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Show LATEST BIOTES, GENERAL. WASHINGTON. Help lut' 'Iio Dischnrjred Clerks. Remains of Kpcnkpr Kerr ill tho Capitol. Keating tlie Intention ol the Lun iut I''olloiviu its Letter. Washington, 21. Owing to the illness today of Secretary Morrill, who was not at the treasury department, depart-ment, negotiations for placing the 4$ per cont. loan havo been temporarily suspended. There is a movement on foot in the treasury to raise a pool in each ol the several bureaus for the relief of those who are to lose their places by tho contemplated reduction. Tho plan is to assess the employei of each bureau a stated amount, the sum raised to be distributed among tho discharged. When the remains of tho lalo Speaker Kerr arrive here thcsergeant-at-arms, Thompson, will take charge of them. Ho is in favor of having them lie in state one day in the capitol. Speaker S.iyler, before leaving leav-ing last evening for Kock Bridge, Alum springs, strongly favored such a course. This will depend much im the feelings of Mrs. Kerr iu this respect. re-spect. Tho Tribune's Washington special eays: Both campaign committees are hard at work in the capital, putting up and sending off documents. Scores of folders, posters and mailers fill the lower halls and corridors of the house wing. Government is paying a gnod snare of the expenses. The failure of the franking bill in the house does not appear to affect the politicians so seriouslay after all, as there is a law evasion already in force. Members and senators have the right to frank tho Cvnyress'.onal Hccord and send it free through the mails, and the device is now to print on tho wrappers of speeches thu words, "Fart of the Congressional Record free," and under this a member writes his name. As the speeches now being distributed were no doubt onco printed in the Record, the endorsement is technically right, but nobody intended the law to bo used to cover the free transportation of campaign documents. It is also observed that iu many cases tin? franking privilege is not done by any member, but by a substitute. The postmaster general will moot tho commission appointed under thi1 postoffice appropriation bill Lo inves tigate the subject of the transportation transporta-tion of mails ou raiiroads, at New York, this week. Tho names of the commission havo not yet been made public, but the president said on Saturday that he should appoint G. H. Hubbard of Massachusetts and F. W. Falmer of CuicHgo as members. |