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not submit to wrong because of this fixed truth. The Fourth of March. The inauguration of a President of the the United States is an event to which attention of the whole civilized world is attracted, and the ceremonies attendant all thereupon are of absorbing interest millions to citizens of our Republic of fifty Disof people. To the residents of the trict of Columbia it is a National occurrence of peculiar importance, as within thouits borders gather thousands upon sands of people from all sections of our common country to witness and take part a in the inauguration proceedings. It is is gala day for the Nation's Capital, and source of large revenue to all classes The of business interests in Washington. coming inauguration on the 4th of March will, without doubt, be witnessed citi- by far larger assemblage of American a zens at their National Capital than ever before gathered here upon a similar occasion. This unprecedented large influx of visitors, whose attendance is already assumed, is due in a very large measure to the efforts made by the inauguration who committee of citizens of the District, have taken steps to provide attendant the attractions and entertainment for avalanche of visitors to an extent commensurate with the importance of the occasion. To do this in a proper manrequires a large temporary expenditure ner of means, and every resident libof the Capital can afford to subscribe erally to the request of the committee, the as the returns in a thousand ways from expenditures of our visitors will reimburse a hundred-fold. Our reputation as at of the Nation's Capital is our business interests are stake; inhabitants directly citizens involved, and should prompt our the to stand by the committee and make coming inauguration a success which will redound to the credit and enterprise of ever the Capital of the Republic. Fellowcitizens, subscribe liberally, for there must be no such word as fail Senator Bruce and the Freedman's Bank. Senator Bruce has done well in the discharge of the duties assigned him as chairman of the Select Committee on the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. At the last session he reported two billsthe offices of the three who receive one commissioners, to abolish $3,000 nominal, each annum for duties merely and per to substitute in their stead the Comptroller of the Currency at a compensation of $1,000, and the other to provide for the purchase of the Freedman's Bank property by the United States. The bill to abolish the commissioners was acquiesced in, it is understood, by two of them. It passed the Senate at the last session, and rests upon the Speaker's to table. A friendly paper-weight is said it down. Whenever the Democratic will press House sees fit to pass it, $8,000 a year due toward the discharge of the debts the depositors. The bill to authorize the Secretary the Treasury to purchase the of bank's property passed the Senate yesterday. It fixes the maximum price $250,000. The property embraces is at not only the bank building (which but 62 feet front), but all the land between that and Fifteenth-and-a-half street. The frontage on Pennsylvania avenue is 186 feet 10 inches, and on Fifteenthand-a-half street (opposite Lafayette Square) of 136 feet; total area, 23,121 feet. On Fifteenth-and-a-half the square street the property extends back to Commissary Department quarters. If the House will pass this the unfortuñate freedmen can have the $250,000 thepayment of their claims against the bank. Senator Bruce is entitled to praise for his exertionsin this business, and we hope both bills may speedily pass the House. IT falls to the lot of Washington people
