Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The national legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill, as agreed upon in 'the House committee, appropriates #20,472,£94, which is #937,00(1 less than the estimates hnd #209 240 less than the current appropriaItions for the same service. The President has vetoed tho bills granting pensions to Hannah H. Langdon, Betsy Mansjfield, and Laura A. Wright, on the ground jtliat the deaths did not result from injuries received during the war, or sickness incident •to army service; and until it is established as a policy that all soldiers’ widows shall bo pensioned, it is unfair and unjust to make ,exceptions in favor of only such as procure the passage of special acts. Secretary Bayard is to marry Mrs. Folsom, the mother of Mrs. Cleveland. Commissioners of Arbitration, whoso duties are to investigate the causes of labor troubles between interstate common carriers land their employes, are provided for in a bill which has passed the House at Washington. ’These commissioners are also to act as arbitrators when requested to do so by both parities to the dispute; The Metropolitan Club House in Washington has baen damaged by firo to the extent of #IO,OOO or $15,000. <•/