Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — WASHINGTON GOSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The bureau of engraving and printing Is at work' upon a new issue of notes. The plates for the $1 and $2 denominations having been completed and the notes issued, the engravers are now at work upon the $5 plate, and will take up the $lO plate within a few days. It will be five or six months before either will be ready for use. The S2O, SSO, SIOO, SSOO and SI,OOO plates will be taken up in turn, and will require several years to complete. The new plates are being prepared by the regular engravers of the bureau without assistance, and they can devote to them only such time as can be spared from their regular duties. Before work upon the new plates was commenced a design was adopted which will be followed in the entire government issue ofmoney. Very few of the old men in the Senate show their age. No one would ever suspect that Platt of Connecticut is 72, at that Cullom of Illinois was 70 last No vember. Senator Hawley of Connecticut is 73, Gear of lowa will be 75 next April, and Hoar of Massachusetts is 73. Senator Teller is still vigorous with hit seventieth birthday rapidly approaching, and Frye is a remarkably young man for his weight of nearly 70 years. Jones of Nevada is 69, and his colleague, Stewart, is 72. Senator Bate of like the late Senator Harris, will not disclose his age. He "must be 70 or thereabouts, for he was a soldier in the Mexican war, over half a century ago.” . Mrs. Dewey has shocked Washington officially and socially and has created no end of adverse criticism by disregarding the customs of the capital. Mrs. Dewey attended the White House reception on New Year’s day. She had prompted Admiral Dewey to ask for a place in the line of callers ahead of Gen. Miles. This was refused, and the admiral and his wife had to wait behind Gen. and Mrs. Miles. Mrs. Dewey became tired of this, and seizing Secretary Long by the arm when he passed the doorway she moved along with him. By doing this she passed the wives of the judges of the Supreme Court and others who were entitled to precede her. Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage intends to end his term of office with the close of this administration. He says it is his intention then to retire to private life. Assistant Secretary Frank Vanderlip also intends to sever his connection with the Treasury Department at the close of the McKinley administration. But Mr. Vanderlip will not retire from business. He has his eye on a New York bank—or, rather, the bank has its eye on him—and he will probably become its president. It isn’t often that we get sleighing in Washington, but when we do the population turns out eu masse to enjoy it. Anything and everything that is on runners is all right, and you see some of the queerest rigs imaginable. For instance, recently on Pennsylvania avenue, I saw one sleigh which consisted of a huge market basket on runners, and another had for its upper works a large wooden packing case. Both were jammed witn a grinning collection of darkies, and it’s a good guess that no one was having more fun than they were. The commissioner of internal revenue has decided that a physician who prescribes whisky, brandy, or any alcoholic liquor, which is not compounded with any dryg or medicinal substance for the purpose of forming a remedy, shall be required to pay the special internal revenue tax of $25 a year as a retail liquor dealer, provided he acts as a dispenser as well as a physician. The ruling is to apply even in cases where the liquor is prescribed strictly as a medicine and so used by the patient. The wedding of Gen. Miles’ daughter Cecelia was one of the most' beautiful and brilliant that has ever occurred in Washington. Miss, Miles has been a great favorite here, because of her lovely character and her personal attractions. Capt. Reber, her husband, is her third cousin, the son of the late Samuel Reber of St. Louis. His mother was a sister of the wife of Gen. Sherman. Twenty-three years ago Senator Teller entered the Senate. Only three Senators who saw him sworn in are still his colleagues—Allison of lowa. Cockrell of Missouri and Jones of Nevada. In the intervening twenty-three years over a hundred Senators have died. But Mr. Teller, although nearly three score and ten, is still strong and vigorous. The preliminary estimate of the production of gold aud silver in the United States during the calendar year 1899, made by Mr. Roberts, the director of the mint, shows a total gold production of last year of $7,231,170. The production of silver during the year is estimated at $74,424,696, an increase during the year of $4,040,211. Adjt. Gen. Corbin thinks the Lawton fund Will finally reach SIOO,OOO, which will be invested for Mrs. Lawtbn in government bonds and give her an income sufficient ,to provide against all want and enable her to educate her children properly. Brig. Gen. Greely, chief of the signal corps, is steadily recovering from the injuries inflicted on him by a drunken expressman. The resemblance between Roberts, the polygamist, and Senator Pritchard of North ' Carolina is remarkable. . They might be twin brothers. Both are of the same build, have the same cast of features, wear mustaches trimmed alike, and their curly hair might be duplicate wigs. Senator Kyle of South Dakota, the' tallest man in the Senate, is very fond of small boys, and by some strange affinity he likes the shortest page in that body.

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