Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Government refuses to provide clothing for Nebraska soldiers returning from Manila. Commodore John W. Philip succeeds Rear Admiral Bunce in command of the Brooklyn navy yard.' Andrew Carnegie promises to give $250,000 for a free library for residents of Washington if Congress will spend an equal sum in purchasing a site. Secretary Long has ordered Captain Leary, at present commanding the San Francisco, to proceed to the island of Guam and assume the duties of naval governor. Nelson Dingley of Maine, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and framer of the present tariff law, died at Washington, D. C. His death was due to heart failure following an attack of pneumonia. Spain is preparing to resume diplomatic relations with the United States. The French ambassador has been charged with Hie duty of finding out how various prominent Spaniards would be received as minister at Washington. Favorable report has been made to the Senate on a bill providing for two revenue cutters on the great lakes to replace the Algonquin, Onondaga and Gresham, which were ordered to the Atlantic coast during the Spanish war. The cost is fixed at $165,000 each. President McKinley has appointed a special commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines and to keep him informed of the needs of the islands until Congress amftl have made some disposition of them. The members of the commission are: Rear Admiral Dewey, Maj. Gen. Otis, Col. Charles Denby, Prof. J. G. Schurman of Cornell University and Jlean C. Worcester of the University of Michigan. __________