Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland notified a large delegation of cattlemen who called on him at the White House that he would not modify his recent order for the removal of the cattle from the leased lands in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations.

Washington telegram: “The committee appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to investigate the condition of the coast survey has submitted its report, which shows the existence of many scandalous abuses in that bureau, for which Prof. Hilgard, the recent Superintendent, is held largely responsible. The committee deprecates the reinstatement of any of the suspended officials in their former positions.”

A cable dispatch from Mr. Lee, Secretary of the American Legation at Vienna, has tftn received by the Department of State at Washington. Mr. Lee advises his superiors that the Austrian Government has positively declined to receive Mr. Keiley as United States Minister. The authorities of Austria give no reason for their action and merely say they will not receive the official. Mr. Keiley is now in Paris, where he has been for some weeks. He also has been informed of the decision of the Austrian authorities.

Secretary Whitney has served notice upon Mr. John Roach and his assignees that the contract for the building of the steel cruisers Chicago, Atlanta, and Boston have been forfeited, and has issued orders to the chiefs of the naval bureaus of steam engineering and construction and repair to take Charge of the unfinished vessels, materials, etc., and complete the work according to specifications. This action is taken pursuant to the terms of the contract in question.