The National tribune., 1899-09-21
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

Representative Marriott Brosius, of
Pennsylvania, wants to be the Chairman
of the Banking and Currency Committee,
of which he has been member for eight
years, and was the ranking member at the
| close of the last Congress, but says that he
| does not propose to bring any influence to
bear upon Gen. Henderson for the position,
| though there are several other eager candi-
dates.
Representative Cushman, of Washing
ton, says that he wants the House to pass
a single gold standard law without any
suffering" So
Commissioner Of Pensions Evans has
gone to the Pacific Coast, to remain several
weeks.
Representative Marlin E. Olmstead, of
Pennsylvania, has become engaged to Miss
Gertrude Howard. of Lexington, Va,
leading society woman, and the daughter
of rebel officer. She is Corresponding
Secretary for the Daughters of the Con-
federacy Of Virginia.
tThe question of the leadership of the
Democrats in the House is one of deep
interest to the members of that party, In
view of the possibility that the next House
may be Democratic, and the leader there
fore q National figure. The Democrats
have $50 members in the House, a larger
number than for several years, and they
are well-distributed over the whole country.
The question Of leadership also involves the
one of how the leader will lead. Prior to
the appearance Of the young Mr. Bailey in
that capacity the Democratic leaders. when
they were in the minority, contented them
selves with the general management of
matters on the floor seeing that the rights
of the minority We're respected, and carry
ing out the party wishes as decided upon in
caucus. Mr.. Bailey was ambitious of
doing more than this. He wanted to run
the whole Democratic party, and formulate
its policy, and dictate things generally.
The probability is that the new leader will
lines adopted by Crisp, Carlisle, etc. There
are now three candidates for the honor of
the minority nomination for Speaker.
which carries with it the leadership of the
Democracy in the House. They are Rich
ardson, of Tennessee; Bankhead, of Ala
bama; and De Almond. of Missouri. II
looks now as if Bankhead will drop out, and
leave Richardson and De Almond to fight
it Out. Both are very able men, good
parlianentarians, and have qualities of
leadership.
that the new Post Office building is not big
enough. 1t was supposed that there would
be plenty OF room, not only for the Post
Office Department, but also for several
other smaller branches of the public service
Now it is certain that the Department will
need OF least all the room that the building
affords. There is an immense amount Of
files to be provided for, to begin with For
example, there are stored in the old building
200,000,O00 postal orders, which the law
says must be kept seven years after issu-
ance.
The SD Annual Grand Council of the
improved Order of Red Men Of the United
States met here last week, with about $50
delegates and 500 other members of the
Order Commissioner Ross welcomed them
on the part OF the city, and he was responded
to by George E. Green. of Binghamton,
N. Y, the Great Incohonee of the Order
In his long talk" at the opening of the pro-
ceedings the Great Incohonee stated that
the Order with its auxiliary branch-the
Pocahontas--now numbered 22O, 900 men,
bers. He took strong ground for expan-
sion. and denounced the allies of Aguinaldo
in this country. On Wednesday they all
went down to Mt. Vernon and visited the
tomb of Washington. A resolution was
adopted to hold special services on the
centennial of the death of Washington
They called on the President on Thursday.
#t%
The Postof1ice Department has the
satisfaction of once more having the Rev
q. +. Il. Howard in the strong grip of the
law. Howard is one of the slickest swind.
-
England, too, for that matter, for he had
his victims on both sides of the Atlantic.
His specially was unclaimed estates in
England" and he worked credulous people
mercilessly with stories of immense wealth
to which they had become heirs Letters
found in his possession showed that one
poor, woman had mortgaged her farm,
another sold her COWS, third was taking
in washing in order to send him the money |
he required to prosecute their claims for |
shares In the mythical estates. His usual |
fee was S35, and there is no telling how
many thousand people he collected this |
from; He had a number of aliases, among
which were "E. Ross" william Lord |
Moore" Joseph Leger," etc. In 1894 he
was convicted and sentenced to 20 years
in the Ohio Penitentiary for using the |
mails for fraudulent purposes After |
serving. about three years he managed to |
make his escape, and the Postofice authori- |
ties could get no track Of him, until they
heard from London that some one in Jack
son, Mich, was working the English !
people for estates of relatives of theirs who /
had come to this country, made large