Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

By a vote of five to three, the House Committee on Elections decided to report in l'avor of giving the seat from the lndianap. olis District, now held by Peelle (Rep.) to William English. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations reports that none of the tariffs of European or American countries specifically discriminate against merchandise from the United States, but France and AustroHungary have systems which operate against us, and Great Britain has discriminated against American cattle for alleged sanitary reasons. The United States, after an effort to show tho facts, may retaliate against causeless prohibition. The pension bill as reported from the Appropriation Committee of the House reduces the amount of the unexpended Dal. ance to be appropriated for the coming year from $84,009,000 to $06,000,000, and strikes out tho provision allowing pension agents 10 per cent, on claims. Congressmen and Senators in large numbers absented themselves from the legislative halls at Washington, D. C., to attend the horse-races near th.it city. Some of them bought pools on tho races. Speaker Carlisle states that he has not examined the Hewitt bill, but he does not think that it will be seriously considered before adjournment. Washington dispatches assert that it Is tho policy of tho leaders on tho Democratic side of the House to adjourn’ some timo tho last of June, or tho Ist of July at the latest. It is estimated that it has cost the Government SIO,OOO for printing tho speeches made upon the tariff bill.