Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury that an appropriation of $4,663,104 will be needed under the Mexican pension bill for the first yearly payments. The President has approved the act amending the act providing for the sale of the Sac and Fox and lowa Indian reservations. United States Treasurer Jordan will resign in May to accept the Presidency of the Western National Bank of New York. Chauncey M. Depew and other New York Central officials telegraphed Attorney General Garland asking that they might be hoard in opposition to the interstate commerce bill before the President acted upon it Mr. Garland declined to listen to oral arguments, but stated be would receive printed protests. A committee of the National Woman Suffrage Association called on the President last week and presented a memorial asking him to veto the Edmunds bill or the Tucker substitute therefor, whichever shall pass Congress, proposing to disfranchise non-polyga-mouß women of Utah. The President said he would givo the memorial his careful consideration. Ho recognized that it was a serious matter to disfranchise any class. At Leavenworth, thirty-five masked men broke into the jail, took out a negro ravisher named Richard Wood, and dragged him to death in the streets by a rope attached to the saddle of a masked horseman. No effort is likely to be made to arrest tho lynchers. A final dividend of 5 per cent, in favor of creditors of the World’s Exposition at New Orleans has been made by the Acting Secretary of tho Treasury from the Congressional appropriation of $355,000.