Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Sam Randall is said to be at work on a new tariff bill which will reduce the revenue $30,000,060. Washington telegram: “Western Senators are receiving letters in great numbers urging them to oppose the confirmation of Land Commissioner Sparks because of his recent rulings. Mr. Sparks was confirmed by the Senate as Commissioner of the General Land Office on the 25th of last March.” The invalid wife of Congressman Owen, of Logansport, Ind, died at Washington of consumption The National Typographic Company, which expects to revolutionize the art of printing by its new type-setting machines, says a Washington telegram, has organized a construction company within the parent organization for the purpose of building the machines. The scheme is said to be that 50 per cent, shall accrue to the senior company and 50 per cent, to the construction company. A Washington dispatch says a bill is to be introduced in Congress to lend the name of the Government to the International Exposition to be held in Chicago in 1893, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America.