The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-01-27
WEEK IN WASHINGTON,
Events of General Interest in the National
Capital.

MONDAY. Tan. 17.-Mr Ha...a, of Ohio,
made his first appearance on the floor
since election. Mr.. Foraker announced
that the Legislature of Ohio had chosen
Marcus A ONO Hanna to be Senator from
Ohio for the remainder of Mr.. Sherman S
term OF six years, ending March 4, 1899.
lie presented Mr. Hanna's credentials
and they were read. AS there was no OBJ
Iectlcn TO the administration OF the oath
OF office, Mr. Foraker escorted Mr. Hanna
to the Fice-President's desk. and the
cath of Office was administered by the
ce-President
TUESDAY, Jan 1S-Civil Service Commits
sioner JOAN b. Harlow was before the SEN
ate C-vil Service Investigating Committee.
Under the patronage system large num-
Der OF States and I erritOrieS, he said, had
net received Just allotment OF appoint
mems, while others had more than they
were entitled to, on the basis oil population.
That, he said, is not so under the present
merit system. If all the Government en-
ployes in Washington should lie required
to wO.k full seven hours day it would
mean gain of 4, 500 extra hours day,
he estimated, with a saving approx
mateiy of over So coo year for clerk h re.
Chief Examiner Server, of the Commits
sion, testified that up to date 3G0, 23O peO-
pie had been examined; So, ISL appointed
TO office, not including reins.atementS.
The entire expense of the examinations
was S2.74 each.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 1?.-Secretary Long
sent to Congress the draft of Il bill he
urgently recommends, making number
of changes IN the procedure OF cadets at
the Naval Academy. 1t fixes the age at
which students may enter the Academy
at from 10 to 18 years, requiring that at
the end of a four years course OF study
the cadets PASS examinations, as at
present, the places at the Academy then
becoming vacant, and new nominations
for them may then be made; that the
cadets then lie sent to sea for one year,
returning 10 the Academy at the end of
that time for their final eXaminat onS in
the practical duties of their profession,
and changes the title Of naval students
from Naval Cadet to MidShipman as pro-
posed by the personnel bill now be!o-e
the Naval Committee.
Jan. 20. Secretary Alger last
week sent a recommendation to Congress
regarding an increase of the artillery force.
In it he called attention to the fact that II
the artillery is not increased by two regi-
ments the new defenseS will be without the
necessary men to handle the complicated
machinery of war. The Secretary sub
mitted long list of the new Notifications
now actually requiring artillery, and
which are not SO equipped because OF lack
men.
FRIDAY, Jan. 21.-Adverse report was
made by the House Committee on In
Vaild PENSIONS on the claim 10 increase
from SIT, the present legal maximum, to
$50 month the pension OF Cornelia l..
Brownell, widow of the First Lieu; Grant
in the United States Infantry noted as
the ayenger of the shooting of Col. ELS
worth, of Ellsworth Zouaves, by the
rebel hotel keeper jackson in Alexandria
early in the Wharf.-The nominal on Of
Joseph Mckenna, of Californ a, to be
Associate Justice of the Sapreme Court
OF the United States was confirmed by
the Senate without division. Senator
Allen, in opposition, presented large
number of documents, including the pro-
test OF lawyers and Judges of the Pacific
coast. charging that Mckenna is untitled
for the high Office of Supreme Cont
Justice, on the ground of want OF legal
attainmeats. He commented at length