Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Ex-Secretary Manning has sailed for Europe, with his wife and daughter, in the hope of regaining strength. The Attorney General has informed the Navy Department that the available balance of the appropriations, under the respective heads of “bureau of construction and repair,” and “bureau of steam engineering,” can be lawfully applied to completing the hulls and machinery of the cruisers Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta, provided the total expenditure shall not exceed the total cost of hulls and machinery as reported by the Naval Advisory Board. Work upon the vessels will be resumed at once. C. H. J. Taylor, of Kansas, has been appointed Minister to Liberia. The Navy Department is about to begin the preparation of plans for tbo two 1,700ton gunboats for which provi-ion was made by the last Congress. During the week ended March 12 there were received at Washington 0,855 applications for ponsious and 2,154 cases were disposed of during the week, leaving a total of 20(1,280 cases pending. President Cleveland was 50 years of ago on the 18th of March. The Secretary of the Treasury sent out a circular setting forth the action of Congress on the fishery question