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Thursday, February <e, ltrjd
By 0. P. AUSTIN
WHEN CONGRESS MET IN WALL
The National Cltu Bank
4 New York
J u s t 131 y e a rs a g o th e C ongress
©f th e U n ited S ta te s w as bidding
adieu to W all S treet, w here it had
asso c ia te d w ith the “ m oney pow er”
fo r a five-year - period, re tu rn in g
te m p o ra rily to its scenes of form er
ac tiv ity a t P hiladelphia, w hence it
w as to finally rem ove to the new
capitol to be established on the
P o to m ac.
Few of the th o u san d s o f people
w ho pass the histo ric sp o t a t the
c o rn e r of W all and N assau streets,
b u t a few feet from the doors of
T h e N ational City B ank of New
ork, are m indful of the stirrin g
events which occurred d u ring the
five years in which it w as the ab id
ing place of Congress.
New York Eighth Capitol
I t w as in 1785 th a t the C ongress
©f th e C onfederation, a fte r a de
cade of w andering in search of a
■permanent abiding place, e sta b
lished itself in the m odest old City
H a ll, which then sto o d a t the co r
n e r of W all and N assau streets.
D u rin g the period of its existence,
fhich began at P hiladelphia in
774, it had held session in no less
th an seven different cities and
to w n s, th u i m aking New Y ork the
eig h th capitol of the U nited States,
w hile W ashington becam e in its
to rn th e ninth capitol.
I
I
K ept on the Run
T h e pe ¡patetic life which C on
gress had d daring the decade be
fore sett) t down in N ew York
had bee
large degree due to the
necessity >f harried m oves to pre-
t*1.e
»nd the C ongress
falling in; ;he hands of the British.
t'- s t movement from the
I n e t t y place, Philadel
occ ’ 1 ht 1776, when the
ig to move up-
tne D ecem ber
at
1776, was held
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ve4f ho
im m ediate
phia tem -
ever, the
iat city in
M ar^, U
■at , wi
— h an o th er
movement o f the B ritish in th a t
direction,
'astily rem oved to
I-ancaeter,
nsylvania, w here it
remained
bin io r three days, re
.
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m oving thence to Y ork on the' op
posite side of the Susquehanna,
w here it spent all f th a t terrible
,n which »Vashington was
a t Valley F o rg e
oc
pora
Con
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Returns to Old Quarters
O n the evacuation of P h ilad el
phia by the B ritish in 1778, C on
gress retu rn ed to its old q u a rte rs in
f t * 1, C1# ’ • re m aining there until
l/» J . O w in g to som e m isu n d er
sta n d in g s w ith the Philadelphia
a u th o ritie s, it rem oved over n ight
Princeton, New Jersey.
At
P rm c e to n it com pleted its session
and th ere adopted a plan for the
c re a tio n of tw o p erm an en t capitol
eit -s, one to be located on the
P o to m a c and the o th er on the Dela-
Ashland
Tidings
Established 1876
Published Every Evening
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Sunday
After five years in old Federal Hall it was packing its bags Just 131 years ago to move to;
Philadelphia, thence to Wasl.ington.
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debt of the C onfederation; second,
the full paym ent of th e dom estic
debt, which had fallen far below
■mr in its m arket value; and. third.
assum ption by the G overnm ent
o.
e debts incurred by the re-
spi
" states during the revolu
tion.
«r®t proposition, for full
paym eni
t the foreign debt met
w ith no o; m sition, and th at for the
paym ent of the dom estic debt was
opposed by m any but received a
m ajority vote.
•
Lure of Great City
T h e session of 1783 was held a t
A nnapolis and th a t of 1784 a t T re n
ton, w here it appears th a t the lure
of the g rea t city of New Y ork,
which had then a population o f
33,000, o v ertu rn ed the doub’e capi
tol plan, and in Ja n u ary , 178a, the
C ongress rem oved to N ew Y ork,
w here it w as g ran te d the use of the
City H all.
All of th e m eetin g s up to th is
tim e had, c>f course, ccc:.rred u n d er
the A rticles
of C onfederation,
which, how ever, had proven un
satisfacto ry , and when the ninth
state ratified the p roposed C o n stitu
tion, in 1788, the C c n p re -s, then in
session in N ew Y ork, .a s tl y passed
a m easure req u irin g tba*. the vote
for the P resid en t, p ro . d n ' by tue.
new C o n stitu tio n , sh..: . occur on
"the first W ednesday i i Ja n u ary ,
1789,” th at the electo ral votes
should be east on “ the hr t W ed
nesday in F e b ru ary .” . ud th a t the
P resident should bo inaugurated on
“ the first W ednesday m Mai oh.”
As it happened th at the fir. i W ed
nesday in M arch fell ’>pon i he
fourth day of th at m onth, the da e
“ M arch 4th,” as the beginning uf
the term of the P resident a n d Con-
p-ess, was thus perm an en tly estab -
ished.
Opposition is Aroused
T he th ird proposition, th a t the
G overnm ent of the U nited State»
should assum e the debts created by
the respective states during the
R evolutionary W a r was b it.e rly o p
posed and its final settlem ent re
sulted incidentally in the good-bye
of C ongress to W all street. T he
opposition to paym ent by the Gov
ern m en t of the claim s of the re
spective states was b itte r and long
drawn out, much of the opposition
being based upon the assertio n th a t
the claim s had been already bought
up by speculators and th a t the as
sum ption by the C ongress under
f
Inauguration is Delayed
W ith the lim ited facilities of com
m unication and travel which c h a r
acterized those days in which the
telegraph the w ireless, th e railroad
o r the flying m achine had not yet
been dream ed of, the official rep o rt
of the election did n e t reach G en
eral W ash in g to n a t his hom e in
V irginia until A pril 14, 1789, and
because of tdie tim e occupied by his
jo u rn ey thence to New Y ork, his
actual in au g u ratio n did not occur
until A pril 30, 1789. M eantim e, the
en te rp risin g citizens of N ew York,
realizing th a t the dignity of C on
gress and P resid en t under the new
C o n stitu tio n required m ore suitable
surro u n d in g s than those offered by
the old City H all, had contributed
$32,500 for the im provem ent of th a t
building, and it w as re-nam ed “ F ed
eral H a ll” and ih u s becam e the
m eeting place of the F irs t C ongress
u n d tr the C o n stitu tio n and the
place in which W ash in g to n took
the oath of office as the first P re s
ident of the U nited S tates.
Why Congress Moved
It was d uring the second session
of th a t J ir s t Congress- under the
new C o n stitution th a t the events
occurred which resulted in the de
p a rtu re of the C ongress from New
Y ork and the estab lish m en t of the
p erm anent capitol zif the nation at
the spot now designated as the
D istrict of C olum bia and the city
T he .American C ongress had ten m eetin g places up until
the tim e it w as p e rm an en tly lo cated in W ash -
m g to n in 1800. T h e pictu res reproduced here are fm m rare old p rin ts and original draw ings collected
by Mr. A ustin. T hey are listed below in the o rd er in vhich the buildings w ere occupied by C ongress:
8. C a rp e n te r’s H all, P hiladelphia, 1774
4. O ld City H all, N ew York, Wall and Nassau
10. 179OJ8SoenCC HaH’ P hiladeIphia’ 177S- 1777-78.
S treets, 1785-88.
6. B altim ore, D ecem ber, 1776.
7. F ederal H all, N ew Y ork (re c o n stru c te d City
9. C ourt-house, L a n c aste r, P ennsylvar.ia 1777
H all), \ \ all and N assau S tre e ts, w here the first
2. C ourt-house, Y ork, P ennsylvania, 1777.
C ongress under the C o n stitu tio n m et, and P re s
1. N assau H all, P rin ceto n , N. J., N ovem ber, 1783
ident W a sh in g to n w as inaugurated.
3. S tate-house, A nnapolis, Md., 1783.
11. F irst C apitol building at W ash in g to n , D. C.,
5. C ourt-house, T re n to n , New Jersey, 1784.
1800.
of W ash in g to n . O ne of the first
im p o rta n t questions laid before the
C ongress had been th a t of the a s
sum ption by the G overnm ent of the
ex istin g debts of the C onfederation
and those which the states had
created d u rin g the revolution T he
foreign deb t am ounted to $12,000,-
000, the dom estic debt of the C on
federation $42,000,000 while the
debts of the various sta te s incurred
during the R evolutionary W a r a g
greg ated $26,000.000 m aking the
grand to tal of $80,000.000, a sum
which then sounded large, no m a t
ter how sm all it seem s to us in
Love in a Cottage Enters Life of Rich American
Except
THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO.
OFFICIAL CITY AND C(fUNTY~
PAPER
C§UMME c P l AYGR0UND'
ware; the sessions pending the con*
struction of the proper buildings a*
the new capitols to be held alter
nately at Annapolis and Trenton.
H r ÉE?
. sieincd likely to fail, diplom acy
m. its fine work. '1 he question it
| to the p erm an en t location of \ ie
I Capitol of the N ation was . eti
pending. N ew York, P h ila ik a:®
and B altim ore w anted it. Sv did
i several o th e r e n te rp risin g cities a n d ’
tow ns in the m iddle sta te s a n d
in V irginia. T he South, which w a t
opposing the m easure for the pay
m ent of the claim s of the states,
was solidly in favor of the tra n s fe r .
of the p erm an en t seat of go\ e m
inent to th at section of the co u n try .
H am ilton favored the paym ent o f
the claim s of the states, Jefferson
favored the location of the C apitol
a t the South, and these tw o ex
perienced m en, p u ttin g their head®
to g eth er, w orked out a plan whichf!
was laid before certain of theii col-'
leagues a t a dinner at the hom e otf
Jefferson, w here th e details we'r«
agreed upon. T h e n ex t day, tv th a
asto n ish m en t of those n o t im m edi
ately p a rticip a tin g in the agree-
n en t, the h o stility of certain S ou th s
ci i m em bers tb the paym ent of th a
claim s of the states m y ste rio u tly
disappeared. T h e bill fo r p ay m en t
of these cla’m s w as passed and ®T
little later t e m easure estab lish in g
a perm anent eat of G o v e rn m e n t’
on the P otom a
cam e a law, with!
a proviso th a t L.
■‘•ss should re-;
move to Philadelp. a before the,
these days in which we count gov
e rn m en tal a p p ro p riatio n s in term s
of billions.
H am ilton’s T hree Proposals
Wall Street in the early days of the Republic. The building with the
“custom house” sign is on the site of the present home of The National
City Bank of New York.
th a t date w ould n o t be m aterially
beneficial to the s ta te s them selves.
M ost of these claim s w ere held in
the N o rth , and as a result, the
m em bers from th e n o rth e rn sta te s
favored
the proposition, while
those of the S outh w ere alm ost
solidly a g ain st it and succeeded in
tem p o rarily d efeatin g this feature
of the m easure.
How it Was Settled
T he p roposition subm o r .l
ihe
A
t
this
ju n ctu re, when the a s
C ongress by H aniiit'.-e included"
first, the assum ption <?? the
< nJ sum ption of the debts of the stai.es
in which the air of romance sur-i
rounding the 23-year-old soldier:
made a deep impression on the heart
of the onetime leader of Chicago
north-side society.
Anastase’s career as locomitive
builder commenced some time ago,
when a highly-polished limousine
drove up to the offices of the Eddy
stone works and deposited him
armed with a letter of Introduction
to Samuel M. Vauclain, president of
Baldwin’s. A conference with Wil
liam Thomas, labor superintendent,
followed, and the next day “V. V.”
as his fellows know him, started
work on atesting gang in.shop No.
1, contract No. 16. *
Such A Short Month
The Citizens Bank
and rem ain th ere until the year
1800, by w hich tim e the C apitol
buildings and p residential residence
w ould be ready for occupancy.
A nd this is how it happened th a t
131 years ago C ongress was te a r
fully packing its belongings at th e
co rn er of W all and N assau street®
p re p a ra to ry to the trip to P hila
delphia, which was then a m a tte r
of several days instead of a couplg
of h o u rs as a t present.
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Hopes for New Czar
Since that time he has worked
daily from 7:30 to 5.
“I do not want my wife to live in
any house but mine,” he said, “paid
for with my own money. The car
she
is to pay for it— it will cost
$7,000,000 Lost
$1600—the furniture also.”
Smiling, young Vonsiatskoy re
In Chicago Fraud
ferred to his own fortune of 1,200,-
000 rubles, which he modestly values
at
five dollars. The aristocratic
CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Investiga
Russian
family from which he de
tion into the operations of Raymond
scended formerly ruled over vast
J. Bischoff, 25 year old promoter,
estates In southern Russia. These
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m , "wLvclv
ItVliT-X
revealed that more than $7,000,000
were all seized by the Bolshevik!
during
the revolution, for the fam
had been “borrowed” from poor per
(International News Service)
routed him from hied in time to , calls he has had to submit to since he
ily
were
pronounced monarchists.
sons, mostly of foreign extraction,
CHESTER, Pa., Feb. 16.—“I shall, punch the time clock at Baldwin’s ; sprang into the limelight.
Anastase
himself,
while resident in
during the past two years, by three stay and work at Baldwin’s—how before 7:30 In the big Eddystone
Anastase prides himself on having|pflH» Z n
« I /
,, re9iaeni 11
he may be seen In acid-spat-J been aide to both of the famous lead- , ^ lral’ Kolchak wrote
men who held out the lure of rich long I do not know,” replied Ana- shops
p fi a v o r a l ls a t nrni>lr
u „ u “White”
r m .,..,, Russian forces
.
m ira i KOlChak, WTOte
The Diary
stase Anrevitch Vonsiatskoy-Vonsi- ter
tered
«veralls at work in shop No. I ers of » the
returns.
of.
a
Monarchist,”
which,
he says,
atsky,
23,
when
questioned
as
to
his
1, contract No. 16, in his capacity as
HU romance
Mrs. Martan would a p p ro v e p o p u la/« published
The amount of the “borrowings”
.
puunsneu
ranged from a few dollars up to one intentions following his marriage to chemical tester. He is well-liked by Stephens, wealthy divorcee was the . . v
loan of $8000. The average was ap Mrs. Marian Stephens, 45, heiress to his fellow workmen, to whom he is result of a chance meeting’ in Paris r h ‘S C° UQ try ’ let alone in 30T, et
$40,000,000 in New York.
known as “V. V.”
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proximately $200.
"The
house
at
No.
505
Swarth
Ever since he came to Baldwin’s
Warrants charging Bischoff and
more
avenue,
where
we
will
live,
is
two of his aides with obtaining mon
he has been working to establish the
ey under false pretenses were issued to be mine. I may take out citizen home at Ridley Park, on which h e !
yesterday and the police are now ship papers for America, but that is
looking for Harrington, one of the not certain. I would return to my
promoters, who was declared to have own country if they would restore bride Is of the familiar Pennsylvania
the szar, for I am a monarchist Af Railroad school of Swiss architecture
left the city.
there are two mighty important birthdays
fairs in Russia now are chaos—I do so frequently found in this section,
not even know if my brothers and but its lack of artistic merit does not
RESOLUTION TO PURCHASE
crowded into February, and both Washington
sisters live. I have seen horrors: I bother Aanastase.
ST. LAWRENCE TERRITORY have lived horrors.
My wife is
He is proud of it and delighted to
and Lincoln were vigorous advocates of thrift
younger than her years; but I—I am be ordering furniture for it from
WASHINGTON, b. C.. Feb. 16.— older than my years, for I have seen
Could there he a more fitting tribute to the
Camden. Also, he prides himself on
Purchase by the United States of all mn dying, suffering, wounds, death!”
the acquirement of a second-hand
tho Canadian territory south and
memory of these two great men of America
He shddered and seemed to visu automobile. He paid $100 down on
east of the St. Lawrence river and alize the last stand of the shattered
than the opening or increasing of a savings
the center of the Gulf of St. Law remnants of Admiral Kolchak’s army the car and displayed a telegram
rence. with a view to developing and against the encircling hordes of the signed “Marian” to the salesman In
account f
utilizing half of the water power Bolshevists. Anastase was aide to which the balance of the sum of
$1600 was guaranteed.
from the river, is proposed In a reso General Denikin and Admiral Kol
After several encounters with
lution introduced by Representative chak before they were overwhlemed
groups of newspapermen he has as
Ten Eyck, democrat, of New York.
In the rising Red tide.
sumed a bored expression, which
The author suggested that pay
Before his marriage Vonsiatskoy
ments due the* United States on the lived like an average American here. plainly says that he would rather
face the hordes of Lenlne and Trot
Ashland,
Oregon
British debt be 'tftifcel'W 'tk e pur
He roomed at the Y. M. C. A., sky ten times over than run the
chase
'where each morning an alarm clock gauntlet of question® and telephone
date set for the next session, the
first Monday in December, 1790,
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