Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Notes from the Capital. [ARTICLE]

Notes from the Capital.

The District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed The Senate cortfirmed the nomination of Henry Clay Evans, of Tennessee, to be First Assistant Postmaster General. Secretary Tracy has awarded the contracts for constructing the cruiser Brooklyn and the. battle ship lowa to Cramp <fc Sons of Philadelphia. Mb. Bobinson, of Pennsylvania introduced in the House a bill increasing from $1 to $2 per barrel the internal revenue tax on fermented liquors. Yoir. I. of the reissue of early numbers of the war record series has just come from the public printer and is now being distributed from the War Department upon lists furnished by Senators and Representatives. A large list is also accumulating there through Congressmen for copies of the next edition of the Chickamauga maps. In the House Representative Bynum offered for reference a resolution directing the Civil Service Commission to furnish the names of all appointees reinstated in the classified service of th« Government since the 4th of March. 1889, the cause of their separation front the service, the States to which thej were charged at the time of their separ ation. and the State* to which they wm credited upon their reinstatement.