advocates of this principle. This new
deal among the silverites became
noticeable to-day. Senator Harris, the
leader of the silver Democrats in the
Senate, favors fight for free silver
within the lines OF the Democratic
party.
Those who support this idea III the
Senate are endeayoring to establish an
office, provide clerks, prepare litera-
ture, etc, to run their campaign.
1t is claimed that about twenty Dem
ocratic Senators are in this arrange
ment. good sized fund has already
been raised and headquarters, it is be-
liesed, will be opened within short
time.
Senator Butler, since his arrival in
Washington, has been very active in
trying to secure the combined efforts
of the silver members of the Senate.
Since the Populists made a failure in
combining the silver men in reorgan-
ization of the Senate they have held
aloof from both the other parties. 1t
is certain now that the only way the
silver members can work harmonious
1y for the same end in the restoration
of silver will be to work through party
lines.
1t is talked among Secretary Car
Uses acquaintance that President
Cleveland offered the Associate Judge
ship of the Supreme Court TO Secre-
tary Carlisle, but the latter refused,
preferring to return to private life af-
ter the term of the present administra-
ton expires.
Mr. d. A. Jordan. Of the Interior
Department, who has been spending
few weeks at his home in North Caro-
lima to recuperate in health. has re-
turned to his duties.
Miss Sallie Ruffin, OF Wilson'S visiting
her brothers here, DIR. Sterling Rutfin
and Mr.. Thos. Rufiin.
Mr. Herbert Thompson is very sick
here at his boarding place. He is
threatened with typhoid fever.
Miss Maud Walker, Of North Caro-
lima. a talented musician and artist, is
visiting at Mrs, fuckers 9l1 9th
street., N W.
G. b. Marlborough has been appoint
ed postmaster at Marlboro, \. G., vice
r.. c. Marlborough resigned.
The appointment of Mr.. Ray en-
Revenue Collector, of Reidsyille, as Dis
bursting Clerk in the House, has been
determined upon. This appointment
was obtained through influence OF
Congressman Settle.
Mr.. Thos. Taylor, Raleigh. who has a
position in the United States revenue
service, has been ordered to the State
of Washington. He is in Washington
City now, accompanied by DIR. Sandy
Hawkins and wife, Miss Matte Bailey
and his sister, Miss Lizzie Taylor, who
will remain here until he leaves for his
new post.
Maj. H. L. Grant, of Goldsboro, is at
the Ebbitt. Maj. Grant il a, candidate
for Secretary of the Senate and is
backed by Senator's Butler and Pritch-
ard, of North Carolina.
Cards are issued for the marriage of
Mr.. Frederick Harper, of Wilmington,
to Miss Carrie Warwick, daughter OF
Senator and Mrs. John w. Daniels, of
Lynchburg, Va.
THE BABY OF THE HOUSE.
A study of the new Congressional
Directory shows that the infant Of the
House is Norman A. Molly. of Dexter,
Mo. whose thirtieth birthday comes
on Wednesday next He is the only
Member of the House who is less than
thirty years of age. This is regarded
as strange, in view of the fact that the
minimum age for Representatives is
TWENTY-FIVE, and that there are usually
quite few who are not much in eX-
cess of that age There are only three
Members who may still speak of their
age as being thirty" although the
fhirty-first milestone is getting very
near for two of them. These are Me-
Clellan, of New York City, whose birth
day was November %: Settle, of North
Carolina. who passed the mark on
March 10, and Fitzgerald, the only
Massachusetts, Democrat in the House,
who admitted to thirty on February / i
last.
There are only twenty-eight men in
the entire House who are less than
thirty-six years of age, while the aver
age of the body s48Ks-higher than it
has been for many years. There is a
general impression that the Western
Congressman are, as rule, younger
than the Eastern ones, but this is en-
tirely wrong, so far as this Congress is
concerned. The youngest men are
from the South.
The South, however, does not fall
very far below the general average,
which, in fact, applies closely to all
sections except New England. The
last is very far above the average, her
twenty-seyen members having a total
of 1864 years among them, giving
them over 81 each. Next highest comes
the West, by which is meant the
great body of States between the Mis-
sissippi and the Rockies, excluding the