Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Chief Justice Waite has derived very great benefit from his three months’ trip abroad, most of which time ho spent in England and Scotland. Do was very much run down by his official labors, and the rest and change which he has experienced have made a new man of him. Secretary Endicott has determined to allow no exceptions whatever to the operations of his recent order sending to their regiments all officers who have been absent therefrom on staff duty four years or more. A statement prepared at the Treasury Department shows that the amount of standard silver dollars put into circulation during tho mouth of September in tho regular courso of business was $27,000,000. Counterfeit 7 per cent. SI,OOO bonds of tho District of Columbia are in circulation, and some of them have been sold in Kansas City. Tho report of the naval board appointed to investigate tho construction of tho United States steamer Mohican and the organization of the Mare Island navy-yard, in California, is made public. The board finds that the Mohican was built without any legal authority. Tho vessel has cost, including repairs, $597,591, and the work and material used are pronounced satisfactory. Attorney-General Garland has written a letter to the President explaining that, three years ago, In good faith, he became interested in the Pan Electric Telephone Company, and that ho is in no way responsible for late legal action in tho matter, having taken, personally, no part in nor been informed of the details of litigation in the case. Tho Solicitor-General writes a letter announcing that he has taken such steps as will result In a discontinuation of the suit which has attracted so much attention, on the ground that tho precedent set might not be good. The items of “ginger ale,” “lemonade,” and “newspapers” were stricken from theoxponse account of the civil-service commission by the Secretary of the Treasury.