People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

An omnibus bill ior the payment, of southern war claims to the (.mount of >713,663 was defeated in the house. A rule setting apart Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for consideration of the currency bUI was adopted by the house. The senate passed the bill to establish a national military park at Gettysburg, Pa., and it now goes to the President Secretary Carlisle estimates that government receipts will exceed expenditures during the calendar year by >22, 563, 023. Ex-Speaker Reed has brought forward a currency plan for which he is endeavoring to enlist tha entire republican strength. The supreme court declined to interfere in the cases of Chapman <fc Shriver, the recalcitrant witnesses in the sugar trust investigation. Hawaiian correspondence submitted to the house shows Great Britain haa not interfered with affairs of the republic. President Cleveland is overwhelmed with telegrams indorsing the recomnendations in his recent message to .-ongress. Secretary Carlisle has recommended changes in the Chicago postoffice bill which, contemplate a better building. Congressmen Breckinridge of Kentucky and Heard of Missouri called each other liars in the house Friday and were ch used to apologize. House adopted a iesoluti<n cn’ling on ihe President for information conrn ny the action of British subjects during the ievent rebellion in Hawaii