Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Frelinghuysen has written to Commander Cheyne, at Toronto, that the scheme to reach the north pole by balloon is deemec impracticable. The letter-carriers of the chief cities have sent a delegation to Washington to ask for a vacation each year of thirty days without loss of pay. President Arthur has nominated Col. 8. B. Holabird to be Quartermaster General of the army. Washington advices report that Speaker Carlisle is seriously ill. and that his friends are disturbed at his condition. The campaign has been so hard upon him they fe*r that he may break down. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has allowed 43,27 V claims for rebate on tobacco and cigars, amounting to $3,500,000. Representative Deustcr has learned that speculators in Washington are offering to purchase these claims at a discount of 10 per cent., and has therefore taken steps to have a special appropriation made in the interests of tobacconists. Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, died at Washington, after a somewhat prolonged illness, brought on, it is thought, by overexertion in the last session of Congress, when he was the leader of the protectionists in their opposit ion to the Tariff bill. Representatives Han back and Ryan of Kansas, Kasson of lowa, Burnes of Missouri, Browne of Indiana, and Le Fevre of Ohio, were appointed a Congressional committee to accompany the remains to Lawrence, Kan.