Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

A report submitted to Congress by the commissioner of fish and fisheries shows an expenditure of $187,800 for the propagation of food fishes during the fiscal year ended June 30 last. The Treasury Department is considering a request by the St. Panl collector of customs to have a tea inspector stationed there. The plan is opposed by Chicago and New York importers. The President has pardoned Amanda V. Grierson, now McCarty, the aged actress convicted in the southern district of Ohio and sentenced to one year in jail for violation of the pension laws. She is said to be about 70 years of age and in feeble health. Maj. Gen. Wheeier has recommended to''the President that the sentence of death imposed by court martial upon Stephen Lindsay, a colored soldier of Troop F, Tenth cavafry, for killing another soldier in a brawl, be commuted to imprisonment for life. Dr. Wines, secretary of the Illinois State Board of Charities, has received a letter from the commissioner general of immigration at Washington, stating that

any alien Immigrant who may become a public charge within one year from the date of landing in the United States shall be returned to the country in which he belongs at the expense of the immigrant fund of the United States Government