Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

lattnai revenne rereipts fee 188)0 increased SHC.CI7.fiW) over last year. The Fifty-sixth Congress of the United State* nrt and ergauK'd on Monday. Ambassador White is said to have asked to he transferred front Berlin, because of American mtkh» of his riwnitmws for Germany.

Ewptui powers ale disposed to ask the United Stases tor an open-door policy in the I*hil:pf*i*es in retnm for their consent to the same policy in China. Attache* of the United States embassy at Berlin deny the story that Ambassador White intends to resign on account of ***^

During the firs* nine months of American occnpation exports of merchandise and gold coin front Havana to the United Skates reached a total of sltv*ll.lstl more than to all other countries.

The treaty for the partition qf the Same* Islands was signed at the State Deportment at Washington the other day. These was KtiSe of ceremony connected with the signature of the treaty.