Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — WASHINGTON GOSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The Committee on Site and Design for the SIOO,OOO monument for the victims of the Maine disaster has selected three designs. The military reservation at St. Michael, Alaska, has been reduced by the War Department to a circular plat of ten miles on nil sides of the flag-staff. Gossip is in circulation In army circles regarding the prospect of the return from the Philippines of Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, Governor General; Maj. Gen. J. C. Bates nnd Brig. Gen. F. D. Grant, all Of whom have been there since the beginning of the rebellion. The War Department hns drawn up Its plan for the reorganisation of the reg ular army. It is to consist of 85,000 min. There are to be thirty lpfnntry regiments, twelve cavalry regiments nnd n corps of artillery equivalent to twelve reglmentsi This plan will be submil toil to Congress by the Secretary of War. According to a close personal anp political friend of Pension Commissioner 11. Clay Evans, he is to be the next Postmaster General of the United Stutes. | Postmaster General Smith will, in bis annual call attention to the abuses of second-class mail matter privileges, and ask for the general extension of the< rural free delivery system. The Stnte Department has instructed United States Consul Gunnere, at Tgngiers, to demand the immediate payment by Morocco of the indemnity for tho murder of Marcus Essagin, an Amtrinan.