Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

After this week until about the Ist of October the business of the executive mansion and most o< that of the executive departments will be conducted from Crcsson, Pa., on the summit of the Allegheny mountains. The President will be located

there with his family. The Park cottage has been put in order for their, occupancy this week. When the President goes there he will return to Washington only at intervals of a week or longer, for a day or two, to attend to business which he vian not transact outside of the White House.He wijl have a special wire and his regularly employed operator at hand, placing him in constant and direct communication with Congress and the executive departments. At all the departments there are special telegraphers who operate over the government circuit wires. Bills for the signatures of the President can go from Congress to Cresson in a few hours, and the announcement of his signature made by telegraph.

The death-roll of the House in this Congress is a large one. It contains eleven names. They are: S. S. Cox, David Wilbur and N. W. Nutting, of New York; Wm. D. Kelley, Samuel J. Randall and L J. Watson, of Pennsylvania; James N Burns and James P. Walker, of Missouri; James Laird, of Nebraska; [E. J. Gay, of Louisiana, and Richard W. Townsend, of Illnois. In the Senate there has been one death, James B. Beck, of Kentucky,

During the debate on the tariff bill on the 25th, Senators Gray and Stewart en gaged in a little colloquy over the position of St. Paul as a protectionist, caused by the allusion to the story of Dometrius, the s i lversmith, at Ephesus, as narrated in the Acts. While the colloquy was in progress Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, came in and hearing numerous allusions to St, Paul, and being ignorant of the origin of the talk, interrupted it with the remark that a good deal had been heard about St Paul upon the tariff, and he desired t know if the position of Minneapolis on the subject had been defined by any one.