Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company has filed with the Secretary of the Interior the bond for $500,000 required by the act of Congress granting the right of way through Indian Territory. The river and harbor bill, as remodeled by the Senate Committee on Commerce, provides for the acceptance of the Illinois and Michigan Canal by the Government and appropriates $300,000 for its extension to the Mississippi River. The House Committee on Rules has informally settled upon July 15 as the day of adjournment The House Foreign Committee has decided to report favorably a' bill authorizing the President to appoint military and naval attaches to foreign legations; also a bill to protect submarine cables. The Senate Committee on the District of Columbia has voted to report adversely upon the nomination of O. F. Matthews (colored) of Albany, N. Y., to be Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. The Curtin committee engaged in investigating the Southwestern Railroad strikes is dissatisfied with the return of H. M Hoxio to St. Louis without giving his testimony at Washington. Reports from Hot Spring state that Secretary Manning is very much improved in health and in good spirits.

It is said to have been pretty definitely settled that tho love-sick Senator Jones of Florida will not return to Washington during the present session of Congress. His daughter graduated at the Catholic seminary in Georgetown last week, but he was not present on the occasion. He still remains in Detroit, tho home of the object of his hopeless passion.