Show OCR LETTER e of the this has been a very busy week with the house committees at last they have begun the work of preparing subjects for legislation the house proper however been so profitably engaged it frittered fritt ered away one whole day in filibustering over the proposition to authorize members like ahe senators to employ clerks for every committee at a salary of one hundred dollars per month the peoples representatives have long been jealous of the senators for their enjoyment of the exclusive privilege of having a clerk and an effort is made every year to share it with them but they meet with small encouragement A private useful official foche transacts the private as well as the public business of his chief still members of the house need not promise themselves this luxury for some years yet the people are not ready to consent to an expense of furnishing secretaries ai the salary named A rather ludicrous scene was presented in the senate a few days ago in which the venerable senator brown the old war governor of georgia was the central figure it was not the matter but the manner of the senators revenue speech that excited the senators the orator made a very fair effort but on the plea of physical suffering ho asked permission after delivering a few sentences to finish his address in a sitting posture so for once the dignity of the senate was completely upset upon witnessing the unusual spectacle the personal of the senator with his long white hair and beard and minis ferial mien added to the eness of the occasion the diplomatic corps at washington has had an accession to its ranks this week the corean government having decided to establish a legation here the party has arrived and taken apartments at the ebbitt the legation consists of eleven persons all said to be from the higher social circles of corea in appearance they resemble the japanese their dress is handsome consisting of silks and velvety velvets vel vets and they are decked with jewels the grand army of the republic Ke public which numbers in the district of columbia is very much incensed at finding the of ono of their order in a washington medical college the body had been mysteriously taken froma hospital without the ardys knowledge and ignobly interred in potters field it was quite a sensation the late alleged irregularities in the municipal election at jackson miss in which it is said that the colored voters were not pr emitted to have a voice has been made the subject of a senate resolution by mr chandler president arthurs secre tary of the navy it proposes to in vesti gate the matter the attorney general of the united states in this same connection has commanded two or three federal officers in sip pi to appear before him and explain their conduct and it is understood they are coming with fear and trembling |