Arizona republican., 1897-12-22
NEWS OF WASHINGTON.

The attempt to get some 1nfOrma- tion from the president as tIo the in- structious he gave the bimetallic com missioners will be 8 flash in the pan.
 Senator AlleG1 Of Nebraska stirred up the question just before the sen- ate adjourned by introducing reso- lution calling upon the president for a copy of the instructions and also of the reports and correspondence up- on She subject 1t was quite evident that the republican side was not will ing to have the hand of the admin istration disclosed because Senator MorTfll wanted the resolution referred to the finance committee, which vir tHBally meant its entombment, and Senator Hale suggested that it be not acted upon until later. Under this objection it went over. It is un- derstood that the attempt to force ed.
 Senator Whites wife will not come to Washington because she does not like the severe thunder storms whi ch visit this section of the country Out on the Pacific slope they do not know what a thunder storm is.
 This calls to mind a funny story told by Homer Davenport, the car toonist- MT. Davenport Is also California man, and when he came east Mrs. Davenport accompanied him. One afternoon fearful thunder storm broke oN5r their heads and they saw the lightning play and heard the thun- der roll with feeling of awful fright Finally Mrs. Davenport sought ref uge in a closet. From its dark in terier the-e came presently terrible scream. Davenport rushed to the closet door.
 What's the matter?' he fran.ically exclaimed.
 sx..-Oh, Homer said his wife, ha'f crying and half laughing, 'I am afraid to come out because of the lightning, and I ann afraid to say in here because there is a mouse''
 f The expenditures under the con- Engent fund of the senate, which have just been made known in a report of the secretary of the senate, con- tain some interesting items. For in stance, it is shown that Mir Benjamin Durfee, who used to be the clerk of the finance committee, made nume-- ous trips to New York on various matters, notably in connection with the committee which is investigating the use of alcohol in the arts, and he rendered an account of $17 for eNsry time he traveled to New York and return. Mr. Eugene Davis, who went over to New York for another committee, contented himself with buying a $10 round trip ticket. MT Henry Daley, Jr., a New York par fumer, seems to have had two very de- lightful trips to Europe for the alco- hol committee, visiting Liverpool London, Paris, Amsterdam. Brussels, Cologne, Berlin, Geneva, and other charming cities, at government ex- pense- MT. Charles G. Phelps accom- panied him on one trip and together they. spent over $2,O0O On MT. Dal- ley's oIhisr excursion he spent over $1,000. Mir. S. N. D. North drew $5 a day as 'sthtistician" for the senate finance committee and all his ex- penses while traveling, while James P. sVoorhees got $500 for bust of Vice President Breckinridge. MT Drmfee also got from s2O6 to s21O a month for compiling a history of revenue and general appropriation bills,'' while it cost s21S to feed with meals and lunches the "senh,ors and attendants while going to and returning from the Grant memorial exercises in New York" The other expenses of this excursion to New York amounted to s7S2. It cost lit t1e over $500 to bury the late S=ua- tor Earle, of South Carolina.
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 A story of brotherly love and patri- otism which sounds like Capt. Charles Kings novels came to light yesterday through a bill introduced in the sen- ate by Mir. PenEose of Pennsylvania. At the breaking out of the rebellion