People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

> jM* E. Ruseell of Massachusetts Is Hkely to enter the cabinet if Postmaster General Bissell retiree. The house has agreed to the senate amendments to the Chicago postoffice bill and it now goes to the President. Resolutions defining the policy of the » government in regard to gold and silver were offered in the senate Monday by Messrs. Hill and Stewart. The house completed consideration of the legislative appropriation bill with the exception of the paragraph relating to pension offices. A bill to incorporate a company which proposes to lay a cable to Hawaii, Australia and Japan was presented in the house Monday. The house committee on Pacific railroads gave a hearing to representatives of the companies. A resolution arraigning the management of the Pacific roads and directing the attorney general to begin foreclosure proceedings was presented in the senate. The senate committee on the Judiciary will report adversely the nomination of W. M. Campbell to be marshal of Minnesota. Correspondence and reports regarding the Bering sea fisheries were sent to the sehate by President Cleveland. Secretary Gresham has Instructed Minister Willis to see that. Americans in the Hawaiian rebellion get fair trials. Northern and southern men are said to have combined to press French spoliation and war claims to the amount of >1,000,000. On motion of Sherman of Ohio, the senate appropriated >IO,OOO for the relief of blizzard sufferers tn Washington. President’s message was read in congress Friday, announcing the new loan of 162,500,000, instead of >100,000,000, as agreed upon. ’ The administration currency bill was defeated in the house, the vote being 134 to 161. Reed’s and Cox’s substitutes were beaten by larger majorities. Senators debated the item in the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill providing for the laying of a cable to Hawaii. A report giving the correspondence With European countries regarding the tariff law was sent to the senate by the President. The Joint resolution for a survey for a ship canal to connect the head waters of the Wabash with Lake Michigan will be favorably reported to the house.