Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The House Ways and Means Committee lias decided to report a bill making the full term of the bonded period on distilled spirits six years instead of three. The Secretary of the Treasury is unable to grant the request of the officials of New Orleans for the free admits on of certain blocks of marble presented for the city park by the Government of Mexico. The existirg labor troubled were a topic of discussion at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday, in the course of which the riots in Chicago and Milwaukee and elsewhere were referred to, with a view of takin»nucli pre-< cautionary measures for the protection of Government property as may be found necessary. George W. Julian, Surveyor General of New Mexico, has sent to the Commissioner of tho General Land Office a complaint against the inaction of Congress on opinions as to three fraudulent grants which keep three hundred thousand acres from settlement