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Show 1 WASHINGTON GOSSIP. A new $3,000,000 congressional library building is proposed at Washington. Wash-ington. Better throw awav the trashy books. Currency tinkering is what the big wigs -call financial legislation. Let well enough alone, they say. But is it "nell enough" with the people? The commissioner of agriculture says that extensive depredations upon the farmers' crops the present year have brought into active eierc.se the knowledge and industry of the etomo-logicai etomo-logicai divisions of the agricultural department. If they will only kill the grasshoppers, all right. Washburne is coming home upon a short leave of absence, not to tinker the cabinet. That is satisfactory. Eight gambling clerks have been discharged from the treasury Idepart-ment. Idepart-ment. Right. Now let the fancy females go. Pernando Wood's salary grabbing proclivities will kill him for speaker of the house. The sum of $4,000 was recently stolen in a lump from the redemptoin bureau of the treasury. In the public schools of the district dis-trict nearly 1S,0 00 pupilt) have been enrolled, of whom 6,337 are colored, requiring 27G teachers. Congressional aid is asked. The agricultural department Jivst TTwii- uiai-riOuteu i,2iS0,iXH; packages of the best qualities of seeds. Southern papers are bringing forward for-ward candidates for the speakership of the next house. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, John M. Bright, and W. C. Wbittborne, of Tennesee, J. Hartridge, of Georgia, and ex-governor Walker, of Virginia, have been mentioned. The heads of bureaus at Washington Washing-ton insist that an increase of revenue trom duties on imports will be necessary neces-sary to make things run Bmoothly during the next fiscal year; but it is doubtful if congress will pay much attention to the wishes of those gentlemen. gen-tlemen. The commissioner of Indian affaire says it is not probable that as many as 600 warriors will ever again be mustered for a fight, and with the conflicting interests of the different tribes, and the occupation of the intervening in-tervening country by advancing settlements, such an event as a general gen-eral Indian war can never again occur in this country. The Chicago Times says that Grant's strategy has placed the opposition oppo-sition in the dilemma of having either to support the administration's hard money" policy, or oppose it, making itself an administration party if it takes the first named course. There is no difficulty in predicting who and what the Times will support. At tho last session of congress appropriations ap-propriations of $25,000 each were made for the Roman Catholic organization organi-zation known as the 1 'Little Sisters of the Poor," and a Protestant charity, "The Women's Christian Association," Associa-tion," tho money to be used for the erection of buildings in Washington lor these societies. It has transpired that the former society is building a a chapel with its money, a sectarian use which is deplored by some; but why congress should have giyen the money at all is a query. Grant is reported to have said recently that he would have vetoed the civil rights bill of the last session of congress, and will do so with any bill with similar provisions on social questions. Mixed schools, he says, will not do. Tlie papers aro making a note of the fact that Harrington, one of the safe burglary conspirators, was among the invited guests at tho White House at the reception given in honor of Pred . Grant and Lis bride. |