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Show WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Star claims that Washington is one of the healthiest cities in the Union. Secretary Fish is said to Bpend $10,-000 $10,-000 a year above his salary as head of the cabinet. The house committee nn appropriations appropri-ations has reduced the item for fortifications forti-fications from 3,000,000 to $313,000. Some of the house committees are conducting their investigations with closed doors, to which the Washington Washing-ton journalists object. Senator Cameron is reported as expressing ex-pressing a preference for some one as the republican candidate for president who will take care of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvaniana. The house committee on civil service ser-vice reform propose to recommend to the house a proposition to prevent gifts or subscription by subordinates iu the public service to their superior o dicers. The Mot Id correspondent writes that all the hard and soft money men in the house want the specie resumption resump-tion act repealed, but the former are not williug to get rid of it until something some-thing better is ready to put in its place; for they consider it better than uncertainty. Some' one who wants Secretary Fish for president, gives him this first rale recommendation: "Governor Fish would make a good president. Ho eats and drinks like a gentleman, he has good digestion, and he is wise, honest und patriotic. It is doubtful if he ever did a mean thing in hia life." |