Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Washington Monument Association has resolved to ask Congress to provide for the celebration of the completion of the shaft within a year. Charles E. Coon, of New York, has been nominated Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to succeed John C. New. A. E. Bateman a banker, of Washington, has filed with the Secretary of War a letter Charging Brig. Gen. Swaim with fraud and with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. If all of the 102 Congressmen who are loaded with speeches on tho Morrison tariff bill are given a chance to talk, it is estimated by a Washington correspondent that they will take up six weeks of the time of Congress. It is understood tbat tho Republicans and the Democratic protectionists will' endeavor to cut them off by a motion to strike out the enacting clause of the bill at the earliest opportunity. This may not succeed, as Mr. Morrison has promised to accede to many of the amendments to be offered by the representatives of special interests, and to agreo to the abolition of the internal-revenue tax, except that on whisky and malt liquors. The fate of the bill in tho House is ihvolved in much uncertainty. By a vote of 10 to 1 the House Committee on Postoffices and Post-Roads adopted a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the committee that it is expedient to adopt the contract system of postal telegraphy. The Missouri Congressmen are asking an appropriation of 51,000,000 for the improvement of the Missouri River.