Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1890 — Capital Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Capital Gossip.

The Pennsylvania National Bank of Pittsburg, capital $300,000, has been authorized to commence business. The Senate has passed the House bill providing for duplicate discharge papers to naval veterans who have lost their originals. The Senate has adopted a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to debts due by Southern States on Indian trust funds and on the direct tax of 1861. The interstate commerce committee of the Senate have ordered the interstate telegraph bill favorably in the form in which it passed the Senate in the last Congress, with unimportant amendments. Appropriations have been asked by the Secretary of the Treasury as follows: Millitary port at Fort Myer, Va., $66,410; for eleventh census, $75,000; building garrisons, $140,000; expenses of West Point Military Academy, $75,000. At a caucus of Democratic Senators a resolution was adopted for the appointment of a committee to consult with the House Congressional conmitteo as to tho coriduct of the next campaign and to define questions of party policy. No mention was made of the Aberdeen affair. Secretary Windom is about to issue a second call on the national bank depositories for a surrender of 10 per cent of government funds held by them. The six.or eight banks that hold less than $50,000 will be called upon to surrender all and close up their account witn the government. George H. Ely, of Cleveland; H. W. Seymour, of Sault Ste. Marie, and‘Colonel C. H. Graves, of Duluth, made an argument before the House committee on rivers and harbors in favor of granting the lump sum asked for the improvement of the St. Mary’s river and the Hay Lake channel.