Show POTOMAC POTPOURRI tariff commission animal annual council militia tia uniforms presidential portraits alts kancans cancans Can Gulte cans atOs correspondence etc EDITOR HERALD it was expected that the first cabinet meeting tills this week would result in the settlement of a elate slate for the tile TARIFF commission unexpected difficulties present themselves however so that lie the nominations are again delayed there aro are so many names under consideration that it is simply guesswork to attempt to eay say who will bo he taken as the president himself does not know the names derel most lia liable bleto to bo be among the number arc are henry IV oliver and robert P porter it had been settled for some time that ex secretary kirkwood head the list but it is baret barely possible that ome some other name may be a chosen after all As the alato now stands stand sir mr portlis Port cis name is determined ter mined upon as the one of the number general francis A walker has bas been urged for the chairmanship of the commission by secretary chandler but the secretary of the american cantron iron and steel association baa has sent in a vigorous protest on the ground that he is a free frea bader it is considered doubtful if the president will take a man distasteful to so powerful an interest although alt although houTh lie may have a place on the board boar the annual council of the regen recent t and vice regents of tho tile MOUNT VEl tOX LADIES association began yesterday at the mansion there were present at the opening session at fourteen members sirs john scott of pennsylvania the recent regent of tho tile asso cia tion presiding the other ladies are miss emily harper of Itla maryland ryland mrs barry of illinois mrs yulee of florida miss alice longfellow oi of massachusetts mrs eve of georgia I mrs sweat of maine mrs governor pickens of south carolina mrs broadwell of ohio mrs balstead Ral stead of new jersey mrs howard townsend of new york mrs alexander mitch ellof Wis wisconsin cosin mrs birs colonel washington of west virginia and mrs irs herbet of alabama tho latter lady is the wife wire of representative herbert erberto fi and is present at the council for the tile first time being one of the latest appointees poin tees the senate committee on finance has just made AN ADVERSE DECISION in a ease case of a somewhat novel character A company of militia in chicago ca composed of of scotch descent adopted the highland un uniform aid and ordered them from soot scot iu yi press it to nuth authorize orize ihu zhu refund nd of the gess duties utes paid and the house passed a bill to that effect the senate finance committee decided adversely because of their opinion t hat it aou wound td set a precedent under which all militia organizations would ask forthe for the refund of duties paid on imported uniforms A full length life size portrait of PRESIDENT was lately purchased for the white house wr ars removed there last week but has not yet been hung and until a place is selected for it it stands the wall in the green parlor where the portrait of mrs ill haves i is similarly situated his portrait at ell is by mr E F andrew who painted several of the other portraits of presidents now there and also that of martha washington this portrait lias has been highly commended by gen Gar garfielda fields nearest friends and is tho the bame same which hung in the house of representatives during the tile memorial services on feb the collection at the executive blan mansion sion of portraits of presidents now lacks only those of hayes and arthur to complete up to the present time during the haves hayes administration a number were added to tho the collection making it a full representation up to his accession GUITEAU APPEARS to have lost some flesh du during rill tile past part three or four weeks and the the color he lie then had is fading from liis his cheeks having within a few weeks allowed liis his beard to grow his appearance is somewhat changed just now he lie seems to put his entire dependence ort mr reed liis his counsel and lio lie seems to bo be confident that mr reed will succeed in securing a respite and perhaps a commutation of sentence tut but like mr reed he is reticent as to what the next move will be he ile never mentions the name of scoville and seems to have dismissed his relatives from his mind it would seem that in the case of guiteau the postal law against sending scurrilous matter through the mails hasteen has been suspended by common consent daily there are quantities of letters and postal cards lards of this kind received for him there are comparatively few letters his correspondence being almost by postal card and about nine out of ten have some soothing refer ence to the scaffold hell bell satan etc one received a day or two ago contained a pyramid formed odthe of the names of Dia bolus judas iscariot benedict arnold aaron burr jeff davis da vis wilkes booth surmounted by that ok of Guit guitrau cau with the figure of a man hanging from a beam at the top and two serpents crawling toward it and further furt lier embellished by the words gathered to his fathers such communications arc are never delivered to bitu Oui tu the senate finance committees committee will ill probably report favorably the house dill to EXTEND THE TILE BANK there will be some alight amendments made it is claimed by some of the committee that a clause of the bill providing that worth of bonds may be deposited by a bank is ambiguous us and under it a bank mi might have circulation and only only worth of bonds dep deposited osite some of f the cammi committee atee also are in favor of allowine allowing the withdrawal of a month instead of COO Au AUGUST WASH 12 f may ilay 27 five additional british war vessels are to be at alexandria today to day |