Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Pacific slope representatives, at Washington held a meeting to consider the evasion of the Chinese Immigration law, and appointed a committee to prepare a bill providing for a passport system similar to that in wse on the continent of Europe. Secretary Folger has given orders for the removal of the body of Gen. Jesse H.. Moore from Callao, Peru, to Decatur, Hl., and the interment is announced for February. Senator Logan will oppose the proposed bill for the reinstatement of Fitz John Porter. Congress is about to take up the question of the unearned land grants of the railroads. It is claimed that the Kansas Pacific owes about $14,000,000 to .the Government, and the move is in the interest of having them locate their lands under the Thurman act, so that they will be subject to State taxation. About a dozen members of Congress called at the White House the other day, where Hon. S. S. Cox appealed to the Presi" dent to request a postponement of the execution of Patrick O’Donnell. The President in reply said the Department of State would at once telegraph Minister Lowell to make all possible inquiry regarding O’Donnell’s citizenship, and that he (the President) would take whatever action he could with proprlety-